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September Issue 2006
Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, NC, Offers Two Group Exhibitions
The Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, NC, presents new group shows designed to stimulate and inform viewers. Losing the Reference: Marks of Time, Mysteries of Passage and Less Is More: In the Minimalistic Style will be on view through Oct. 7, 2006.
In Losing the Reference, six South Carolina artists address the mystery of time and the process of aging in paintings, photography and sculpture. Exhibiting for the first time at the Upstairs are Tyrone Geter, (Elgin, SC), Pat Gilmartin, Marcelo Novo and Adam Shiverdecker, (Columbia, SC), Jack Kates III, (Seneca, SC), and John Moore, (Charleston, SC). Each artist has taken realistic subjects and, through interpretation and refinement, arrived at fascinating portrayals of "the temporary quality of everything."
Liisa Salosaari Jasinski, of Newberry, SC, is the curator. She says the title is a quote from Geter who takes his images from various sources, then as he draws, he "loses the reference." "I realized that this process unites the artists in the exhibition," explains Jasinski. "Each has, in his or her own way, lost their references. The subject matter has undergone a change and emerged transformed with multiple meanings."
Less Is More challenges the assumption that minimalist art is austere. With paintings, drawings, installation work and sculpture, the exhibit demonstrates minimalism to be economical and precise, yet fluid and energetic. The artists are Hank Fuseler, (Asheville, NC), Jennifer Gilomen, Laura McCarthy, Charles McMurray, (Charlotte, NC), Stephen Nevitt and Lee Sipe, (Columbia, SC).
Only McMurray is planted squarely in Minimalism as a formal school; his hard edge paintings and serigraphs are classic. The other artists lay claim to a minimalistic style by using mathematical composition, clean lines, an absence of imagery and negative space. Even Sipe's pine needle baskets are wonderful examples of minimalism applied to craft. Less Is More is the perfect opportunity to see what this important 20th century movement is all about.
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at 828/859-2828 or at (www.upstairsartspace.org).
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