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November Issue 2004
McClellanville Arts Council in McClellanville, SC, Features Works by Charles De Antonio
The McClellanville Arts Council will present
the exhibition, Pasta, Pluff Mud and a Pint: A Celebration
of Landscapes of Italy, the Carolina Lowcountry and Ireland,
featuring works by Charles De Antonio at the McClellanville Arts
Center Gallery in McClellanville, SC. The exhibit will be on view
from Nov. 13 through Dec. 11, 2004.
The artist, who lives and works in McClellanville, had the following
to say about the show: "Who knows the hardships my Italian
and Irish ancestors endured that caused them to sail to a new
land. When traveling in Italy and Ireland recently, I asked myself
'What would make a person pick up and leave these wonderful places?'.
I fell in love with the beauty of these lands of my forebears.
But, then I came home to the place those hopeful souls chose as
their new country and I felt triply blessed. There are too many
similarities to list, but Venice smells like the Lowcountry marshes
and wherever you are in Ireland you are never far from the sea.
These paintings are my reaction to these three beautiful places,
Italy, Ireland and our Lowcountry.
Charles De Antonio was born in Charleston, SC, in 1942. He has
marsh grass behind his eyeballs and pluff mud between his toes.
Educated in the parochial school system and at the College of
Charleston, he worked in New York and New Orleans before returning
to the Lowcountry to continue as a stock broker.
De Antonio from early childhood wanted to be an artist. He made
his first painting, a portrait, at the age of ten. As an adult
he found a nurturing group of Charleston artists who met weekly
to share a model for figure studies. From these sketch sessions
came his first prize in the annual Springs Mills Art Competition.
Encouraged by these awards he left the business world to pursue
a career in art, creating portraits, landscapes, etchings and
other prints, in many mediums.
His portraits can be found in hundreds of homes in this country
and also on the Continent. Figure works by De Antonio hang locally
and in Europe, Asia and Australia. His landscape paintings can
be found in numerous private, corporate and institutional collections,
including Bank of America, Wachovia and R. J. Reynolds.
De Antonio's landscape painting is represented
by Carolina Galleries in Charleston, and can be viewed on line
at (www.carolinagalleries.com).
For more information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 843/887-3157 or e-mail at (macarts@tds.net).
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