Freelance Curatorial Projects

Caroleigh Robinson

Freelance Curatorial Projects

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SANDRA MARLOW - FRAGMENTS FROM THE COLD WAR: a collection of photographs, files, documents and interpretive art works concerning nuclear testing. @ Durham Art Guild. Education Gallery. Durham, North Carolina. 5 November 1998 - 3 January 1999 Sandra Marlow, Artist/Activist and daughter of a military man, has collected artifacts and art related materials since her father's nuclear industry related cancer as a result of working at military nuclear bomb test range sites in the U.S.A during the 1940's and early 1950's. Her collection (on display) of documentation concerning government sponsored radiation experimentation and nuclear related diseases indicate wide dispersion of disease amoung both military and civilian populations. This exhibition entitled "Fragments from the Cold War " contains some previously unpublished photographs, illustrated documents, selected letters, declassified government letters and art works about the "radiation survivor movement" and their families. 'Radiation survivers' is a term given to civilian and military personnel who participated in the development of nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War (1945-1991). The survivors are uranium miners, Native Americans of the Southwest and civilians living near nuclear weapons facilities or nuclear power plants. Previous versions of this exhibition have been shown at The John Cabot Library at Harvard University and libraries at Brown University and Tufts University.

SEEDS:Southeastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces,INC.
Durham, North Carolina
24 August - 1 October 1998.
@Durham Art Guild. Education Gallery. Durham, North Carolina
Carson Boone, photographer, documents the social urban gardening program in Durham, North Carolina which seeks to rebuild and regenerate the community by engaging young people in cooperative gardening projects.

COAST TO COAST: URBAN/SUBURBAN BLIGHT
@MBAE Municipal Building Art Gallery. Raleigh Arts Commission. Raleigh, North Carolina
11 July - 5 September 1996
Artists > Geoffrey Bent. Glen Ellyn, Illinois., Bernice Cutler Halpern. Wantagh, New York., Alexandra Feit. San Francisco, California., Joan Gerity. Wilmington, North Carolina., Jason Hailey. Los Angeles, California., Carl Knickerbocker. Chuluota, Florida., Roger Marshutz. Los Angeles, California., Jim Respess. Charlottesville, Virginia., Caroleigh Robinson. Durham, North Carolina., Sally VanGorder. Raleigh, North Carolina., Cara Walz. Kansas City, Missouri.
The visual dialogue of this exhibition is similar to a dialogue among citizens in a town meeting who are concerned about the ecological and psychological effects of urban/suburban sprawl. The iconography is not aesthetically functional. Instead, these artists do not seek to reflect a romantic, idealist or antiseptic view of the physical and mental landscape. Suburban isolation, questions of self and social identity, class struggle, homelessness, materialism, media subterfuge, commercialism and DNA processing are elements used to correspond, visually, to an awareness about the dynamic experience of the human condition within a shifting landscape dominated by automobiles.
*Article > Blue Greenberg. "Exhibit examines filth and decay of modern life". Herald-Sun Newspaper, Preview Magazine. Durham, NC. Friday, 19 July 1996.