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February Issue
2009
Winthrop University
in Rock Hill, SC, Features Works by Anne Lemanski and Alf Ward
Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, will present the following exhibits including: Interlaced, featuring works by Anne Lemanski in the Rutledge Gallery and La Mostra Della Borsa by Alf Ward in the Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery. Both exhibitions will be on view from Feb. 6 through Mar. 26, 2009.
North Carolina artist Anne Lemanski presents her first solo exhibition that will include three-dimensional "skinned" forms as well as a new series of two-dimensional pieces. Lemanski recently exhibited in Possibilities: Rising Stars of Contemporary Craft in North Carolina at Charlotte's Mint Museum of Craft + Design and is a former resident artist at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. She works in familiar forms such as a gun or a deer, created from metal armatures covered or "skinned" by stitching appropriated or hand-made materials and/or paper with artificial sinew.
Lemanski's conscious choice of form, material and "skin" convey subtle political messages to the viewer and "tackles abstract, global political issues that affect us all: urban sprawl and habitat destruction, genetically modified food, war, and women's roles in society.
Artist and Professor Emeritus of Winthrop's Department of Fine Arts Alfred Ward presents an exhibition of handbags and accessories that find their origins in his fashion product design work in England some thirty years ago. As a consultant designer to Spink & Sons in London, and by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, Ward designed many presentation pieces for the Royal Air Force, the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, Revlon of Paris and individual awards for Margo Fontaine and the Covent Garden Opera House.
The desire to return to some aspect of fashion design has remained with Ward throughout his teaching career at American universities. The pieces in this exhibition reflect his desire to perpetuate some ancient and modern production practices from Italy, France, and England by employing them in the contemporary design of evening bags, handbags, and fashion accessories.
Winthrop University Galleries is also opening several exhibitions focusing on student artwork. Opening on Feb. 2 and running until Mar. 5, 2009, in the Rutledge Window with a View is The Function of Art: Winthrop Crafts, a faculty juried exhibition of student work in jewelry/metals and ceramics. Also on view from Feb. 2 - 12, 2009, in the Edmund D. Lewandowski Student Gallery is the M.F.A. Works in Progress Exhibit followed by the DVD Invitational (2) running from Feb. 23 through Mar. 12, 2009.
For further information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the university
at 803/323-2493 or visit (www.winthrop.edu/vpa/galleries).
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