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May Issue 2005
Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, Offers Two Exhibitions as Part of 2005 Spoleto Festival USA Visual Arts
The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, will present two exhibitions as special components of the 2005 Spoleto Festival USA. The exhibits are: An American Impressionist: The Art and Life of Alson Skinner Clark and Beyond Representation: Abstract Art in the South. Both exhibitions begin on May 27 and continue through Aug. 7 and the 14, 2005.
Painter, illustrator and muralist Alson Skinner Clark (American, 1876-1949) is among the most significant artists of the American Impressionist movement. A student of William Meritt Chase, Clark also worked under the tutelage of James A.M. Whistler. Educated at the Chicago Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York, Clark studied in Paris for two years before he moved to Pasadena, CA, in 1920. Clark took up mural painting shortly after his arrival in southern California, although he primarily considered himself a landscape painter. Clark's paintings are characterized by their vibrant, light-infused canvases often featuring loose brushwork and sensitively rendered atmosphere. A consummate traveler, Clark's paintings chronicle his visits to Mexico, Panama and Italy as well as Paris, Chicago and Charleston.
Organized by the Pasedena Museum of California Art, An American Impressionist: The Art and Life of Alson Skinner Clark features more than 70 paintings and presents Clark's first full-scale museum retrospective.
The South, frequently considered
a bastion of figurative art, has cultivated a discreet but enduring
passion for non-representational art among collectors and artists
since the start of the twentieth century. Beyond Representation:
Abstract Art in the South both explores why artists of the
twentieth century departed from representational legibility and
investigates the universal elements contained within such work
in the South.
Drawn from the Gibbes's permanent collection and select private
collections, the exhibition features work by Red Grooms, William
Halsey, Lee Krasner, Joan Miró, Roy Lichtenstein, Sol LeWitt,
Henri Matisse, Merton Simpson and Brian Rutenberg, among others.
Organized by the Gibbes Museum of Art, the exhibition features
a delightful and diverse selection of 25 non-objective paintings.
Several Special Programs have been planned in conjunction with these exhibitions including: May 27 - June 12, at 2:30pm - Spoleto Festival Daily Tours. Join the Gibbes Museum of Art for daily-guided tours of the featured exhibitions. Tours are offered Mon.-Sun. throughout Spoleto, and are free with admission to the Museum. On June 3, at 12:30pm - Friday Feast: Art for Lunch. Join Abstract Expressionist painter Eva Carter for a lunchtime gallery talk on the exhibition Beyond Representation: Abstract Art in the South. The talk is free with admission to the Museum.
For further information check
our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 843/722-2706
or at (www.gibbesmuseum.org).
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