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March Issue 2007
Dog Art Dealer/Horse Art Dealer Gallery in Charleston, SC, Offers Annual Equine Art Show
Dog Art Dealer/Horse Art Dealer Gallery in Charleston, SC, will present the first annual, 2007 Southeastern Equine Art Exhibition, to benefit the American Academy of Equine Art, and feature works by top AAEA members and invited artists, on view from Mar. 1 through Apr. 7, 2007.
Gallery owner Jaynie Spector notes, "We are very excited to present an AAEA show here in Charleston, which I feel will add a new 'flavor' to the already diverse art community. Whit so many folks visiting the city from various parts of the country, this exhibition of equine art will receive wonderful exposure."
Xochitl Barnes
The American Academy of Equine Art is a non-profit group based out of the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY, whose main mission is to promote and maintain excellence in equine art and broaden public recognition of the equine genre of painting and sculpture through education, exhibitions, demonstrations, and critique. The show will depict the horse in many surroundings such as hunting, polo, racing, and include lovely landscapes in the two-dimensional form of art, as well as sculpture.
Artists participating in this exhibit include: AAEA president and painter, Werner Rentsch, best known for his paintings of horses. His work depicting racing, polo, foxhunting and show jumping has appeared in New York City, Saratoga Springs and at the Headley-Whitney Museum in Lexington, KY, the Aiken Thoroughbred Hall of Fame in SC, Aqueduct Raceway in NY and Meadowlands.
Sculptor Kathleen Friedenberg began her professional career as a veterinary surgeon in England, and came to the US on a Thouron scholarship studying human and equine orthopaedics at the University of Pennsylvania. Horses are her favorites in a wide range of human and animal subjects. Further study with Zenos and Evangelos Frudakis resulted in a more structured and classical approach, and her veterinary background gives her unexcelled understanding of animal anatomy and movement.
Although she no longer owns a horse of her own, painter Andrea Harman Steiner draws on her experiences of riding and caring for horses in her youth to accurately portray them in their environment today. An avid equestrian sports fan, reference sojourns take her to various events including Thoroughbred racing, steeplechasing, polo, harness racing, Saddlebred shows, three-day events, hunter/jumper shows and a host of other activities.
In all, the exhibition will showcase the works of twenty-nine of the finest painters and sculptors in the equine art world today.
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/577-5500 or visit (ww.dogartdealer.com).
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