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March Issue 2004
Charles Street Gallery
in Beaufort, SC, Features Works by Priscilla Merrick
The Charles Street Gallery in Beaufort, SC, will be hosting an
exhibit entitled, Salt Water Paintings, featuring oils
dealing with water and marshes by Priscilla Merrick. The exhibit
will be on view through Mar. 31, 2004.
Merrick's pieces are less traditional landscapes and usually focus
up-close on a small part of a particular place or environment.
Her work can best be described by the Western Apache term of "place-worlds".
This term is used to describe a specific geological site in which
the place itself contains a strong connection to the past. The
act of recalling these places thus strenghtens the ties to the
past, and forms a significant tool of communication.
In her "place-worlds", Merrick confronts both order
and chaos within nature's infinite boundaries, and feels that
she "approaches each piece as a memory and exploration, covering
a range of images and perceptions in which seemingly unimportant
formations such as a dried leaf or new shoot, become the focal
point of my visual language. These are the landscapes that are
ingrained in me, recalled and resurfacing as fragments that envelope
or release their own contents."
For additional information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 843/521-9054 or e-mail to (csg29902@yahoo.com).
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