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March Issue 2000

Vista Studios in Columbia, SC, Celebrates Women's History Month

An exhibition entitled, She: A Celebration of Women and Art, will open Mar. 24 at Gallery 80808 at the Vista Studios in Columbia, SC. The exhibit which will celebrate Women's History Month will continue through Apr. 4.

The exhibition assembles the work of 10 Columbia artists, including works by: Anne Boudreau, Carol Barks, Cass Brucker, Pat Callahan, Shelby Duensing, Janette Grassi, Anne Hubbard, Doni Jordan, Gina Langston and Ursula Pallares.

Each of the 10 participants in She explores a personal vocabulary in her art or pursues a unique form for expression. Anne Boudreau constructs suspended forms of wire armature and fabric in an investigation of desire. Her installations entice with motion, color and texture. Carol Barks intuitively carves non-objective stone sculptures, which she invites the visitor to touch. Her "co-creations" reflect a balance of masculine and feminine.

Cass Brucker turns to more personal and less traditional materials. Her assemblages in the exhibition incorporate journal entries and toasters. In contrast, Pat Callahan embraces traditional media and a classic subject, the nude. Her drawings convey women of mass and muscle, who are sensuous and enduring.

Potter Shelby Duensing addresses surface as well as form with vases and boxes of white crackle raku. Janette Grassi explores surface and marking-making in her paintings. She selects universal symbols, like the cross, as vocabulary for personal process. Ann Hubbard likewise "marks" the surface of her paintings, imitating natural and deliberate forces. She pairs dichotomies such as dark with light, tension with harmony, and complexity with simplicity.

Artists Doni Jordan and Ursula Pallares, use color as vocabulary. The graphic designer and interior designer, respectively, teamed to sew a color study of 16 pillows hung as a single "painting". Gina Langston likens painting to "dreaming out loud." Her abstracted figures are both inventive and universal.

For this exhibit, Gallery 80808 will be open Thur. & Fri., from 11am to 7pm and Sat. & Sun., from 1 to 5pm.

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the studios at 803/252-6134.

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