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February Issue
2010
Robert Lange
Studios in Charleston, SC, Offers Group Invitational Focused on
Colors Black and White
Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit, Black vs White - 60 Works · 30 Artists · 2 Colors · 1 Gallery, featuring its annual group invitational on view from Feb. 5 - 28, 2010.
Thirty artists invite patrons to join in the jaunty spirit of fervent artistic debate when Robert Lange Studios presents its annual group invitational, Black vs White. The participating artists have been asked to create two pieces of equal size, one focusing on the color or theme black and the other focusing on the color or theme white.
The annual group show has been developed to connect artists from the Charleston area and across the country. Included in the show are a number of guest artists, including Scott Debus and Julio Cotto from Scoop Studios, Kevin LePrince from Wells Gallery, Kirsten Moran, Rob Harrell, Charles Williams, John Duckworth, Lisa Shimko, Leslie Pratt-Thomas, Kenton James, Patrick Pelletier, Michael Porten, Mickey Williams, Susan Harrell, Jonathan Brilliant, Tiffany Sage, Kristy Bishop, Jeffrey Lange, Erik Johnson, Karin Olah, Gary Grier, and Karen Silvestro. All of Robert Lange Studios' artists will be creating new work for the show, including Ali Cavanaugh, Megan Aline, Robert Lange, Nathan Durfee, Kerry Brooks, Jessica Dunegan, Fred Jamar, Michael Moran, Amy Lind, Adam Hall, Joshua Flint, Sean Clancy, and JB Boyd.
The works in Black vs White aren't just juxtaposed pieces exploring two colors but celebrations of the unique techniques that are unpredictable, distinctive and beautiful, employed by each individual artist.
All of the artists chosen for the show are active fine art painters and sculptors. To qualify for the show, each artist submitted one to two pieces that represent their stylistic approach to art.
"Last year the Yellow vs Blue show pushed artists to work within a specific color range, although most of the artists felt comfortable with these colors," says gallery owner and artist Robert Lange. "This year Black vs White will create an even greater challenge, as color is an integral part of nearly all of the artists' work and many never find black on their palettes."
Landscape painter Charles Williams was especially out of his element when asked to engage this monochromatic theme. Traditionally creating vibrant marshscapes, his paintings for this show, titled Breaking Point, are hyper-realistic works with paint dribbling down the lower end of the canvas. In one piece the sky and water is dark and ominous and in the other, bright and inviting.
Familiar to Robert Lange Studios, painter Nathan Durfee, a narrative nonconformist who creates surreal storylines, has paired a black bear that wants to be a panda bear with a white pony wishing to be a zebra, in Robert dreams of Exotica and Bob Dreams of Exotica.
Host Robert Lange created two trompe l'oeil works. The first piece titled This is Not an Orchid is of a taped-up iphone displaying not just the time and date but a background wallpaper of an orchid. The second work titled This is Also Not an Orchid depicts an actual orchid taped to the surface of the panel. The realist works sit on top of the panel fooling patrons with their shadows and barely visible brushstrokes.
Faced with the black verses white challenge, painter Joshua Flint, who was recently on the cover of Southwest Art Magazine, painted two solitary buildings. Flint's paintings are normally filled with a yellowish glowing light but these most recent works have been drained of their color, transforming the subjects into haunting and romantic structures.
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
843/805-8052 or visit (www.robertlangestudios.com).
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