November Issue 1999
City Art in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Deborah Lengel for Vista Lights
City Art in Columbia, SC, will present an exhibit entitled, Fragments and Tales, of charcoal drawings and mixed media paintings by Deborah Lengel of Columbia. The exhibit will open on Nov. 18 as the gallery's offering for the annual Vista Lights celebration held in the congaree vista area of downtown Columbia. The exhibit will continue to be on view through Dec. 31, 1999.
Lengel received her BA in painting and drawing
from the University of South Carolina in Columbia in 1982 and
her MFA in sculpture and painting in 1994.
Lengel is currently working towards a MA in art education at the
University. She has taught art at Benedict College and was director
of the Ponder Fine Arts Gallery from 1994-1997. She currently
teaches art for (K-5) at Sandel Elementary, in Richland County
District One. Lengel also teaches art privately.
"I consider myself an artists who happens to also be an educator
and not visa versa because I found my path to being an educator
after I had been practicing art for years. I have always made
art - I have not always been an educator. The two feed into each
other and I have learned so much from my students which has given
me a greater appreciation for art," said Lengel.
For the past seven years, Lengel has been moving away from painting, dealing more with sculpture and doing commissioned work, but recently finds herself moving back toward painting. Here is what she says about her current works. "My work has always dealt with the fragment or fragmented. These fragments or images come from many sources; from stories that I have heard, found fragments of writing, segments of dreams and so forth. For me, these fragments have a life of their own no matter how ambiguous or vacuous that may be."
Lengel has exhibited her works throughout South Carolina in galleries and museums including: Gallery 80808, Meteor Gallery, and Carol Saunders Gallery, as well as, McKissick Museum, Florence Museum, and University of South Carolina at Sumter. She has won numerous awards and purchase awards in juried show across SC, and has work included in the permanent collections of, the Florence Museum, Spartanburg County Museum of Art, the Eric R. Kuhn Gallery in New York City, as well as in private collections.
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