June Issue 2001
Myrtle Beach Museum Features Works by Lee Malerich & Sam Wang in Myrtle Beach, SC
Photography and stitchery by two SC artists will be spotlighted in the coming month at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC, with the opening of two new exhibitions on June 1. The Transcendental Dialogue features the photographic images of Clemson University professor Sam Wang, while She Keeps Us in Stitches is an exhibition of works by fiber artist Lee Malerich. Both exhibitions will be on view through July 7.
Sam Wang
The Transcendental Dialogue explores the unique techniques that the art of photography allows with silver prints, photo-silkscreens, alternative photographic processes and digital images. Wang's photographs focus on the physical world, yet find a way to transcend that world into the metaphysical. Wang, a native of China who grew up in Hong Kong, teaches photography and art with computer at Clemson. He oversees a new interdisciplinary graduate program between art and computer science leading to an MYAC degree, which is unique in the US. Wang joined the faculty of the school of architecture at Clemson upon completion of his MFA degree from the University of Iowa in 1966. Clemson was one of the earliest universities in the South to offer photography as a fine art, and Wang went on to coordinate the MFA program in that department. He has been named the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Art at Clemson and has received numerous awards for his teaching and his photography. He has exhibited extensively and is represented in public and corporate collections throughout the country.
Lee Malerich
She Keeps Us in Stitches features Lee Malerich's unique stitchery on pieced fabrics. Her diminutive works are powerful expressions of personal narrative and social commentary, generally with a woman's perspective. Deeply self exploratory, the works have been described by Malerich as "a super-saturated me," yet they become universal particularly through the pieces which deal with her life-changing experiences with cancer. Malerich grew up in the Midwest where she received her BFA and MFA at Northern Illinois University. When she first moved to SC, she developed the fiber program at Columbia College. She currently maintains a studio in Orangeburg and continues to lecture and teach workshops. Her work has been featured in numerous magazine articles, including American Craft", Fiberarts and Stitches. She has shown extensively throughout the country and is represented in many public and corporate art collections.
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