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June Issue 2009
Art & Light
in Greenville, SC, Features Works by Anne Merchant, Keiko Kamato,
Marie Scott, and Sarah Morris
Art & Light, a fusion gallery, located in the Flatiron Studios of the Pendleton Street Art District in Greenville, SC, will present a first look at new works by local artists Anne Merchant, Keiko Kamato, Marie Scott, and Sarah Morris, on view on June 5 (6-9pm) and June 6, 2009 (10am-3pm).
This exciting exhibit is a show of "firsts" for Art & Light, for Greenville and for the four female artists displaying works that feature four entirely different mediums including printmaking, oils, charcoal and conté drawings and collage.
Marie Scott moved to Greenville in November 2008 from Wisconsin. Moving to sunny SC is a dream come true for her. Her southern debut of oil paintings is intended to convey a sense of color, light, contrast, and beauty. She strives to capture an ordinary scene or object in a fresh way - with only blue skies, abundant fields, and tranquil bodies of water in her fine art landscapes.
Like Scott, Keiko Kamata moved to Greenville in 2008 from Honolulu, HI. She holds an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Her work can be described as ethereal and atmospheric. It alludes landscapes or animal forms but in an abstracted language of repetition and delicate textures and tones that threaten to float off the paper. Kamata employs screenprinting techniques to produce images that are akin to monoprints in terms of each being unique. Paper is an integral part of her work and she pays close attention to its smoothness, color, weight, edges and its feel in the hand.
Newcomer Sarah Morris hails from Greenwood, SC. Whether painting, sewing or sketching her love of color and integration of old and new materials and techniques shine in her work. She is commissioned regularly to create CD artwork and poster designs for bands all over the country. Her new original work entitled Wood and Cloth will be a traveling exhibit through South Carolina, Tennessee and Ohio this summer. Morris' whimsical indie style is a trademark of her original works and the combination of colors materials bring a freshness and timelessness to her work.
Anne Merchant
And last but not least, Greenville's very on Anne Merchant will unveil a collection of charcoal and conté works for the very first time. Other than one show several years ago where she entered several African mask drawings this will be Greenville's first viewing of Merchant's process. She calls herself a "mark-maker". Her obsession with line and its relaxed, non-technical intention - be it brittle, angular, whimsical, awkward, nervous, plastic - is used as her form of expression and animation. The subject is less apparent than the love of process - the raw, unconventional, fleeting moment on paper. Merchant believes that her romance with charcoal and conté is the flow of this medium across a colored ground and is purely self-indulgent. Her love for African imagery prevails in these works.
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
864/363-8172 or visit (www.artandlightgallery.com).
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