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December Issue 2007
Nina Liu and Friends in Charleston, SC, Offers Works from Private Collection
Nina Liu and Friends in Charleston, SC, will present Twenty Years of Collecting: Selections from the Hanford LeMay Charleston Collection, an exhibition that celebrates art, friendship, and collecting. The exhibition will open on Dec. 7 and will be on view through Dec. 31, 2007.
While working at Yale University's library, LeMay would come to Charleston to visit family. He soon discovered Nina Liu and Friends and began to collect work by several of the gallery's artists, many of whom are receiving national recognition for their work. Liu says that LeMay "had a discerning eye and a great spirit. Ford had a monthly art budget, so he was able to assemble a wonderful collection over time. Everything that he added to the collection had meaning for him, and that strengthened his collection as a whole."
The exhibition features some of LeMay's favorite works by South Carolina artists. Among those artists are Jocelyn Chateauvert, whose works in handmade paper appeared in a major invitational exhibition at the Renwick Gallery earlier this year; Eva Carter, who is exhibiting her bright abstractions at galleries in Santa Fe and Atlanta; and Mana Hewitt, whose work is in collections such as that of the Federal Reserve Bank in Charlotte, NC.
Charleston artists whose work appears in Twenty Years of Collecting: Selections from the Hanford LeMay Charleston Collection, are Sue Simons Wallace, whose gyotaku prints are becoming increasingly popular; Arthur MacDonald, who works with handmade paper and found objects to create elegant assemblages; and Gail Ray, whose woven monofilament images are hauntingly beautiful. Works by Charleston artists Kat Hastie and Frank Licciardi are in the exhibition as well. Liu says that the exhibition is "like a series of snapshots of Charleston's art community that someone took over the past two decades."
Reflecting LeMay's diverse tastes, the works
in this exhibit are in a variety of media and styles. Knoxville,
TN, artist Cynthia Tollefsrud is known for her brightly hued paintings
that play against Susan Miller Simon's contemplative, graphic
images. The textures and shapes of Steven Hewitt's ceramics contrast
with the classic forms of Brian Ford's vessels. Eric and Suzanne
Longo's drawings and sculptures explore abstractions of the human
figure, while Charles Fach takes a more literal approach to that
subject.
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