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August Issue 2005
Francis Marion University in Florence, SC, Features Works by Alex Powers, Ann Lane and Lin Barnhardt
Francis Marion University in Florence, SC, will present the following exhibitions including: Life and Art, featuring works by Alex Powers in the University's Smith University Center Gallery, on view from Aug. 9 through Oct. 27, 2005, and Xochimilco: La Isla de las Munecas, featuring works by Ann Lane and Homage to Hopper and Other Structures, featuring clay sculptures by Lin Barnhardt, on view in the Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery, from Aug. 6 through Sept. 29, 2005.
Alex Powers' exhibit is titled Life and Art. A resident of Myrtle Beach, SC, he has been a painter and self-employed art teacher since 1970. He exhibits in galleries in six states, and among his many national juried exhibition awards is the Gold Medal at the 1997 American Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition. He travels and teaches eight to 10 workshops per year. Powers has juried dozens of national exhibitions. He is the author of Painting People in Watercolor, A Design Approach, which is a Watson-Guptill publication.
Powers' painting style has evolved into a personal content-dominated imagery. Using gouache, charcoal, pastel and sometimes collage on illustration board, his loose realism combines an emphasis on drawing with an awareness of the art of our times.
"I attempt to deal with issues such as human origins, religion, philosophy, economic inequality, etc. These overwhelming issues are difficult to deal with, but they are what interest me," Powers said. "And, since I believe in the singularity of life and art, these issues are the content of my current work."
Ann Lane is a native and resident of Marion County, SC. She studied under Jo Brenzo and Teresa Airey at the New England Photographic Workshop in New Milford, CT.
Lane went on two travel workshops with Brenzo to Mexico and later studied with her at the Centro Cultural El Nigromante and in private classes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She has also taken workshops taught by George Krause, Dan Berkholder and Jill Burkholder.
Lane retired from Wellman Inc. of Johnsonville, SC, in 1997 after 27 years.
Lin Barnhardt's exhibit is titled, Homage to Hopper and Other Structures. He graduated from Appalachian State University in 1974 with a BS degree in art education. His undergraduate concentrations were in painting and printmaking. He later attended graduate school at ASU, obtaining an MA degree.
Barnhardth as taught art at the secondary level in the public schools of North Carolina, including 10 years at Apex Senior High School in Apex, NC, and two years at A.L. Brown High School in Kannapolis, NC. He has been a faculty member at Mount Pleasant Middle School in Mount Pleasant, NC, since 1988.
In May 1997, Barnhardt began his current approach of incorporating his interests in architecture, sculpture, and painting into one art form.
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