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April Issue 2006
Guild Gallery at Spartanburg Arts Center in Spartanburg, SC, Features Works by Beth Bullman Regula
The Spartanburg Artists' Guild Gallery will present the exhibit, Windows, Doors, and Ladders, featuring three-dimensional work by Beth Bullman Regula. The exhibit opens Apr. 1 at the Spartanburg Arts Center in Spartanburg, SC, and continues through Apr. 28, 2006.
Bullman Regula, who uses a variety of media in her work, is a South Carolina native who lives in Roebuck, SC. She earned a degree from Winthrop University and worked as an art educator in schools from the foothills of South Carolina to the coast before devoting herself fulltime to her art.
"If I can bend it and shape it to express an idea, I use it," said the artist who uses paper, wood, wire, paint, polymer clay and apoxy clay to create works that are mostly three-dimensional.
Themes in her relief wall hangings and free standing sculptures are varied, but most pieces, she said, "tend to have a sense of history that relates to events of today. Many of these works came about because I think about why things are the way they are."
The exhibit includes pieces which contain recurring images of windows, doors or ladders, and sometimes all three. Her aim in putting together the exhibit was to bring together a body of work that represents the whimsical, ordinary and serious situations of life.
"When I started working on this exhibit, I first reviewed the work I had created in the past few years," Regula said. "I realized that to me windows, doors and ladders represent the 'in' and 'outs' and the 'ups' and 'downs' of life. Sometimes opening a door or window is just a means of going in or out of a place, but other times it can have life changing results. The ladder images express a way of escaping from a situation by going to another place."
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