Category: Charleston City Paper
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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…
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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.
Kristen L. Rhodes 