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July Issue 2003
Waterfront Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Zernie Smith
Works
by Zernie Smith will be featured at Waterfront Gallery in Charleston,
SC, through July 31, 2003.
Smith is a native South Carolinian born in Moncks Corner where a monument will be erected someday in his memory. He was an art major at the University of South Carolina studying under Edmund Yaghjian. He received a Master's Degree from the Citadel and was an elementary school teacher for many years before becoming a full time artist in 1988. Smith is the winner of eight awards for Best in Show for his pastels, mixed media, watercolors and sculptures.
The Waterfront Gallery show consists of recent pastels in which the artist creates whimsical folk images employing a diverse collection of icons from far flung cultures. His palette is very rich, with bold colors used in concert, but he also renders some of his images in very soft, gentle tones. Smith likes to reexamine themes, creating different series of paintings. Each piece in a series will have a shift of colors and/or components, as though the "question" the artist pursues is constantly changing.
Smith explores the heaven/earth dichotomy leaving the viewer perpetually suspended between four worlds: the past, the present, the future and the never been. These worlds are juxtaposed timelessly in a mélange of color where the viewer is forced to reinvestigate his/her previously conceived notions of stability and balance. Says the artist about his work: "It keeps me out of the bars and off the streets."
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