July Issue 2001
Charleston Co. Library in Charleston, SC, Offers Works by Eileen Blyth
The Saul Alexander
Gallery at the Charleston County Public Library system's Main
Branch in Charleston, SC, will feature works by Eileen Blyth,
a Midlands area painter from July 1 through July 31, 2001.
The works on exhibit are from Blyth's Edisto Series of
paintings, a body of work taken from observations along the coast
at Edisto Beach, SC. Her paintings project a profound sense of
shelter, delicacy, and intimacy-- all accomplished by a practiced
and refined layering of paint in dry brush fashion, closely akin
to the surface of frescoes. Blyth's use of strongly juxtaposed
composition implies both interaction and distance, and invites
the viewer to choose between being either within or outside of
her forms and structures.
A founding member of the Osmosis Painters' Group, Blyth has been very active in the Midlands art scene, exhibiting with Osmosis for the last three years in commercial and institutional galleries in both Carolinas, and with recent exhibits at Lewis & Clark Gallery in Columbia and Fish or Cut Bait Gallery at Edisto Beach. Her works will also be included in upcoming exhibitions at Newberry College, SC, Davidson College, and Wake Forest University's Babcock Center this fall, both in NC.
Blyth graduated from the College of Charleston in 1978 where she studied painting under William Halsey and John Michel. She has been painting and constructing assemblages since then, while building a successful career as a commercial artist, illustrator and website designer. Among other awards, her painting Indiana Barn was awarded The Tops at the 1997 South Carolina State Fair, and one of her works was included in the SC State Fair/SC State Museum Traveling exhibit for 2000. She has received several honors for her commercial work as well.
Blyth is represented in South Carolina by the
Rutledge Street Gallery in Camden and Fish or Cut Bait Gallery
at Edisto Beach.
For more info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call
803/781-9228, e-mail at (eblyth@mindspring.com) or visit her website
at (http://www.eblyth.home.mindspring.com) or (http://www.osmosispainters.com).
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