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June Issue 2009
Carolina Galleries
in Charleston, SC, Offers Works by Johnson Hagood
Carolina Galleries in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit, Johnson Hagood: New Landscapes, on view from June 5 - 30, 2009. The exhibition will present new work by artist and owner Johnson Hagood. There will be 10 new works in oil, watercolor and pastel.
Hagood is a painter
working in Charleston in the luminist style. His oil and pastel
paintings are influenced by the Hudson River School and primarily
Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson
Gifford.
Hagood paints the rapidly disappearing barrier islands and marshes
of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Some of his canvases are in
an elongated horizontal format, a format also favored by Heade,
and include sunrises or sunsets, also another fleeting element
in his work. Sometimes the only human evidence in his paintings
is the occasional light emitting from a far off land bank at dusk
- a constant reminder of the eventual development of a vanishing
landscape.
Hagood has recently begun to push his artistic talents to include painting street scenes of the beloved city that he grew up in. In the spirit of Charleston Renaissance artists such as Alfred Hutty and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, who documented Charleston of the early 20th Century in their work, Hagood seeks to present fine art featuring the Charleston we see today. The work has been very well received and most purchased only minutes after the pieces have dried!
Hagood's work is included in over 200 private collections and in those of Bank of America, Bellsouth, City of Charleston, Carolina First Bank, Gibbes Museum of Art, Morris Museum of Art, Roper Hospital, Safety Kleen Corporation, & Wild Dunes Corporation.
For further info
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
843/720-8622 or visit (www.carolinagalleries.com).
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