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December Issue 2007
Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Virginia Scotchie and Boris Bally
Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is presenting and exhibition of works by Virginia Scotchie and Boris Bally. The exhibition will be on view through Dec. 21, 2007.
Virginia Scotchie
Virginia Scotchie is a ceramic sculptor and
head of Ceramics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,
SC. Her work refers to organic shapes found in everyday life.
Combining shapes with colorful glazes and metallic finishes, her
current body of work is influenced by the artist's recent residency
in Xian, China. Her pieces function as individual objects
or often may be grouped to form larger installations.
Scotchie holds a BFA in Ceramics from the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill and in 1985 she completed her Master
of Fine Arts from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred
University. She was the recipient of the prestigious Sydney
Meyer Fund International Ceramics Award, Victoria, Australia in
2002. This past summer she was honored with an invitational teaching
position in Xian, China, and as Scotchie has said, it
greatly influenced her current work.
Boris Bally
This show also combines recycled street signs,
handpicked by Boris Bally for their thickness, condition, color,
and graphic quality. These industrial-strength pieces celebrate
a raw American street look. They are as tactile and beautiful
as they are strong and unique. Bally says "Signage has
become my passionate medium of choice not only because of the
recycling message, but also its appeal to me as an extreme variation
on the age-old tradition of enameling." There is the hint
of Pop Art in this work as well, with great humor.
Bally's education includes time as an Intensive Goldsmith Apprenticeship,
Alexander Schaffner Goldschmied, Basel, Switzerland, followed
by two years at the Tyler School of Art, and completing his BFA
at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1984. His work
is found in many museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; The American
Craft Museum, New York; the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; the
Brooklyn Museum; and the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg.
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