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April Issue 2004
Vista Studios in Columbia, SC, Features Group Show for Artista Vista 2004
Among the first art galleries in the Vista, in Columbia, SC, Gallery 80808, with its associated Vista Studios, was established 14 years ago. The 13 artists who maintain working studios at Vista Studios mount two exhibitions of their work each year, with Artista Vista (Apr. 30 & May 1) being one of those occasions. This group show, entitled pARTicularities, highlights the artists most recent creations as well as providing an opportunity for visitors to meet the artists and talk to them in their studios.
Reflecting the diversity of the artists themselves, the show comprises a rich and lively mix of styles and media, both two and three-dimensional. Fiber artist, Susan Lentz, creates intricate, multilayered, richly-colored patterns using fabric, paper, stitching, and found objects - many containing subtle sparks of gold and silver among their jewel tones. To Lentz, STITCH is a noun: it is a verb. It is what she does and how she does it. It is her pARTicular way of creating.
Pat Gilmartin will be showing a new series of bronze-patinated, terra cotta sculptures. Her Reubenesque women are expressionistic, ambiguous, and evocative, allowing viewers to provide their own interpretations of the pieces' meanings. More sculpture, non objective works in marble, alabaster, and soapstone, are presented by Carol Barks and Sharon Licata. Barks' creations represent her personal journey. She works intuitively allowing the stone's story to be told through its textures, colors, and shapes. Licata's sculptures represent elegant examples of how beauty in line and proportion can emerge from rough, formless stone.
Laura Spong's non-objective paintings combine an expert sense of scale with a lush palette of hues. The artist's combinations of shape, color, and proportion result in images which are at once simple and stimulating. Explorations in texture highlight Ethel Brody's latest pieces. Welcome to Spring is a collage incorporating paint, tissue paper, Japanese paper, pearls, and gold thread. The dark and mysterious, Les Fleurs de Mal invites close study to appreciate its detailed surfaces.
Mike Williams delivers a batch of highly-original, expressive, new fish - small scale, mixed media works on canvas and wood - and an assortment of related objects forged from steel. Williams continues the mission of perusing the boundaries of what one is willing to accept in landscape and representational art.
Other Vista Studio artists will also be showing their newest work. Look for creations in book art and photo-collage by Susan Hogue, lovely figurative pastels by Pat Callahan and additional art by Robert Kennedy and Charles Dillingham.
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