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August Issue 2003
Pickens County Museum in Pickens, SC, Features Group Exhibition with Pickens County as Subject
Steven
Chapp
The Pickens County Cultural Commission invites you to a very special exhibition at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History in Pickens, SC. Pickens County Through the Artist's Eye, featuring works by forty regional artists will open Aug. 9 and continue through Sept. 27, 2003. This ambitious exhibition is the result of an invitation to a select group of artists for works in all media depicting, through their own artistic interpretation, the persons, places and things that make Pickens County the distinctive and wonderful place that it is.
John
J. Urban
The variety of subject matter includes landscapes and landmarks; homes, stores, businesses and buildings of yesterday as well as today; individuals in our historic or contemporary community and even visual stories about events that may have happened in Pickens County. In some cases, the art may not represent a "place" as much as it may represents the artist's feelings... their interpretation of the concept of place. Whatever visual language the final works may speak, be it from a traditional vein or something more innovative, the art always remains true to the artist.
Dick Mitchell 
Gerard Erley
Utilizing both of the museum's upstairs' galleries, the forty artists included in this admirable roster are Alston Jordan Beckman, Dorothy Boroughs, Susan Bridges - Smith, Lois B. Bro, Steven Chapp, Rick Clark, Dale Cochran, Paul Dohr, Gerard Erley, Tom Flowers, J. Scott Goldsmith, Griz Hockwalt, Ellen Hudson, Don Hunt, Amanda Jenkins, Darell Koons, Carl Lane, Marshall McCall, Gale McKinley, Mark Malmgren, Judy Mann, Eddie Martin, Mali Martin, Dick Mitchell, Nancy Oppenheimer, Grace Scherer, Hank Schneider, Edgar A. Schrader, George W. Smith, Dave M. Starzek, James Stephens, Jo Ann Taylor, Beverly C. Turner, Dale W. Turner, Harold Wayne Turner, Jim Turner, John J. Urban, Jr, Sam Wang, Barbara Watson and Jane West.
From the hands, minds and hearts of these artists, a true cross section of styles and ideologies is represented. As the artist looks at, and into, this place, a gemstone in the ring of the world, rich with a cultural history and even richer with cultural opportunity, it is through their eyes that Pickens County is illuminated.
For more information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the museum at 864/898-5963 or e-mail at
(picmus@co.pickens.sc.us).
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