December Issue 1999
Three Diverse Exhibits at the Spartanburg County Museum of Art
The Spartanburg County Museum of Art in Spartanburg, SC, is offering three exciting and diverse exhibitions which will be on view through Jan. 2, 2000. The diversity can be seen through subject matter and media. A majority of the works on exhibit will be for sale.
The Milliken Gallery will be showing Carolina Views, featuring landscapes by three artists from SC including: Stephen Chesley, William Jameson, and Marshall McCall.
Stephen Chesley of Columbia, SC, has exhibited throughout the US and recently has had exhibitions at the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, SC, and the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. Chesley will be displaying landscapes of the south that capture moments in time and glimpses of grandeur. His simplified, slightly abstracted forms and the use of contrast produce emotional content of "the moment".
William Jameson states, "As subject matter, the recent south, in terms of the completion of the interstate system and the air conditioner, is the final frontier. The southern powers of: linearity, poeticism, solitude, and romantic history challenge the great canyons, waterfalls, and features of other American regions."
Jameson of Mt. Pleasant, SC, will be exhibiting landscapes of the Piedmont area. His creek and mountain series reflect his interest in capturing the light, which is quite often his subject matter, and surrounding it by darkness. Jameson also states, "When I hike and climb in the dark creeks and streams of upstate SC, North GA, NC, and in the Great Smokies of TN, everywhere I turn is a painting. I'm intrigued by the light filtering through the trees, striking the rocks, and the rush of water over the rocks." Jameson's oil paintings go beyond a record of his travels. They are beautifully composed compositions that reflect his memories and love of the southern landscape.
Marshall McCall of Greenville, primarily focuses on two aspects: landmarks of SC, especially the upstate, and rural America. McCall's oil paintings are not a direct copy of nature, but are composed, stylized works of art that are slightly pointillistic. McCall states, "These landscape paintings reflect my appreciation of God's beautiful creation, as well as an environment with which I am familiar."
The Parsons Gallery will host the exhibit Small Giants, featuring recent oil paintings by Margaret McCann. This exhibit reflects McCann's experience as an American living in Rome for 8 years. McCann's realistic large-scaled figures are placed in environments such as landscapes or architecture creating mysterious, almost surreal relationships. McCann remarks, "These images are somewhat ironic meditations on the futile struggle of the self to assume the size of its possibilities against the limitations of time and space."
An Artisan Invitational in the Burwell
Gallery features fine arts and crafts by the following professional
artists of NC and SC including works by: Sarah Gunn (quilts),
Arianne King Coiner (batiks), AIf Ward (functional and non-functional
metal), Amy Goldstein-Rice (ceramics), Rosa and Winton Eugene
(pottery), Mark Woodham and Tommy Lockhart (glass), Kelly Huffling
(ceramics), and Wanda Hall (ceramic sculpture).
One purpose of the exhibit is to represent the high quality and
variety of arts and crafts in both functional and non-functional
forms that runs rampant in the Carolinas. Four of the artists
(Gunn, Huffling, Eugene, and Goldstein-Rice) are from Spartanburg.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings or call the Museum at 864/582-7616.
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