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October Issue 2007
Artists' Guild of Spartanburg in Spartanburg, SC, Features Works by Carol Augthun, Claire Miller Hopkins and Sara Dame Setzer
Together Again III: Augthun, Hopkins, Setzer, an exhibit of works by Carol Augthun, Claire Miller Hopkins and Sara Dame Setzer, opens Oct. 1 at the Guild Gallery, the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, SC. The exhibition continues through Oct. 31, 2007.
The three artists first exhibited together in the mid-1980s and determined to exhibit together once each decade, because, Setzer says, they enjoy both their artistic collaboration and their friendship. They missed their goal of exhibiting at ten-year intervals by two years, but are excited to be exhibiting as one of the first shows in the Guild Gallery in the newly-opened Chapman Cultural Center.
The three have a combined Artists' Guild membership of more than 100 years. They all exhibited in the arts center when it was located on Fairview Avenue, before the move to the building on S. Spring Street.
"We think that it's really appropriate that the three of us who have had such a long association with the Guild will be exhibited in the gallery when the new Chapman Cultural Center is dedicated," Setzer says.
Carol Augthun, who teaches art at Pine Street Elementary School, produces images that are edgy and unusual in subject and technique. She often works on large scale, using mixed media and innovative materials. In terms of subject matter, she often chooses contemporary events about which she can make social commentary.
"I use images and superimpose other images around them. Sometimes I use drawings, words, or whatever inspires me," Augthun explains.
Claire Miller Hopkins is well known both locally and nationally for her figurative paintings and still lifes in both oils and pastels. "Of late, the larger portion of my painting has been of still life in oils," Hopkins says. "My hope is to share with the viewer the beauty of light, color and form as I perceive it in subject matter that is often seen as mundane."
Currently, Hopkins teaches painting and drawing at the Spartanburg Art Museum.
Sara Dame Setzer creates monoprints and companion works in watercolor. Her subjects typically have whimsical or quirky overtones. She is a retired art professor from Limestone College and lives in Gaffney, SC.
"Whether I work from actuality or memory, I'm usually exploring the process of painting and, more recently, of monoprinting," Setzer says. "I like responding to the way media goes down, making use of any unusual qualities in the application, and making it work with my idea. That's really a response to the visual elements, which I enjoy apart from what they represent. I think my artwork is steeped in French aesthetics."
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