Category: Art Reviews and Criticism
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The Scupture of Joel Shapiro at Middleton Place
As one cow rubs its nose against one of Shapiro’s pieces, he laughs and says, “Maybe the cows are the most responsive to my work — they find it a good scratching post!”
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Joel Shapiro Designs a Spoleto Poster
Nigel Redden, director of Spoleto Festival USA, believes the poster image captures the “whimsy and movement of Joel’s work.”
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F#!k Art at Morris Street Studio
If you’re looking for a surfboard chair or some erotic paintings based on old Italian love sonnets, you have three more Saturdays to get to Morris Street Studio for their “F#!k Art, Let’s Dance” show. As the second gallery show for which Doug DeGood has opened up his studio, he is proving to curate some…
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Harry Folsom and students on display at New Life
(Folsom’s) paintings aren’t just about himself or his childhood or his dreams, but about his philosophy on how people in our society live together, and how we retain our identities within that society.
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The Pride of Public Art
In an age when so much of our culture is imported and homogenized, public art could be the last bastion for the expression of ideas that are inherent to our culture.
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The Sea Hag Scene
The rest of Townsley’s work were free-standing sculptures, and of those, “King” was astonishing. Approxiamtely eight feet tall, his body parts weren’t quite in proportion — one area was particularly well endowed, which I won’t get into. The fantastic beings she brings to life are what make her sculptures so unique and awesome.
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“And the carriage horse fell in love with the cow….”
As for the Cows, their moos resonate even in the Lowcountry. The city of Beaufort will host “Cows on Vacation.” Beginning April 15, 25 Chicago Cows will visit greener pastures, and one culturally enlightened Cow will hoof it to Charleston for Spoleto.
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Photographers Craig J. Barber and Larry Burrows at the Halsey Gallery
Craig Barber’s images, being fixed by a pinhole camera, take literally minutes to expose. This seems to necessitate landscapes — just like the the first images captured with Daguerreotypes in the 1830’s. … He loves the off-kilter images it produces, and he admits that when human figures are captured — as ghostlike blurs in these…
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Jim Innes at Print Studio South; Doug DeGood Studio Group Show
His etchings of girls dressed in their communion outfits at first show them just standing in groups, realistically — as a photograph might be taken. But then the ‘magical realism’ comes in, etchings turn surreal and show the girls taking flight over the cathedral. … It has the power to transport you to places of…
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Picasso at the Gibbes
Picasso, it seems, could make art out of anything — including dirt. Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker recently called him a control freak, subduing art to his will. Not quite a cutdown, considering what his will created. … Once he mastered the technical aspects of the art. Picasso began to incorporate some unorthodox methods…
Kristen L. Rhodes 