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September Issue 2006
The Arts Council of Rock Hill and York County in Rock Hill, SC, Features Works by Four Women Artists
The Arts Council of
Rock Hill and York County will feature the Girlstories
exhibition in the Dalton Gallery at the Center for the Arts, in
Rock Hill, SC. The exhibit will be on view from Sept. 25 through
Oct. 24, 2006, and includes works by Tonya Gregg, Kathy Yancey,
Barbara Schreiber and Paula Smith.
Tonya Gregg currently lives and works in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the Southeast and beyond, including in New York City, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Chicago, and Kaiserslautern, Germany. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at Francis Marion University in 2006 and a larger exhibition at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY in 2005; the show provided an overview of four different series of paintings created since the late 1990s. In 2003, Gregg exhibited at Houston's Lawndale Art Center. In 1999, she received an Artist in Residency grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission. In 2004, she was an artist in resident at the Kaiserslautern Artist Association Wollmagazin studio complex. Gregg holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and an MFA from the University of Chicago. She was, in 1996, the first full-time undergraduate art student to be featured in New American Paintings. Her work comments on issues of class, popular culture and identity.
Kathy Yancey has work in the collections of the High Museum of Art, State of Georgia, and Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Her works have been exhibited at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, Mint Museum, Philbrook Museum, San Jose Museum, Sogo Museum of Art of Yokohama Japan, and the Kaoshiung Municipal Museum, China. Her paintings were included in the Rizzoli art book Elvis & Marilyn: 2x Immortal.
Barbara Schreiber has exhibited at institutions throughout the US and Europe, including PS 1, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, American Academy/Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Sorbonne. A graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, she is an Affiliate Artist at the McColl Center for Visual Art.
Paula Smith was born in Kansas City, MO, in 1960. Attended the Kansas City Art Institute to receive a BFA in ceramics. Went onto the University of Illinois to receive a MFA in ceramics. Moved to Rock Hill in 1987. She opened Oakland Art Supply in 1988 - 1997 and taught at Winthrop University part time in the visual art department until 2000. She teaches full time at Gaston College, teaching art appreciation, ceramics, design and sculpture.
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at 803/328-2787 or at (www.rockhillarts.org).
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