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Madarts Feb. 2008
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Griffin Museum
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Converter
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Pleased to Meet You
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Two for the See-Saw
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T.U.P.
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NADA (Miami) w/ branch gallery
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Anima/Botanica
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Anima/Botanica (NYC)
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Crooks corner
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Spoke the Hub
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A renovated mill houses the new Branch Gallery in Carrboro, home to a unique exhibition space and gift shop with a New York style. The current show, Anima/Botanica, is a group effort yielding varying interpretations on the theme of plants and animals. Group shows and themed invitationals can be difficult to curate, and like most such shows, this one is all over the map. Placing such varied pieces in a small space can sometimes have interesting results. In one large-scale oil, Gibb Slife's leopard at the kill looks balefully across the small room at Amanda Barr's appliqued squirrel clutching an acorn. A photograph by Jimmy Fountain (

Independent Weekly 05.12.2004 by Bronwyn Merrit