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November Issue
2008
College of Charleston's Halsey Institute
for Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, Features Group Exhibit
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston's School of the Arts in Charleston, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Mend: love, life, & loss, featuring works by ten nationally known artists who use fiber as their key metaphor. This exhibition, on view through Dec. 5, 2008, curated by Halsey Director Mark Sloan, includes painting, sculpture, video, photography, and mixed-media works.
Pinky/MM Bass
This exhibition explores the paradoxical nature of the idea of mending - be it a human who is sick, a heart that is broken, or a profound grief over a death. The patch is often stronger than the original - hence the paradox. The artists in this show probe the dualities of strength/fragility, hope/despair, joy/grief, pretty/nasty, dainty/brutal, and more, using fiber as the key metaphor. Each of the ten artists employs the yoking of opposites as an expressive vehicle.
Artists to be included in the exhibition are Adrienne Antonson (Charleston, SC), Pinky/MM Bass (Fairhope, AL), Jon Coffelt (New York, NY), Leslie Kneisel (Atlanta, GA), Nava Lubelski (Asheville, NC), Preston Orr (Savannah, GA), Susan Harbage Page (Chapel Hill, NC), Marilyn Pappas (Cambridge, MA), Mireille Vautier (New York, NY), and Rachel Wright (Mobile, AL). All of the works in the show contain at least some sort of fiber - string, hair, thread, yarn, etc. According to Sloan "Fiber is the central metaphor, as it is evidenced to be visibly fragile, yet through the mend, it becomes durable, and at times, indelible."
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/953-5680 or visit (www.halsey.cofc.edu).
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