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February Issue 2007
City of Charleston Features Works by Ted Pickering
The City of Charleston is presenting the exhibit, U.M.A.T.F.O.F.A.O.S.T.: Unapologetic Meanderings Attributed to Flights of Fancy & Other Such Trivialities, featuring found objects assembled by Wadmalaw Island, SC, artist, Ted Pickering. The exhibit will take place at the City Gallery at Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC, from Feb. 8 - Mar. 6, 2007.
Pickering was born on the island of Honolulu, HI, in the Pacific Ocean, some 32 year ago. In 1992, he began his journey through art, having lived in, and traveled through several states, and various cities, before landing on a very different island in 1997 (Wadmalaw Island), in a very different ocean - by way of his father, and his before him.
Pickering comments on his work: "Since I have lived on the island (Wadmalaw), I have evolved through different mediums of expression, all the while attempting to capture the meaning of existence, with relevance of our contemporary society. I feel a sense of decline, and decadence that pushes the true purpose of ourselves, further and further away from the truth, and the indicator, as always, has been - the art. The found objects I use ranges from various machines, and their parts, to scraps of metal, plastic, wood, bits of glass, bones, and animal and plant "fragments" from internal organs to extremities."
"I create, in essence "cyborgs," composite organic/in organic machine-beings, whose sole functioning purpose is as art. This art is to be used to make others aware of our wasteful, and dangerous nature, in this state of disposable ownership. As a folk artist, I use whatever means at my disposal to form combinantions of tech-nology, death, and breath of reanimated life."
For further info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call Francina Smalls-Joyner at the Office of Cultural Affairs at 843/724-7305 or visit (www.ci.charleston.sc.us/oca.html).
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