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Brock Commons Outdoor Sculpture Program at Longwood
University Presents
 Carl Billingsley (Greenville, North Carolina)
Artist
Sculpture: TriPortal
Installed: Friday, April 16, 2004
To be removed April 2006.
Carl Billingsley is a professor of art at East Carolina
University and serves as sculpture area coordinator. His large-scale
outdoor works have been exhibited in prestigious exhibitions throughout
the world including exhibitions in Brazil, Finland, Latvia, Israel,
Norway, Germany, Japan, Estonia, Spain, Russia, and Macedonia. In
the US, his works have been exhibited in Florida, Pennsylvania, Alabama,
New Jersey, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Maryland, Tennessee, New York,
and Indiana. He received a BFA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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 BE GARDINER (West Jefferson, NC)
Artist and Zen Monk
Sculpture: Misguided Angel
Installed: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
To be removed April 2006.
Misguided Angel combines realistic and
abstract elements in his caryatid-like sculpture made from
black marble. It is installed near the east side of the library
on Brock Commons.
Be Gardiner was born in Washington,
DC in 1950 and received a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1972.
He began carving stone in 1979 and started publicly exhibiting
his work in 1980. During the ensuing seventeen years of his
career as a sculptor he showed in numerous group shows throughout
the Southeast.
Gardiner has participated in one person shows at the Center
of the Earth Gallery in Charlotte, the Gray Gallery at East
Carolina University, the Ewing Gallery at the University of
Tennesse-Knoxville, Somerhill Gallery in Chapel Hill, the Greenhill
Center for NC Art, UNC-Asheville, the Ann Norton Sculpture
Gardens in West Palm Beach, and the Ergo Sum Gallery in Augusta.
In addition, he has participated in most of the university
and college outdoor exhibitions in the southeast. Specifically
his works have be exhibited at the Universities of Alabama
in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Appalachian State University,
Western Carolina University, Lynchburg College, The University
of Notre Dame, Radford University, the University of Tennesse-Knoxville,
and Chattanooga State. Nearly all these institutions have purchase
Gardinerís work for their permanent collections.
The artist has received various awards and prizes including the Rosen Prize from
Jack Burnham and first prize at the Bryan Invitational Exhibition from Helaine
Posner. He has also participated in residencies and workshops, most significantly
at The Carving Studio in VT and The Ann Norton sculpture Gardens in Palm Beach,
FL. Gardiner was also the subject of a documentary film, Hungers of the Soul by
Hap Kindem.
The Brock Commons Sculpture Program is made possible by the Longwood
University Art Department , the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts,
the Office of the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, and
the Office of Facilities Management. |
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