We usually don’t mention receptions or exhibit openings at Carolina Arts. It’s a long boring story and a lot of hassles, but this is more about new life in the Carolina visual art community. There’s been too much death in the last year and a half – I’m talking about gallery closings – not actual death, but it can feel like death to the owners and the artists who used to show at any gallery that closes.
So this is an announcement about a new beginning. Angelique Brickner and Rhonda Gushee, newcomers to Greenville, are opening The Clay People Gallery, featuring their figurative sculptures and they’re inviting folks to come preview their new venture on Jan. 22, 2010, beginning at 6pm.
by Angelique Brickner
The studio/gallery is located in the Flatiron Building, 1211 Pendleton Street, Unit 1203, in the Pendleton Street Arts District of Greenville. This is the same location (the Flatiron Building) of Art & Light Gallery mentioned on this blog in Sept. 2009 about an exhibit by Christopher Rico, a fellow blogger I read.
Both Brickner and Gushee have already been showing their work at various venues, including Upstate Visual Arts Gallery (also new to the District) in the Pendleton Street Arts District, and Thee Inner Cirkus at the WareHouse Theater on Augusta Street. They both also have home studios, and Brickner was included in The Metropolitan Arts Council’s Open Studios tour. They have both sold their sculpture as a result of these exhibits and events, and they now look forward to showing their figurative sculptures in their own gallery space.
by Rhonda Gushee
The studio/gallery space will be open on Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 5pm and of course during Greenville’s popular First Fridays, which takes place on the first Friday of each month (Duh) from 6 to 9pm – throughout the downtown area of Greenville. But you can see it first on Jan. 22.
You can get further information on their website at (www.theclaypeople.net) or by calling 513/315-1872.
New life – something we all need in the Carolina visual art community. Let’s hope it’s a long and prosperous journey for the two artists.
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