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May Issue 2006
Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Works by John Moore, Lolly Koon, & Kevin Bruce Parent
Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC, proudly
presents the photographic works of John Moore, Lolly Koon, and
Kevin Bruce Parent in a show entitled, Light Writing, which
opens on May 5 and continues through May 31, 2006.
This show presents three extremely talented photographers, three
different approaches, three visions color, color, color
created with traditional cameras and film; experimentation with
contemporary equipment and materials with staged settings; the
methods of the early photographers with a bit of science thrown
in emphasizing the magical quality of photography with color being
only occasional and added by hand.
John Moore
John Moore has lived in Charleston for 32 years.
Photography has been his serious avocation and passion for over
20 years. The focus of his work has chiefly been natural landscapes,
as well as the streets and buildings of Charleston. Moore's images
are colorful and abstract especially the Rust Never Sleeps
series. The work is technically crisp and the printing is quality.
The original group of Rust Never Sleeps was exhibited at
The City Gallery of Charleston in 1997, and has become an ongoing
subject of work.
Moore's photographs have appeared in many juried exhibits, including
several Southern Visions exhibits at The Museum of York
County in Rock Hill, SC, and several Piccolo Spoleto Juried Exhibits
here in Charleston. In 1987 and in 1997, he had solo exhibits
at The City Gallery of Charleston. He has had several solo shows
at the Charleston County Library, and has participated in many
group exhibitions. In 2003, Moore produced a portfolio of Charleston
street photographs taken over a 25 year period.
A steel bridge, with large gusset plates and varying patterns of rivets on the plates where many of the surfaces had rusted and had been marked with graffiti attracted his attention on a camping trip. Having recently seen an exhibit of William Halsey's paintings at The College of Charleston and becoming interested in Richard Diebenkorn's paintings, Moore says, "These images undoubtedly were in the back of my mind when I started photographing parts of the bridge. Small pictures can become large worlds when you are looking through the view finder of a camera."
Lolly Koon was born in Charleston in 1981. She studied photography at the Gibbes Art Studio in high school, during which time she traveled with humanitarian aid to Romania where she photographed documentary shots for medical and photojournalistic purposes. Koon went to college at Rochester Institute of Technology where she studied fine art and advertising photography. In the spring of 2002 she traveled to Cuba to photograph. Following her return from Cuba, she received a scholarship from Fuji Film for a portfolio of work.
Koon graduated with honors in May 2003, with a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration and a Minor in Literature. She has shown at Contemporary Photographers at the Whitney Art Works in Portland, Gallery R in Rochester, the Juried Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport and Redux Art Center in Charleston.
Koon says "I have always thought of photography as a way to create something that exists only in that image. I create combinations of people, place and time, sometimes in a found location and others in a constructed one, to make a story that takes place solely in that photograph." The photographs ask questions and cause the viewer to build a story of their own about the scene. Koon is building her own "slices of life and frozen moments in time."
Kevin Bruce Parent is a self taught photographer
from New Hampshire who has been shooting since 1990. Focused on
traditional color landscape photography until 1999 he began experimenting.
In a constantly evolving style, he is always ready to try something.
Moving to Charleston in 1997 he was taken with the difference
in the landscape and the stories behind abandoned boats, signage
and cemetery sculpture. Utilizing pinhole cameras, zone plates
and the unpredictable and not repeatable lith printing process,
Parent creates painterly images. He spot colors or fully hand-colors
the prints creating unique works of art.
Parent has been greatly influenced by the southern writers such
as Poe, Faulkner and O'Conner. The translation of the south he
has read of and the south he sees is transformed to a mystical
level through the pinhole and the darkroom experience. Parent
received an honorable mention in the 2005 Piccolo Spoleto Juried
Art Exhibition and showed in the Black and White, Graphic
Work in the South, 1904-2004 at Carolina Galleries in Mar.
2004.
Parent says, "I find it odd and a bit perplexing that anyone would entrust creative decision making to machines instead of using their deeply felt and often ignored intuition."
Corrigan Gallery opened in 2006 presenting art with a future and backed by intellectual process. Located in the heart of the historic district, the gallery combines the charm of the old city of Charleston with a look to the future. Paintings, drawings, fine art prints and sculpture can be seen in addition to the photography.
Artists represented include Karin Olah, Beverly
Derrick, Kristi Ryba, Sue Simons Wallace, Daryl Knox and Lese
Corrigan as well as the photographers.
For further info check our SC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 843/722-9868 or at (www.corrigangallery.com).
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