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November Issue
2009
Vista Studios
in Columbia, SC, Offers Group Show for Vista Lights
Vista Studios' 13 artists will be participating in this year's 24th Vista Lights celebration held on Nov. 19, 2009, from 5-10pm. Come see our new exhibition and visit with the artists as they open their studios and discuss their processes. There are two new artists at the studios, Deanna Leamon and Kirkland Smith. Although they are new to Vista Studios, they are well known around Columbia as two of its finest artists. Come by and see their new studios. The exhibit of works will be on view through Nov. 30, 2009.
Deanna Leamon has filled
her new studio with figurative images, including Arms Akimbo.
The inspiration for this piece is a certain kind of, nasty sort
of, person. Head Study will also be included in the show.
"I've been working on heads for a while, everything you might
want to express about being human can be done with the head,"
says Leamon.
Kirkland Smith has brought to the studio her new process for creating
in assembling non-recyclable materials and post-consumer waste.
Marilyn is a portrait of Marilyn Monroe and is constructed
from items we consume and discard daily. She will also include
Sixty Minute Man painted in the classical tradition from
live model.
Susan Lenz, fiber artist, will show five of the newest pieces
in her Decision Portrait Series, which focuses on personal
choices without value judgment. Each work is a xylene photo transfer
on tea-stained muslin with hand embroidery. The stitched words
and titles are meant to reflect the choices made by those depicted,
as in the works, Recycler, Patriot, and Living with
HIV.
Ethel S. Brody, a non-objective
painter, is exhibiting a large painting entitled Multiplicities
as well as several smaller works from her Stripe Series.
Jeff Donovan will have mixed media figurative works on canvas
mounted to panel.
Pat Gilmartin will be
showing several new ceramic sculptures that she completed during
the summer. Her most recent piece is called Baobab: The Tree
of Life. Her interest is in its fascinating form: a massive
trunk with just a cluster of small limbs at the top which sometimes
resemble roots.
David Yaghjian continues his figurative "semi-narratives"
using acrylics, crayons, and chalk on paper. Among the new work
that will be on exhibit will be Downward and Two Hats.
Sharon Collings Licata,
who is a sculptor, will include Rock Dove III as a continuation
of a series of larger than life, but very quiet, meditative bird
sculptures. She will also exhibit Moon Goddess, which is
an exploration into the figurative. Half life size, it is of a
reclining figure, face down with her hair flowing over her hands.
Artists Stephen Chesley, Heidi Darr Hope, Michel McNinch, and
Laura Spong will also present new work and open their studios
at Vista Studios.
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings
or call Vista Studios at 803/252-6143 to confirm hours.
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