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September Issue
2009
Artists' Guild
of Spartanburg in Spartanburg, SC, Features Works by Teresa Prater
The Artists' Guild of Spartanburg will present the exhibit, Portraits in Wax: Encaustic Paintings, featuring works by Teresa Prater in the Guild Gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, SC, on view from Sept. 1 - 27, 2009.
The exhibit consists of 25 small encaustic paintings using encaustic wax, digital photography and mixed media to create what the artists calls "ethereal visual effects through its transparency and layering process". The works in the exhibit were created during the artist's 2008-09 sabbatical from her position as Associate Professor of Studio Art at the Department of Art at Converse College.
"Though I have spent much of my life painting and drawing, I have enjoyed discovering and exploring new media over the years," Prater says, pointing to her discovery of the encaustic method of painting as a process that combines several media that she loves. "Combining it with my own digital photography and mixed media, I have created a series of unique portraits."
After attending an encaustic workshop in Atlanta, GA, Prater became fascinated with the possibilities the process presented. Though her pieces are usually larger, the encaustic medium, due to the process and the cost, led her to create works that range from 6" x 6" to 12" x 12".
Prater, whose drawings,
paintings, photographs and artist books have been shown in 25
one-person exhibitions and over 100 exhibitions nationally and
in Mexico and Switzerland, is a versatile artist who works with
charcoal, oil paint, photography and artist books. She was one
of six visual artists selected by the city of Spartanburg to participate
in the Cultural Exchange Program in Winterthur, Switzerland, where
she exhibited her charcoal drawings and participated in a one-week
residency.
The exhibit is funded in part by The Arts Partnership of Greater
Spartanburg, its donors, the County and City of Spartanburg and
the South Carolina Arts Commission, which received support from
the National Endowment of the Arts and the John and Susan Bennett
Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of South
Carolina.
For further information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call Laura Pinkley
at 864/764-9568.
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