SHIP/SHAPE: A Parallel Journey. By David Rogers, published on Jan. 24. 2025

David Finn, F You Up, wood and mixed media, 2024.

BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — We have often heard the phrase “… two ships passing in the night…”, but how about two married artists on ships journeying along parallel paths?

That’s what we have at the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, an exhibit of married couple David Finn and Page Laughlin, a sculptor and a painter, differently exploring nautical themes.

It is at once a curious, creative, innovative, and thought-provoking exhibit entitled, “Ship/Shape,” and for Blowing Rock News it got even more intriguing after sitting down and talking with the two artists. The exhibit opens Jan. 25 and runs through May 4, 2025.

Her Most Recent Theme: Sailing Vessels

Laughlin got this parallel “maritime” journey started after moving on from 8- to 10-year explorations of overlooked interiors and then figurative pieces focused on young women transitioning “… from being carried to carrying.”

She said her work in the Ship/Shape exhibit represents about the last three years of her work.