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October Issue
2009
City Art in
Columbia, SC, Features Works by Alex Powers
City
Art in Columbia, SC, will present the exhibit, Alex Powers:
Paintings and Drawings of the Last 20 Years, on view from
Oct. 9 - 31, 2009.
Powers has been a self-employed
painter and teacher for 28 years. He exhibits in galleries in
five states and among his many national juried exhibition awards
is the Gold Medal in the 1997 American Watercolor Society Exhibition.
Powers has been published in various magazines and books and is
the author of Painting People in Watercolor, A Design Approach,
published by Watson-Guptill. In addition he teaches workshops
on painting in this country and abroad.
Powers' painting style has evolved into personal, content-dominated imagery. Using gouache, charcoal, pastel and sometimes collage on illustration board, his loose realism combines an emphasis on drawing with a awareness of the art of our time. Often the illustration boards are connected for work up to 15 feet in length. Powers said, "I attempt to deal with issues such as human origins, religion, philosophy, racism, economic, inequality, etc. These overwhelming issues are difficult to deal with, but they are what interest me. And, since I believe in the singularity of life and art, these issues are the content of my current work.'
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
803/252-3613 or visit (www.cityartonline.com).
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