Jan. 5 - Feb. 29

"Cuba: Un Viaje Judío"
"Cuba: A Jewish Journey"
Errol Daniels
East Amherst, NY

Jews began to emigrate to Cuba from the U.S. during the Cuban War of Independence (Spanish-American War), and from Europe in the first quarter of the 20th century. A joint project between photographer Daniels and the Cuban Association of Artists and Writers has resulted in the book, "Cuba: A Jewish Journey" upon which this bilingual show is based.

This will be only the second showing of these photos in this country, and the first exhibition in the Eastern U.S.

Jan. 5 - Feb. 29

"25 Years and Going Strong"
Southern Exposure
Upstate, SC

Join us as award-winning artists Carol Augthun, Jessica Barnes, David Benson, Amy Goldstein-Rice, Claire Miller Hopkins, Linda Hudgins, Cynthia Link, Mark Olencki, Jane Allen Nodine, Sara Dame Setzer, Doris Turner, Ann Wenz, Winston Wingo, and David Zacharias celebrate their 25th anniversary as one of the Upstate’s top exhibition groups.

Jan. 5 - Mar. 7

Yoshiko Moon
Greenville, SC

Explore the beauty of traditional Japanese graphic tradition by this master of Japanese calligraphy and Sumi-e. In 1995, after 30 years of training, Yoshiko attained the license of "High Master", a level usually associated with men in the male dominated society of Japan.

Mar. 8 - Apr. 25

Ann Dergara
Brevard, NC
paintings and monotype prints

"Looking back on a career that has seen her work exhibted in Europe, Japan and Australia as well as the United States, one is struck by the constant and apparently effortless development of imagery and technique which have left Ann DerGara three steps ahead of a crowd of imitators."

- Roger Caplan, Myriad Fine Art

Mar. 15 - May 3

Museum of Art Staff & Exhibition Committee Show

An integral part of the force that drives the The Museum of Art is the museum staff and its volunteer support. These individuals give more than just their time. Their service excludes them from exhibiting in the museum's galleries except for group shows. This exhibit acknowledges not only their contribution and devotion to the visual arts, but their exceptional artwork as well.

 

May 3 - June 27

Chris Wilson
Rocky Mount, NC

"Many of Wilson's paintings have this particular blend of traditional and modern painting strategies… Wilson's goal appears to be the manipulation of objects as shapes and colors into a composition that reads as much as an abstraction as it does as a representational image."

- James Lancel McElhinney from J. Chris Wilson Retrospective book and catalogue.

May 3 - June 27

Zhi Lin
Seattle, WA

“Five Capital Executions in China,” has received many prestigious recognitions, including a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Fellowship Grant in Painting, and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Artists grant at Giverny (France).

Spartanburg will be the concluding venue of a four exhibition tour which includes Los Angeles, Seattle, and Terre Haut.

May 10 - July 4

Jessica Dunne
San Francisco, CA

"Artists should lead, not follow. Dunne has reformatted, refocused, and exposed a nocturnal, urban world though her art that is both literal in its believability, yet strangely poetic in our surprising appreciation of the unappreciated that she depicts."

--Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator,Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

 

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JULY / AUG

through October

Hall Gallery Exhibition

Johnnie Lee Gray
selected works from New York Life's national exhibition "Rising Above Jim Crow: The Paintings of Johnnie Lee Gray"

Johnnie Lee Gray (1941-2000) was a Spartanburg native and a self-taught painter whose artwork was seldom appreciated during his lifetime. The works in this exhibit tell the story of life in the black community during the days of segregation, from Civil Rights unrest to fathers and sons bonding while fishing to the role of the church to the pride of the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII.

July 12 - Sep. 5

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.

 

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SEPT / OCT

Sep. 13 - Nov. 1

Gladys Coker Fort
(1892-1976)

Born in Hartsville, SC, Fort attended both The Art Students League in New York and the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. The great-granddaughter of Hudson River School painter Edward Gay, she lived and painted in Gaffney.

Sep. 13 - Oct. 24

Alvin Staley
Bretta Staley
Orangeburg, SC

As artists, Alvin and Bretta work to establish convincing pictorial space within compositions that are at once abstractly sound and realistically accurate.

Their works express a fascination with the souls of people and the relationship that exists between God, family, mankind, and themselves.

Nov. 8 - Jan. 2

"Leaves of Grass"
Area Artists in National Publications

The grass is NOT greener on the other side of the fence! Within a 75 mile radius around Spartanburg, there are a number of artists who have gained national and/or international attention. This exhibition focuses on somw of those who have been featured in national publications.

Hall Gallery Exhibition

Mary Whyte Illustrations for the book Chestnut

 

Nov. 11 - Jan. 9

Carl Blair
Greenville, SC

With works in some 2,500 permanent private, corporate and public collections including IBM, Spaulding Corp., BASF Corp., McDonalds International, Hyatt Hotel, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Tuskeegee Institute, Blair is among our area’s best known living artists.

This exhibit will feature Blair's latest creative direction, monotype prints.

Nov. 1 - Dec. 27

Trey Finney
Orlando, FL

During a 15 year period as an animator for Walt Disney Feature Animation, Finney has received credit on numerous animated films including: Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, and John Henry.

Finney has now dedicated himself to painting full-time.