Tag: Art
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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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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…
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Piccolo Spoleto’s Fiber & Light Installation
The work is ethereal, intangible, and ever-changing with no two viewings alike. … Edith Kelman is an artist from Atlanta who has been working with large, interactive sculptural environments for the last 20 years.
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Girl Power!
Works by Molly B. Right, Lin Kuhl Jay, Danielle D. Madore, Bea Aaronson, Maxine Sidran, Peggy Howe, Stephen Scott Young, Forrest Moses, and Frederick de Petiville, as well as art at the Avery Center.
Kristen L. Rhodes 