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December Issue 2006
Studio Open on Folly Beach, SC, Features Works by Nance Lee Sneddon and Zernie Smith
Guest artists, Nance Lee Sneddon and Zernie Smith, share exhibition space at Studio Open on Folly Beach, SC, on view through Dec. 31, 2006. The variety of work by these two gifted professional painters creates a visual treat brimming over with color and pattern.
Nance Lee Sneddon is a self-taught artist who has made Charleston, SC, home for the past ten years. Born in Pennsylvania, Sneddon moved to Hilton Head Island, SC, in 1978. With partners, she created and owned Moonshell Gallery from 1990-1996, and maintained a working studio. In the 80's, she owned a women's accessory business producing one of a kind wearables for Henri Bendel in New York and art museum stores. Sneddon continues to create art wearables and decorative home accessories under her business name Alizarin.
Inspired by the connectedness of life, archetypal symbols, the recycling of natural elements, hopeful optimism, love, light and dreams of travel, Sneddon describes her mixed-media paintings as "stylized imagery of nature full of texture, pattern and light". From large loose canvases with the look of contemporary tapestry, to textured mixed-medium pieces on wood, paper, and metal, most of her paintings contain a narrative quality - a search for the rhythm and flow of nature. Described as a "joyful application of paint" and "simple, yet lush," Sneddon's work is seen in corporate settings and private homes across the country. Several paintings traveled four years with the US Art in Embassies Program. Her work has been seen in numerous one-woman and group shows, including an exhibit at Charleston's City Gallery, and in Piccolo Spoleto's Outdoor Art Festival for eleven years.
Zernie Smith
Zernie Smith, a native of South Carolina, majored in art at University of South Carolina, studying under Edmund Yaghjian. Winner of nine best of show and numerous other awards for his pastels, oils, mixed media, watercolors and sculpture, Smith's work is included in private, public and corporate collections throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Stephenson Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, has also shown his delightful original works. The artist is presently working in oil, creating abstracts as well as paintings, with images employing a diverse collection of icons from far-flung cultures. Smith's palette is rich, utilizing bold colors in concert, however, he renders certain images in very soft, gentle tones. This artist enjoys reexamining themes, creating multiple series of paintings. Each piece in a series will indicate a shift of colors and/or components, as though the "question" the artist pursues is constantly shifting.
Smith explores the heaven/earth dichotomy leaving the viewer perpetually suspended between four worlds: past, present, future, and the never been. These worlds are juxtaposed timelessly in a mélange of color where the viewer is forced to reinvestigate his/her previously conceived notions of stability and balance. Says Smith of his work, "It keeps me out of the bars and off the streets."
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