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interval, “a space for arts,” presents the work of artists and a spectrum of programming in the cultural zone often overlooked by established institutions, furthering connection, overlap, and blending among art forms, artists, and approaches. interval seeks to dissolve the false separation of the serious and the accessible, cultivating the energies of committed, engaging, and exciting art for our audiences and community. 

It all started when…

interval was founded by Margaret Norfleet-Neff and Paul Bright to create a space in Winston-Salem that would curate and exhibit the work of typically underseen or “under-experienced” artists, and invite a broad-spectrum audience to join us in a place outside of – and in between – our habitual silos.

This vision found a home in the 1001 Marshall complex. At about 1,700 square feet, interval is part white-cube, part scrappy exhibition space—retaining traces of its history while opening doors to new possibilities.

The gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday, 1 - 6pm | Sunday, 2 - 5pm
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Current Exhibit - Interleavings

The artists of Interleavings:

These three Triad-based artists, Terri Dowell-Dennis, Travis Phillips, and Mariam Aziza Stephan, share a concern with layerings – actual and metaphoric – as well as the different rates of change or decay of allusive surfaces, along with the information they carry. The basis of many of those layers and surfaces are leaves, pages, bark, branches; lignins, wood, pulp, and paper.

Dowell-Dennis takes inspiration and impressions directly from nature, its textures and repeated or fractal patterns. For some of her monotypes’ printed surfaces, she uses the cuneiform-like marks left by beetles channeling through tree limbs, and in others incorporates the integument of bark itself. Chance operations give impetus to her works, which map movement and carry abstracted or coded information, available only to those beings – human and otherwise – so attuned.

Stephan offers drawings from two ongoing bodies of works of vastly different scale; observational drawings of trees on large canvases and small abstracted conceptual landscapes. They are concerned, respectively, with copious but selective visual information, intimate and enveloping with glimmers of the poetic; and the tectonic instability of her drawn and collaged landscapes, which are arresting as visual metaphors, and often redolent of alienation.

Phillips’ work focuses on books and words as provisional and often unreliable containers or conveyors of knowledge. Of what has now become digital-ephemeral, he makes fundamentally abstract letterforms and words tangible and concrete. His diverse objects and 2-D works include incised, rust-encrusted books; canvases highlighting the ambiguity of selected words and letters; standardized, minimalist mounds of shredded pages; videos of performed readings; and an invitation to launch pages of information into the ether as paper airplanes.

Step inside and see for yourself …