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June Issue 2003
The Belton Center for the Arts Features Figure Work by Sixteen SC Watercolor Members in Figuratively Speaking
"Everything
an artist creates is done in a solitary way except when painting
another human being. Then there are two people involved. One who
changes the model forever, and one who forever changes the artist."
Mary Whyte
In conjunction with the South Carolina Watercolor Society, The Belton Center for the Arts, located on the square in Historic Downtown Belton, SC, will present Figuratively Speaking, an exhibition featuring figure work by 16 members of the SC Watercolor Society. The show will run from June 6 thru August 15, 2003.
The exhibition features 16 artists from all over the state of South Carolina who are members of the SC Watercolor Society and are recognized by their peers for their work featuring the human figure. For competition and for exhibition they are often restricted to water media only, but the only criteria for this exhibition is that the subject be a figure. This is a companion exhibition to the SCWS annual statewide juried exhibition which will open at the Anderson County Arts Center on June 21, 2003.
Life drawing has always been regarded as the cornerstone of an artist's training. Drawing the human figure offers every challenge one could require - line and tone, perspective and composition. It is a challenge for the two dimensional artist to create figures with depth, shape, perspective and personality. The artists represented in this exhibition have explored the figure from every angle. From a classic portrait composition made bold with liquid flowing hair to a jazz quartet shaped and formed from highlights on a field of black and from watercolor to oil these artists have brought their subjects to life.
Some artists worked their pieces entirely in front of a live model, a stranger really, completing the composition in a couple of hours. Other subjects are captured in a photograph and then only when the time is right translated by the artist into a painted work. Still other subjects are more intimatemothers, sons, friends, or husbands whose every gesture is clear in the artist's mind. Stranger or friend, painted with speed or with painstaking attention to detail, these images ultimately are personal and deal with complex issues, answering questions and sometimes creating others. The artists' statements about these pieces specifically speak of relationships, emotions, social issues, life and death, and spirituality.
Featured Artists are: JoAnne Anderson, Belton, SC; Randolph Armstrong, Greer, SC; Al Beyer, Aiken, SC; Darden Camlin, Georgetown, SC; Kathy Caudill, Rock Hill, SC; Carolyn Epperly, Charleston, SC; Harriet Marshall Goode, Rock Hill, SC; Claire Miller Hopkins, Spartanburg, SC; Cecile L.K. Martin, Seneca, SC; Larry Mauldin, Spartanburg, SC; Anne Patterson, Columbia, SC; Alex Powers, Myrtle Beach, SC; Tom Ratliffe, Hilton Head, SC; Barbara St. Denis, Easley, SC; Al Stine, Anderson, SC; and Mary Whyte, Johns Island, SC.
For
more information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings,
call the center at 864/338-8556, or email to (kwilliamson@beltonsc.com).
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