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December Issue 2006
Eva Carter Gallery in Charleston, SC, Offers Works by Rick Horton
Eva
Carter Gallery in Charleston, SC, will present two exhibitions:
RICK HORTON: Reconstructing Language and RICK HORTON: The
Angel Wing Drawings, on view from Dec. 1 through Jan. 15,
2007. Both exhibitions will feature the artwork of North Carolina
native Rick Horton (1954 - 1990).
Reconstructing Language is a collection of twenty collages created during the artist's stay in Paris, 1978 -1979. Using fragments from European magazines and newspapers, Horton rearranges the written text, to compile an entirely fresh narrative. His typographical abstractions are small in scale yet tell a big story. This series articulates a connection with the Dadaist movement and evokes the outpourings of fellow assemblage artist, Kurt Schwitters (1887 -1948). Horton's witty titles often suggest a new story, as in Poem from Moscow with Moscow Vowels, where disjointed red letters join together to form a solid union.
Complementing Horton's colorful textual collages will be another series - The Angel Wing Drawings from 1986. Eva Carter Gallery will exhibit the singular sculpture of his career, Angel Wing Sculpture, along with the twenty drawings that delicately reveal the vision of Horton. Consisting of a group of small mixed media works (pages torn from the artist's sketch book or minimalist painting with graphite on board), they serve as studies for the large sculpture.
Throughout the 1980's, Horton concentrated on a series of intensely metaphorical abstractions - paintings that visually recalled the cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux. The Angel Wing Drawings offer a softer, more ethereal adaptation of the manipulated impastoed surfaces and expressively scrawled marks that define Horton's celebrated style.
An inventive and imaginative painter, Horton
achieved great success in his lifetime, participating in over
sixty gallery and museum exhibitions. His work is in the
collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Musee National d'art Moderne in Paris, and Puccini Museum
in Italy. Horton's work shows closer to home at the Asheville
Museum of Art, Duke University Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum
of Art, and the Mint Museum of Art. Horton is a recipient
of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram
Merrill Foundation, and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation.
This exhibition is presented in cooperation with the custodian
of Horton's estate: Jerald Melberg Gallery of Charlotte, NC. The
gallery strives to keep alive the visionary spirit of Rick Horton,
a dear friend and talented artist. Also on display will be
the abstract expressionist work of William Halsey and Eva Carter,
both nationally know and collected.
For further information check our SC Commercial
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/722-0506 or visit (www.evacartergallery.com).
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