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The 2002 Exhibition Calendar
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Milliken Gallery
Parsons Gallery
Burwell Gallery
Jane Nodine
Spartanburg, SC
digital art
Jane Nodine is an Associate Professor of Art and Gallery Director at USC-Spartanburg. Rather than relying on digital wizardry, her use of the computer is more of an extension of traditional drawing and painting techniques. Along with framed hung works, this show includes installations of household objects like shirts and irons which create a domestic environment through which the viewer may wander.
Jacquelyn Leebrick
Greenville, NC
digital art
Jackie Leebrick of Greenville, NC is an Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Art at East Carolina University. She uses the computer to create digital collages which “frequently reference [her own] family history”, rearranging “ content to reflect emotional reactions to events remembered.”
Maggie Taylor
Gainesville, FL
digital art
Having a background in philosophy as well as photography, Floridian Maggie Taylor’s digital works evoke the mystery of the human mind, taking elements of the subconscious, such as those found in dreams and memories, and transforming them into visual statements that are reminiscent of early twentieth century surrealists.
FOCUS :
Fabric
Artists of
Upstate South Carolina
contemporary art quilts
Many in Upstate South Carolina know the fabric art of Marge Edie, Janet Ginn, Priscilla Hair, Martine House, Pat Kilburg, Marjan Kleupfel, Claude Smith, Barbara Tennyson & Marilyn Wall. With backgrounds that vary from self-taught artists to those with masters degrees in studio art, the styles and approaches employed by these art quilters pushes and expands the traditional notions of quilting.
Alice Munn
Greenville, SC
ceramics
According to The Charlotte Observer (3/1//01), “Ceramist Alice Ballard Munn uses sensuously sculpted clay and satiny “slip” finishes to create cermic flowers, buds, even sprouting onions.” In 1998, Munn was one of a number of artists from around the world who participated in a month of work in the International Resen Ceramic Colony in Macedonia. Having exhibited at Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, Munn (of Greenville, SC) is currently represented at the Blue Spiral Gallery in Asheville.
Artists' Guild of
Spartanburg
29th Annual Juried Exhibition
The Annual Juried Exhibition is open to all artists 18 years and older residing in Spartanburg County and adjacent counties, including Polk and Rutherford counties in N.C. This year’s competition was selected by Dorothy Joiner, Art History professor at LaGrange College in LaGrange Georgia.
Janusz Zadurowicz
Greenville, SC
paintings
A native of Poland, artist and graphic designer Jaunusz Zadurowicz now resides in Greenville, SC. Besides Poland and the United States, his work has been exhibited in the Canada, New Zealand, Tokyo, Belgium and Germany. Texture plays a big part of Zadurowicz’s work. He creates paintings by first building up layers of modeling material on panel. Then he scrapes and scratches away his composition. To the resulting textures, he then applies color with oil paint.
Tapestry
Weavers South
contemporary weavings
Tapestry has been produced by numerous cultures for both decorative and functional purposes for over 4,000 years. Today a significant resurgence in tapestry weaving is occurring globally. Tapestry Weavers South is a group of over twenty East Coast artists who are contributing their talent and vision to a renewed appreciation of this ancient artform.
Selections from
the Museum's
Permanent Collection
The Girl with the Red Hair, an oil on canvas by Robert Henri, was acquired by The Arts and Crafts Club in 1907 as the first piece of a permanent collection for the community of Spartanburg. The museum’s collection now includes pieces from many Upstate South Carolina artists such as August and Irma Cook, Margaret Law, Josephine Sibley Couper and Grace DuPre.
COLORS/COLORSII
Annual Student Show
The Spartanburg County Museum of Art is proud to sponsor this after-school art studio for at-risk youth. COLORS has been recognized in Time Magazine and featured on the national morning program FOX After Breakfast.
Josephine Sibley
Couper
retrospective
Couper studied with William Chase, Elliott Daingerfield, Hugh Breckenridge and André Lhôte in Paris. In 1907, Couper and another local artist, Margaret Moffit Law, founded the Arts and Crafts Club. Tickets were sold to the public to raise money, and on May 9, 1907 Robert Henri's "The Girl with the Red Hair" was hung in the public library.
Houghton
Cranford Smith
(1887-1983)
Smith was born in New Jersey, studied in Paris under André Lhote and dadada, Smith's connection to South Carolina was his wife, a native of Lancaster. This retrospective has a number of pieces reflecting summer vacations at S.C.'s Pawley's Island.
Eugene Healan
Thomason
(1895-1972)
Originally from Blacksburg, SC, Thomason associated with the Ashcan school of Painters, and lived for a good time with George Lutz.
Mary
Whyte
"P is for Palmetto"
Nov. 15 - Dec. 29
This delightful set of illustrations from "P" is for Palmetto, a work for children by nationally known illustrator, Mary Whyte. Included a book Signing.
