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November Issue 2005
City Art in Columbia, SC, Offers Events for 2005 Vista Lights - and Other Shows
City Art in Columbia, SC, celebrates the holiday season and the annual "Vista Lights" with several different events including: South Carolina Heart Gallery, a portrait gallery of 39 children in foster care made by professional photographers from around the state, will be on view in the Small Works Gallery from Nov. 1 - 14, 2005; A Sense of Place, an exhibit of new paintings by May Reisz, on view from Nov. 3 through Dec. 30, 2005; featuring an exhibition of works by the Contemporaries of the Columbia Museum of Art's "2005 Young Artist of the Year", to be announced on Nov. 3, on view from Nov. 17 - 26, 2005; and on Nov. 17, 2005, from noon-8pm, featuring City Art's first ever "Art Materials Consumer Show," bringing art material suppliers from around the world to Columbia.
May
Reisz
May Reisz earned a Master of Arts degree in
Studio Art and Art History from Penn State University, with additional
studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
She taught art in public schools, as well as at Lesley College,
Wittenberg University, and North Eastern Illinois University.
Since moving to South Carolina in 1992, she has won awards in
the South Carolina and Southern Watercolor Societies, as well
as a Best of Show in the South Carolina State Fair. Reisz works
have been included in the NBSC Oil Painters Invitational Exhibit
and Carolina Foothills Artisan Center. The University of South
Carolina Sumter presented a one-woman show of her work in the
spring of 2003.
Reisz offered the following statement about her exhibition. "The
paintings in this exhibition have been completed during the past
ten months. The underlying theme of the work is one's relationship
to nature and to the human need to gather together in villages.
In the case of these paintings, that shared sense of community
is shown primarily in rural farm country or coastal marshland."
"We are all influenced by the natural environments that surround us during impressionable periods of our lives. Many of the memories that most influence my paintings come from three years spent living in a small northwestern Pennsylvania farm community when I was between the ages of seven and ten. I didn't realize at the time that the scenes that surrounded me during those years would emerge again and again over a lifetime of painting. I cannot imagine removing those images from my memory; they are so integrated into the person I have become."
"My sensitivity to nature has been further nurtured as an adult by the rugged coastline of Maine and the beauty of the constantly changing South Carolina marshland."
"Regardless of subject matter chosen by an artist, a painting is always the result of close attention to basic design principles. Whether an image is abstract or representational, the task of the artist is to make use of form, color, texture, balance, etc. in a cohesive way that conveys a message to the viewer. It is this silent conversation, first between the painter and the canvas, and then between the completed work and the viewer, that transcends language and speaks directly to the eyes and the mind."
"It is the hope of the artist that the person viewing the work will recognize something that evokes a memory within, and be stirred to reflect on a place or experience in their own life that has effected their own relationship to nature."
Beginning at noon and continuing through to the "Vista Lights" celebration, ending at 8pm, on Nov. 17, City Art will presents it's first ever "Art Materials Consumer Show," bringing art material suppliers from around the world to Columbia.
Representatives from companies such as: Holbein,
Savoir Faire, Canson, Sanford (Prismacolor and Sharpie), Strathmore
Paper, Macpherson's, Le Franc, Loew Cornell, Faber Castell, Golden
Acrylics, Logan Mat Cutters, M. Graham, Princeton Brush, Amersand,
Schmincke, and more will be in attendance. The event will offer
samples, door prizes, demonstrations and a drawing for the grand
prize of the Guerilla Painter Plein Air System!
Artists, art students, art classes, art groups and individuals
interested in art are all encouraged to take advantage of this
opportunity to meet with representatives from major art materials
manufacturers and distributors - plus, City Art will be offering
special prices on all art supplies in this show and throughout
City Art during this day long event.
For more information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, contact Wendy Wells at 803/252-3613 or at (www.cityartonline.com).
19th Annual Vista Lights
Each fall the merchants and art galleries of the Congaree Vista area of Columbia, SC, opens its doors and welcomes the surrounding communities to stroll its sidewalks and experience the magic of Vista Lights. Over 1500 luminaries will light your way from 6-9pm on Nov. 17, 2005.
We have several other articles about other
exhibits being offered during Vista Lights, and more info
is available at (www.viatacolumbia.com).
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