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November Issue
2009
The Charles
Street Gallery in Beaufort, SC, Features Works by Rebecca Davenport
The
Charles Street Gallery in Beaufort, SC, will present the exhibit,
Who They Are: New Work by Rebecca Davenport, on view from
Nov. 20 through Dec. 12, 2009.
"I want this show to be cheery," explained Davenport in her studio in historic downtown Beaufort. She has not had a solo show in Beaufort in seven years; in November it is her intention to introduce herself "to all the new people in town. I'm going back to my original images-" in fact, back to a 1974 show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, "- from when I first painted, a realistic style. I don't call these portraits, they have to stand on their own as a painting. I don't want people to ask 'who are they?' Because, as a viewer, you bring your own associations, that's the added dimension. In the gallery, I won't always be there to explain The Smoker. Who is he to you?"
Davenport graduated with a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from the University of North Carolina. She has been painting professionally for the past thirty years. Her paintings are in many private and public collections, including the National Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
"Davenport provides an extended double take beneath the mask of the ordinary. She has assumed a much less comfortable expression at once powerful, unexpected and strange." - Art in America Magazine
Charles Street Gallery is an established source for Lowcountry and international art, presented within a carefully renovated house surrounded by a lush garden in the middle of Beaufort's historic district.
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
843/521-9054 or visit (www.thecharlesstreetgallery.com).
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