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June Issue 2008
The Charleston Renaissance Gallery
in Charleston, SC, Offers Works by Linda Fantuzzo
The Charleston Renaissance Gallery in Charleston, SC, is presenting the exhibition, Edges: Paintings by Linda Fantuzzo, on view through June 16, 2008. This selection of 22 recent paintings reveals Fantuzzo's continuing mastery of landscape and still-life subjects, rendered with her distinctive approach toward evocative forms, light, color, and atmosphere.
Focusing on the concept of edges, Fantuzzo portrays lowcountry views and structures seen at edges of places. Several of the paintings show the borders of land, sea, and sky in brilliant colors and brushwork. Other landscapes show familiar Charleston landmarks such as the Cooper River Bridge (now demolished) or the imposing ruin of the Rice Mill facade. Paintings of vernacular roadside sites are similarly transformed by luminescent fogs of color and atmosphere. Even the objects featured in Fantuzzo's still lifes - windows or paintings, for example - serve as edges into the environment.
For Fantuzzo, "the edge is the border at which a surface terminates. Something is lost and something is gained. The edge can be a portal or threshold to the new." These contemporary works reveal how freely the artist takes us into the nuanced and reflective world of her paintings.
Born in 1950 and raised in upstate New York,
Fantuzzo sketched and painted from youth. She studied at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts from 1968 to 1973. There she received
formal academic training, as well as an introduction to abstract
painting. In 1971 and 1972, Fantuzzo traveled and studied independently
in Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The following year, she settled
in Charleston where she still lives and works.
Fantuzzo has worked prolifically over the past decades, creating
paintings, drawings, and prints, and executing major commissions
in South Carolina and Ireland. Among notable exhibitions, she
has been featured in solo shows at the Gibbes Museum of Art, Greenville
County Museum of Art, and Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin
Museum. Her group exhibitions include 100 Years/100 Artists:
Views of the Twentieth Century in South Carolina Art at the
South Carolina State Museum (1999); Framing A Vision: Linda
Fantuzzo & Manning Williams at the Gibbes Museum (2004),
and The Changing Face of Charleston at the City Gallery
at Waterfront Park (2007).
Edges: Paintings by Linda Fantuzzo is the inaugural exhibition for the artist at The
Charleston Renaissance Gallery.
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