Artist Talks + Drawing + Divination

Sunday, March 1, 2-5pm

Artist Talks:
Rebecca Potts 2:00pm
David Benarroch 2:30pm

Drawing & Divination with Rebecca Potts 3-5pm

“A loosely structured working that uses Tarot as a jumping off point. Since this is the closing, and whatever is created will not remain to be on view, I thought that people could make their drawings on postcards that they then send out into the world to share, that way the art keeps moving through the world. Feels like a tie in to have tarot card become post card in the same way that the work in the show features a lot of things that are shifting states. So I’ll bring some different decks and people can draw a card or cards and then draw what they are moved to express – Maybe they draw for themselves, maybe for a friend, maybe for an ancestor, maybe pairs of people draw for each other and see what meanings they find in the symbols or if it moves them to tell a story. Hopefully, it  demystifies tarot a bit and highlights that we are all readers and interpreters of these universal symbols. I’ll give a few sentences as prompts and bring pre stamped blank postcards along. And then maybe people will just end up drawing whatever they want or send a note to someone they want to say hi to.” -Rebecca Potts

Rebecca Potts was born in Columbus, OH yet grew up in Greensboro, NC. Potts received a BFA from UNC Greensboro and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, both in sculpture. Residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan ME) and Greenwich House Pottery (New York, NY). Group shows include Feature, Inc, Franklin Parrasch Gallery and the Jane Hartsook Gallery in New York City.  She has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY for over two decades.

David Benarroch is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works between Durham, North Carolina, and the New York area. He received his Bachelor’s and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His work has been recognized with international awards and grants, including the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant Award (2024), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2022), the SU Collection Prize (2022), and the Navacerada Collection Prize (2021). Benarroch has participated in solo and group exhibitions and completed artistic residencies across Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, France, Argentina, and the United States.