DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS
Art Gallery Series 2008-2009
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DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS Art Gallery Series 2008-2009 |
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Department
of Fine Arts sponsors the Art Gallery Series, hosting varied shows of
two and three dimensional works showcasing local and regional artists.
Exhibits change regularly throughout the academic year. The mission of the art galleries program is to present exhibitions that support and enhance the academic goals of the visual arts program at Francis Marion University, providing a non-profit institutional setting in the service of society for educational purposes. Under the supervision of the Fine Arts Department faculty, the galleries curator is committed to researching, exhibiting and interpreting for the purpose of study, objects, activities, and documents focused on the visual arts. |
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 Overview of west end of Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery |
Art
galleries
are located in both the Hyman Fine Arts Center and the Smith University
Center. The University Center Gallery is in the main commons area and
is optimized for secure display of large two-dimensional works. The
Fine Arts Center Gallery features large cases along glass walls,
allowing three-dimensional works to be displayed and viewed from the
outdoor breezeway as well as inside the commons serving the Fine Arts
Theatre and Adele Kassab Recital Hall. A lighting grid and configurable
display partitions provide a flexible gallery space for two- and
three-dimensional works throughout the remainder of the gallery. Senior shows are required of all students majoring in Visual Arts. At the end of each semester, the galleries also feature works produced by students enrolled in studio art classes. These shows give students hands-on experience in selection and installation of artworks, publicity of exhibition, and external review by the University community and general public. |
| The Galleries Curator then selects among
distinguished regional artists to fill out the Art Gallery Series
schedule in order to have two- and three-dimensional shows changing
regularly throughout the academic year. Whenever possible, gallery
openings are designed to coincide with First Tuesday Arts Event
concerts, a series of light and varied chamber music recitals held in
the Kassab Recital Hall adjacent to the Fine Arts Center Gallery.
Below find information about some of this season's exhibitions. Please check the Arts Calendar for more information about First Tuesday concerts as well as the Art Gallery Series schedule. Gallery hours are typically 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Monday-Friday except during summer session June 5-August 11, when hours are 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Monday-Thursday and 8:00-11:30 am Friday. |
 Portion of Student Show in University Center Gallery Cases |
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Art
Gallery Series May 22 - July 22, 2008 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Mon-Thur; 8:00-11:00 am Fri Smith University Center Gallery The Quilting Way III: Quilts by the Swamp Fox Quilters Guild |
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Art
Gallery Series August 5 - October 30, 2008 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Thur; 8:00-11:00 am Fri Smith University Center Gallery Paintings
by
Jane Jackson A Member with Excellence in the South Carolina Watercolor Society and on the South Carolina Arts Commission's Approved Artist Roster, "her list of clients reads like a South Carolina corporate Who's Who." She has had many one person exhibitions and has been accepted and won awards in numerous competitions. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections throughout the United states and abroad. "Encouraged by family and teachers in my early childhood, I have always wanted to draw and paint. I was fortunate to have studied with noted artists and thankfully my work has been well received. I am inspired by nature and the life around me. I see paintings every day. I still want to paint subjects I remember form years past. "The creative process to me is more exciting than the finished work, although I am happy when the work is completed and is shared with others. As the painting develops, there are so many choices to make. The decisions are an exciting adventure." For additional information, visit http://www.janejacksonstudio.com. |
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Art
Gallery Series
September 30 - November 13, 2008 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Jim Boden - "Spectators" "For a
number of years I have examined the figure in my work. I focused a
great deal of attention on body language and the figure's ability to
mirror or externally manifest inner, emotional states of "being." After
a series of constructed body parts amalgamating imperfect Colossi, I
turned inward as an opportunity to investigate internal "body language."
"We speak of our stomachs "twisted in knots" or "hearts skipping a beat" and other outer visions of our internal palpitations and twitches. This loose umbrella of an idea was the start of the Passage series of which Vellicate, Elderly Women and Jazz Musicians, and Cippus are fragments or moments of an internal journey. "None of these forms are specific internal organs, most actually began as external body parts, but as coloration of muscles, sinew, and fascia were applied to the forms the "internal" became more readable. The rich coloration that we have within our bodies fascinated me. The Passages series was not intended as a journey of the digestive tract, blood stream, or oxygen passages but as an excavation or spelunking of the "inner core of being" within our physical and mental caverns. Passage and distance traveled, as well as, the ancient practices of examining the organs of animals, enemies, or sacrifices to read the future all began interweaving through the series. "Near the end of the Passage series, I wanted to come back out to the external but I found it difficult to deal with the figure from a distanced stance. I was caught at the boundary that separates the internal from the external and I began to hover just over its surface. Flesh Field is one of the pieces that I created while considering the use of skin as a "map of being." The fortune telling aspects of organ readings led my investigation to consider the mapping of the hand in fortune telling, past-present-future, the tattooing of flesh, and experience¹s collection of scars that are perpetrated upon the flesh." Jim Boden is Associate Professor of Art at Coker College with expertise in painting, drawing and photography.
"My
purpose is to give visual expression to issues of social and political
conflict. These interests stem from a family tradition of political
activism. My grandfather was a conscientious objector during World War
I. His experiences in military prisons (Alcatraz and Leavenworth)
between 1918 and 1921 have been the subject of my artwork in the past.
"My current artistic focus developed out of a call for entries for the Holter Museum in Helena, Montana. The museum asked artists to “transform hate” by making works of art from Neo-Nazi hate literature obtained by the Montana Human Rights Network. I created a series of eight artworks for this exhibition. "I have continued to wrestle with the idea of transforming hate by exploring issues of racial tension in the American south, specifically the controversy concerning the treatment of the Jena six in Louisiana, and the use of the noose as a source of fear and intimidation."
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 From Wince Series by Jim Boden  Jean Grosser at work |
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Art
Gallery Series
September 30 - November 13, 2008 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Larry Merriman - "Echo" "For the past ten years I have been making large scale temporary sculptures. Usually, I make room-size walk-in sculptures that surround the viewer. Often, I use cardboard, found objects, and my own lighting system to change the interior shape of a room. I do this because I enjoy making enclosures that differ dramatically from the expected architecture. I also enjoy working with recycled and found materials because these materials bring their own history to the experience of my sculpture. Such materials are worn, disposable, and often covered with printed words and images. Consequently, the finished sculpture is old and new at the same time. I find this contrast appealing because it suggests more complex relationships. For example, the boxes in my sculpture create a structure that addresses formal concerns such as volume, weight, texture, and space while the printed words make references that run deep in our consumer oriented society. I design a new sculpture for each site, and the installation exists only for the length of the exhibition. At the end of a show the piece is flattened and recycled." -- Larry Merriman, Assistant Professor of Art and Gallery Director, Coker College. |
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 Self-Portrait by Megan Brown | Seated Figure by Brianna Peaslee |
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Art
Gallery Series
January 6 - February 12, 2009 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Paintings by Patti Brady Painting demo February 12, time TBA Patti Brady's paintings and prints have been exhibited nationally and reviewed by the New York Times. She has exhibited at the Brand Library, Glendale, CA., Arch Gallery, Chicago, IL., Mills College, Oakland and U.C. Berkeley CA., Greenville Museum, Lander College and U.of SC. Furman University and the Governer's School. Her work is in the collection of Greenville County Museum, The Contemporary Collection of MSUC in Charleston SC,(the largest collection of contemporary South Carlina on permanent display), The Mark Coplan Collection at the South Carolina State Museum and County Bank. Patti Brady has developed curriculum for acrylic classes for artists and art educators. Patti currently has trained and manages 42 national and international artists for the Golden Working Artist Program in the US. Canada, Korea, France, Austria, Spain, Mexico and the Netherlands. 2004 and 2006 she traveled to Japan for Golden Artist Colors to lecture at Universities in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. She is currently at work on a book covering contemporary uses of acrylic for F&W Publications due out in 2008, titled Rethinking Acrylics: Radical Solutions for Exploiting the World's Most Versatile Medium. "I am continually fascinated by the materiality of paint, the thickness, the texture, the drip, the transparency, the overlap, the overlay and evocative color. "These images are heavily influenced by my explorations into landscape painting and a physical move to a Southern landscape. A certain claustrophobic explosion of plant life, molecules of air, humidity, and insect invaded a western sense of space. "These images are an expression of the minutia of botany, containers, irritations, voids, veils, growth, decay, seeds, and about what intrudes into, onto these spaces. "Patterning, repeating images, fabric, and ornamentation, all derived from plant life are interwoven. Quilting is collage. "The contrast between the actual materiality of paint, thick and textural, drips, mistakes, stains, happenstance, juxtaposed with a more controlled painterly drawing process are intriguing to me." -- Patti Brady |
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Gallery Series
January 6 - February 12, 2009 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Pottery
by Eugéne - African Americal Pottery
Rosa
and
Winton Eugene, are residents of Cowpens, SC. Winton
Eugene
began making pottery in 1986 as a hobby to fill his time.
Within months, the Eugenes had a garage full of pottery. A suggestion
from a loved one took them to the annual Freedom Weekend Aloft to
display Mr. Eugene’s work. Mrs. Eugene took time off of her work as a
nurse to accompany her husband. They took several pieces of pottery and
sold them, and they suddenly realized that they may have stumbled upon
a hobby that would be of interest to countless people.
For more information about the background and craft of Rosa and Winton Eugene, see the article in Carolina Arts. |
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“I took the
photographs in
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exhibit while in
“Some images are printed as a single series of consecutive shots taken from various vantage points and placed together in Photoshop. Other photographs are single, stand alone views. Each photograph is intended to give the viewer an impression of the splendor of the vast country that is Kathleen Pompe is a Professor of Art at |
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 Paintings by Mark Keller and Matthew
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