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June Issue 2004
Waterfront Gallery in Charleston SC, Features Works by Karen Vournakis & Welcomes Tami Cardnella
Karen
Vournakis
Waterfront Gallery in Charleston, SC, will
showcase mixed media work by Karen A. Vournakis, the artist of
the month for June 2004.
In an exhibition entitled, Beachscapes Revisited, Vournakis
continues to explore the world of shorelines and beaches in an
ever changing landscape that is sculpted by wind and water. Through
her camera lens, Vournakis captures the drama and quiet beauty
of the beach with black & white film and then adds color by
hand painting her original gelatin silver photographs with mixed
media color. Using photo oils, colored pencils and specialty crayons,
she combines photography and painting exhibiting her knowledge
of light and color theory. The results are enchanting landscapes
where land meets the sky and color defines quiet timeless spaces.
Vournakis holds an MFA in Photography, Magna Cum Laude from Syracuse
University Visual & Performing Arts Department and taught
photography at Syracuse University, Colgate University and as
a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College. Her images hang in
permanent collections in such venues as Bibliotheque Nationale
(Paris), Everson Museum ( Syracuse NY), Erie Art Museum ( Erie
PA), Picker Art Gallery, (Hamilton NY) and private collections
of Kidder, Peabody & Co.(New York City), Fidelity Management
& Research (Boston & London), Roper Hospital and the Charleston
Place Hotel ( Charleston SC) and the Woodstock Inn & Resort
(Woodstock, VT).
This summer in celebration of the return of the Olympic Games
to its homeland, Greece, one of New England's premier museums,
the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA will present,
Sacred Groves: Ancient Greek Athletic Sites, an exhibition
of large black & white Iris photographs of the original Panhellenic
Games sites by Vournakis. Sacred Groves is appearing in
the museum's Emerging Artist Gallery June 17 through Aug. 20,
2004.
Vournakis has been a member since 1997 in the Waterfront Gallery located in the historic district of Charleston. The gallery features original works of art in oil, watercolor, pastel, mixed media, photography and monotype prints from eighteen South Carolina artists.
Waterfront Gallery also welcomes Tami Cardnella
as their newest exhibiting member. An artist of note working in
various mediums for nearly two decades, Cardnella has made oils
her focus for the last 8 years. "On a whim I followed a friend
to her oil painting class and simply fell in love with the medium."
Primarily self-taught, her work has been featured at prestigious
arts shows such as the Telfair Museum's Art Fair, Lowe Art Museum's
Beaux Arts, Boca Raton Museum of Art Arts Festival, & Coconut
Grove Arts Festival. An avid traveler, Cardnella finds inspiration
for her widely varied subjects both near and far. Her wonderful
representational style is full of movement, color, and is a feast
for the eyes.
About her work Cardnella says, "Looking at the world as a
painter, I believe I see more of the world than most. The way
morning shadows slash across the walls of steep village streets
or swans feathers glow in a hundred variations of white. And often
as a painter I can show someone on canvas the things they cannot
see in life. My representational paintings are drawn from my surroundings
and travels. I call the South Carolina Low Country my home, but
look at the world as a painter. About her work she says; "Looking
at the world as a painter, I believe I see more of the world than
most. The way morning shadows slash across the walls of steep
village streets or swans feathers glow in a hundred variations
of white. And often as a painter I can show someone on canvas
the things they cannot see in life. My representational paintings
are drawn from my surroundings and travels. I call the South Carolina
Low Country my home, but look at the world as a painter."
Cardnella's work is also represented by the Fountainside Gallery of Wilmington, the I. Pinckney Simons Gallery in Columbia, & Friedman's Fine Art in Savannah.
For more information check our SC Commercial Gallery listing, call the gallery at 843/722-1155 or on the web at (www.waterfrontartgallery.com).
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