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February Issue 2003
Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, Features Annual Equine Show
Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, will open its second annual equine show, with works by an exciting group of artists, on view through Mar. 7, 2003. The exhibit features works by Annette Cyr, Karen Keene Day, Phyllis Eifert, Charles Harpt, and Elizabeth Sher.
Annette Cyr lives in a beautiful, light filled Manhattan loft. She lives and breathes painting and drawing, coming by it naturally and from an early age. She began drawing at age three, especially horses, and took riding lessons in her native Pasadena, CA, home. She spent her third year of college in Paris, drawing and painting, and returned home to California to paint stills and landscapes. Winning a scholarship to the prestigious Skpowhegan School of Painting in Maine, Cyr moved there, and painted and sculpted for a few years, before growing tired of the grey and dreary fall and winters of the northeast coast. She then attended Yale graduate school, and focused on the human figure. Cyr spent the next ten years painting life size canvases of human figures, and then incorporating horses into these pictures over the next several years.
Cyr's solo exhibitions started in 1988 in Brooklyn, then Philadelphia, New London, CT; Santa Barbara, CA and back to New York. From 2002-05 she is instated in group exhibitions in Temple Gallery, Rome; Institute for American Universities, Aix, France; Maryland Art Institute and elsewhere in the US.
Karen Keene Day paints horses in pastels, acrylics, and watercolors. Her paintings have traveled across the US and into Spain, to shows, businesses, and clients' homes. Her paintings depict horses in the wild, either alone or in herds, running free and standing still. Day's paintings have been featured in several different horse magazines; the artist gives workshops to business groups, artists' associations and children.
Day travels to ranches to photograph horses for her paintings, and recently visited the wild horses of the Pryor Mountains on the border of Wyoming and Montana.
Phyllis Eifert, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, has spent her whole life incorporating her love of horses into her art. Eifert now resides in Tryon, NC, enjoys riding and fox hunting, along with continuing her work in bronze and paper mache. Her work has won many awards at shows throughout the country, and is represented in many private collections.
Charles Harpt, also a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, grew up in Philadelphia. Harpt admired horses from afar through his childhood, but did not ride until an adult in the army. After the army, Harpt made his living painting billboards. Growing bored with the subject matter of the boards, he started incorporating small landscapes, figures and horses into them, unbeknownst to his employers.
After retiring from billboard painting, Harpt, camera in hand, started patrolling horse shows, big and small, snapping pictures of everybody and every horse from Grand Prix to short stirrup. He takes these back to his studio and paints beautiful and accurate renderings of people, horse shows and horses. Harpt's works have appeared on dozens of covers of "The Chronicle of the Horse", and they are also in several galleries throughout the southeast.
Elizabeth Sher found photography and the darkroom a magical place from an early age. She "did" photography all through high school, and time out of the darkroom was spent with horse lessons, horse shows and fox hunting.
Sher graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with high honors in photography and design. She worked at both the Maine and Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and has freelanced as a photographer and photo stylist for twelve years. Sher's clients include Winterthur, Spur Magazine, Reebok, Sporting Classics Magazine, Yankee Magazine and several others. Her hunting images are published in the Master of Foxhounds Calendar. A graphics and interior designer as well, Sher will occasionally organize and guide exclusive tours for riders. Her Elegant Riding Tour of Tuscany was published in the Southeastern Equine Journal. Sher currently resides in Columbus, NC.
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