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November Issue 2006
if ART Gallery Opens in Columbia, SC
if ART, International Fine Art Services, will open if ART Gallery on Nov. 10, 2006, at 1223 Lincoln Street in Columbia, SC, in the Vista district, across from the Blue Marlin restaurant.
if ART Gallery will carry the work of South Carolina artists Leo Twiggs, Mike Williams, Carl Blair, Tom Stanley, Virginia Scotchie, Tonya Gregg, Peter Lenzo, Jeff Donovan, David Yaghjian, Anna Redwine, John Monteith, Christine Tedesco, Brown Thornton, Paul Yanko, Bill Jakcson, Laura Spong, Steven Chapp, Katie Walker, Edward Rice, Aaron Baldwin, Herb Parker, Dorothy Netherland, Eric Miller, Mary Gilkerson, Matt Overend, Kim Keats and Phil Garrett. The gallery also will carry work by Dutch artist Kees Salentijn, German artists Reiner Mahrlein, Roland Albert and Klaus Hartmann, and Washington Color Field painter Paul Reed.
Since Mar. 2005, if ART, International Fine Art Services, has organized commercial gallery exhibitions in Columbia, mostly at Vista Studios/Gallery 80808. In addition to presenting gallery artists and special exhibitions at if ART Gallery, if ART will continue to organize exhibitions at Vista Studios/Gallery 80808. The company also provides curatorial and exhibition design services.
Most recently, if ART was hired by the Technical College of the Lowcountry to install dozens of art works at the college's new building in Bluffton, SC. Earlier this year, if ART installed two exhibitions of work from the South Carolina state art collection at the Sumter County Gallery of Art in Sumter, SC. The if ART production South Carolina Birds: A Fine Art Exhibition, curated by company owner Wim Roefs, is at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History until Nov. 11, 2006. The exhibition opened in 2004 at the Sumter Gallery of Art and traveled to the Burroughs & Chapin Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC, and the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, SC. Roefs wrote the essay for the exhibition catalogue, which he also edited.
In 2005, Roefs curated exhibitions of work by Leo Twiggs and Carl Blair for the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County in Camden, SC. He also curated an exhibition of paintings by Marcelo Novo for HoFP Gallery in Columbia, SC, and wrote the essay for the exhibition catalogue. Earlier this year, Roefs curated an exhibition with work by Dutch artist Kees Salentijn for the Center of the Arts in Rock Hill, SC. In May, he curated an indoors/outdoors sculpture exhibition for the city of Dillon, SC.
Roefs contributed an essay to the catalogue for the exhibition A Collection for Margaret: The Personal and Private Art of Carl Blair. The exhibition is on view at Hampton III Gallery in Greenville, SC, until Nov. 11, 2006. Roefs teaches a course in African-American art at the University of South Carolina.
Since Mar. 2005, if ART has published eight small exhibition catalogues. The catalogues featured short essays by Roefs about Aaron Baldwin, Mike Williams, Anna Redwine, Tom Stanley, Carl Blair, Janet Orselli, Matt Overend, Laura Spong, Leo Twiggs, Jeff Donovan, John Monteith, Dorothy Netherland, Herb Parker and Phil Garrett and Mary Gilkerson and the process of making monotypes.
For more information, contact if ART's Wim
Roefs at 803/238-2351 and e-mail at (orwroefs@sc.rr.com).
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