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May Issue 2004
Hilton Head Art League on Hilton Head Island, SC, Features Works by Jo Dye
Art
has been a constant in the ever-changing life of collage artist,
Jo Dye, who is being featured at the Hilton Head Art League Gallery
in Pineland Station on Hilton Head Island, SC. Her show, Transitions,
opens on May 11and continues through June 5, 2004.
Dye became involved in the creative process at a very young age. As a child she wrote stories and poems and made pictures with any materials at hand, turning pasta and strings, or found objects, into works of art. Over the years she has painted in oils and acrylics and has done scratchboard, pen and ink drawings, printmaking, used pastels and made her own paper. Her experimentation with art forms continued over the years and continued to change as did her life. Says Dye, "My art is not stagnant, but always in transition."
A native of South Carolina, Dye and her family traveled extensively, as her father was a career Army Chaplain. She is a well-known wildlife artist. Her scratchboard wildlife work was featured in many national shows and East Coast galleries. They garnered many awards. Dye even started a mail order business, selling her wildlife prints. Over the years, she worked as an artist for a large firm, started a gallery, became the first director for the Vienna Art League Gallery in Vienna, VA, and was president of the Reston Art Gallery in Reston, VA. While living in Hungary, she started an English-speaking docent group at the Budapest Museum of Fine Art.
Dye's interest in collage is the result of a serious illness that almost ended her career as an artist. After several years of extensive physical and occupational therapy, and final recovery, she became more interested in color and texture, and the freedom that abstract collage represents. In this rediscovered medium, Dye's flair for design, color and attention to detail truly blossomed. Her collages are alive with bright colors, excellent composition and surprising detail.
On Hilton Head Island since 2000, she has become
actively involved with the Hilton Head Art League (she is current
chair of the 2004 National Juried Show), the Hilton Head Plantation
Artists' Association, the Society of
Bluffton Artists, the Beaufort Art Association, the South Carolina
Watercolor Society, the National Collage Society and the International
Society of Experimental Artists. Returning to her roots in South
Carolina, she is exploring the island and rediscovering her passion
for the lowcountry, redefining it in her current medium of choice
- collage.
The Hilton Head Art League is a not-for-profit membership organization, dedicated to promoting the visual arts in the community and enhancing the art skills of its members. For more than 30 years, the League has bee encouraging the arts and enriching the community by exhibiting the work of its member artists. The League maintains a permanent, volunteer-managed gallery for the display and sale of artwork.
For more information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/681-5060 or at (www.hiltonheadartleague.org).
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