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March Issue 2006
City Art in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Blake Morgan and George Hetherington
City Art in Columbia, SC, is presenting a new exhibit of landscape paintings by University of South Carolina Master of Fine Arts candidate Blake Morgan. The show on view in the Main Gallery will be on view through Mar. 25, 2006. George Hetherington: Personalities, will be on view in the Side Gallery through Mar. 25, 2006.
Blake Morgan
Morgan was born in Beaumont,
TX. After having lived in Houma, LA for a while, he moved to Blanchard,
OK, where he attended high school. Morgan was an undergraduate
at East Central University in Ada, OK, where he studied painting,
drawing and printmaking.
"The climate has an effect on my palette, the air is humid
and hazy, but the mood of the landscape also has a strong effect
on the colors I work with. The color also develops from working
in neutrals in the beginning of the painting in order to have
the most control over the saturation in the final product,"
comments Morgan about his work.
"My paintings develop from life and memory," say Morgan.
"The experience is the primary subject and the landscape
is the outlet for this body of work. I like to paint uninterrupted
and I like to drive. The majority of the paintings in this show
were made in a lawn chair on the side of the road somewhere in
rural South Carolina. I stop to paint when something gets my attention
like the rhythm of a hedgerow, blurred forms of moving objects,
or the pace a particular landscape suggests. I have many influences
that vary greatly, from Greek pottery and sculpture to Mark Rothko.
I am interested in the varieties of experience given form through
painting."
Morgan hopes to make a living painting. He also enjoys teaching
painting both at USC and at City Art.
City Art is introducing a number of works by George Hetherington, who was born in Tennessee but has lived most of his life in South Carolina. He has earned a number of degrees and has pursued various professions before electing to become a painter. In spite of not having an art degree, Hetherington has studied under USC instructors Deanna Leamon, David Voros, Philip Mullen, and Amy Fichter. Other gallery presentations include a juried show at USC's McMaster Gallery, where his entry was named best figurative work, in a USC exchange show with the University of Newcastle in Australia, a group exhibit at the USC Medical School, as well as a group exhibit of student work at City Art.
In Hetherington's own
words, "My work is best approached if one understands that
I paint because I have to . . . At present, I am focusing on the
human image. For me, the human subject is the visual door to many
of the essential questions I myself have chased along the many
strange streets of the mind and heart."
For more information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings,
contact Wendy Wells, City Art Gallery, at 803/252-3613, or at
(www.cityartonline.com).
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