DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS
Art Gallery Series 2009-2010
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DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS Art Gallery Series 2009-2010 |
| The
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. 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 a Student Show |
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Art
Gallery Series
August 18 - September 24, 2009 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Mon-Thur; 8:00-11:00 am Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Crosscurrents: Ceramics by Doug Gray Gray was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He earned his BA degree in ceramics and creative writing from the University of Louisville and his MFA degree in ceramics and art history from the University of North Texas School of Visual Arts. Prior to joining the Francis Marion University faculty in 1997, he taught at the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Arlington, and Sul Ross State University. His art work has been exhibited in juried and invitational exhibitions across the nation. In writing about his work Gray states that "much of my inspiration comes from observing and reflecting upon our everyday surroundings. The color of moss, the texture of bark, the sound of water, these are among the most common sights, sounds, and experiences yet they still have the power to stop me in my tracks. Often, I feel compelled to preserve some of the natural mystery that can be found in a piece of clay-to trade places and allow the clay to become the maker, and I the responsive agent. Sometimes, the clay responds to this approach and together we manage to preserve a bit of that natural essence with which I was first transfixed." "My work is primarily concerned with space and the constructed barriers which not only divide the spaces of our existence but divide us as well. So often we are like vessels, sometimes concealing and other times revealing the central landscape of our being. It is the process of concealing and revealing space that intrigues me. I am fascinated by the facility in which, in an instant or over a long lifetime of experiences, we construct these impenetrable and sheltering barriers. In this sense, my work might be seen as metaphorical portraits of myself and those important to me. Whether a vessel or a wall piece, my work explores these perceptions of "inscape" and "centeredness." It explores the division of space and the walls implemented in its division. It explores the universality and individuality of the self." The name of this exhibit is "Crosscurrents" because Doug's recent body of work does not follow a single, homogeneous flow. The pieces on display fall into three distinct categories (functional, raku and pit fired) and include large thrown vessels, hand built urns, and small porcelain sculptures. |
 Doug Gray at work  Aztec Bowl, raku, 1994 |
 Deep Water a tranquility that dissolves in itself 26”x20” Acrylic on Laminated Wood |
Art
Gallery
Series
August 18 - September 24 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery "Translated Landscapes" -- Contemporary Acrylic Paintings by Brian Taylor Brian Taylor's series of paintings entitled "Translated Landscapes" explores the connections between nature's mysteries and the artist's search for higher planes of consciousness. Inspired by the poetic writing of Rainer Maria Rilke, Taylor sees in nature a place for contemplation of sensorial perception.His connection with nature has roots in his memories growing up in the South. The visual complexities of abundant foliage with its sensual fragrances and temperatures, the landscape transitions from deltas to hills, from hills to mountains with their play of light and shadow, are the memories that ground the artist's paintings. The inherited knowledge of the land passed down to him by his Cherokee grandmother certainly add a subtlety to his perception of nature. For Taylor, translating nature means neither to possess it nor to represent it, but to simply suggest its living energy through colors and gestures. These paintings are not expressions of the artist's control over nature, but the sensory imprints of nature. Taylor creates rhythmic paintings that are always shifting in energy and mood, depicting the constantly changing energies of nature. The artist states - "I believe that the
true experience of nature
is not only in what we see, but also what we feel about what we see. My art is an attempt to portray the illusive qualities of the light, color and movement within a particular natural environment. Also, I hope to reveal a poetic undercurrent - a kind of romanticism - that I feel exists in the organized chaos of the natural world." Brian Taylor is an associate professor of art at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. In addition to his studio coursework instruction, Mr. Taylor also conducts art seminar courses in Post-Modern Art, Contemporary Women Artists and Multi-Cultural Issues in Contemporary Art. In March of 2001, Mr. Taylor was the recipient of The Shorter College Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership award. |
 Art
Gallery Series September 29 - November 19 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Southwest
Pottery
from
the
Permanent
Collection of the Florence Museum The Florence Museum
of Art Science and History has an extensive collection of works by
Native Americans of the Southwest, including pottery, basketry, and
textiles. It is with gratitude that we accept this opportunity to
diplay selected works of artistic as well as historic significance.
The objects on loan from the Florence Museum are only a small part of a larger collection of treasures from around the world. This exhibit features both prehistoric and modern day works of natives of the South, Central and North America. Most of the objects displayed at Francis Marion University are occasionally exhibited at the museum, but are usually kept in storage awaiting expanded exhibition space. It is a mutually advantageous opportunity to share some the these often hidden treasures with the Francis Marion University audience. Please visit the Florence Museum at 558 Spruce Street in Florence, South Carolina. Hours are 10:00-5:00 Tuesday through Saturday and Sunday 2:00-5:00. Admission is free. Pueblo Potters of the Southwest Pueblo pottery traditions began nearly 2000 years ago in the North American Southwest, and this vibrant tradition continues to evolve and expand. There are 18 different Pueblo villages and tribes in New Mexico and the Hopi in Arizona. Potters continue to make pottery using traditional methods of coils or ropes of clay piled one on top of another to build the walls of the pot. The walls are then smoothed using gourd or other scrapers and further polished using polishing stones. The smooth, clean surface is often slipped, or can be painted. The pots are then fired out-of-doors in excavated kilns using dried dung or wood for fuel. Covering the vessels with powdered dung produces black pots; this process is called smudging. Hand polishing produces glossy areas. Painting is done with natural substances in red, black, tan, buff, and white. Designs can be motifs used for generations or contemporary interpretations of Pueblo designs. Santa Clara Pottery Santa Clara Pueblo, located in the Rio Grande Valley north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was established in 1550. The Tewalanguage Pueblo, which uses the same word for "clay" and for "people" (nung), is renowned for its pottery. Within the Pueblo culture, the extended family is traditionally at the heart of pottery making. Women teach children distinctive family styles, and families put the pots to daily or ceremonial use or trade them. At Santa Clara Pueblo, where today fewer than 3,000 people reside, pottery is typically black or red, and one vessel shape is well-known as Santa Claran: the wedding jar, a double-necked jar with two mouths connected by a handle. Acoma Pottery Legend has it that twin sisters led their people, "Ma," to "Ako," a magical white rock to be their home. Acoma Pueblo (called "Sky City" as it's atop a mesa) is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States. Today, families maintain their homes on top of the mesa but live year-round in the traditional farming villages in the valleys surrounding Ako. Acoma's dense, white clay makes the pottery lightweight and durable. Painted with slip, design motifs are added using mineral and plant-derived paints. Geometric designs are common. The traditional paintbrush is made from the yucca plant. Historically, Acoma was known for large, thin-walled "ollas," jars used for storage and water. With the arrival of the railroad and tourists, Acoma potters began manufacturing to sell to tourists as well as for their own use as water jars and cooking pots. San Ildefonso Pueblo Pottery San Ildefonso Pueblo, located in northern New Mexico, has been inhabited since the 13th-century. The people of San Ildefons9 speak Tewa, and are thought to be of Anasazi descent. San Ildefonso Pueblo is well known for its beautiful pottery, decorated with frieze patterns and strip patterns. This black-on-black pottery style was developed by the late Maria Martinez and her husband Julian in the 1920s. Their work reintroduced the art of pottery making to the San Ildefonso Pueblo, mixing traditional techniques with contemporary innovation. The black-on-black pottery of San Ildefonso Pueblo, which features both matte and glossy finishes on the same piece, is recognized internationally. . |
 Playing
the
Blues
Claire Farrell "Gallery Crawl" from 4:00 to 7:00 pm on Friday, October 16. |
Art
Gallery
Series
September 29 - November 12 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery South
Carolina Watermedia
Society -- a
special exhibition of works selected from the SCWS annual juried show
including works by Joanne Anderson, Denise Athanas, Ingrid Carson, Jack
Dowis, Elsie Ellington, Claire Farrell, Lynne Hardwick, Rachel Hyman,
Kate Lagaly, Harry McFadden, Kimberly Ramey and Meg Wallace. SCWS, the largest statewide visual arts group, is an active presenting organization. We nurture and promote South Carolina artists by providing exhibition opportunities, special programs to market their original works and coordinate educational programs. In addition, our goals include public outreach and participation in the arts. The purpose of the Society is to promote the aesthetic and professional interests of its members and to provide the public with artistic opportunities through watermedia painting; elevate the stature of watermedia and educate the public to its significance as an important creative permanent painting medium; further the interests of watermedia painters by its programs and competitive exhibits, and to encourage the study of watermedia painting; promulgate the highest aesthetic standards within the visual arts, and to cooperate with and participate in other similar organizations in order to stimulate the practice and appreciation of the arts. Most recently the Society has partnered with art groups, galleries and universities to feature a "special exhibit" in conjunction with its annual exhibit. Francis Marion University is a site of this year's special exhibit. Other locations include the Lynda English Gallery, Florence Regional Arts Alliance and the Florence Little Theater. There will be a "Gallery Crawl" from 4:00 to 7:00 pm on Friday, October 16, when all of the various exhibiting organizations will receive visitors. The Gallery Crawl will begin with a reception at the Lynda English gallery and then wend its way through the Florence Little Theatre, the Florence Regional Arts Alliance, and the Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery at Francis Marion University. |
 Bearly
Passing
Costume
Crafts
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Art
Gallery
Series
October 15 - November 12 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Costume
Crafts
Project
--
Making
Bears for McLeod Children's Hospital Assistant Professor of Theatre-Costume Design Abby Kiker enlisted pattern donations from Simplicity Pattern Company, Inc. and used the project for the students to learn basic hand and machine sewing skills in a laboratory setting. They put these skills to use in the costume shop, where they can get hands-on experience working with the costumes for a production. (They make the bears as an intro, to learn what they are doing before being given other projects for the costume shop.) The bears will then be donated to children during a class field trip to McLeod Children's Hospital later in the semester. |
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Student
Works
by
FMU
Ceramics
Classes |
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Art
Gallery
Series
January 5 - February 11, 2010 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Mill
Portraits by Scotty
Peek Scotty Peek is very much a product of
the SouthEast. He was born in Alabama,
studied in Tennessee
and then South Carolina, where he met his wife Sally.
Together, they’ve deepened her existing
Columbia roots and embrace the area as a place rich with content and
possibilities.
Scotty strives at being an
idea-based artist, choosing the
media and materials that will best communicate the idea of the artworks. Those artworks often deal with ideas of
connectedness and shared experiences, and are usually sensitive to site
and
audience. Scotty is a professor at
South Carolina State University and
an actively commissioned portrait painter. These are portraits of
people from the Columbia SC
neighborhood and former mill village commonly referred to as Olympia. Their images were painted from photographs
that were taken when the neighborhood’s mills were in operation. The portraits were originally produced for
and exhibited as a part of “Textile Tales,” the inaugural exhibition of
the 701
Center for Contemporary Art. 701 CCA is
housed in a recently renovated building, which originally served as the
Community Center for the Olympia mill workers and their families. While removed from their original and intended
exhibit space, hopefully the portraits still carry with them a story
that is
common and familiar: how our families
and identities are often tied to our work. The portraits are
painted on raw cotton duck (canvas), a
common mill product. |
 Mill Portraits by Scotty Peek
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 Art
Gallery SeriesJanuary 5 - February 11, 2010 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Alice
R. Ballard "My art is a reflection of my relationship with natural forms. These forms come to me on walks, while I work in my garden, on visits to the produce section of the grocery store or, appear as gifts from friends who share my fascination with beauty inherent in Nature's abundant variety of forms. To be more specific, it is often the metamorphosis of Nature's forms, as they change from season to season, that attracts me. I am endlessly drawn to that universal world in which differing life forms share similar qualities. Tulip bulbs and the human form for example share many of the same sensual qualities. "I spend countless hours contemplating a particular form in order to feel its energy. It becomes a Zen-like connection not unlike a mediation. Next I will begin to draw the form, trying to capture the essence of what I have felt and observed. Then I begin to bring this form to life in clay. As an artist, I hope that those who choose to connect with my work can share some of the harmony and tranquility I feel through the creative process. Perhaps, at the very least, the viewer will give those small, often unnoticed forms in Nature, a second glance." Alice and Kim Keats will team up for a Gallery Lecture "A 3-dimensional Afternoon" at 1 pm on Thursday, February 11. |
 Interlaced
Interspace
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Art
Gallery
Series
February 16 - April 1, 2010 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery "Interlacements"
by
Kim
Keats Kim Keats holds a BFA from Augusta State University, pursued graduate studies in fibers at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and received an MFA from Georgia Southern University. Kim’s fiber works have been exhibited in museums including the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, the Museum of York County in Rock Hill, SC, the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, and the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida. She has received merit and best of show awards in a number of juried exhibitions and her works have been included in the traveling exhibits, Palmetto Hands, Craft of the Carolinas, and Material Objects. Keats’ sculptures are in the Mark B. Coplan Collection of Art at the South Carolina State Museum and the Medical University of South Carolina’s Contemporary Carolina Collection at the Ashley River Tower. Her work is also featured on the Southern Arts Federation and Medical University of South Carolina’s websites. Kim and Alice Ballard will team up for a Gallery Lecture "A 3-dimensional Afternoon" at 1 pm on Thursday, February 11. |
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Senior Shows by Graduating FMU Visual Arts Majors Each
Visual Arts major is required to exhibit work and write an artist's
statement as part of a senior exhibit. The senior exhibitions are
presented on the FMU campus as small groups shows during the final year
of enrollment. Each student's portion of the group exhibit is comprised
of works from the student's specialty area and is prepared under the
direction of the student's specialty area professor and serves as
partial fulfillment of Art 499: Senior
Seminar.
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Student
Works
by
FMU
Ceramics
and 3D Design Classes |
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