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December Issue 2002
Benedict College in Columbia, SC, Features Works by John W. Jones, Jesse Guinyard & Maxwell Taylor
Benedict College in Columbia, SC, Features
two exhibitions on its campus featuring, The Color of Money,
by John W. Jones, at The Business Development Center, and The
Ponder Fine Arts Gallery, will be The Jesse Guinyard &
Maxwell Taylor Art Exhibition. Both exhibitions will be on
view through Dec. 18, 2002.
The Color of Money investigates the importance of Slavery
to the economy of the South. Artist John W. Jones has researched
and documented over 126 juxtapositions of the framed Confederate
currencies. With the acrylic paintings inspired by the slave images
on the currencies, it makes a very powerful statement on the contribution
of enslaved Africans to the American economy. In these paintings,
history informs art, which in turn artfully reveals more history.
The exhibition has been featured in over 216 publications and
programs including, Time Magazine, The New York Times, The
Wall Street Journal, and CNN. This exhibition has been well
received and well attended by both black and white museum goers.
The exhibition is sponsored by The Benedict College Ponder Fine Arts Gallery, The Business Development Center and the Social Sciences and Criminal Justice Department at Benedict College.
The Benedict College's Ponder Fine Arts Gallery proudly presents the artworks of noted South Carolina artists Jesse Guinyard and Maxwell Taylor.
Guinyard, a master sculptor and painter, will feature pieces from his collection of wooden bowls and spheres that combine images of the human form with hand carved containers made from sheets of plywood. Guinyard is a graduate of South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC, and has been featured in many exhibitions across the nation. He has won several awards around the state and abroad.
Maxwell Taylor is a noted printmaker, specializing in woodcut and linoleum prints. His powerful images, bursting with energy and movement, evoke a strong concern for the social issues of the past and present. Taylor states, "One of the most important aspects of life in Human Society is how we live and how we relate to and try to understand people's feelings and concerns. This is a concern not only in the United States but all over the world."
For additional information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Ponder Fine Arts Gallery at 803/758-4460 or contact Tyrone Geter, curator, at 803231-2158 and e-mail at (getert@benedict.edu).
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