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February Issue
2010
Metropolitan
Arts Council in Greenville, SC, Offers Images of Greenville Area
Georgia Harrison ------------------------------ Melissa Anderson
The Metropolitan Arts
Council in Greenville, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Greenville
Seen, featuring works by 18 artists who depict the community
in various media, on view through Feb. 19, 2010.
Greenville's Metropolitan Arts Council (MAC) and the Greenville
County Museum of Art have begun a collaboration that offers a
look at Greenville through the work of artists from the Upstate
and across the country. The first wave of the collaboration begins
with the exhibit, Greenville Seen, which features work
by 18 artists who depict the community in paint, mixed media,
and photography, in images that range from an introspective vision
of I-385 to historic landscapes and a reminder that not all of
Greenville is an urban oasis. The works in the MAC exhibition
were drawn from more than 60 submissions from local artists in
all media.
The art museum will select one or more works from Greenville
Seen to include in its major, seven-month long exhibition,
A Portrait of Greenville, which opens to the public on
Feb. 27 and continues through Sept. 26, 2010. The culmination
of nearly twenty years of work, A Portrait of Greenville
combines favorite paintings by Stephen Scott Young with newly
completed works by the nationally known painter Andrew Lenaghan
and noted Southern artists such as Edward Rice, William McCullough,
and Tim Barnwell, plus other works from the Museum collection.
John Pendarvis
Sylvia Suzowsky Idelson
The collaboration began last summer. Museum Executive Director Tom Styron and MAC Executive Director Alan Ethridge led a team that conceptualized Greenville Seen and its relation to the Museum's exhibition.
"It was an opportunity
to broaden participation in this visual statement about our community,"
said Styron. "Working with the Metropolitan Arts Council
offered an opportunity to reach both established local artists
and bright new contributors."
"MAC is delighted to be part of this collaboration,"
said Ethridge. "In projects such as this, the arts community
can offer Greenville an exciting vision of itself, with a fuller
participation by artists from all quarters."
For further information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the MAC at 864/467-3132,
or visit (www.greenvillearts.com).
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