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May Issue 2003
Charleston County Public Library
in Downtown Charleston, SC, Features Print Works by Jim Innes
The Charleston County Public Library will exhibit the prints of Jim Innes through May 31, 2003, in the Saul Alexander Gallery, located on the first floor of the downtown Main Library in Charleston, SC. The exhibition entitled, The Sins of My Old Age, features polyester lithographs represent the pioneering work of this artist in what was originally a medium for commercial printers.
The method, used in most of the prints, was to paint a liquid toner image on clear Mylar, allow it to dry, creating a distinctive reticulation, then "reading" the image for its content, transferring the image to a polyester plate, fixing it with heat and then drawing on the plate to further define the image.
In short, imagination or the subconscious is explored through the technique - a new approach to Surrealism and to automatic drawing.
These imaginative prints depict the doings of humans, animals, animal-humans, and almost kindly monsters. Occasionally these beings disobey the law of gravity and other natural laws in their enthusiasm. Reflective of the artist's view of the world, they are, if not black humor, at least a gray humor.
Much of the work can be described as a Neo-Surrealism derived from an automatic thawing technique.
Jim Innes, born in New York City in 1929, educated at the Art Students League and the Kansas City Art Institute, taught drawing and painting at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for many years and retired in 1990 to SC. His work is in private and public collections here in America and in private collections in Europe.
For more information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the gallery
at 843/805-6801. For a preview of the prints, log on to (http://home.mindspring.com/~innes/).
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