April / May 2008

AT THE GALLERIES & STUDIOS

Fine Arts Center / Alumni Exhibition Feb 11 through March 13, 2008. Closing reception March 13, 6-7pm,102 Pine Knoll Drive Greenville, SC. Call (864) 355-2558 for info. Sheffield Wood Gallery of the Fine Arts Center. http://www.fineartscenter.net

NEW GALLERY SPACE RECEPTION:
March 5 through April 11, 2008.
Reception for the Artists on Tuesday, April 11, 6-9 PM
LOCATION: FYI Gallery, 612 South Main Street, Greenville, SC
Gallery Hours M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Open on First Fridays March 7 & April 4, 6-9 PM
Drew Fields, Georgia Harrison, Patricia Kilburg, David McCurry, Anne Merchant, Carole Tinsley, Judith Woodward, Irene Zimmer. Curated by Michael Brodeur, Furman University.
See article about this gallery in Greenville Journal, March 7 issue.

Clemson University Department of Art / Lee Gallery: Proofing Clemson Printmakers An exhibition of prints with diverse content and techniques, each created by former Clemson students.
FRIDAY MARCH 15-23 GALLERY CLOSED FOR SPRING BREAK
Proofing Clemson Printmakers continues Monday March 24 through Thursday April 3. Show closes April 3, 2008.
Printmakers include: Gail Cadorniga, Steven A. Chapp, Dale Clifford, Maggie Denk-Leigh, John Hilton, Stacy Isenbarger, Claire Jacobs, Rachael Madeline, Erik Miller, Angela Oates, Meghan O'Connor, Geo Sipp, Elisa Sparks, Danny Stemann, Jess Stone, Jennifer Stoneking-Stewart, Kristen Tabone-Woodward, J.P. Tousignant, Ivy ware, Claudia Wilburn.

Artisphere: The International Arts Festival of Greenville has announced the 2008 festival to be held in downtown Greenville, April 18-20. Organizers still need eight volunteers for Artisphere on Friday, April 18.  Need four for the 6:30 AM - 10AM shift, and four for the 10 AM - 2PM shift. To sign up, please visit the Main Street Events website, mainstevents.com, and please let Volunteer coordinator, Jay Spivey, know as well at jay@upcountryhistory.org. Visit artisphere online.

March 7, 2008 Clay Works / Deb Bridges and Bonnie J. Smith at Metropolitan Arts Council Gallery. Reception Friday, March 7, 6:00 - 9:00 PM. MAC Gallery, 16 Augusta Street, downtown Greenville. Exhibition runs through April 4, 2008. www.greenvillearts.com

Mar 3-Mar 28, 2008 Furman University: "Spectrum: Beyond Cups & Bowls" works by Bob Chance and Michael Brodeur, art faculty. Thompson Gallery, Roe Art Building. Reception March 10, 7-9PM. Showing through March 28, 2007. Hours M-F 9am-5pm.

Through April 19
The Upstairs Artspace in Tryon presents "Maxfield Parrish: Of Make Believe and Luminosity" containing over 150 works by the famous 20th century American artist and illustrator selected from a private collection. On display are original prints, book and magazine illustrations, magazine covers, calendars, product advertisements and memorabilia. About 50 pieces are for sale to benefit the Upstairs. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit continues through April 19 with "The Passionate Collector," lecture by Alan Peoples, on Tuesday, March 25, 7 p.m. For information call 859-2828.

April 3-April 9 Call For Entries: Artists Invited To Submit Work For The Twenty-Ninth Annual Juried South Carolina Artists Competition.
Artists requesting information or an entry prospectus may contact the museum at 307 Johnson Street, Pickens, SC 29671; or call 864-898-5963. An E-Prospectus is also available by e-mail at picmus@co.pickens.sc.us

Art Bomb Co. Studios launches website. The site includes information about Art Bomb artists, along with photos of their work, upcoming events at the Art Bomb studios. See artbombstudios.com

Feb 28, 2008: Thursday 6:30 at the Greenville County Museum of Art members of the Center for Museum Education (CME) at the Greenville County Museum of Art will “tackle” the exhibition Object Project. This exhibition of contemporary realists revolves around five objects selected by the fifteen participants, each of whom renders them in his or her own style and preferred medium.
Center faculty -- including Bruce Bunch, Carrie Brown, Patti Brady, Diane Hopkins-Hughs, Carol Leary and others -- will demonstrate by rendering in their respect styles the following Jasper Johns-related objects: a man’s shoe from the late 1960s, a beer can, and string. Come watch our faculty at work, and learn more about the Center for Museum Education. Thursday evening programs are free. The Art Museum is open Thursday evenings 6:30 until 8:00 pm to give convenient access to programs and exhibitions. Parking is free after 5:00 pm and all day Saturdays and Sundays.

Greenville County Museum of Art: Carl Blair on Many Levels / Whimscal Sculptures. Through March 16, 2008. Click here to read details about this exhibition.

Greenville County Museum of Art THE OBJECT PROJECT / Opened to the public on February 13, 2008. Fifteen artists were challenged to incorporate five common objects in their realist paintings. Organized by the Evansville Museum of Art, History, and Science, the exhibition features works in tempera, pastel, graphite, mixed media, and oil. This exhibition runs through April 6, 2008.

Irene Morrah Fine Art reception and exhibition of new works by William Jameson and Anne Jameson. Friday, February 29, 2008 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM. 206 Overbrook Road, near downtown Greenville. Other times by appointment. Call (864) 242-4166.

February 29, 2008 Senior Action Painters of Greenville Exhibition reception 5:30-7:00 PM. Location: The Blood Connection, 515 Grove Road, Greenville. (864) 255-5005, Ext. 1031. Through mid-April, 2008.

Centre Stage SC Through March 28, 2008 (Theatre gallery space). Found Objects: Photography by Terri Bright and Kim Sholly.
Centre Stage SC, 501 River Street, downtown Greenville. Hours Tue-Friday 2-6pm.
The show also will be on view during performances of "Wait Until Dark" in the theater.
For exhibition info call (864) 233-6733.

FIRST FRIDAYS GALLERY TOUR is Mar. 7. Extended gallery hours on the first Friday of every month. Look for and ask for First Fridays brochures where you shop, they're free. Go see their website for all the details about First Fridays.

Jan 7, 2008: Lipscomb Gallery (South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities) Opens January 7, on view through February 15, 2008. "Borders" is an exhibition curated by Axel Forrester and Annika Erikson Browne, deals with the gray areas between art and kitsch. The objects were selected from the 20 year collection of Axel Forrester and comes to the as an educational opportunity to discuss the shifting meaning of art over time and the current relationships between popular culture and art. There are essays, questions and material posted and included in a catalog of the show by Marie Watkins, Katya Cohen and Mutt Rose. There are also reproductions of artwork by popular surrealist Marion Peck.

Hampton III Gallery, Through : Dave Appleman. Reception Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, from 7-9pm with the Artist Talk at 8:00pm. This exhibition runs through March 1, 2008. Located at 10 Gallery Centre, Taylors. Hours Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 10-5pm. Call 864-268-2771. Website: hamptonIIIgallery.com

Road Trips for Greenville artists & collectors

Charleston SC Jan 18, 2008 ---Wim Roefs guest-curating "Red State Blues" at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
RECEPTION: Friday, Jan. 18, 5-7 p.m.
GALLERY TALK: 6 p.m. with Guest Curator Wim Roefs.
“The art in the exhibition prods the often manufactured consent that much of society operates on. The art does so, however, not through the cheap-and-easy, single-minded shot of the hack-columnist but the subtle considerations of observers, in this case artists, not bound by particular party or interest-group politics but by notions of a just, open, healthy and sustainable society – locally, regionally and globally. Much of the work does not provide clear-cut answers or positions. Rather, it does what thoughtful art does best: trigger thought and discussion through visual means by providing a different point of entry into complex issues, asking questions rather than obscuring them with pat answers. In addition to providing food for thought, the art selected also achieves high formal and aesthetic qualities. Art has to be aesthetically interesting to be relevant because only art worth looking at can make a point -- or points.” ---Wim Roefs, Curator

Participating Artists
Russell Biles, Greenville, SC, ceramics
Steven Chapp, Easley, SC, painter/printmaker
Tonya Gregg, Columbia, SC, painter
Jean Grosser, Hartsville, SC, sculptures/3-D assemblages
Mana Hewitt, Columbia, SC, engraved copper wall pieces
Deanna Leamon, Columbia, SC painter/draft person
Larry Merriman, Hartsville,SC,  installation/sculpture
Alex Powers, Myrtle Beach, SC, painter
Colin Quashie, Charleston, SC painter
Leo Twiggs, Orangeburg, SC, batik painter
John G. Wright, Varnville, SC, painter

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
College of Charleston School of the Arts
54 St. Philip Street, Room 202
Charleston, SC
(843) 953.5680
(843) 953.7890 fax
www.halsey.cofc.edu 

The Spartanburg Art Museum's new Chapman Cultural Center will feature works from a New York attorney and his wife who in March 2007 issue of ART & ANTIQUES were listed as among America's top 100 private art collectors. "PEOPLE READING: selections from the collection of Donald and Patricia Oresman" will be comprised of 60 works on paper -- etchings, engravings, watercolors, aquatints, woodblock prints, lithographs, ink and pencil drawings -- mainly by American and international artists of the twentieth century.
The Oresmans, who began acquiring images of people reading out of their primary interest in book collecting, have seen their collection evolve into one of the major thematic collections in the world. Artists include Pierre Bonnard, Elizabeth Catlett, Marc Chagall, Minna Citron, Fritz Eichenberg, Jean Louis Forain, Edward Gorey, Kyokei Inukai, Claire Leighton, Leo Meissner, Ben Shahn, and Kees von Dongen.
The PEOPLE READING exhibition will provide the basis for community programs centered upon books, libraries, reading, literacy, and the entire range of literary interests. Guest curator Thomas L. Johnson, librarian emeritus of the University of South Carolina (South Caroliniana Library, Columbia).
Guided tours of the exhibition are presented by the following individuals:
January 10 -- Oakley Coburn
January 20 -- Andrew Blanchard
February 7 -- Rachel Snow
February 17 -- Pat Kabore
The Spartanburg PEOPLE READING exhibition extends through March 2008. Contact the Spartanburg Museum at (864) 582-7616.

OTHER ART NEWS / NOTES

Vantage World Travel will donate 3% of the total cost of all travel (excluding air fare, taxes, and fees like fuel surcharges) that is booked by any Metropolitan Arts Council Member, even their friends and family. For details call (864) 233-7703, Greenville.

7x7 Art Book available The Metropolitan Arts Council was privileged to host the special "7x7" event where 7 Greenville artists worked 7 hours, each creating a work of art in a 7' x 7' space. The artists of 7x7 have put together a book that can be purchased through www.blurb.com (once at the website, type 7 x 7 in the search box). The artists make no money from the sale of this book, it's simply an opportunity for you to hold a little piece of Greenville art history. Artists: Paul Flint, Axel Forrester, Todd McDonald, Alexia Timberlake, J.P. Tousignant, Enid Williams and Paul Yanko. At a cost of $20, the 30 page book will be delivered to your door.

Saturday Art Market (weekly), 9:00AM-1:00PM, in the parking lot of Village Studios, Pendleton Street. Artist "vendors" every week. Explore the market.

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MUSEUM INFO & MORE BELOW

AT THE MUSEUMS:

Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
For complete information about BJUM&G programs, please visit the website: www.bjumg.org

Greenville County Museum of Art

JASPER JOHNS. The Greenville County Museum of Art inaugurates a series of programs relating to Jasper Johns: Look Homeward, an exhibition featuring the museum’s collection and proposed acquisitions. The Museum is offering free guided tours of Jasper Johns: Look Homeward on Sundays and Tuesdays at 2:00pm. For full info about free programs on Japser Johns, visit the website www.greenvillemuseum.org.

The Art Museum is open Thursday evenings 6:30 until 8:00 pm to give more convenient access to programs and exhibitions. Parking is free after 5:00 pm and all day Saturdays and Sundays.

Membership in the Greenville County Museum of Art's Art Association is required in order to attend preview receptions. Friend (basic) membership dues are $50 annually and includes benefits for two people. However, at all other times, admission to the Museum is absolutely free. Call the Museum for info at 864 271-7570. Join the Museum.

Pickens County Museum of Art & History
Located at the corner of Highway 178 at 307 Johnson Street in Pickens SC, the Pickens County Museum is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free but donations are welcomed. For more information, please call the museum at (864) 898-5963 or email picmus@co.pickens.sc.us
For more info, click on "Current Events" at the Pickens Museum's website.

In addition to exhibitions, Third Thursday Evening Forums and Saturday Sessions are a part of the Pickens County Museum’s on-going effort to present educational programming for the community. A different program featuring local artists, story tellers, authors and craftsmen will be scheduled the third Thursday evening of each month as well as on occasional Saturdays.

MORE AREA ART INFO

Travelers Rest Arts Mission (TRAM) offers classes, small exhibitions and other art events such as The TRAM Fair and Art Day at Poinsett Park. Located at 312 N. Poinsett Highway, Travelers Rest, about 9 miles from downtown Greenville. Call (864) 834-2388 and visit www.trartsmission.org Additionally, a project is in the works called "The Gathering of Artists" in which TRAM is collecting comprehensive information on artists in Northern Greenville County. This project will allow TRAM to serve as a database for people who would like more information about artists who live and work in our area. From the information collected, TRAM will approach artists about filling space in the gallery and participating in the art fair.

LONG-TERM ART INFO LISTINGS

Workshops in ceramics, fiber, and woodworking are being offered by artists. See the "Art Events" page of this site for details.

Greenville wood sculptor Henry Mitchell is featured in an article written by Ted McIrvine of The Hendersonville News (NC). Read the article here.

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Visit the Tri State Sculptors Website. Promoting sculpture in the Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina region.

Special Feature: “The Changing Face of Greenville,” by local photographer Polly Gaillard Donohue. Click here to see images and text from the exhibit. The photographic series documents people of Greenville from diverse backgrounds. The photographer is available for prints.

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