DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS
Art Gallery Series 2011-2012
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DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS Art Gallery Series 2011-2012 |
| 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 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. |
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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. The gallery serves
as the lobby for Kassab Recital Hall and the Fine Arts
Theatre, bringing the visual and performing arts together.
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
May 10 - August 11, 2011 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Thurs Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery "Forms and
Surfaces" by Roger D. Dalrymple Roger
Dalrymple received degrees in architecture and in
art from K.U. and K.S.U. He expanded his southwest
studies at Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti in
Arizona and studied at the L.A. Design Center and the
Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has
worked as an artist, architect and teacher in Oklahoma,
Colorado and Alaska prior to moving to Greenville, S.C.
"My forms are an expression of my life long exposure to the American Indian Tribes of the Plains and Southwest United States, the Haida and Aleut Tribes of the Pacific Northwest, the Inupiat, Eskimo and Athabascan Tribes of Alaska and the Maori, Aboriginal People of New Zealand and Australia. Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Goff and Fay Jones work influenced my architectural dreams as all three architects had projects under construction around Tulsa during my formative years." |
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Art
Gallery Series
Avenue B and 9th: Paintings by
Robert GareyAugust 23 - September 24, 2011 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Robert Garey grew up in Florence and graduated from McClenaghan High School in 1971. After "rambling" for a few years, he enrolled at FMU and took all the art courses available in the curriculum at that time. In 1976 he moved to Charleston, and had studios on The Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island. While there, in addition to painting and freelance work, he found employment in the film industry as a scenic artist and sign painter when they were in the area shooting a movie. Garey moved to New York City and set up a studio there in 1986. He worked as a sign painter to begin with, while spending time at The Art Students League drawing from the life models. He also worked as a freelance mural painter in several large commercial studios. Then in 1990 he enrolled at the Graduate School of the New York Academy of Art where he completed the course requirements for the MFA in studio painting. Then, in partnership with another artist, he maintained his own mural studio where they produced large scale murals for private residences. He also worked for the Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses painting replicas of paintings for their clients. He lived in the city for twenty-six years before moving his studio back to Florence in February, 2011. He still maintains his sign shop in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, and so Gary now splits his time between Florence and NY. "These paintings were made between 1999 and 2009. I lived for twenty years just east of the corner of Avenue B on East 9th street in New York City's Lower East Side. It was during this time I made these paintings. Right across the avenue is Tompkins Square Park. These paintings depict that park and my friends and other local denizens of the neighborhood. I called upon the traditions of classical narrative painting and portraiture, as I do in all my studio work, to make these paintings." |
 Tompkins Square. Oil on canvass. 52"x 50". 1998. |
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Art Gallery Series
August 23 - September 24, 2011 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery "Dualism"
-- Works by Jon McMillan Jon McMillan earned an M.F.A. in Ceramics from
Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville in 2009 and
a B.F.A in Studio Art from James Madison University in
1998. Jon is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of
Ceramics at University of Mary Washington,
Fredericksburg, VA. In 2010 he held the position of
Adjunct Instructor / Studio Technician at
University of South Carolina, Columbia SC.
"My work explores dualities--simple and complex, formal and conceptual, internal and external. I use juxtaposition and ambiguity to create objects and installations that speak to both general and specific dichotomies, allowing viewers to bring their own experiences to bear in the interpretation of the work. The meticulous and time-consuming process of making, and the drawn-out multiple firings I employ allow for a more complex and reactionary method of creation. Through this way of making, I am able to gradually build interesting forms and textures, with layers of meaning augmented by the layering of shape and surface. While this body of work generates from my own personal ideas concerning symbiosis, conflict, and humankind’s relationship with the natural world, I engage my audience by making objects that pique interest through their vague and surreal nature. While the forms and surfaces in each component of the work are evocative, they are not immediately recognizable. My hope is to encourage dialogue by raising questions instead of providing answers." |
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Art Gallery Series
September 27 - November 10, 2011 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery "Funk and
Awesome!" by Mike and Patz Fowle Once you've seen their work, you will know why
Mike and Patz Fowle have developed an international
reputation. Patz appears in more than a dozen books on
art as well as textbooks for her unique handbuilding
technique. Mike has had work in the South Carolina State
Museum and recently had a solo show at the Black Creek
Arts Center in Hartsville, SC. Titled The Green Exhibit,
it was made entirely from "repurposed" objects.
In a way, Funk and Awesome! is a "turning back the clock" exhibit for the Fowles. All works displayed in this show have been created jointly by the artists. "He throws the pot or vase and I take it from there," says Patz of the whimsical additions she makes to Mike's wheel-thrown forms. "These are the types of pieces we did before moving to South Carolina," Mike added. The Fowles lived in New York from 1979 to 1989, earning their living by creating and selling unique works of art. During this time is when Patz mastered her ceramic technique and the couple traveled the nation selling at fine arts and crafts shows. After revisiting their Michigan roots for a year, the couple moved to their Darlington County home and began with a new focus for their artwork: education. Both are artists-in-residence with the South Carolina Arts Commission. Visit Pee Dee Arts for additional information. Artists
Reception: 5:00-7:00 pm Thursday, October 6,
2011
(followed
by the Stephen
Anderson jazz concert).
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Art Gallery Series
December 5-17, 2011 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Student
Works by FMU Design and Ceramics Classes A showcase of new works created during the
current semester by students learning skills in visual
arts classes.
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Art Gallery Series
January 10 - February 16, 2012 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery "Much Ado
About Nothing" -- Ceramics by Johnny Nutt "Around 1999 an architect friend of mine showed
me an article in a trade magazine entitled "Hot jobs for
the new millennium". It listed "potter" at #3. She asked
me what I thought about that, to which I replied "It was
obviously not written by a potter!"
"I know I'm not going to affect any change in society, whether large or small, as an artist. I find that very liberating. Nor do I make what I make as a means of income. I did that at one point, and I hated what it did to my work. I found myself spending more time making stuff that would sell than I did being engaged in a joyous process. So I quit that. It's meant that my time in the studio has decreased, but the percentage of my time in the studio spent doing what I want to do, instead of what I have to do, has increased dramatically. "My work is, at its most basic, all about contrasts: busy and spare, glossy and flat, light and dark, smooth and rough, round and angular, mechanical and organic, substantive and superficial. I enjoy working on the wheel, plain and simple. I tend to work in long series, first producing a studio full of forms, stopping only when I have either run out of clay or adequate shelf-space. At that point I basically put the wheel away so I can turn my attention completely to the task of addressing the surfaces of the vessels and platters. "While I occasionally use some source imagery for my designs, such as sub-cellular structures, seed, leaf, and pollen forms, satellite photography and fluid-systems, I tend to abstract that imagery to the point of non-objectivity. I have no real interest in reality. If it already exists in the world, I see no need to rehash it. I prefer to make new stuff. I use very simple glazing techniques, usually limited to terra sigillata and a small amount of glaze. "I also enjoy indulging my need to create what I like to call Juvenile Poetry for the titles of my work. These titles serve no illustrative purpose though. While they satisfy the need for titles, it is my hope that by intentionally confusing the viewer it may be perceived that there is actually some substance to my work, which there isn't. It's entirely vacuous. There's nothing there. Again, I find that very liberating. So much in life is necessarily serious. I feel no need to add to that." Johnny Nutt is a native South Carolinian, born in Walterboro, raised in Chapin. He attended Furman, where he studied under Bob Chance, and the University of South Carolina, where he studied under Tom Dimig. In the time between finishing school and now (20 years), he has worked in advertising, food service, the music business, and non-profit arts administration. He is currently teaching high school art at TL Hanna high school in Anderson, SC. He maintains a home studio in Easley, SC. |
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Art Gallery Series
February 21 - March 31, 2012 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Feather
Pottery by Sasha and Tari Federer Sasha & Tari Federer have been working with
clay for over 35 years. Sasha, born in
Prague, Czech Republic, moved to the USA in the early
70’s. He studied ceramic art in Washington,
Wisconsin, and worked for three years as a professional
potter in New Hampshire and served as
artist-in-residence with the National Endowment for the
Arts. Tari spent much of her life in the
Southwest. She studied as an art major at Ventura
College and the University of California Santa
Barbara. Ten years ago she closed her studio in
North Carolina and moved to Florence, SC to marry and
join forces with Sasha. Their joining has resulted
in a creative collaboration in their quest to create
objects of beauty and functionality in clay.
In addition to exhibiting at The Chameleon Art Gallery, Darlington, SC, Lowcountry Artists, Ltd., Charleston, SC & Interiors of Asheville, Asheville, NC, Tari & Sasha have jointly made one of their artistic dreams come true by opening the Running Horse Gallery beside their studio and home in Florence, SC. Their artwork is one-of-a kind, hand crafted, using an array of firing techniques and surface decoration. Occasionally, the couple will work on the same piece. When this is done, it is signed Satari, a combination of both names. |
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Francis Marion University Lecture
Series
April 5, 2012 7:00 pm Lowrimore Lecture Hall, Cauthen Educational Media Center Printmaking
Lecture by Julie Niskanen While participating in the Department of Fine
Art's April 5-7 printmaking symposium at Francis Marion
University, Julie
Niskanen will hold a public lecture on her work.
Julie Niskanen spent her first seven years in Greenville, South Carolina, and family moves eventually took her to Newark, Delaware and Chicago, Illinois. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Iowa State University in 2005. During the summer of 2003 she lived and studied in Rome, Italy, and traveled around Europe. In 2008, Julie received a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of South Dakota, where she also managed the fine art gallery and taught drawing classes. Julie now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she works as a professional artist and teaches art courses at Wake Technical Community College. Additionally, she teaches printmaking workshops in Raleigh. Julie is also part of the Artspace Artists Association in Raleigh, Davidson Galleries in Seattle, and the Washington Printmakers Gallery in Silver Spring, MD. Living in so many places and having experienced many different environments have had a significant influence on Julie's creative work. She uses images from nature to represent changes in both nature as well as her own life. Always stimulated by the contemporary art world, Julie attends conferences and workshops across the country and gives visiting artist workshops at various art centers and universities. Her award-winning work has been exhibited extensively in national and international exhibitions, and is in many private and public collections. Visit julieniskanen.com/ for additional information and to view selected works. |
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Art Gallery Series
April 23 - May 5, 2012 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery Student
Works by FMU Ceramics & 3D Design Classes A showcase of new works created during the
current semester by students learning skills in visual
arts classes.
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