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February Issue 2004
Rabold Gallery in Aiken, SC, Hosts Wanda Steppe Exhibit
Rabold
Gallery in Aiken, SC, presents Time and Tide, an exhibition
of oil paintings by Wanda Steppe of Rock Hill, SC, from Feb. 19
to Apr. 10, 2004. The exhibition includes about 20 new works,
including a series of wistful landscapes and skyscapes that are
the artist's hallmark.
Steppe's style of creating evocative, intimate vignettes of land and sky resulted in placing one of her works in the prestigious Triennial 2001 at the SC State Museum.
"Although my work is executed in a traditional manner," Steppe said, "I use the techniques of past masters only as points of departure." Steppe reduces the landscape to its rudimentary elements and conjures landscapes that absorb the viewer into a moment of private interaction with the work.
"My choice of subjects is personal and objects are chosen for symbolic values only," she said. "I am drawn to objects past their prime worn, creased linens, overripe fruit, dead flowers, disfigured trees not in a morbid sense, but as beautiful, elegant survivors of the passage of time and tide. My work is essentially a testament to the awe-inspiring mystery of life's cycles."
Steppe has studied art throughout NC and SC, particularly at Winthrop University and Greenville County Museum School of Art. In recent years, she won a purchase award at the 2000 Anderson (SC) Arts Council Juried Show, first place at the 2001 Oil Painter's Open Invitational in Sumter, SC, and a merit award at the 2001 Central South Art Exhibition in Nashville, TN.
Last year, Steppe was featured in exhibits at the Glance Gallery in Raleigh, NC, and Gallery 5 in Rock Hill, SC.
For more information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 803/641-4405, or e-mail to (raboldgallery@bellsouth.net).
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