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September Issue 2006
Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Kristi Ryba and Candice Flewharty
Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Compare and Contrast, featuring works by Kristi Ryba and Candice Flewharty through Sept. 30, 2006.
Oil paintings by Candice Flewharty of her family and friends compared with the figurative works by Kristi Ryba that are based on dolls as subjects creates an interesting contrast. Ryba's works are "from life" and Flewharty's are from photographs. Both artists works are colorful, intriguing and intimate. They both explore human daily process. Their works are small in size, approachable and very enticing.
Kristi Ryba
Ryba, a longtime Charleston
resident, has recently been showing in New York her video pieces
also utilizing dolls for imagery. Exhibiting since 1990 in both
solo and group shows, Ryba's work has toured through the Southeast
in painting and printmaking exhibitions. She has won various awards
and scholarships including two South Carolina Arts Commission
Project Grants.
A magna cum laude graduate of the College of Charleston, Ryba also studied at Vermont Studio School and Studio Camnitzer in Valdotavvo, Lucca, Italy, and has her MFA from Union Institute and University, Vermont College in Montpelier, VT. A founding organizer of Print Studio South, Inc., Ryba served as President and on the Board of Directors, and has taught locally in both adult and children's programs. Ryba was one of 10 artists featured in the 2002 Piccolo Spoleto exhibit, Larger Than Life: A Second Story Show, and was invited to exhibit in, Contemporary Charleston 2004, and in Helping Hands: an artist's debut among friends, in 2005. Ryba also exhibits at Silo, in New York City.
Ryba says, "My work represents a long-term exploration of images of dolls that serve as standardized human forms through which I examine cultural roles, relationships and common experiences such as growth, transition and change. I am interested in how the cultural messages we absorb about gender roles are not inevitably "nature," and how the behaviors and roles we accept as natural, are learned, have become embedded in our psyches, and shape our identities."
Candice Flewharty
Candice Flewharty, new to Charleston comes by way of Texas, New York and Cuba. Receiving in 2001 her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, she has shown in Texas, New York, California and Cuba. Her work was included in the 49th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition in New York in 2006 and the two year show, New American Talent 19, touring Texas museums and galleries.
Flewharty's approach to painting is highly photographic, with tight and meticulous brushwork creating true slice of life imagery that presents a contemporary edge. She states, "I began a group of small paintings of my colorful domesticity. They are all close-up and in sharp focus - bright colors - weird lighting. I need to work smaller because there are a lot of teeny tiny brushes in my brush jar and I like using them so it takes a long time to make each painting."
New works by Karin Olah and Sue Simons Wallace are also available for viewing.
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
843/722-9868 or at (www.corrigangallery.com).
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