Visual Art

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Featured Piece: Midnight Reflections   PHR Staff Account

While a resident artist at a college in 2005, Jeff discovered car parts which are mass produced in an incredible variety with built-in complexity and they have became the main material in his work. While still incorporating car parts and car based patterns, recent explorations in the last year and a half have led him […]

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Featured Piece: Whisper   PHR Staff Account

Alston Cobourn was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina and lived in the Chapel Hill area while earning her BA and MLS degrees.  After several years in Virginia and Texas, she returned to NC, where she resides with her husband Eric, son Julian, loyal dog Lady, and mischievous cats Powder, Truffle, and Tulip.  Alston writes and creates art as a means of exploring her relationship to the external world and the collective human experience. Her poems have been published in defunct college literary magazines, The Blotter Magazine, and Anti-Heroin Chic.  Her artwork has been shown in various coffee shops, a church, East Carolina University, and the Greenville Museum of Art.

My practice involves the creation of subtle order through the use of strong patterns and grids. Working with a wide range of media on canvas, paper and wood, I create a unique visual language through an ongoing process of exploration and experimentation.The work is built on an evolving set of interrelations, rather than just a […]