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November Issue 2006
Gallery 5 in Rock Hill, SC, Celebrates 5th Year and Features Works by Carmella D. Jarvi and Harriet Marshall Goode
Gallery 5 in Rock Hill, SC, will celebrate its 5th anniversary with an exhibition of new paintings by Carmella D. Jarvi and Harriet Marshall Goode. The exhibit opens on Nov. 2 and continues through Dec. 31, 2006.
Carmella D. Jarvi
Carmella Jarvi is native of Charlotte, NC, whose paintings have been exhibited in this region and in New York, and her work was chosen for a recent exhibition at the Fayetteville Museum of Art which featured two of her pastels in the exhibit, Discovering Contemporary Art in the Carolinas.
Jarvi was a painting resident at The Vermont Studio Center during the summer of 2006, which afforded her a rare opportunity to paint, uninterrupted, within a community of other artists. She said this residency was a turning point for her work. Inspired by the fact that The Vermont Studio Center is on the Gihon River, she continued her Figures in Water Series while also exploring the theme Water in Landscape.
Jarvi's Figures in Water Series began in 1992. She uses underwater gear including weights to keep her submerged when she photographs her subject in water. She also uses imagery from above the water surface and says water creates amazing distortions of light and form.
When asked why she chose the figure in water for such a long continuing theme for her work, Jarvi replied, "My earliest memories involve water. I spent many hours at my grandparent's lake house, and have always been fascinated with water as a sensual and visual treat, sometimes a hint of danger. There is also something spiritual about the submerged figure."
In addition to her career as a painter, Jarvi also is an experienced teacher, instructing beginning painters as well as art teachers in a variety of settings. She teaches figure drawing and painting and also conducts workshops on The Business of Art, including assistance in strategic planning and grant-writing for artists.
Jarvi has been represented by Gallery 5 since it opened in 2001.
Harriet Marshall Goode
Native Rock Hillian, Harriet Marshall Goode, is the owner of Gallery 5 and said this is the first time Gallery 5 has featured her own work with only one other artist. "Carmella and I have been friends for about 15 years, and when she told me about her experience at The Vermont Studio School, I thought having a duo show of our figurative work would be an exciting way to celebrate the Gallery's fifth anniversary."
Goode said she has been a painter all her life, but began making it a career in the early 1980s when she converted the laundry room of her home to a studio. Not long after, she rented a vacant building on Main Street in Rock Hill with friend and artist, Gatewood Roddey Kistler. When she and her husband, Martin Goode, moved their dwelling into the historic Peoples National Bank building, there was space enough to have her studio there, as well as a commercial gallery.
Goode's figure paintings of women are narratives, she said, much like short stories, and she gives them names that read like a line from the page of a book, like She drew the line, but the edges were still blurred, or Her power accumulated slowly, layer by layer.
Goode said the women are from her imagination and the titles are pure fiction but often inspired by real people and circumstances. "My intention is to inspire viewers of my paintings to create their own stories."
Goode's paintings have won numerous awards in national competitions, her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions and her paintings are owned by private and corporate collectors in this country, and abroad. She teaches an occasional workshop on figure painting, serves as juror for art competitions and speaker for art groups.
Both Jarvi and Goode will have their work in Rock Hill's winter festival, ChristmasVille, Dec. 1- 3, 2006. In addition, Goode's work is in I. Pinckney Simons Gallery, Columbia and Beaufort, SC, Gallery on Newcastle in Brunswick, GA, Blowing Rock Gallery and Frameworks in Blowing Rock, NC, and Glance Gallery in Raleigh, NC. Jarvi's work can also be seen at the 2006 Artists Invitational Exhibition and Sale at the Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, NC, from Nov. 10, through Jan. 13, 2007.
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