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September Issue
2009
Arts Council
of Beaufort County in Beaufort, SC, Features Works by Deanna Bowdish,
Amos Hummell, John Crum, Peggy Carvell, and Stephen Kishel
The Arts Council of Beaufort County in Beaufort, SC, will present the exhibit, 100 for $100, featuring works by five Lowcountry visionaries: Deanna Bowdish, Amos Hummell, John Crum, Peggy Carvell, and Stephen Kishel, on view Sept. 4 - 30, 2009, in the gallery @ ARTworks at the Beaufort Town Center in Beaufort.
The exhibit includes a hundred pieces of art for $100 or less, as well as larger, more expensive works. All five artists strive to take the viewer beyond the expected, offering a fresh perspective and artistic voice. The show will encompass paintings, mixed media works, jewelry, and sculpture from the surreal to the abstract. All five artists have created their own following and are highly collected locally, regionally and nationally.
John Crum
John Crum will be presenting new never-before-viewed miniatures (4"x4" acrylic paintings on gallery-wrap canvas). At least 30 of this new series entitled "Sailing Among the Clouds" will be available.
Amos Hummell
Amos Hummell's series is "Missing Poissons" where intersecting arcs trace unseen fish shadowing about. "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach him to paint a fish, he might eat a fish someday, unless of course he's a vegetarian, which I am." The textures of the series are a proprietary blend of paint, Bisquick, and 11 secret herbs and spices, crackled in the lemony sunshine Nature uses to create real fish.
Deanna Bowdish will fill the ARTworks gallery with an array of small-scale pieces from all four of her unique processes: mixed-media Lowcountry Pop, 3D jelly fish, abstracted acrylics on canvas, and cut & sewn paper on canvas, all pursuing vibrancy by playing on the struggle between structure and chaos.
Stephen Kishel brings in much diversity, from small to large pieces, from natural and real to surreal and abstract: a frog on a leaf, peaking birds, as well as the new "Star Seeds" series, and one new 9-foot tall piece that is "pretty abstract".
Peggy Carvell will present a collection comprised of mechanical and industrial elements along with mixed metals, all fashioned together with rivets - ending in a very unique found-object piece of jewelry.
For further information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Arts Council
at 843/379-2787 or visit (www.beaufortcountyarts.com).
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