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April Issue 2006
Spartanburg County Museum of Art in Spartanburg, SC, Offers New Exhibits
The Spartanburg County Museum of Art in Spartanburg, SC, is presenting three new exhibits including: Life Passages, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by members of Mid-Atlantic Artists, on view through Apr. 23, 2006; Speaking in Tongues: Recent Mixed-Media Paintings, featuring works by Finnish-born painter Liisa Salosaari Jasinski, on view through Apr. 30, 2006; and The Joy of Paint, featuring works by Greenville, SC, artist Guy Stevens, on view through May 7, 2006.
Jason Arkles
Henry Wingate
Lee Johnson
Charles Philip Brooks
Mid-Atlantic Artists
is a group of four artists who share training and tradition grounded
in the principles of naturalistic and neoclassicism of the 19th
Century. These works by Jason Arkles, Charles Philip Brooks, Lee
Johnson, and Henry Wingate are united by the core principles of
the academic training found at the teaching studios of Paul Ingbretson
and Charles Cecil. Both Ingbretson and Cecil studied with the
renowned R.H. Ives Gammell, who had studied under Boston painter
William Paxton. Paxton received his education in Paris with Jean-Leon
Gerome, himself a student of Paul Delaroche, a pupil of Jacques-Louis
David. It is from these sources of artistic knowledge that both
Cecil and Ingbretson have established ateliers in Florence, Italy
and Manchester, New Hampshire respectively, and continue to train
a new generation of artists in the aesthetic principles, solid
craftsmanship, and humanistic values that are our inheritance
from the Renaissance.
Liisa Salosaari
Jasinski
The clean, modern style
of Finnish design, crafts, architecture as well as early 20th
century European expressionism are represented by Liisa Salosaari
Jasinski in her exhibition of mixed media paintings. Jasinski,
a Finnish-born artist who has exhibited her award-winning work
nationwide, received a Master's Degree in Psychology from the
University of Helsinki. She now lives in Newberry, SC. Her mixed-media
paintings have been painted during the past three years and have
an almost drawing-like quality to them. Although the artist
has used occasional figurative elements, the main language is
abstract.
There are several themes that weave in and out of this body of
work including: "Kielillä puhuen / Speaking in Tongues"
- the personal bilingual/US vs. Europe experience, "Fellow
Travelers" - the enigma of human life and destiny, always
present in my mind, and above all, the theme of "Complexity
and open-endedness."
Text for this show will be available in Finnish as well as English, continuing the bilingual component of The Museum of Art's "Celebration of Culture" exhibition program.
Guy Stevens
Guy Stevens, resident
of Greenville, SC, has work in private collections worldwide.
A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the South Carolina Arts Commission, Stevens has been featured
in exhibits at the Greenville County Museum of Art and at Clemson
and Furman universities. A visitor to Stevens' studio gallery
in Greenville will discover that he looks upon his artwork as
his children. Known for his exuberant use of color and his vibrant
creativity, Stevens says, "I want them (his work) to fulfill
their true destiny in this world".
For more info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call
the Museum at 864/582-7616 or at (www.spartanburgartmuseum.org).
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