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April Issue 2003
City Art Gallery in Columbia, SC, Features Exhibit of Emerging Artists
The City Art in Columbia, SC, will present the exhibition School's Out: Emerging Artists of the Southeast from May 9 through June 28, 2003. The exhibition, City Art's offering for Artista Vista, will highlight the work of a dozen of the region's rising art stars, all recent or current BFAs or MFAs. Several members of the studio art faculty of selected colleges and universities in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia played a role early in the selection process; the Gallery Director at City Art also identified a few participants in trips to Atlanta, Charleston, and Savannah. While City Art continues to promote the careers of established regional and national artists, the gallery is eager to identify and promote the work of exciting new artists with varied backgrounds and fresh perspectives.
Artists include Anya Belkina (native of Moscow, asst. professor at Duke University), Brian Bishop (Memphis native, asst. professor at University of Alabama), Angus N. M. Galloway (native of Bath, England, currently enrolled in MFA program at Georgia State), Bo Zhang (native of China, currently enrolled in MFA program at Georgia State), Rebecca Rhees (currently enrolled in MFA photography program at USC), Mary Hartman (drawing, recent MFA grad of Savannah College of Art & Design), Terri Bright (MFA graduate from the University of Texas, asst. professor at Furman University), and Reed Elliot (native of New Orleans, currently at Winthrop University.
School's Out will open on the evening of May 9 from 6-10pm, in conjunction with Artista Vista, an annual celebration of the arts, highlighting the galleries and art culture of the historic Congaree Vista area of Columbia. City Art is proud to announce that legendary NY filmmaker and artist Alfred Leslie will be on hand in the Main Gallery to introduce this exciting and exceptional exhibit and to meet with the selected artists. On May 10, Leslie will deliver a lecture at the Columbia Museum of Art in conjunction with their exhibit, Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection.
For the Artista Vista weekend, City Art Gallery, in cooperation with Marcus Kenney of Savannah, GA, will also host a group exhibit in a nearby building titled Almanac, featuring work by some of Savannah's most cutting-edge artists. In addition, USC School of Art students Eric Miller and Jill Allen will curate a group show of installation work by local artists in the old Pleasants Hardware building on Lady Street. Artista Vista will also showcase work by Hybrid Films, the local film collective, and a performance by the Power Company, Columbia's modern dance company.
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