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continuing through Feb 5, 2011
PostSecret: Pop Culture Phenomenon
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.
PostSecret Exhibition tour was organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC in cooperation with Frank Warren.
February 8 - February 19
College Town Art Faculty Exhibition
Featuriing work by members of the art faculties at Converse College, USC Upstate, Spartanburg Methodist, and Wofford College.
Feb 24 - 27
The Spartanburg Art Museum will host the Third Annual Art & Antique Show, benefiting the Spartanburg Art Museum, on February 24-27, 2011. This exciting event will give people in the Upstate an opportunity to see, learn about and purchase predominantly 18th & 19th century American, English, and Continental antiques and accessories from dealers outside of the Upstate area. Vendor merchandise will include the following: antique furniture, silver, jewelry, porcelain, paintings, fine art, oriental rugs, linens, and garden accessories.
Showcasing a wide array of fine art and antiques and hosting nationally known speakers, the Art & Antique Show has become the premier fundraising event for the Spartanburg Art Museum.
For more information, please click here.
March 8 – May 7
West Fraser
A Southern Perspective
One of the leading American artists in the representational/plein air tradition, West Fraser has built his career on richly painted, atmospheric vistas of cities, coasts, and the landscape throughout the United States and internationally—from the pristine Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia, to the hill towns of Tuscany. An inveterate traveler, he has painted throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Europe and Scandinavia. Yet his passion always draws him back to the marshes and landscape of the Georgia and South Carolina Coast. This exhibition, entitled West Fraser : A Southern Perspective, explores the paintings of his South, from the rolling hills of the North Carolina Mountains to the maritime forests on the southern sea islands.
March 8 – May 7
Will Henry Stevens
1881-1949
Will Henry Stevens was born in Vevay, Indiana in 1881. As a young painter he studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Art Students' League in New York City. While living briefly in New York he had several one man shows at the New Gallery. In 1921 Stevens moved to New Orleans to become a professor of art at Sophie Newcombe College, now part of Tulane University. During his summer and winter vacations Stevens would take numerous trips into the landscape. These trips fostered his prolific career. Stevens died in 1949 after retiring and moving back to Vevay.
May 17 - July 23
Contemporary Conversations, Part II
selections from the State Art Collection
The exhibition is designed to suggest both the quality and diversity of the state's cultural heritage and includes everything from hard-edge geometric abstraction to surrealist tinged dreamscapes. Works are inspired by social issues, memory, local and national history, imagination, art of the past and aesthetic theory. Together they reflect the many voices and diverse concerns of South Carolina artists.
August 2 - October 1
Studio Works:
selections from the Ceramic Art Studio
at the University of South Carolina
Not your run of the mill pots and bowls! The internationally known Ceramics Studio of the University of South Carolina serves as a sort of research and development project by developing nonfunctional, sculptural works that can delight and facscinate.
William Walmsley (1923–2003)
Hotlanta.
August 9 - February 18, 2012
Voices from the Vault:
selections from the
Permanent Collection
of the Spartanburg Art Museum
Originated by the Spartanburg Arts and Crafts Club in 1907, the Palmetto Bank Endowed Permanent Collection includes works by George Aid, Henry Gasser, Albert Capers Guerry, Robert Henri, Harold Krisel, and G. Thompson Prichard, as well as many regional artists, such as Margaret Law, and Josephine Sibley Couper.
October 11 - December 3
Faces from Africa:
selections from the
Collection of James Mendes
Following up on the success of last year's exhibit, this exhibit focuses on objects, reliquary figures and statues from Western and Central Africa.
Knight- Errant, (early '70s)
Lacquer, oil, and sawdust on masonite
Dec. 20- Feb. 18, 2012
Laura Spong:
Early Works
Laura Spong is one of South Carolina’s best known non-objective painters. In a career that started in 1948, her reputation has soared in recent years. This exhibit will feature early works from that career as a means of examing the evolution of Sprong's Abstract Expressionist style, and how that style "visually portrays her 'inner journey' as she has searched for meaning and purpose in life."