Feature Articles

October Issue 2002

Moonshell Art Gallery in Hilton Head Island, SC, Features Works by Meredith Pardue and Gordon Prott

Moonshell Art Gallery in Hilton Head, SC, presents an exhibit Oil and Bronze, featuring oils by Meredith Pardue and bronze sculpture by Gordon Brott, on view Oct. 25 through Nov. 30, 2002.

Abstract painter and Monroe, LA native Meredith Pardue earned her BFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1998. Pardue has since had twelve solo exhibitions and has participated in over twenty group exhibitions in galleries in Austin, TX, Hartford, CT, Hilton Head, SC, Los Angeles, CA, Monroe, LA, New York City, NY, Savannah, GA, and Washington, DC. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections, including Bank One, Savannah College of Art and Design and Regions Bank.

Pardue will show Selection from the Blackwater, a body of work that relates her impressions of the Mississippi Delta to those of her current home in New York's Washington Heights. Pardue juxtaposes an abstract floral motif with more graphic, yet painterly elements such as wallpaper, signage and fabric to establish a visual dialogue between her past and present. Also included in the exhibition is a series of paintings titled Des Jours, works influenced by the various textiles acquired from her recent studies in France. In these paintings the artist uses fabric, papers and oil paint to investigate the relationship between the physical and psychological environments.

Pardue is currently a teaching assistant painting at Parson School of Design in New York City where she is pursuing a MFA in painting.

Gordon Brott was born in Buffalo, NY, in 1932. He has a BS in education from S.U.N.Y. in Buffalo and an art teachers certificate from Youngstown State University in OH. He taught elementary and high school art until 1969 and was the principal of Searsmont, ME, until 1971.

Brott was the winner of a Westinghouse Purchase Award in 1968. He received first prize in sculpture at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH, in 1968 and the Friends of American Art Purchase Prize from the Institute in 1969.

Brott maintained his own Gallery for 13 years in Camden, ME, and currently shows his work in Camden and at the Moonshell Art Gallery in Hilton Head. His work is in public and private collections throughout the US, Europe and South America.

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