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November Issue
2009
City Art in
Columbia, SC, Features Works by Wanda Steppe and Harriet Marshall
City Art in Columbia,
SC, will present a gallery exhibit by painters Wanda Steppe and
Harriet Marshall Goode, exclusive performances by the Wideman/Davis
Dance Company, and a trunk showing of hand woven apparel by Terri
Goddard for the gallery's 13th Vista Lights on Nov. 19,
2009, 5-10pm. The exhibit will be on view through Nov. 30, 2009.
Since 1982, Harriet Marshall Goode has had a painting studio in
downtown Rock Hill. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she entered
national painting competitions and consistently was awarded top
prizes for her unique paintings of women. Goode sees her canvas
as a stage where she produces little dramas or short stories that
represent elaborate and defining moments in the story she is presenting
to the viewer. She says her intention is to inspire the viewer
to create his own story. During a recent retrospective of her
work at the Rock Hill Art Center, Goode was awarded an honorary
degree from Winthrop University.
Wanda Steppe is a graduate of Winthrop University and the Greenville
County Museum School of Art. Her work is exhibited in Spartanburg,
Aiken, and Sumter, in SC and Raleigh and Charlotte, in NC among
other places. Steppe says of her work, "It employs symbols
that are open to interpretation: trees with their skeletons exposed,
birds in precarious positions, overripe fruit, birds' nests exposed
and vulnerable, even the landscape that surrounds and engulfs
me. All of these and more create a personal mythology that attempts
to make sense of the twists and turns in life." Steppe is
also influenced by magic realist literature and fascinated by
the idea that imagination carries equal weight with reality.
Rock and My Soul, is a dance in five parts choreographed by partners Tanya Wideman Davis and Thaddeus Davis to the music of 1960s rock and roll icons, including Jimi Hendrix, and is performed by the full Wideman/Davis Dance Company. Excerpts from the work will be performed at City Art during the Vista Lights celebration. Wendy Wells, director of City Art Gallery said, "We are thrilled to open our gallery to the performing arts to compliment our history with visual arts."
With a history of performance
and choreographic work including such stellar dance companies
as the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company
and the Joffrey Ballet the pair "create a dialogue about
the human condition and bring varying communities and ethnicities
together while blurring the lines between dance, film, theatre
and reality." The Wideman/Davis Dance Company is in residence
at the University of South Carolina.
The banks of the Reedy River near Greenville, SC, is home for
the studio of apparel designer Terri Goddard. The impressionist
artist Claude Monet inspires her current work. Using variegated
rayon yarns and a floating pattern in the weft, as well as a shimmer
of soft colors blending across Monet's pallet, Goddard has tried
to capture something of the artist's approach to texture and color.
She uses open weaves and very fine yarns to create the gauzy,
lightweight textures of her scarves and shawls.
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings,
contact Wendy Wells, City Art Gallery, at 803/252-3613 or visit
(www.cityartonline.com).
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