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October Issue 2005
McClellanville Arts Council in McClellanville, SC, Features Works by Mary Walker and Jim Innes
The McClellanville Arts Council in McClellanville, SC, will host a show of paintings and lithographs, in the Pinckney Street Gallery, by Mary Walker and Jim Innes. Running from Oct. 29 through Nov. 26, 2005. The theme, Death Show, is a celebration of death in honor of the day of the dead, Nov. 2nd.
Mary Walker
Mary Walker bases her paintings on myths, plays and operas - the stuff of the imagination. Essentally a narrative artist the subjest of her art is the virtues and the foibles of modern life this time, presented in the context of Dante's Inferno. Appropriately enough the celebration of All Souls Day was traditionally to effect the release of souls from Purgatory. Walker though, has cast her personages into Hell.
"I like to work both with the figure and the narrative. Sometimes the narrative is a given and at other times it develops from the imagery. In either case, I like to leave room for interpretation by the viewer," Walker adds "in this way the viewer helps to create the work of art".
Walker is a painter and printmaker who lives
and works on Johns Island, SC. She exhibits often and is represented
by several gallerys including Lime Blue in Charleston, SC, Julie
Heller Gallery in Provincetown, MA, Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte,
NC, the Watson Gallery in Atlanta, GA, and the Mary Praytor Gallery
in Greenville, SC. She has recieved two grants for art projects
from the South Carolina Arts Commission.
Jim Innes
Jim Innes works and lives in Charleston. His main interest is in printmaking, especially polyester lithography, a commercial process developed in India. Innes was one of the American pioneers of the fine arts application of this media having being the first to publish a short manuel on the subject.
Innes is a surrealist basing many of his compositions on automatic drawing, a technique which helps to explore the sub-conscious. These recent prints in the show however, draw their inspiration from studies of the human skeleton and its implication of death. Trained in a traditional method of representation the work is unmistakably contemporary and like the painting of Mary Walker the viewer is encouraged to enter and complete it in his imagination.
Innes is represented in Charleston by the Lime Blue Gallery and 53 Cannon. His work can be found in the Canton Art Institute, the University of Kansas Museum, the museum of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the Hagarstown Museum as well as in private collections here in the US and in Europe.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the council at 843/887-3157 or at (www.mcclellanvilleartscouncil.com).
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