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March Issue 2007
Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, Features New Exhibitions
Patterns of light and dark are transformed by kinetic sculpture in Rutledge Gallery at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, with an installation by Charlotte, NC, artist Kit Kube entitled Darkness Illuminated. In Winthrop's Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery are works by the artists: Susan Brenner, Page Laughlin and Leigh Ann Hallberg in Deliberate Interference, an exhibition of digital imagery, painting and sculpture that "peels back the layers of what seems normal." Both exhibitions are on view through Mar. 29, 2007.
Nationally recognized artist Kit Kube constructs his kinetic light sculptures using what he calls artifacts. Indeed, his artifacts are intricately crafted mechanical devices recycled as art objects. Kube states, "With the decline of manufacturing industries, especially the textile mills, there is a supply of interesting materials flowing through scrap yards in the South. I frequently visit these scrap yards to prospect through the rivers of stuff."
Kube's site-specific work entitled Darkness Illuminated creates a space of dancing radiance and shadow in the darkened Rutledge Gallery. His light generating sculptures flash across existing architectural details and bring the traditional space to life.
Elon University art historian and curator Kirstin Ringelberg selected the digital images of Charlotte artist Susan Brenner, the paintings of Winston-Salem, NC, artist Page Laughlin and the sculpture of Winston-Salem artist Leigh Ann Hallberg for the exhibition Deliberate Interference. "All three artists make us stop, look at the details, and really think - what are we looking at, how does it relate to us, to our bodies, to our fantasies, to our sense of self," states curator Ringelberg.
Winthrop's innovative Windows with a View series continues with Spartanburg, SC, artist Doug McAbee's small-scale, painted steel sculptures in an exhibition titled Happiness is Boring. The exhibition in the Rutledge display windows adjacent to the galleries continues through Mar. 9, 2007.
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Gallery listings, call 803/323-2493 or visit (www.winthrop.edu/cvpa/galleries).
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