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November Issue
2009
College of Charleston's
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, Features
Aldwyth Retrospective
The
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (HICA) at the College of
Charleston has relocated into the new Marion and Wayland H. Cato
Jr. Center for the Arts. The Institute will occupy an expanded
gallery anchoring the first floor of this five-story, School of
the Arts building. The new building is located at 161 Calhoun
St., at the corner of St. Philip and Calhoun Streets in downtown
Charleston, SC.
The Halsey Institute's
new and improved facilities will include three inter-linked galleries
as well as a library/resource center. With prominent street visibility
and public access at ground level along one of Charleston's busiest
thoroughfares, this will be one of the most versatile and engaging
places for contemporary art in the southeast.
The Halsey Institute is poised to experience a new level of public
service and community vitality, and to meet these challenges with
exciting and innovative visual arts programs.
The HICA is offering
as its inaugural exhibition, Aldwyth: Work v. / Work n. Collage
and Assemblage 1991 - 2009, on view through Jan. 9, 2010.
This is the first major retrospective of the collage and assemblage
artist Aldwyth. Now in her 70's, she lives and works in an octagonal
house on the edge of a salt marsh on one of South Carolina's sea
islands.
Aldwyth: Work v. / Work n. features fifty-two collage and
assemblage works created within the past two decades. A film by
John Reynolds with commissioned soundtrack by Bill Carson accompanies
the exhibition, documenting the artist's interaction with many
three dimensional works. The Halsey Institute has also published
a full color, 109-page exhibition catalogue including essays by
curator Sloan and Boston artist/writer Rosamond Purcell.
Aldwyth's complex, often epic-scaled collages resemble "medieval
manuscript pages writ large," says Sloan. Each piece can
take years to make. Ackland Art Museum Director Emily Kass says
about Aldwyth, "Her remarkable work demands to be seen. It
is hard to think of an audience who will not be mesmerized by
these extraordinary pieces of art."
For further information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Institute
at 843/953-5680 or visit (www.halsey.cofc.edu).
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