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October Issue
2009
Corrigan Gallery
in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Manning Williams
The
Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit,
Respecting the Past, featuring early works by Manning Williams,
on view from Oct. 2 - 31, 2009. These works mark the path of Williams'
rise as a spectacular and notable southern painter. These special
jewels from his studio are sure to please and provide a timeline
for his life's work.
The Corrigan Gallery
is honored and excited to have the opportunity to showcase these
earlier representational works by this Charleston native. Williams'
work is legendary to many - his series of Indians and the series
of landscapes, which often were gigantic. Trucks replaced the
Indians and a series of narrative paintings tackling war followed
those. The past eighteen years of work based on cartoon format
with abstract imagery still shows many figurative aspects in it
and strong threads connecting these paintings to his earlier work
and sense of composition.
"I consider myself a narrative painter. Yet times have changed
the way we see the world. TV, movies, and the Internet pour out
information faster than we could have ever imagined only a few
years back. My work today is about finding a new way to narrate
our times," said Williams in the recent years. Going through
his studio it becomes very apparent how he made the "leap"
to the current work. This show will please his former collectors
and help illuminate for all the progression of his vision.
Williams was born in Charleston in 1939. He received his BS from
the College of Charleston before doing graduate work at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally with solo shows in Charleston, New Orleans, Washington,
at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Art
and the Greenville Museum of Art. Group shows including his work
were Second Story Show at Piccolo Spoleto in 2002, 100
Years/100 Artists, Views From the 20th Century, at the South
Carolina State Museum in 1999-2000, and Old South, New South
at Winthrop University in 1995. In 2004, Williams and Linda Fantuzzo
had a duo show at the Gibbes Museum of Art entitled Framing
a Vision: Landscapes. Williams had a solo show at the Florence
Museum of Art in Florence, SC, in 2008.
Williams has received a SC Arts Commission Fellowship. His best
known commissions are displayed at the Charleston Airport and
the East Cooper Hospital. His poster for the New Figurative
Painting exhibition is included in "Fairfield Porter:
A catalogue raisonné of his prints." Williams
produced the book jacket and illustrations for Poems from the
Scorched Earth by James Everett Kibler (2001). His work has
been the subject of reviews and feature stories, and included
in the video Charleston Art Now.
Williams' work hangs in public and corporate collections, among them the SC Arts Commission, R.J. Reynolds Corporation, Citizens and Southern National Bank, Post & Courier Publishing Company, Kiawah Resort Association, Greenville County Museum, South Carolina State Museum and the Gibbes Museum of Art. Most recently his work was included in the MUSC Contemporary Carolina Collection and the Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA. He is included in the Southern Registry of artists.
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
843/722-9868 or visit (www.corrigangallery.com).
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