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📍 Wilmington, NC
Photo & Design @uncw_art_and_art_history
Tintypes & Workshops ✨ @studio_australis

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Throwback to my piece Specimen from my installation Touch Tank @friedfruitartgallery , because this piece is going to a new home 🩵
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Specimen, Oil, acrylic, digital prints, and pumice on wood panel, 48”x48”x3”, 2026
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Photo credits: @jamestfarley

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Next week is the last week to come by and experience @sarahpeoplesstudio exhibition, closing Wednesday 9/9.

The gallery will be closed Monday, September 7 for Labor Day and will reopen on Tuesday with normal gallery hours.

We hope you all have a wonderful long weekend!

Photo credit: @jamestfarley

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Check out these highlight images of the AAH Welcome Back Pizza Party, taken by our own Dr. James Farley!

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Collaborating with @jamestfarley is one of my favorite things to do. We took some of the new @studio_australis gear out to my local park to commune with nature.

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I want to acknowledge and thank @artscouncilwilm for the support they give artists working in our community.

Earlier this year, I received one of their Artist Support Grants. This allowed me to upgrade my tintype studio for more flexibility at pop-ups and for field work. This support gave me the freedom to take on projects at Fort Fisher, along the banks of Burnt Mill Creek, and multiple pop-up venues throughout the summer. I’ve been able to challenge myself and grow as an artist.

Applications are open for the next round right now, and I encourage all local artists to apply!

Cheers ✨

Also, shout out to @alison_harsh for helping me find my feet in the field, and for taking some photos behind the scenes.

This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

#wetplatecollodion #tintype #wilmingtonnc

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A heartfelt thank you to our amazing photographer @jamestfarley for all of the incredible work he’s done for Fried Fruit Art Space. 🍓🍋🍏

James has captured so many special moments throughout our exhibitions and events, helping showcase the artwork, artists, and community that make our gallery so unique. His talent, creativity, and attention to detail have made a lasting impact, and we’re incredibly grateful for everything he’s contributed.

Thank you, James, for sharing your time and talent with us. We truly appreciate all of your hard work and look forward to creating many more memories together!🍒🍊🫐

#thankful #photographer #artistsupportartists #artgallery #wilmingtonnc🕶️

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Had an amazing time at the opening of @jordangraceowens exhibition at the Fried Fruit Art Space! 🍎🍋🍓

The work was absolutely incredible filled with massive sculptures, vibrant colors, bold shapes, and immersive 3D elements that made every piece feel alive. Such a fun and inspiring experience.

Photo credit: @jamestfarley

#artgallery #artistsupportartists #art #wilmingtonnc🕶️ #wilmington

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@sarahpeoplesstudio “Through the Oyster Speculum” exhibition captured by @jamestfarley

On view until September 9, 2026

“Such a predetermination to eat this big universe as her oyster or her egg, and to be absolute empress of all height and glory in it that her heart could conceive, I have not before seen in any human soul,” Thomas Carlyle on American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller’s hunger for experience.

In a multimedia exhibition of sculptural installation, light, and sound, Sarah Peoples: Through the Oyster Speculum reveals the stories, legends, myths, and expressions deployed as shorthand to make sense of American identity and culture. At the exhibition’s center, a large diorama recreates the grand American wilderness as a theatrical tableau. This immersive environment invites close inspection, revealing instability and distortion beneath familiar narratives. Using humor and wit, Peoples demonstrates how the very ideas meant to define a place can simultaneously obscure other truths, creating parallel realities or mirror worlds that coexist rather than resolving into singular meaning.

The world, and specifically American ideals, are Sarah Peoples’ oyster, and she cracks them open through a multivalent speculum. Derived from the Latin specere, “to look,” a speculum refers to three distinct items: a mirror, the iridescent beauty mark on a bird’s wing, and a medical tool for inspection. In these capacities, a speculum reflects, signals, and reveals. The installation of artworks encapsulates all meanings of the word. By foregrounding these disparate functions, the exhibition spotlights the unstable ground on which perception rests. To look through the oyster speculum is to see through the lenses of culture, history, and desire.

*Full press release linked in our Instagram bio*

#SarahPeoples #CABArtGallery #UNCWart #UNCW #oysterspeculum

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beach shows only ☀️☀️☀️

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Lost in the camera roll 📸

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Fried Fruit Art Gallery is now accepting proposals for solo or two-person shows in our cargo container gallery for the 2027 exhibition cycle!

The exhibitions displayed at Fried Fruit are visible night and day to those who pass by. This is possible due to Fried Fruit’s unique architecture, a shipping container with floor-to-ceiling windows.

We are located in the growing Cargo District of Wilmington, NC.

Although we accept all types of work, we prioritize installation, experimental works, and/or community-engaged works.

You can find more information about the application in a link in our bio!

Submission due June 26!

#experimentalart #installationart #wilmingtonart #contemporaryart #shippingcontainer

Image credit:
"Can't You See it's Killing Me" by Hannah Banciella (@hbanciellaart). Photo taken by James Farley (@jamestfarley).

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⚡️DRAM TREE BLOCK PARTY⚡️
✨Can’t wait for this weekend and to show you guys the finished products I have waiting for you ✨
See you Saturday at Noon!! 💖 (if not you’ll regret it 😜)

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