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May Issue 2007
Eva Carter Gallery in Charleston, SC, Offers Works by John Steele and Eva Carter
Eva Carter Gallery in Charleston, SC, will present, John Steele & Eva Carter: Fifty years of Friendship, on view from May 4 through June 30, 2007.
Eva Carter first entered Professor John Steele's classroom in 1959 and quickly realized that he was no ordinary art teacher. It was through their love of abstract expressionism and a mutual respect for each other's artwork, that the two have remained friends for almost half a century.
John M. Steele
John M Steele, a Birmingham, AL, native, began his love affair with visual arts while studying industrial design at Auburn University. He went on to receive his Masters degree in design from Louisiana State University with post-graduate work in printmaking at Florida State University. Steele's teaching career began in the art departments of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and Mississippi State College for Women in Columbia, MS. In 1956, he accepted a position - one that started a 38-year-long relationship - at East Tennessee State University, teaching painting and printmaking and serving as Assistant Chair of the Department of Art and Design.
Steele influenced generations of artists as a mentor, a friend, and a respected artist in his own right. He has exhibited his abstractions and landscape paintings at galleries and museums throughout the Southeast. Professor Emeritus John Steele was honored in 2002 at the Carroll Reece Museum in Johnson City, TN, with the exhibition: John Steele and the Taxpayers' Children. The invitational show featured current works by Steele and almost 50 professional artists that have had the privilege of being his student, Eva Carter among them.
Eva Carter
Carter has been a fixture in the Charleston art scene for nearly 30 years. Her large abstract works in oil have been described as paintings drenched in color and brimming with movement and emotion. A spiritual connection can be drawn between her paintings and the ambience of the natural environment. Although she doesn't paint the literal landscape, her inspiration is charged by the idyllic setting of her Wadmalaw Island studio where she watches the ebb and flow of intercoastal tides or a fading light on the watery horizon. There is a balance of energy and grace in Carter's paintings and it is that distinctive perspective that has won her national acclaim. Her abstract expressionist paintings have been included in numerous exhibitions at gallery spaces, universities and colleges, as well as museums throughout the Southeast. Carter has had solo exhibitions throughout the United States, one notably in 1993, at the Gibbes Museum of Art.
Empowered by her teacher's limitless dedication, his wit, and his insightful cynicism, Carter is ever grateful of the profound influence that Steele has had on her life and her art. She is proud to present his work to the Charleston community.
Opened in 1997, Eva Carter Gallery focuses on abstraction in painting from nationally acclaimed artists and strengthens an appreciation of fine art in Charleston.
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