In the HAC/C3 Satellite Gallery
In partnership with C3 Hillsborough, a co-working space for many local businesses and entrepreneurs, HAC is further connecting artists & audiences through a collaborative gallery space. HAC's Satellite Gallery program seeks to expand our collective support of local artists and create more spaces for diversity in Hillsborough arts events & programs. Read on to learn more about the current artist and exhibition, and explore the Satellite Gallery during Last Fridays & the Art Walk!
Worlds Between: Imagined Landscapes & Inner Realms
By Karen Day
A collection of paintings that explore spaces both seen and felt—layered, lyrical, and mysterious. These works emerge through intuition, gesture, and color, offering glimpses into imagined terrains and emotional landscapes
Artist Statement:
In this collection, layered textures, gestural marks, and luminous color give rise to spaces that feel both familiar and otherworldly. Each painting is a conversation between material and emotion, intuition and memory – a visual language that unfolds in real time.
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These works explore the territory between what is seen and what is felt: landscapes not tied to a specific place; but drawn from an inner terrain. Some evoke dreamlike geographies; others pulse with mystery, rhythm, or stillness. Together, they offer a glimpse into the layered, often unspoken world of the imagination.
Artist Process:
Day's paintings begin as a conversation with her materials—acrylic, conte, and graphite—layered and textured on the canvas or panel. She starts with gestural marks and spontaneous drawing, letting intuition guide the way. Some areas build up over time, while others are left raw, preserving the contrast between presence and absence, form and formlessness.
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Lately, what emerges from this process feels [to Day] like lyrical landscapes—otherworldly spaces that exist somewhere between the seen and the felt. Day never begins with a fixed image in mind. Instead, she follows the rhythm of each painting, letting emotion and inner atmosphere shape the evolving forms. She returns to the canvas over time, reworking shapes and color relationships until a kind of harmony or tension reveals itself.
We Are Stardust (Diptych)
Acrylic and mixed media
36" x 36"
Dance Between Sea & Sky
Acrylic and mixed media on wood panel
30" x 30"
ON DISPLAY IN C3 HILLSBOROUGH
JUNE 24, 2025 - JANUARY 12, 2026
ARTIST RECEPTION: JUNE 27, 6-8 PM
If you'd like to purchase art work on display in the HAC Satellite Gallery, please fill out a purchase card (available on location at C3) to bring to the HAC Gallery & Gift Shop, within easy walking distance, at 102 N Churton St.
VISIT THE HAC/C3 SATELLITE GALLERY​
C3 Hillsborough: 128 N Churton St, Hillsborough, NC
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HOURS OF OPERATION:
Mon-Fri, 9-5
+ Open until 9 PM on select Last Fridays for Artist Receptions.
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