Upcoming Exhibits

Title: Home: Inside and Out
Artist: Tom Stanley
Dates: January 4, 2026 - March 1, 2026

Statement
The image of the interior of a room or the exterior of a house is something we live with every
day and night. It's easily taken for granted. As I considered the proposal for this exhibition, I
realized that much of my work depicts interior and exterior spaces. Not actual spaces, but
imagined interior and exterior spaces. With this appraisal, I have see how much I am connected
to home, how central it is.
Regardless, I am not totally sure why I have used this imagery time and again. Perhaps it's
because I loved high school mechanical and architectural drafting; or perhaps it’s the lasting
impression of growing up in the boarding house my mother ran to make ends meet. Memories
of windows and stairs are everywhere in my work. Even my family's term for television, TV,
reminds me of being inside; and it possesses a certain visual power.
The work in this exhibition dates from as early as 1985 and continues through 2025. The four 1985 Corner Drawings are graphite on paper depicting imagined corners of rooms. This series of drawings helped reconnect me to mechanical drawing techniques. Like all of the work in this exhibition, the Corner Drawings are represented with selected works from a larger series. I work in visual series. Each series has its own technique or subject matter or size that helps distinguish one series from the next. Each series attempts to tell its own visual story. 

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Bio
Tom Stanley was born 1950 in Fort Cavazos, Texas, grew up in Concord, North Carolina, and currently lives and works in Durham. He is a working visual artist and a former educator, arts administrator and curator. He has served on the faculties of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina; Barry University in Miami, Florida.; and Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. His work has been exhibited widely in the southeast, and internationally in Paris and Porto. He has an abiding curatorial interest in the work of self-taught artists.
Selected collections include Nebraska Medical Center; Lander University; USC Upstate, College of Charleston; the Johnson Collection; Greenville County Museum of Art; Gibbes Museum of Art; Asheville Art Museum; South Carolina State Museum; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Ashley River Tower at the Medical University of South Carolina; Davidson College; South Carolina Arts Commission; Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte; and Affinity Health Center, Rock Hill.

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