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September Issue
2008
The Wells Gallery in Charleston, SC,
Features Works by Kevin LePrince
The Wells Gallery in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibition, A Coastal Disposition, featuring works by local favorite Kevin LePrince, on view from Sept. 4 - 19, 2008.
Growing up in Charleston, LePrince is very familiar with the habits and personalities of the local wildlife, and has become well known for giving each painting a sense of individual character. His love of the Lowcountry, in combination with scrutinous observation and playful individuality, help him interpret the local scenery. LePrince recently purchased a sailboat with two other local artists, dubbed "the accidental sailors," and has found many opportunities photographing local flora and fauna at different focal points, which he has included in this special exhibit.
LePrince initially earned a degree in economics from the University of South Carolina in 1992, but formally began his career as an artist in 2004. He has studied with master artist David A. Leffel, and Charleston artist John Carroll Doyle, but more recently with Kim English and Gregg Kruetz at the Fechin Institute in New Mexico. Through intense study and examination of his instructors, LePrince developed his individual style which has received much attention from locals and national collectors alike.
LePrince paints in the classic "alla prima" style, meaning "at once". Using this direct wet-paint-onto-wet-paint method, combined with a traditional impressionistic palette consisting of two blues, two reds, and two yellows, LePrince is able to place the emphasis of his paintings only on his whimsical subjects, ranging from Lowcountry birds to frogs and horses. Many of his paintings are followed with clever titles, such as The Mob Squad, consisting of a cluster of egrets wading together in the water, or Take Out, an egret entering the shoreline in search of food.
Newly relocated to 125 Meeting Street next
to the Gibbes Museum of Art in historic downtown Charleston, the
Wells Gallery features fine regional art from a diversity of perspectives
in various mediums, including painting and hand-blown glass.
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 843/853-3233 or visit (www.wellsgallery.com).
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