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October Issue 2007
Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, SC, Features Collaborative Exhibition
Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, SC, will offer the exhibit, The Other Side: Contemporary Collaboration, featuring over sixty works by artists from the following local contemporary galleries: Eye Level Art, Modernisme, Redux, Corrigan Gallery LLC, Robert Lange Studios, and Rebekah Jacob Modern (e-gallery). The exhibition will be on view from Oct. 5 - 18, 2007.
The Other Side, has been developed to unite both artists and art venues in the Lowcountry of SC, and to provide a sense of solidarity among the Charleston art community. The exhibition unfolds with a general theme: No Dead Artists. Visitors will encounter images, objects, ideas, and living artists that are reshaping the direction of Charleston contemporary art. In the volume of space at RLS's Upstairs, selected artists from local galleries will present their best work, not medium specific.
Manning Williams (Corrigan Gallery
LLC)
The Other Side is dramatic, engaging, and critical, immersing visitors in powerful encounters with the best contemporary, experimental art in Charleston including the works of Manning Williams from Corrigan Gallery LLC, who paints conceptual comic book imagery that leaves the viewer to create a narrative.
Robert Lange
Familiar to RLS, photographer John Duckworth, a nonconformist of classical photography, expands on the abstraction of Lowcountry landscapes and American cityscapes, experimenting with blurred lines and slight exaggerations of color. Painter Robert Lange creates photo-realistic images, with disciplined brushstrokes and stylized geometric division of space.
Nathan Durfee (Modernisme)
Toby Penny of Modernisme creates abstract panels by pushing and pulling vibrant paints of red, yellow, and blue. Seth Curcio of Redux, with Xerox and laser copiers, screen prints, billboard pasting, enamel paints and vinyl on the walls, alters new American icons like the Hummer and maps of the US, offering them a new artistic context and meaning.
A Charleston favorite, Kevin Harrison of Eye Level Art loosely interprets architecture as warped and asymmetrical, as if he were looking through the lens of an eye scope at the wrong end. Also from Eye Level Art, Tyler Blanton draws from her years painting abroad and creates large-scale abstract mixed media works; bring a surprising new dynamic to Charleston's contemporary art scene.
Of Rebekah Jacob Modern, Southern painter Jere Allen interprets the female figure in abstract form with dramatic, electric colors of red, black, and blue. Cuban photographers Nelson and Liudmila, in the series of Silencios, pay a silent homage to many Cubans who have crossed the Florida straights through color images of folded paper ships, floating in sinks and bowls of water.
"Charleston is becoming more and more progressive," says gallery owner Robert Lange. "The directors of the participating galleries have been instrumental in creating a more diverse landscape for both artists and also enthusiasts to enjoy."
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Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/805-8052 or visit (www.robertlangestudios.com).
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