Category: Art Reviews and Criticism
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Art Walk: E.S. Lawrence Gallery, Clayworks Studio, Jerald Melberg, and Nina Liu Galleries Represent
Galleries are not museums. They’re showrooms filled with salespeople. And when you are talking about spending thousands of dollars, it becomes a very serious business. This is why Art Walks are so fun. The offering of free food and wine brings in lots of folks who don’t regularly inhabit the commission-driven environs of galleries. Folks…
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Print Studio South Auction
There were more techniques and media presented than I knew existed. The complete list (I think): woodcut, etching, mesotint etching, color linocut, photography, pastel, oil, silkscreen, photosilkscreen, monotint, viscosity print, aquatint, drypoint etching, and watercolor. You’ll have to take a class at Print Studio South if you want to know what all these techniques involve…
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Beauty Is in the Eye of … the Critic?
Hilton Kramer definitively and authoritatively proclaimed there is nothing spiritually fulfilling in any art right now. Well, I definitively disagree. He wouldn’t say what art he liked, stating he “doesn’t give investment advice,” but my bet is anything ‘conceptual’ or ‘multi-media’ would not be on his list.
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Three Fall Women
All three artists are women who either work with dolls, weavings or homemade paper. Sure, old-fashioned, stereotypically “female” sorts of things — but each is an expert in her field, and each elevates these “traditional” objects and crafts into quite beautiful pieces of art.
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The Right to Assemble
Mr. Imagination’s colorful and eccentric art greets you as you walk in — sculptures of masks, totem poles, chairs and people made of feather dusters, beer bottle caps, red velvet and colored rhinestones. … One hopes, for the sake of his liver, the caps were not collected from personal use.
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Take a Look-See Around
The final word — get out and see what you like. Likes and dislikes in art are sometimes diificult to articulate. You can’t always explain why you love or hate a painting or a sculpture. But who do you have to explain it to? Just go.
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Walk the Walk
Nina Liu informed me that, contrary to what you might think, happy tipsy people are not that free with their money (at least not always at galleries — I think restaurants benefit more by the walk than the galleries).
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A Slice of Humble Pie
Mark Woodward returned to his hometown from a master’s program in California, and from working as the chief sculptor for the Banana Republic stores. Banana Republic’s loss is Charleston’s gain. He clearly has amazing control over just about anything one could sculpt into a form, which is something rare even for a formally-trained artist, and…
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Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
Just about all the art at this exhibition is very good, and it makes me wonder where all these artists are the other 11 months of the year. I hope the local gallery owners are busily trying to represent more than a few so we may see more of this kind of art in town.
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It’s a Major Retrospective, Charlie … McAlister
Lowcountry artist gets a much-deserved retrospective at the McClellanville Art Center in McClellanville, South Carolina. …. From Sept 12, 2001 — “For this interview, McAlister let me experience a baked ‘record.’ He mixed up flour, baking powder, and some other stuff and then baked it to a flat crisp. He then placed it on his…
Kristen L. Rhodes 