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April Issue 2006

Spartanburg County Museum of Art in Spartanburg, SC, Offers New Exhibits

The Spartanburg County Museum of Art in Spartanburg, SC, is presenting three new exhibits including: Life Passages, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by members of Mid-Atlantic Artists, on view through Apr. 23, 2006; Speaking in Tongues: Recent Mixed-Media Paintings, featuring works by Finnish-born painter Liisa Salosaari Jasinski, on view through Apr. 30, 2006; and The Joy of Paint, featuring works by Greenville, SC, artist Guy Stevens, on view through May 7, 2006.

Jason Arkles
Henry Wingate

  Lee Johnson
Charles Philip Brooks

Mid-Atlantic Artists is a group of four artists who share training and tradition grounded in the principles of naturalistic and neoclassicism of the 19th Century. These works by Jason Arkles, Charles Philip Brooks, Lee Johnson, and Henry Wingate are united by the core principles of the academic training found at the teaching studios of Paul Ingbretson and Charles Cecil. Both Ingbretson and Cecil studied with the renowned R.H. Ives Gammell, who had studied under Boston painter William Paxton. Paxton received his education in Paris with Jean-Leon Gerome, himself a student of Paul Delaroche, a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. It is from these sources of artistic knowledge that both Cecil and Ingbretson have established ateliers in Florence, Italy and Manchester, New Hampshire respectively, and continue to train a new generation of artists in the aesthetic principles, solid craftsmanship, and humanistic values that are our inheritance from the Renaissance.
 
Liisa Salosaari Jasinski

The clean, modern style of Finnish design, crafts, architecture as well as early 20th century European expressionism are represented by Liisa Salosaari Jasinski in her exhibition of mixed media paintings. Jasinski, a Finnish-born artist who has exhibited her award-winning work nationwide, received a Master's Degree in Psychology from the University of Helsinki. She now lives in Newberry, SC. Her mixed-media paintings have been painted during the past three years and have an almost drawing-like quality to them.  Although the artist has used occasional figurative elements, the main language is abstract.

There are several themes that weave in and out of this body of work including: "Kielillä puhuen / Speaking in Tongues" - the personal bilingual/US vs. Europe experience, "Fellow Travelers" - the enigma of human life and destiny, always present in my mind, and above all, the theme of "Complexity and open-endedness."

Text for this show will be available in Finnish as well as English, continuing the bilingual component of The Museum of Art's "Celebration of Culture" exhibition program.

Guy Stevens

Guy Stevens, resident of Greenville, SC, has work in private collections worldwide. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the South Carolina Arts Commission, Stevens has been featured in exhibits at the Greenville County Museum of Art and at Clemson and Furman universities. A visitor to Stevens' studio gallery in Greenville will discover that he looks upon his artwork as his children. Known for his exuberant use of color and his vibrant creativity, Stevens says, "I want them (his work) to fulfill their true destiny in this world".
   
For more info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 864/582-7616 or at (www.spartanburgartmuseum.org).

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