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November Issue 2009

College of Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, Features Aldwyth Retrospective

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (HICA) at the College of Charleston has relocated into the new Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts. The Institute will occupy an expanded gallery anchoring the first floor of this five-story, School of the Arts building. The new building is located at 161 Calhoun St., at the corner of St. Philip and Calhoun Streets in downtown Charleston, SC.

The Halsey Institute's new and improved facilities will include three inter-linked galleries as well as a library/resource center. With prominent street visibility and public access at ground level along one of Charleston's busiest thoroughfares, this will be one of the most versatile and engaging places for contemporary art in the southeast.

The Halsey Institute is poised to experience a new level of public service and community vitality, and to meet these challenges with exciting and innovative visual arts programs.

The HICA is offering as its inaugural exhibition, Aldwyth: Work v. / Work n. Collage and Assemblage 1991 - 2009, on view through Jan. 9, 2010.

This is the first major retrospective of the collage and assemblage artist Aldwyth. Now in her 70's, she lives and works in an octagonal house on the edge of a salt marsh on one of South Carolina's sea islands.

Aldwyth: Work v. / Work n. features fifty-two collage and assemblage works created within the past two decades. A film by John Reynolds with commissioned soundtrack by Bill Carson accompanies the exhibition, documenting the artist's interaction with many three dimensional works. The Halsey Institute has also published a full color, 109-page exhibition catalogue including essays by curator Sloan and Boston artist/writer Rosamond Purcell.

Aldwyth's complex, often epic-scaled collages resemble "medieval manuscript pages writ large," says Sloan. Each piece can take years to make. Ackland Art Museum Director Emily Kass says about Aldwyth, "Her remarkable work demands to be seen. It is hard to think of an audience who will not be mesmerized by these extraordinary pieces of art."

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Institute at 843/953-5680 or visit (www.halsey.cofc.edu).

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