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continuing through Feb 10, 2010
Duncan McClellan
American Glass Artist
Duncan's vessels consistently achieve acclaim and superb performances at Glass Art Auctions nationally where the auction performance has been described as "magical" and akin to "watching a close sporting event".
Duncan's beautiful patterns and scenes are achieved through a complex glass layering technique where glass is added and then removed in layers to achieve beautiful and complex scenes and patterns of different colors and depth. Although some vessels may share similar themes and patterns, no two vessels are alike.
continuing through Feb 20, 2010
Wolf Kahn
Oils and Pastels
WOLF KAHN is one of the most important colorists working in America today. He studied with the well-known teacher and abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman, becoming Hofmann's studio assistant. He is a member of the Nation Academy of Design, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Kahn is an artist who embodies the synthesis of his modern abstract training with Hans Hofmann, with the palette of Matisse, Rothko's sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of American Impressionism. Selected museum collections include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Feb 16 - Mar 13, 2010
A. Eric Arctander
Tunnel, Resistance & Piano Mountain
"Since my first studio, I have worked in series. This approach allows me to navigate a cluster of challenges which are specific to each series.
Each series has its own set of ideative concepts, choice of medium and a palette of color (or lack of) range. The series are not thought of as a narrative but as an anthology of single works. I am not consciously aware of why a series ends. But, always a new one begins right away. This exhibit presents art from my last three series and the one I am currently engaged in."
Mar 2 - May 8, 2010
Collector’s Talk: Mar 3
The Art of Comic Art: an Illustrated History
The American comic strip in its first definitive form was born on October 18, 1896 in a Sunday “Yellow Kid” page drawn by Richard Felton Outcault for WilliamRandolph Hearst’s New York Journal. When Hearst discovered that comic strips sold a lot of newspapers, he was more than glad to expand the features. By the turn of the century, dialogue and art in a strip form had become a definite part of newspapers. On January 12, 1912, Hearst introduced the world’s first daily comic page.
Original cartoon panels from The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Tarzan, Little Lulu, The Jetsons, Laurel and Hardy, and Bugs Bunny are a few of the strips represented in this fun and informative exhibit.
Mar 23 May 8
South Carolina Artists 2010:
A 2D Fine Arts Exhibition
South Carolina Artists is a juried fine art exhibit, celebrating South Carolina
artists and is presented by the Spartanburg Art Museum at the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It is our goal in this exhibition to focus on artists living and working in South Carolina. South Carolina Artists 2010 provides an opportunity to showcase the creative efforts of our State’s artists.
May 18 - June 26, 2010
Faces from Africa:
Masks and Reliquary Figures
from the collection of James Mendes
May 18 - June 26, 2010
Southern Exposure:
30 Years of Creative Development
of the local Artist Collaborative
Join us as award-winning artists Carol Augthun, Jessica Barnes, David Benson, Amy Goldstein-Rice, Claire Miller Hopkins, Linda Hudgins, Cynthia Link, Mark Olencki, Sara Dame Setzer, Doris Turner, Ann Wenz, and David Zacharias reflect on their creative evolution as their group celebrates 30th anniversary as one of the Upstate’s top exhibition groups.
Sat. June 26 • 10am - 5pm
Sun. June 27 • 1-5pm
Norman Rockwell & Joseph Csatari:
Selections from the National Collection of
the Boy Scouts of America
Joseph Csatari and his mentor, Norman Rockwell, produced some of the most memorable scouting images as official artists of The Boy Scouts of America.
Join us for a special touring exhibit featuring works by these and other artists.
Jul 6 – Sep 4, 2010
Irma & August Cook:
New works in the Collection
&
Ginny Cook:
Another Generation
August and Irma Cook are credited with bringing art to Spartanburg, but beyond that, they brought art and art education to South Carolina. Generations of artists in Spartanburg and beyond owe their fundamental training to the Cooks - to August who taught at Converse College for 42 years and for many years at his Chesnee studio, and to Irma, who taught in the basement of their South Fairview Extension home.
This exhibit will be the first public viewing of a major body of drawings and sketches donated to SAM by Howard & Katherine Cook.
Ginny Cook, grand-daughter of Irma and August, continues the artistic traditions of the family in the contemporary California art market.
Jul 13 – Sep 4, 2010
Kent Ullberg:
Monuments to Nature
Nationally Touring Bronze Sculptures
A native of Sweden, Kent Ullberg is recognized as one of world’s foremost wildlife sculptors. In 1990 his peers elected him a full academician to the Nationational Academy, thus making him the first wildlife artist since John James Audubon to receive one of the greatest tributes in American art.
His Fort Lauderdale, FL and Omaha, NE installations are the largest wildlife bronze compositions ever done, spanning several city blocks.
Ullberg’s work has been shown and can be found in major museums and corporate headquarters around the globe, incl: the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Sweden; the Salon d’Automne, Paris, France; the National Gallery in Botswana, Africa; the National Geographic Society, Washington DC; the Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China; the Guildhall, London, UK; and many more. His sculptures can also be found in the private collections of world leaders and celebrities.
KENT ULBERG was produced by David J. Wagner, L.L.C.; David J. Wagner, Ph.D., Curator/Tour Director; davidjwagnerllc@yahoo.com
Sep 14 - Nov 20, 2010
Andy Warhol & Friends: 5 Minutes of Fame
Warhol once said, "During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered."
This exhibit features a body of the infamous Polaroids. As they were used as studies for other works, most of the Polaroids were never exhibited during Warhol's lifetime. These intimate glimpses of celebrity and the ordinary are balanced by other works by Jim Dine, Edward Hill & Suzanne Bloom, Claes Oldenburg, and Phyllis Yes. Whether his work is outrageous or mannerly, coarse or sublime, it demands a reponse from the viewer.
This exhibit includes works from the permanent collection USC Upstate.
Dec 7, 2010 – Feb 5, 2011
In November 2004, Frank Warren handed out 3,000 postcards to strangers. He invited people to write down a secret anonymously and mail it to him. Each secret had to be true and something that had never been shared with another person. After the first exhibition closed, word of the project spread. People began crafting their own homemade postcards and the artful secrets began arriving from every continent.
Today, Warren has received more than 150,000 postcards and they continue to come at a rate of about 1,000 per week. The PostSecret exhibition features more than 400 postcards that bring together the most powerful, poignant, and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received.