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January Issue
2011
Clemson University & The Arts Center
in Clemson, SC, Features Exhibitions of Works from State Arts
Collection
The State Art Collection: Contemporary
Conversations Part II, an exhibition
of nearly 52 pieces of original art produced by notable South
Carolina artists, will be on view throughout the City of Clemson,
SC, beginning Jan. 10 and continuing through Feb. 16, 2011. The
free exhibition can be seen at three locations: The Arts Center
in downtown Clemson, Clemson University's Lee Gallery, and Brooks
Center for the Performing Arts. As part of the month-long exhibition,
a free public reception will take place on Saturday, Jan. 15,
from 10am-2pm, at all three venues. The Clemson Area Transit (CAT)
will provide transportation to drive patrons to each exhibition
location.
"The exhibition is designed to suggest both the quality and
diversity of the state's cultural heritage," said exhibition
curator Eleanor Heartney.
Contemporary Conversations Part II is composed of work
by 47 artists. "The exhibition includes everything from hard-edge
geometric abstractions to surrealist tinged landscapes. Works
are inspired by social issues, memory, local and national history,
imagination, art of the past and aesthetic theory," added
Heartney, an independent cultural critic, author, and contributing
editor to Art in America and Artpress. Heartney
has also written for major cultural publications, including Sculpture
magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times
and many others.
The art is drawn from the South Carolina Arts Commission's State
Art Collection, a comprehensive public collection of works by
contemporary South Carolina artists. Established in 1967 as one
of the first programs of the commission, the State Art Collection
includes nearly 500 works in a variety of media and styles produced
by almost 300 artists.
The exhibition features by Tarleton Blackwell, Phillip Mullen,
Gunar Strazdins, Edwin Lewandowski, and others. Upstate artists
included in the exhibition are David Detrich, Sydney Cross, Cecile
Martin, Robert Silance, and Carl Blair.
Exhibition curator Eleanor Heartney will discuss her recently
published survey of contemporary art, which examines the complex
diversities of work being produced today. Her presentation "Art
Today: Tales of Plastic Surgery, Genetically Altered Rabbits,
and Other Acts of Art" is at 5pm on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011,
in Lee Hall, room 111. The discussion is free to the public. Following
her presentation, all three venues will be open for extended viewing
6-7:30pm.
For further info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings,
contact Denise Woodward-Detrich, Director, Lee Gallery by calling
864/656-3899 or e-mail to (woodwaw@clemson.edu).
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