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December Issue 2003
Charleston Art Gallery and Portrait Studio in Charleston, SC, Celebrates First Anniversary
Charleston Art Gallery and Portrait Studio in Charleston, SC, is celebrating its first anniversary this month with an exhibition of new works by the twelve artists represented by the gallery. "I'm feeling very blessed," said Cecile Langham Cothran, gallery owner and portrait artist, whose working studio is in the gallery. "We've made it over that proverbial hump. The door opened in 2002 on Nov. 15, and we've grown stronger and stronger."
The artists represented
by the gallery are from all over the Lowcountry, but their original
art is remarkable by the variety of styles and media they employ.
"I like to say our artists are hand picked," said Cothran.
"I want this gallery to be a place where everyone who enters
can make a connection with the art. Some pieces are meticulously
representational, and some are thought provoking or emotion provoking,
while others are delightfully whimsical."
The gallery location in the heart of the French Quarter Art District
has proved to be all that Cothran expected. When the gallery opened
last year, construction of condominiums on the waterfront had
the other end of the one block long street dirty and full of equipment
a lot of the time. "But we have a city parking garage across
the street and we're only one door off East Bay, so I knew we
would be visible," she said. "It's lovely now that the
construction is finished."
We're on a street paved
with Belgian Blocks, ballasts from the old merchant vessels that
once docked where the Waterfront Park is now. At the end of the
street, Charleston's beautiful new City Gallery at the Waterfront
Park is now open, as are two more galleries on North Atlantic
Wharf.
The anniversary show will continue through Dec, 2003.
For more info check our SC Commercial Gallery listing, call
843/724-3424 or on the web at (www.charlestonartgallery.com).
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