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September Issue 1999

College of Charleston's Halsey Gallery Hosts New York Artist David Stern


The William Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston's School of the Arts, in Charleston, SC, is hosting an exhibition of recent works by NY artists David Stern. The exhibition consists of a group of oil paintings downstairs and a collaboration between Stern and Maryland poet Warren Wigutow upstairs.
Stern has dedicated himself to the task of exploiting the special abilities of oil paint to render tangible, yet elusive aspects of humanity. A native of Germany, the artist moved to NY from Cologne four years ago. His paintings hover between abstraction and figuration and are heavily impastoed. Lance Epslund, in Modern Painters magazine states "David Stern... seems deeply rooted in Giacometti... In Stern, one is always overtly aware of the paint and all its magical and physical characteristics... and although Stern, with an exquisite hand, can make it feel light or airy, you never lose the fact of the paint."

Stern's paintings and drawings have been exhibited in Germany, Austria, England, Hungary and the US, most recently at the Rosenberg + Kaufman Gallery Fine Art in NY, Galerie Brennecke in Berlin, and the National Jewish Museum in Washington, DC.

On Jan. 1, 1999, Stern (in NY) and Wigutow (in MD) set about describing/defining themselves each morning for the next twenty-one days. Taking off the three Saturdays that fell within their project cycle to observe the Sabbath, their project concluded on Jan. 21, 1999. The resulting eighteen poems/drawings will on view under the title About /Face.

Wigutow is a poet, musician, editor, ethnomusicologist, and rare book specialist. His writings have appeared in Notus, Creedence, and Equisite Corpse.

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the gallery at 843/953-8228.

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