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April Issue 2006
City Gallery at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC, Presents Works by Sharon Lacey
City Gallery at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC, will be presenting the exhibit, Sharon Lacey: Cruciform Painting, featuring works of oil on linen by Charleston artist Sharon Lacey, on view from Apr. 7 through May 12, 2006.
Lacy was born and raised
in Charleston. She graduated sum cum laude and Phi Beta
Kappa from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC,
where she earned degrees in both Art and English. In 1995, Lacey
was accepted to study art and literature at Oxford University's
Keble College. In May 2001, she earned her MFA under the instruction
of Eric Fischl at the New York Academy of Art.
Lacey has exhibited work in both the US and the UK, including
Washington, DC, New York, and Boston. In 2003, she returned to
Charleston to take a position in the Studio Art Department at
the College of Charleston, where she currently teaches painting
and drawing.
Lacey offered the following about her work: "My current works are developing from what I see as the renewed interest - for better or worse - in Absolutes we are experiencing in contemporary culture. Many civic and religious leaders invoke terms like "Good and Evil" with a Manichaean certainty of their mutual exclusivity and fervently protest relativism. The subject of Truth is back at the forefront of our cultural consciousness although it is a topic that has been considered unfashionable by intellectuals and has been usurped by cultural conservatives. Drawing inspiration from the strain of modernism, which originated with Malevich and Mondrain, and continued with Mark Rothko, Barnell Newman, and Agnes Martin, in which geometry and metaphysics are likely sources for the nearest visual equivalent of Truth. From this I have completed a series of cruciform paintings."
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Office of Cultural Affairs at 843/724-7305 or at (www.ci.charleston.sc.us/oca.html).
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