City Art gallery in Columbia will offer an exhibit of paintings and drawings created by Alex Powers – spanning a period of 20 years. Powers is a powerhouse of the SC visual arts community. I couldn’t pass that up, but it’s true. I think it was a few years back when the South Carolina Watermedia Society had to make a special rule about how many times an artist could win their top award during their annual exhibition – just to give the opportunity to someone else – other than Alex Powers. He’s that good.
We didn’t get the press release about this exhibit in time for our Oct. issue of Carolina Arts, so I wanted to make sure our readers here knew about this exhibition. City Art is one of our biggest supporters – they deserve a little extra effort on our part to make sure this info gets out there.
And, once you have finished reading this – visit City Arts’ new redesigned website. As Darth Vader would say – Impressive! The first time I got a preview look at it I was instantly jealous. That’s the way I’d like Carolina Arts Online to look. It’s a good thing our content is – Impressive! You can see more of Alex Powers’ work on his page on the City Art website. But don’t forget to still check out our website – after you’re through drooling.
Here’s the article.
City Art in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Alex Powers
City Art in Columbia, SC, will present the exhibit, Alex Powers: Paintings and Drawings of the Last 20 Years, on view from Oct. 9 – 31, 2009.
Powers has been a self-employed painter and teacher for 28 years. He exhibits in galleries in five states and among his many national juried exhibition awards is the Gold Medal in the 1997 American Watercolor Society Exhibition.
Powers has been published in various magazines and books and is the author of Painting People in Watercolor, A Design Approach, published by Watson-Guptill. In addition he teaches workshops on painting in this country and abroad.
Powers’ painting style has evolved into personal, content-dominated imagery. Using gouache, charcoal, pastel and sometimes collage on illustration board, his loose realism combines an emphasis on drawing with a awareness of the art of our time. Often the illustration boards are connected for work up to 15 feet in length. Powers said, “I attempt to deal with issues such as human origins, religion, philosophy, racism, economic, inequality, etc. These overwhelming issues are difficult to deal with, but they are what interest me. And, since I believe in the singularity of life and art, these issues are the content of my current work.”
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 803/252-3613 or visit (www.cityartonline.com).
