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April Issue 2006
Columbia, SC's ARTISTA VISTA 2006
Columbia, SC's annual Artista Vista art gallery and studio walk in April will include several special events. South Carolina Watercolor Society (SCWS) artists will be showing their work in 10 galleries. The artists at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios will present The Blues on Lady Street. Lewis & Clark Gallery will exhibit artists at two locations. The combined exhibitions will offer within a few city blocks about 100 artists at 17 sites. Artista Vista 2006 will be held Apr. 28, 2006, from 5-9pm, and Apr. 29, 2006, from 11am-5pm in Columbia's downtown Vista district.
SCWS artists will dominate this year's event and are expected to draw big crowds from across the state. City Art gallery on Lincoln Street is hosting the SCWS's 29th Annual Exhibition, Watercolor Plus Martha Mayberry of the Mint Museum or Art in Charlotte, NC, was the juror for the show, which will be on view until July 21, 2006. The exhibition will include approximately 53 artists.
Susan Lenz ------------------------------------------------------------
Heidi Darr-Hope
At Gallery 80808/Vista Studios on Lady Street, SCWS artists JoAnne Anderson, Meg McLean, Esther Melton and Rose Metz will join the studio artists for The Blues on Lady Street, a group show. The exhibition plays off the continuing construction on Lady Street, part of a beautification project, that has resident artists singing the blues as it limits the public's access to Vista Studios. Resident studio artists participating in the exhibition are Carol Barks, Ethel Brody, Pat Callahan, Heidi Darr-Hope, Pat Gilmartin, Robert Kennedy, Susan Lenz, Sharon C. Licata, Laura Spong, David Yaghjian and Don Zurlo. The exhibition also will include a painting by the late Rueben Gambrell, a studio artist and art teacher who died earlier this year. The exhibition will be on display Apr. 24 through May 9, 2006.
McCrory Gallery on Assembly Street will start off the string of SCWS exhibitions Apr. 1 with the group show, Impressions of Colour. The exhibition will run through Apr. 30, 2006. In addition to Martha Hunt, Frank Martin and John Wright, the show will include SCWS artists Liz Smith-Cox, Lori Starnes and Larry Mauldin. With more than 30 works, the gallery aims to show a broad range of watercolor styles. Cameo Fine Art on Lincoln Street will present from Apr. 28 until May 22, 2006, SCWS artists Trish Arnold, Al Beyer, Mary Alice Lockhart and Barbara Yon.
Carol Ann Rose -----------------------------------------------------
Cynthia Wilson
Six Gervais Street venues also will hold exhibitions with art works by SCWS members. From Apr. 14 through May 12, 2006, M. Craig & Co. will show work by Chris Carlsson, Dale Cochran, Rosemary Moore, Lori Starnes and Esther Melton. The work of Jane T. Butcher, Vickie Ebbers, Wyn Foland, Donna Gore, Lynn Greer and Suzanne Zoole will be at I. Pinckney Simons Gallery Apr. 28 through May 26, 2006. The Gallery at Nonnah's will present Jennie Branham, Ingrid Carlson, Bonnie Goldberg and Michel McNinch. Carol Saunders Gallery will feature Guy Lipscomb Apr. 28 through May 27. Carole Tinsley, Carol Ann Rose, Eileen Nichols and Cynthia Wilson will show their work at Paul D. Sloan Interiors April 27 May 13, 2006. Jay Takach Interiors will exhibit from Apr. 14 through May 19, 2006, paintings by Arnould Carrouth, Lynda English, Jenny Hamilton and Ann Heard.
F. Tobias Morriss
Outside of the SCWS exhibitions, Lewis & Clark will show art both at its own gallery at the corner of Lincoln and Lady Streets and at the former location of Cloud Nine on Lincoln. Gallery owner and furniture maker Clark Ellefson will construct an elaborate, dense installation of his signature table and floor lamps. Gerald Phillips will show figurative, mixed-media wall sculptures, and University of South Carolina art professor Jennifer Laffoon, digital photography. F. Tobias Morriss will exhibit Finding My Place, a series of black-and-white photographs of the greater Columbia area reflecting his quest to settle into Columbia after hurricane Katrina drove him out of New Orleans.
Others businesses participating include One Eared Cow Glass on Huger Street; River Runner Outdoor and Logan Raye, both on Gervais Street; Eye on Gervais and Marketing Performance on Lady Street; and Mira on Lincoln Street.
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