RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA.- The Contemporary Art Museum presents ’Art in Transition II - some kind of dream’ at the museum’s new home, 409 W Martin Street in downtown Raleigh. Art in Transition II - some kind of dream (through May 26 2002) is curated by CAM’s International Curator Raphaela Platow. Artists: Sandra Cinto (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Frans Jacobi (Copenhagen, Denmark), Sally Van Gorder (Raleigh, NC), Jim Hirschfield and Sonya Ishii (Chapel Hill, NC), Nikos Navridis (Athens, Greece), Ni Jun (Shanghai, China), Michael Salter (Raleigh, NC), Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, Japan/Berlin, Germany), Hara slavick (Chapel Hill, NC), David Solow (Rougemont, NC), and Cici Stevens (Durham, NC). Art in Transition is a series of exhibitions that spans the Contemporary Art Museum’s transition into its new home at 409 West Martin Street. The title itself marks the development of CAM, from mounting thematic shows in temporarily unoccupied spaces in downtown Raleigh to the inauguration of the permanent site.



Art in Transition II - some kind of dream opens a dialogue among dream visions both nearby and in faraway places. Coordinates of up and down, right and left seem to be dissolved; beginnings, middles and ends are combined in new narrative structures beyond rational expectations. Conventional notions of time are suspended allowing us to travel unhampered through the past, present, and future. Artists from North Carolina, working alongside those from Denmark, Brazil, China, Greece, and Japan, transform entire spaces into dream environments. Their works allow us to venture outside the usual premises through which we structure our world to transcend ourselves and our waking world. Like Memories of Nature (Art in Transition I, March-April 2001), some kind of dream (Art in Transition II, April-May 2002) brings together artists from North Carolina and artists from other parts of the world for an exhibition in CAM’s warehouse space prior to renovation.