| For more information about this article or gallery, please call the gallery phone number listed in the last line of the article, "For more info..." |
August Issue 2007
Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Summer Group Show
Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC, is presenting the exhibit, New Art, New Works, showcasing artworks from the fourteen very talented and very different artists represented by the gallery, on view through Aug. 30, 2007.
The art presented is art that is not only beautiful but has a story, raises a question and evokes a response. The gallery strives to present art that is not just the expected Lowcountry landscape but to present "Art with a Future". The gallery is excited to have two new artists - Gordon Nicholson and Mary Walker. Both artists are conscious of a sense of time and telling a story through their art.
Gordon Nicholson an award winning architect originally from Canada lives in Charleston with his native South Carolinian wife. His artwork, consisting of watercolors, ink and graphite, represents sites in a state of transformation. Each work, whether portraying the ruin, machine or light has a unique story and wonderful sense of time and place. His monochromatic choice of color gives the art a sense of richness, life and character. Nicholson has successfully captured the beauty and detail of the subject matter and surrounds it or covers it with text that engages the consciousness and encourages dialogue. He is intrigued by the nostalgic beauty and history of the sites. He seeks to portray this and the southern love and respect for decay through his work.
Mary Walker's works, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" inspired by a poem by Wallace Stevens, are on display at the gallery. Mary Walker is the 2007 winner of the Griffith Lowcountry Artist's Award, several grants from the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Lowcountry Quarterly Arts Grant Program. She was Piccolo Spoleto's 2007 feature artist for "Opera is for Everyone." Her paintings and collages are whimsical yet grounded often incorporating the human figure. They evoke stories and engage the imagination. Her approach is reminiscent of the works of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Her combinations of paint and printmaking with collage explore her fascination with literature, opera, theatre and poetry. Walker has shown throughout the southeast and most recently had solo shows at the Footlight Players and at the City Gallery Waterfront Park.
Legendary Charleston native Manning Williams's most recent works are currently on display in the gallery. They are brilliant and bold abstractions reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein but Williams has taken the abstractions even further. The comical abstracted landscapes are relative to today's world and speak volumes to society and the chaos that we find ourselves in. The paintings engage the imagination of the viewer allowing them to travel through the space that Williams has masterfully created.
Eleven other artists working in various media are represented. Varied, thoughtful, thought provoking works are presented in an intimate space for the viewing pleasure of all.
The Corrigan Gallery opened in 2005 presenting art with a future backed by intellectual process. Located in the heart of the historic district, the gallery combines the charm of the old city of Charleston with a look to the future. Paintings, drawings, fine art prints, photography and sculpture are readily available for the discriminating collector. Artists represented include Manning Williams, Candice Flewharty, Gordon Nicholson, Mary Walker, Gene Speer, Richard Hartnett, Kevin Bruce Parent, John Moore, Beverly Derrick, Kristi Ryba, Sue Simons Wallace, Daryl Knox, Karin Olah and Lese Corrigan.
For further info check our SC Commercial
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/722-9868 or visit (www.corrigangallery.com).
Carolina Arts is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing
Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc.
Copyright© 2007 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston
Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts
from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts
Online, Copyright© 2007 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved
by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use
without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina
Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.