March 2011

Some Exhibits That Are Still On View

Our policy at Carolina Arts is to present a press release about an exhibit only once and then go on, but many major exhibits are on view for months. This is our effort to remind you of some of them.

City Art Gallery located in the Congaree Vista area of Columbia, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Brian Rego: Recent Oil Paintings, on view through Mar. 17, 2012.

Rego is currently an Adjunct Professor of Figure Drawing and Foundations at the University of South Carolina and an Adjunct Professor of Figure Painting and Figure Drawing at Benedict College in Columbia. A graduate of the University of South Carolina and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, PA, Rego is co-founder of the Perceptual Painters Collective.

For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, contact Wendyth Wells at 803/252-3613 or visit (www.cityartonline.com).

The Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters, on view through Apr. 1, 2012,

Forty-five magnificent paintings from the rich collection of the New-York Historical Society will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art in a major traveling exhibition Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters. Though individual works are very seldom loaned, these iconic works of 19th-century landscape painting are traveling on a national tour for the first time and are circulating to four museums around the country as part of the Historical Society’s traveling exhibitions program Sharing a National Treasure. The Columbia Museum of Art is the only stop in the Southeast.

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 803/799-2810 or visit (www.columbiamuseum.org).

The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, is presenting the exhibit, Jun Kaneko: In the Round, on view at the Mint Museum Uptown through Apr. 28, 2012. The exhibit was curated by Carla Hanzal, Mint Curator of Contemporary Art.

Kaneko is best known for his Dango sculptures. Each of these monumental sculptures is hand-built, and combines traditional ceramics techniques as well as the ancient Shinto concept of ‘Ma’ which loosely translates into ‘attachment through space.’ On each sculpture, Kaneko creates highly patterned surfaces comprised of rhythmic graphic elements—squares, lines, and dots—to infer connections: “To me, a pattern or color repeated, makes some kind of visual order. Even if I desire to use a line, an endless combination of lines is possible. The spaces between the marks contribute a great deal to the tonality of the finished work.”

For more info check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call 704/337-2000 or visit (www.mintmuseum.org).

The NC Museum of History in Raleigh, NC, is presenting the exhibit, The Photography of Lewis Hine: Exposing Child Labor in North Carolina, 1908-1918, on view through Mar. 25, 2012.

In the early 1900s, most child workers in North Carolina textile mills labored 10 to 12 hours, six days a week. They toiled in hot, humid, lint-filled air that triggered respiratory diseases. They endured the deafening roar of textile machinery. They risked serious injury from dangerous, exposed gears and belts. They forfeited a childhood.

In 1908, the National Child Labor Committee hired photographer Lewis Hine to document the horrendous working conditions of young workers across the United States. That same year, he began visiting North Carolina’s textile mills, where about a quarter of all workers were under age 16. Some were as young as 6.

Peering from across a century, many of the children look much older than their actual years. Hine captured the harsh realities of their mill village lives in Cabarrus, Gaston, Lincoln, Rowan and other Tar Heel counties. His compelling photographs range from girls running warping machines in Gastonia to boys covered in lint after long hours as doffers and sweepers in a Hickory mill.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 919/807-7900 or visit (www.ncmuseumofhistory.org).

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, will continue its collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), with the exclusive presentation of the major exhibition, Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters, on view through April 29, 2012.

This exhibition will present approximately 100 works of art created by 14 of the most iconic artists from the 20th century: Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Picasso to Warhol will be one of the largest concentrations of modern art masterpieces to ever be exhibited in the southeastern United States.

For further information call the Museum at 404/733-4400 or visit (www.high.org).

The Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, NC, is presenting, Formed, Fired and Finished: North Carolina Art Pottery, on view through May 12, 2012.

The exhibit offers a collection of more than 90 pottery pieces on loan from Dr. Everett James and Dr. Nancy Farmer, of Chapel Hill, NC. Showcasing unusual works by talented potters, it represents the first and largest showing of NC pottery in Eastern North Carolina.

North Carolina’s art pottery tradition traces its lineage to the 1760s when immigrant potters, mostly from England and Germany, settled their families in Central North Carolina, known today as the Seagrove area. Living on remote farms built on rich deposits of clay, the families made pottery for sale and trade. This traditional ceramic ware was used up to the early 20th century when a movement known as Arts and Crafts was sweeping the country. With an eye toward traditional craftsmanship and simple forms, the potters adopted the movement and began converting their traditional pottery forms into stylized shapes with a new palette of glazes.

For more info check our NC Institutional gallery listings, call 252/335-0637 or visit (www.museumofthealbemarle.com).

The work of the late painter Pat Passlof is the focus of a joint exhibition of the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC, and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC, on view through May 27, 2012.

Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011, will occupy space in the two venues simultaneously and will feature a selection of 50-60 paintings by Passlof, representing more than 60 years of her career. This long-planned retrospective is among the first since Passlof’s death from cancer in November at the age of 83. The artist helped select the work represented in the months before her death.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listing, call the Fine Art Museum at 828/227-2553 or visit (http://www.wcu.edu/museum/) or call the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center at 828/350-8484 or visit (www.blackmountaincollege.org).

The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts & Culture in Charlotte, NC, is presenting three new exhibits including: Cash Crop, featuring an installation by Stephen Hayes; Rhythm-a-ning: James Phillips, Charles Searles and Frank Smith, features art that visually reflects the qualities and characteristics of jazz; and Contemporary African Photography: Malick Sidibé & Zwelethu Mthetwa, featuring works by two African photographers. The exhibits will be on view through June 30, 2012.

Cash Crop, is comprised of fifteen life-size relief sculptures of former slaves that serve as a symbolic representation of the fifteen million Africans imported to the New World from 1540 to 1850.

In the exhibit, Rhythm-a-ning, James Phillips, Charles Searles and Frank Smith have produced art that visually reflects the qualities and characteristics of jazz. Each artist - in his own way - has improvised with color, rhythm, patterns, and forms to abstractly produce work which can soar and challenge in the way listening to Thelonious Monk might do.

The two photographers in the exhibit, Contemporary African Photography: Malick Sidibé & Zwelethu Mthetwa, bring a sense of different places and cultures to their respective work and offer audiences the chance to feel the emotional and aesthetic differences in their approaches to similar subjects. Their virtuosity and unique vision compares favorably to the best photographers working anywhere in the world.

For further info check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call 704/547-3700 or visit (www.ganttcenter.org).

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