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December Issue 2002
Three New Exhibitions at Burroughs-Chapin Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC
The artistries of photography, basketry and painting will fill the main-floor galleries of the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum through Dec. 22, 2002. The exhibitions feature the works of artists Dina Hall, Patti Quinn Hill and Carl Blair.
Dina Hall
Dina Hall's Altering the Elements will feature 48 black and white gelatin silver prints in which she explores and alters elements of nature and design through the medium of photography. The Murrells Inlet, SC, photographer has focused on the theme of paradise, which comes from the Persian word for walled garden, since she first began photographing 15 years ago. Her exhibit includes images from Brookgreen Gardens and other sites where man attempts to control the natural world. She also includes photographs from her time in Japan under a Fullbright award.
Japanese concepts have influenced her perceptions of man's place in nature as well as her explorations of spatial options. Hall, who has a master's degree in photography as well as secondary education, has distinguished herself as an art teacher at Conway High School, in Conway, SC, as well as in workshops and classes throughout Horry and Georgetown counties in SC. Having taught at Brookgreen Gardens, Coastal Carolina University, Winthrop University and the South Carolina Governor's School of the Arts, Hall is listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
Patti Quinn
Hill
From Shaker to Paper features more than 50 works by basketmaker Patti Quinn Hill. Beginning with the traditional lines of Shaker and Nantucket basketry, Hill has let the creative process guide her toward the use of non-traditional materials such as archival papers and colored reed rattan. Leaving behind her life as a successful New Orleans restaurateur, Hill moved to rural Weaverville in the mountains of western North Carolina in 1986. There she discovered basketry and progressed in the craft so rapidly that she now teaches regularly at the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Arrowmont School of Crafts, the Appalachian Center for Craft, and the Tennessee Arts Academy. Her baskets have been included in many gallery and museum exhibitions and are featured in numerous books on baskets and crafts.
Carl Blair
Carl Blair, who retired from Bob Jones University
in 1998 after being on the art faculty there for 41 years, brings
35 works on canvas and paper to the Art Museum in his retrospective
exhibit Seventy Years Young. With paintings dating back
to 1951 and most of the years between then and now, Blair's exhibition
provides a unique opportunity to witness 50 years of growth and
transformation in the life of a painter. Within recurring themes
of the Southwest, Appalachia and abstraction, Museum visitors
will find subgroups such as quarries, brambles, fields, mountains
and forests - and always the landscape is married to abstract
principles of art.
Blair's ties to the Greenville, SC, community go back to 1957
when he took a position at Bob Jones University just after receiving
his Master of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute. He
has served nine years on the SC Arts Commission, including two
as chairman, and for 30 years he has co-owned Hampton III Galleries
in Taylors, SC, with artists Emery Bopp and Darrell Koons. His
paintings can be found in 2,500 private and public collections
throughout the world, and he has participated in more than 100
exhibitions in museums, galleries and universities.
For more information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the museum at 843/238-2510.
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