Feature Articles


March Issue 2000

City Gallery, in Downtown Charleston, SC, Presents Works by William Thomas Meisburger

The City Gallery at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC, will present an exhibit of etchings by local artist William Thomas Meisburger through March 21, 2000, entitled Surfacing (After Katherine).

Meisburger was reared in Spain, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. He received a B.A. in Fine Arts and a B.S. in Business Administration from the College of Charleston and a M.F.A. in Printmaking from Penn State University. After completing his studies, Meisburger served two years in the United States Peace Corps as an art teacher on St. Kitts in the Eastern Caribbean. He currently teaches art at Rivers Middle School in Charleston, SC.

Meisburger comments on his work: "While of a distinct abstract quality, my prints draw heavily from my memories of the Lowcountry landscape. The colors, marks, and layering of the etched plates are the products of visual references to Charleston and her surrounding environment. Yet, the print is not a snapshot of a particular place. Memories themselves tend to distort or change according to the individual's desires. As a resident once again of the Lowcountry, I am trying to develop a visual interpretation that offers the viewer a sense of the familiar, a sensation of the universal, through my recollections, the landscapes of memory."

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the Office of Cultural Affairs at 843/724-7305.

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