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March Issue 2004
Elder Art Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Offers Works by Carole Robb and Jill Jones
The Elder Art Gallery in Charlotte, NC's, Historic South End District is presenting two exciting exhibitions. The first exhibit presents a new series of paintings by internationally recognized artist, Carole Robb entitled Woman, Water, Rome, Italy. The second exhibition is, On Familiar Ground, featuring paintings by Jill Jones, Both exhibits will be on view through Apr. 30, 2004.
Carole Robb
Robb was born in Scotland and studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Reading, England. She currently lives and works in Venice, Italy and London, England. Robb was a Fulbright Scholar to the United States and most recently operated a painting studio in New York City.
Robb's work has been shown in galleries in Germany, Italy, England and the United States. She has been included in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Alternative Tate Gallery; and The Institute of Contemporary Arts, England. She has paintings in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Gallery, England; and The Museum of Modern Art, Rome.
The exhibition contains paintings completed by the artist during her visit to Rome in 2003. New York City art critic, David Cohen, recently wrote of Robb's work, "Woman in proximity to water is Carole Robb's current pictorial subject, and her painting can be understood philosophically in corresponding terms, as the relationship of essential to the elemental. For sure, her women are actual and specific people, drawn from life, replete with the unique energy of an individual observed in real time. But her conception of Woman is also classical. That she reclines among Roman ruins and upon Renaissance balconies is anything but gratuitous, nor is it a coincidence that the Apollo Belevedere is almost life-like while the living model sunbathing within his gaze is Maillolesque in her timelessness and placidity."
The artist will conduct a series of interactive presentations to discuss her work throughout the week of Mar. 6, 2004, in and around the Charlotte area. Details will be posted at (www.elderart.com).
The second exhibition, On Familiar Ground, by Jill Jones, will be presented in Elder Art Gallery's Vintage Gallery.
Spartanburg, SC, artist Jones takes a contemporary look at landscapes in this exhibition. Although her pastel and mixed media pieces are dramatic in their use of light and shadow, the subject matter is simple: łeveryday˛ scenes from her native South Carolina and favorite destinations of Santa Fe, NM and Emerald Isle, NC.
Sunlit paths, winding rivers and roads form a recurring theme in the artist's work. "To me, the most interesting art makes you wonder what's just around the next bend, what's hidden in shadow or is just out of sight," Jones says. "A sense of mystery is essential."
Jones' work is in corporate and private collections around the United States. She is a graduate of The University of South Carolina's School of Journalism and holds an MFA from Converse College in Spartanburg.
For more info check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call 704/370-6337, or on the web at (www.elderart.com).
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