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December Issue 2006
Charleston Art and Portraits in Charleston, SC, Features Group Exhibition
In honor of the artists new this year at Charleston Art and Portraits in Charleston, SC, there will be a group exhibition, Hallelujah!, on view from Dec. 1 - 30, 2006.
Among the artists featured in the exhibit will be Brian Scanlon, a plein air oil painter, whose style may be compared to Cezanne's. Scanlon's father was an artist, and he began drawing as a small child. His parents enrolled him at Butler Art Institute's junior arts program in Youngstown, OH. Scanlon continued to study into adulthood, "and his work is an absolute joy for me to have in the gallery. I admire his technique so very much," says Cecile Langham Cothran, gallery owner and portrait artist.
"Arianne King Comer's indigo batik work has been a wonderful addition to the gallery this year," Cothran says. King Comer came to Charleston by way of St. Helena Island, SC, where she was director of the Ibile Indigo House at the Penn Center. She studied indigo processing in Nigeria on a United Nations grant. King Comer has studied on the undergraduate and graduate levels in commercial arts and textiles at Howard University and Cranbrook Art Academy respectively. She teaches workshops at Penland School of Crafts in Asheville, NC, and the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC, as well as locally at North Charleston's Rhodes Arts Center. King Comer is currently showing with Jonathan Green in a show in Charlotte, NC, entitled, Gullah Sea Islands and Beyond, at the Afro-American Cultural Center.
Also among the featured in the exhibit will be Stanton deForest Allaben of Hilton Head, SC. "Stan works mainly in oil and watercolor and his marshes and seascapes are quite beautiful," says Cothran. Allaben was invited to participate this year in the Florence (Italy) Biennale Art Exhibit.
Lynne Troll, another artist new to the gallery, works in oil and also acrylics. "My favorite pieces of Lynne's are her mixed media pieces," says Cothran. "She incorporates a type of papier colle with the paint to create some really intriguing and exciting pieces. Her colors reflect Key West. Troll had her own gallery there before coming to Charleston." Troll has lived all over the world and has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
The show will also feature two other painters new to the gallery. Patrick Pelletier and Deborah Sisco both do large, contemporary work.
Pelletier works mainly in acrylics on canvas and "his work might be compared to construction cubism. The layers of blocks of color, assembled into a collage like painting are exciting and inviting to the viewer," says Cothran.
Sisco, also new in the gallery, may be well known to many Charlestonians. "She received her formal art training at the College of Charleston and the excellent influence of Lynne Riding is evident to me in her work," Cothran says. "Her large pieces are thoughtful and well planned. They're quite abstract, but not totally non-representational. I hope it won't sound trite, but they are really, really pretty."
Osee Koger is the newest artist in the gallery. "She studied at the College of Charleston and as all young artists is enthusiastically finding her way in the art world," says Cothran. "Her work is unique in that she is not restricting herself to the conventional media that we old pros do." Her work is representational - most of her work tends almost toward super realism. While her subject matter and technique are traditional, she uses her media creatively. For instance, she might use only black and white acrylic, instead of graphite, or only sepia tone ink instead of conte crayon. Cothran adds "She is extremely talented and I'm excited about watching her grow." Koger also does faux painting on commission.
Also participating in this fourth anniversary
show are Sandra Booker, Beverly Brunswig, T.M. Tremaine, Kelly
Green, Don Boyd, Mary Elliott Williams, and Cecile Langham Cothran.
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call the gallery at 843/724-3424 or visit (www.CharlestonArtGallery.com).
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