March 2011

Clinton Junior College in Rock Hill, SC, Features Works by Winston Wingo

Clinton Junior College in Rock Hill, SC, will present the exhibit, The Technocratic and Urban Realism Series: Paintings & Sculpture by Winston Wingo, on view in the Dalton Gallery, from Mar. 19 through May 4, 2012. A reception will be held on Apr. 17, at 6pm.

Wingo is a painter and sculptor who works in welded steel, marble and cast bronze. He uses the ancient “lost-wax” technique of casting for his bronze sculptures, a process he studied in Pietrasanta, Italy.

Spartanburg, SC, resident Winston Wingo has had recent solo exhibitions at his hometown’s Wofford College; the University of South Carolina in Columbia; the Fayetteville (NC) Museum of Art; the Florence (SC) Museum; and the Burroughs and Chapin Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC. His work has been shown in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New York, France Canada and Italy.

Wingo earned a BA in art education from Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC, in 1976. In 1980, he received an MFA in sculpture and painting from South Carolina’s Clemson University. His post-graduate study includes the Instituto Statule D’Arte’ Lucca in Italy with sculptor Roberto Bertola. Wingo is an art instructor and the chair of fine arts at Spartanburg’s Carver Jr. High School.

Clinton Junior College will be closed for spring break from Apr. 2 – 9, 2012.

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, contact Marie Cheek, Clinton Junior College Associate Professor of Art and Dalton Gallery Director by calling 803/372-1102 or visit (http://www.clintonjuniorcollege.edu/daltongallery.html).

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