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September Issue 2005
Accessibility 2005 Exhibition Takes Place Again in Sumter, SC
Sumter, SC, will once again be the location for Accessibility 2005, Transplanted - Latino Artists in the USA, which will start on Sept. 30 and continue through Oct. 29, 2005. Accessibility is a community-based project - designed for and by the Sumter community.
The city of Sumter is a modest, mostly rural community of nearly forty thousand inhabitants that has recently become home to some of the most innovative and cutting edge art events taking place in South Carolina. Sumter, the exact geographical center of the state is now also identified as an "epicenter" for the new and avant-garde in the region. The dichotomy of this ostensibly typical southern town, grounded on traditional values and life styles, is that it is also the venue for one of the regions most unique annual art exhibitions that has featured the work of over one hundred and fourteen regional, national and international artists in the southeast's longest running and most successful series of public installation art.
Accessibility is an innovative art event that has evolved into a much-anticipated annual exhibition that has garnered both national and international recognition for presenting provocative, substantial art.
Accessibility is an annual public art exhibition that features installation and site-specific art that relates directly to the Sumter community. The "Sumter-Specific" artwork may have either a contemporary or historical reference but must specifically relate to Sumter's unique culture, history or environment. All work will be displayed in fully accessible, non-traditional venues that are located throughout the Sumter community.
Six artists from Latin American countries, living in the United States, have been selected by guest curator Marcelo Novo to create site-specific installations for the seventh annual installation art exhibit in Sumter.
Novo of Columbia, SC (originally from Argentina) selected artists who will present unique installations reflecting a broad range of media, concepts and approaches. Novo's theme for the exhibition reflects the increasingly growing Latino population in South Carolina (and the rest of the country). Given the characteristics of site-specific installation art, artists will come to Sumter to create their works. "The installations will be created not only in terms of the selected sites, but within the context of Sumter's culture and history" Novo says. He hopes Accessibility 2005 will foster the integration of the state's Latin American population into the cultural landscape of the community and will promote a better understanding between cultures.
The artists selected for the exhibit include: Francisco Alvarado-Juarez, Arturo Lindsay, Rafael Perea de la Cabada, Juana Valdes, Nora Valdez, and Patricia Villalobos Echeverria.
Accessibility 2005, Transplanted - Latino Artists in the USA, opens on Sept. 30, 2005, from 6-9pm. The opening event features music, dance and receptions at each site plus special "Art-Buses," supplied by the Santee Wateree RTA, for transportation.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listing, call 803/436-2260 or at (www.sumteraccessibility.com)
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