May Issue 2002
McMaster Gallery and Gallery 80808 in Columbia, SC, Feature Exhibitions by Eleanor Byrne
Vista Studios' Gallery
80808 in Columbia, SC, will present a Retrospectus and Sale
of works by Eleanor Byrne, from May 17 - 30, 2002. This exhibit
will be a retrospective showing a wide range of styles, techniques
and subject matter. This exhibit is being launched in an effort
to raise funds for the Visual Arts Division of Arts and Healing
Program at Palmetto Health's SC Cancer Center. The works on exhibition
will be for sale providing an opportunity to purchase original
art at attractive prices. All sales proceeds will be given to
the Arts and Healing Program.
The exhibit at Gallery 80808, includes more than 100 examples of Byrne's work, made between 1980 and 2001. Some, based on NASA images from outer space, are large textured works on masonite panels. Others are paintings on canvas and paper. Many are small-unframed works on paper.
Destiny or Chance, at McMaster Gallery, located at the Department of Art, College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina, is a site-specific installation, consisting of three major elements: a cross, suspended dice, and small mixed media works on paper. This exhibition will be on view from May 22 through June 22, 2002.
Eleanor Byrne received a MFA from the University of SC in 1982. She taught drawing and art appreciation at the University from 1977 to 1982 and was an instructor at the Columbia Museum of Art for five years.
The artist's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in seven states, and is represented in several corporate and numerous private collections including Winning Images, Columbus, OH; Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC; SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC; and Portfolio Gallery, Columbia, SC.
Byrne has lived and worked in Columbia, SC, since 1974. Her husband was a US Foreign Service Officer. He served in the Middle East and Africa. From 1950 to 1974, the Byrne family lived in Tabriz, Tehran, Baghdad, Beirut, Khartoum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Washington, DC, and Boston.
As a child Byrne lived in France for several years . She was educated at the Wheeler School in Providence, and Mount Holyoke College. During World War II, She joined the Free French Delegation in Washington, DC, and in 1946, the United Nations in New York.
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