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July Issue 2006
The Gallery at Freshfields on Johns Island, SC, Features Group Exhibition
The Gallery at Freshfields on Johns Island, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Cumulus: A group interpretation of the Southern milieu, featuring works by Linda Fantuzzo, William McCullough, Clint Herring, and Philip Moulthrop, on view through July 31, 2006. The exhibition features works inspired by the atmosphere of the American South, using disparate mediums to cumulatively express this unique environment.
Linda Fantuzzo
Highlighted in this exhibition are new works by Charleston artist Linda Fantuzzo. Here the artist continues to meld her classical training with a subjective focus by painting not only the temporal landscape of the Lowcountry, but the evocative atmosphere of light, color and brushstroke that envelops views such as House in the Mist. Similarly, Shem Creek Haze depicts a well-known local venue with an unconventional approach, as Shem Creek is recognized here more by sense of place than actual topography.
William McCullough
A South Carolina native, William McCullough left the state in 1968 to study at the National Academy of Art and Design in New York City. He then relocated to the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina where he developed his skills as a naturalistic landscape and still-life painter, working in a style that he continues today in studios located in the Carolinas and the South of France. McCullough has exhibited widely and is represented in many private, corporate and museum collections. A retrospective of his work is on view at the City of Charleston's City Gallery at Waterfront Park through Aug. 12, 2006.
Clint Herring
Watercolorist Clint Herring has explored the streets and back roads of the Lowcountry seeking to capture the area's unique regional character in a precise, clear, realistic way. In Hide Away he duplicates the complex view one sees along Charleston's Battery, where at certain angles, one cannot discern one house from another. The detail of the sloped porch and the interior courtyard garden draw the viewer into this particular hideaway. In the painting titled Attitude, Herring contrasts the defiant look on the Lowcountry girl's face with the weathered siding of a house - her crisp shirt standing in stark contrast to the aged wood surfaces.
Philip Moulthrop
Philip Moulthrop is a nationally-renowned wood turner who has created new works for this show, among them an Ash leaf Maple bowl, whose wood is typically soft with unusual red highlights, and a Spanish Oak bowl, which is a heavy hardwood that reveals an intricate ring pattern. His turned bowls can be found in such collections as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, White House Collection of American Crafts in Washington, DC, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA.
Jane Harper Hicklin ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dan Ostermiller
Carole Hetzel ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
William Dunlap
Also on display are works by Jane Harper Hicklin, Dan Ostermiller, William Dunlap, Carole Hetzel and Terry DeLapp. By including artworks from The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, their sister gallery in downtown Charleston, The Gallery at Freshfields continues to explore the rich visual history and traditions of the American South. Among these works are selections from Southern modernist painters and artists of the Charleston Renaissance.
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/768-8788 or at (www.freshfieldsgallery.com).
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