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October Issue 2002
Eva Carter Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Exhibition by William Halsey
Eva Carter Gallery in Charleston, SC, is pleased
to present the work of nationally known and collected abstract
expressionist William Halsey for the month of November, 2002.
Halsey's career began in Charleston under the instruction of Elizabeth
O'Neill Verner. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston where he received a travel fellowship taking him to
Mexico. This trip forever influenced his work. With much success,
Halsey exhibited at such esteemed institutions as the Whitney
Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Chicago Art Institute.
However, the pull of his hometown and its high quality of life
was too great. Halsey returned to Charleston and continued to
exhibit nationally while still remaining an integral part of the
arts in Charleston. His contribution, as a painter and teacher,
has left an indelible mark on the history of abstract art in the
South.
The show, William Halsey: A Tribute to Texture and Time
celebrates his dynamic career exhibiting work from the sixties
through the time of his death in the late nineties. While Halsey's
earlier works tended to be more figurative and his later works
were solely abstract expressionistic, there exists a strong commonality
throughout the years - Halsey was concerned with texture.
An excerpt from the book William M. Halsey: Retrospective by Jack A. Morris Jr., director of the Greenville County Museum of Art in 1972 states:
"We are confronted with both objective
and non- objective configurations which, when accompanied by the
rough texture Halsey seems to prefer, offer no compromise in appealing
to our aesthetic sense. He seems bent on an escape from traditional
manifestations of the past and prefers to explore the risks involved
with today's unpredictable aspects of life. Like torn fragments
from some larger context of chaos his paintings express the most
fundamental of human experiences.
William Halsey's November exhibit will coincide and open with
the Charleston Fine Art Annual weekend, Nov. 1-3, 2002,
presented by the Charleston Fine Art Dealer's Association, and
will continue throughout the month.
For more information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/722-0506 or preview the show at (www.evacartergallery.com).
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