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November Issue 2004
Vista Studios in Columbia, SC, Offers Group Exhibition for Vista Lights
The artists of Vista Studios in Columbia, SC,
open the exhibition, New Works, as part of Vista Lights
on Nov. 18, 2004. Vista Lights is the annual open house
of galleries in Columbia's Congaree Vista that launches the holiday
season. As part of this holiday evening, the artists of Vista
Studios will open their studios to visitors from 5-8pm. The exhibition
continues through Dec. 31, 2004.
Carol
Barks 
Pat Gilmartin
Sharon Licata
As part of the exhibition, sculptor Carol Barks
unveils Pisci Form, a translucent orange alabaster bowl.
In her sculpture, Barks works intuitively with the physical nature
of the stone to shape flowing compositions. Fish emerge from the
dramatically underlit surface of this piece. Sculptor Pat Gilmartin
offers new terra cotta figures. These signature works are "gently
abstracted." Gilmartin also includes surrealistic departures
in terra cotta that whimsically blend musical instruments and
fruit. The third sculptor of Vista Studios, Sharon Licata, presents
Moon Glow, a nonobjective sculpture in alabaster, and Camouflage,
a rabbit carved in Georgia marble and a new addition to her inviting
animal touchstones.
Laura Spong
Susan Hogue
Photographer Susan Hogue steps into the fantastic
that is available through the digital realm. Her candid photographs
of blissful beach vacationers are part of a 52-print series. Each
curious image is a digitally handcolored detail of a larger scene.
Laura Spong presents new abstract-expressionist oil paintings
to include Even the Search is Fulfilling and Something
Else Entirely. Sponge's intriguing titles mirror her enthralling
compositions and offer clues to her inspirations: her current
readings, studies, and concerns.
Susan
Lenz
The entries by fiber artist Susan Lenz bridge
two and three dimensions as well as experimental and functional.
Armed with a sewing machine and iron, Lenz assembles rich surfaces-luxurious
in the case of Pegasus - and curious forms as seen in Tree
Bark. Her studio will be filled with colorful stitched vessels.
Works by Mike Williams evoke the visual feast of South Carolina's
swamplands and marshes. His landscape paintings preserve the sense
of place - a threatened natural world - in explorations of paint
and gesture. His fish paintings and sculpture are imaginative
fusions of imagery familiar to Williams the fisherman and materials
of Williams the artist.
Ethel
Brody
New constructions by Pat Callahan also explore material use. Her intriguing shadow boxes are three-dimensional musings that juxtapose figurative elements with symbolic workings. Acrylic paintings by Ethel Brody will include Reverie, Cuzco, and Harmonies. Vista Studios' painter Robert Kennedy will also participate in the Vista Lights exhibition.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listing, call the studio at 803/252-6134 or at (www.VistaStudios-Gallery80808.com).
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