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May Issue 2006
Gallery 5 in Rock Hill, SC, Offers Works by Linda McCane, Wanda Steppe and Harriet Goode
Gallery 5 in Rock Hill, SC, is featuring new
work by Linda McCane, Wanda Steppe and Harriet Goode in an exhibition
called, Interior/Exterior, on view through June 16, 2006.
These paintings show particularly well in this residential gallery
where patrons may see how artwork looks when it is displayed in
a dwelling with a mix of contemporary and antique furniture. This
eclectic gallery is on the top floor of a renovated bank building
and is the home and studio of Rock Hill artist, Harriet Goode.
Before she ever picked up a paintbrush, Asheville, NC, artist,
Linda McCane, said she had a practice of really looking at things,
examining them, giving them hard scrutiny. Her Threshold
series has been developing for the past two years as a result
of being in and looking at cathedrals and basilica in Europe.
"I found in all of these sacred spaces, the common idea of
passages, thresholds and simple supports," she said. The
artist became intrigued at how one can feel comforted, safe and
enclosed in these shadowy places of columns and cold stone. Painting
her way into and through these spaces, she found a satisfying
metaphor for the ways in which she was making her way through
life's experiences. McCane describes herself as curious, full
of wonder and never quite sure of what she might find through
the next door.
Wanda Steppe's paintings are a continuation of her metaphoric,
autobiographical landscapes. "If my earlier paintings, the
triptychs, were about the physical and mental changes that time
brings," she explained, "then these floating trees are
more about freedom of the spirit, the knowledge that I'm free
to choose to be unencumbered." All of Steppe's work is about
time whooshing past and the knowledge that time and circumstance
change things physically, mentally, and spiritually. Her paintings
describe her willingness to search for meaning in images she finds
compelling. She added, "The act of concentrating on an object
long enough to paint it from life, forces me to contemplate its
significance and attach meaning to it beyond the physical."
Steppe is a Rock Hill artist.
Harriet Goode
Harriet Goode said in her new body of work, the picture plane has become a stage and the women in the paintings are like characters in a play or short story. She said her paintings represent elaborate and defining moments in the narrative, but she doesn't reveal her interpretation in any other way than the title of the painting and the position of the figures. "My paintings may be interpreted in many different ways", Goode said, "and are sometimes autobiographical." She added that the figures might also represent some person in a dream who is an arcane version of herself or someone she knows. Titles for the paintings are often inspired by lines in short stories that she adapts to fit her work. "My intention is to inspire the viewer to create his/her own story."
These Gallery 5 artists have won national awards,
had exhibitions in galleries, museums and universities and their
work is in private and corporate collections nationwide and abroad.
In addition, they've had work published in books and national
magazines.
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 803/985-5000 or e-mail at (artgallery5@comporium.net).
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