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November Issue 2007
Hilton Head Library on Hilton Head Island, SC, Features Works by Mary Kelly and Rod Kerr
Two well-known Hilton Head artists, Mary Kelly and Rod Kerr, will join in an exhibit of their paintings at the Corridor Gallery of the Hilton Head Library on Hilton Head Island, SC, on view from Nov. 5 through Dec. 12, 2007. The theme of the show will be, Red, White, and Bleu - Painting with a French Flair.
Artist and author, Mary B. Kelly has painted from childhood and holds an MA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Syracuse University. Since retiring as professor of art at Tompkins-Cortland Community College in New York, she has lived and painted on Hilton Head. Kelly teaches at the Hilton Head Art Academy and paints regularly with the local Apple Pie Painters. She has exhibited widely here and through the country, most recently as featured artist at the Hilton Head Art League in June 2007.
Kelly describes her exhibit paintings as "different - evocative travel paintings". While in Burgundy and Provence where she was out in the landscape, she used watercolor and only two brushes to give an abstract, colorful sketch of what she experienced. Sometimes she painted only the sky, sometimes a tiny portion of texture, to share her different focus and abstractions in rouge, blanc, and bleu.
Rod Kerr is a Canadian artist who received his formal education in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and spent 32 years as an air traffic controller before retiring to Hilton Head to devote more time to his painting. His art has been displayed in galleries throughout the Lowcountry and Savannah, GA, in the United States and in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. Kerr and his wife reside in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario and on Hilton Head.
Kerr brings to his canvases a palette of vivid colors and complex sensations. From dramatic and powerful images drawn from his prairie childhood to the rich denseness that permeates an Ontario forest, to the humor seen in the bold shapes of laughing on a windswept beach, he shares an eclectic and personal perspective with his viewers.
The two artists will give demonstrations on Nov. 17, and they will guide a walk-through for children on Nov. 24. Kerr will be featured on Dec. 1 and Kelly on Dec. 8, 2007.
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