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October Issue 2007
Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, Offers New Exhibits for Fall
Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, is presenting several exhibitions at Winthrop University Galleries including: The Mark Coplan Collection, on view through Nov. 2, 2007, in the Rutledge Gallery and New Works by Carla Stetson, on view through Nov. 2, 2007, in the Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery.
Carl Blair
The Mark Coplan Collection, represents one of the best collections of contemporary South Carolina art. Passionate about art from the Palmetto state, Columbia, SC, native Mark Coplan was arguably one of the most important private collectors in South Carolina. With help from the SC State Museum and Coplan's family, Winthrop University is able to present a glimpse of the Mark Coplan collection. Some of the artists included in the exhibition are Carl Blair, Edmund D. Lewandowski, Leo Twiggs, Edmund Yaghjian, Corrie McCallum, Michael Petrovich, Wanda Steppe and Neville Chuzzlewit (aka Tom Styron).
Coplan, who passed away in 2002, will posthumously receive Winthrop's Medal of Honor in the Arts at an Oct. 19, 2007, ceremony.
Carla Stetson
On view through Nov. 2, 2007, is New Works by Carla Stetson, in the Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery. Stetson's art is described as both personal and public, reflecting her personal values and reaching out to the community. She makes a range of art from densely worked mixed media collages to monumental public sculpture.
While at Winthrop, Stetson will have the opportunity to exhibit her range of work beginning with an installation of her two-dimension mixed media collage paintings and a large fiber work in the Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery. Within these works she is concerned with discovering or uncovering connections between the human experience and the earth.
In addition to the exhibition on the Winthrop campus, this Minnesota artist will install her temporary public work entitled The Red Line in downtown Rock Hill atop the WPA era Getty's Building. The work was first shown encircling the former City Hall in Superior, WI. There the line of red dresses hung from the fifth story of the large brownstone building.
Stetson will give a public lecture on Oct. 4 at 8pm in Rutledge auditorium.
Kirk Fanelly
Paintings by Kirk Fanelly will be on exhibit in the Rutledge Windows with a View, through Oct. 19, 2007. Currently living and working in Charlotte, NC, Fanelly studied visual art and engineering at Brown University in Providence, RI, and then at the Rhode Island School of Design. He began to share his work online in 1999, and has amassed a small, but eclectic group of clients across the globe.
Also on view in Edmund D. Lewandowski Student Gallery in McLaurin Hall will be the Advanced Sculpture Exhibition, up through Oct. 19, 2007.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call 803/323-2493 or visit (www.winthrop.edu/arts).
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