June Issue 2000
McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC, Shows Works by Richard Rose
Richard Rose gives new meaning to the nuances between house and home in an exhibition at the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC. The exhibit will continue through Aug. 27.
Twenty prints combine images and literary text and illuminate the depth and varied meaning of houses for the visitor. The exhibit is titled The Fictional House: Digital Iris Prints by Richard Rose.
Rose, a USC associate art studio professor, created the images using traditional methods and materials, including graphite, oil pastels and wax, and then scanned the images into his computer. Once converted to digital images, he manipulated the color and added the typography.
"The house is a metaphor for self," says Rose, who started the project in 1998. "Houses are symbolic of ourselves, our past and our aspirations. They are icons steeped with personal feelings, ideas, beliefs, images and meanings."
It was shortly after he started drawing several houses that he began making connections between his art and how homes were depicted in the novels and articles he read. From Thomas Wolfe's attachment to his mother's boarding house in Asheville, NC, to Michael Cunningham's characterization of the stoic and tortured Sally as "harmless and insipid in the way of a house on a quiet street" in the novel, The Hours, the literary images influenced Rose's work. The result was an artist book and exhibition that is rich with imagery and imaginative thought and language.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the Museum at 803/777-7251 or on the web at (http://www.cla.sc.edu/MCKS/).
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