Saturday, December 1, 2012
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Dorothy Netherland & Tom Stanley Exhibition, Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC, December 7 – 24, 2012
@
Gallery 80808/Vista Studios
Dec. 7 – 24, 2012
DOROTHY NETHERLAND: Velveteen
&
TOM STANLEY: Glossary – Untitled Paintings
FREE Trifold for each artist with images and essay at the exhibitions.
For a PREVIEW of Dorothy Netherland's paintings, CLICK HERE.
For a PREVIEW of Tom Stanley's paintings, CLICK HERE.
For an ESSAY about Dorothy Netherland's exhibition, CLICK HERE.
For an ESSAY about Tom Stanley's exhibition, CLICK HERE.
To see installation shots of the shows CLICK HERE.
Monday, November 5, 2012
PHIL GARRETT MONOTYPE WORKSHOP October 2 - 4, 2015
Intuition, Ink and Paper: Monotype with Phil Garrett
When: Friday-Sunday, October 2 - 4, 2015
Where: if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia SC 29201
(803) 238-2351 /wroefs@sc.rr.com
What: This class will explore the dynamic medium of water soluble monotype printmaking. User-friendly and immediate, monotype offers a way of working that can be spontaneous, fluid and very painterly. Images can be developed and printed in a relative short space of time. Because the plate retains a thin layer of ink after being printed (the so-called ghost image) it feels natural to use this ink residue as the starting point for the next image and work sequentially. Working this way can really jumpstart an artist’s progress.
After an initial discussion of ink, plates, presses and paper, the class will begin with simple reductive methods of inking on single plates, eventually progressing to multi-plate (color) prints incorporating Chine Colle’ (for which the printing is done on a thin sheet of paper, which is mounted to a heavier backing sheet).
The class will include demonstrations, presentations and collective and individual critiques.
How Much: $250 per participant, to be paid in advance by cash,
check or credit card.
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| Monotype by Phil Garrett |
What To Bring: Students will need to bring:
-- Brushes suitable for watercolor and acrylic paint.
-- Box of Q-tips.
-- Small to large set of Caran D’Arche neocolor crayons (Watersoluble); oil and wax crayons won’t work.
-- One Gelli Plate 8 x 10 inches or larger.
-- A 18 x 24 inch newsprint pad.
-- Roll of paper towels.
-- Four to eight sheets (22 x 30 inches) of one of the following printmaking papers: RIVES BFK, STONEHENGE, ARCHES COVER.
-- Preparatory drawings.
What Not To Bring: Open Acrylic and Water soluble inks, which all are provided by Golden Acrylic and Phil Garrett
How : Register by contacting if ART Gallery at (803) 238-2351 or
wroefs@sc.rr.com to register for the workshop
* Phil Garrett & if ART Gallery reserve the right to cancel the workshop with full refund in case of insufficient participation
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| Monotype by Phil Garrett |
Workshop Schedule :
Day One, Fri., October 2, 6:30 - 8 pm: Informal introduction with wine and snacks to discuss the ink, paints and papers, printing with an Intaglio (etching) press and hand printing techniques.
Viewing and discussing various approaches and examples of monotype.
Day Two and Three, Sat. & Sun., October 3 & 4, 10 am – 4 pm: Subtractive inking and monochrome printing; direct painting on the plates; multi plate color printing; enhancing the image with Chine Colle’ (collage); printing with water soluble crayons; ending with Gelli plates Open Acrylics; and hand printing.
PHIL GARRETT
Phil Garrett is among his native South Carolina’s most prominent artists and printmakers and owner of King Snake Press in Greenville, S.C. Prominent South Carolina artists such as Ed Rice, Mary Gilkerson, Enid Williams, Katie Walker and David Yaghjian have worked with Garrett in his print studio to create monotypes. Garrett has completed numerous artist residences and taught painting and printmaking in venues across the United States, including The Penland School of Craft in Penland, N.C. He joined the Golden Acrylic Working Artists Program in 1999 and has lectured and taught acrylic painting in the United States, Japan and Europe. Garrett’s work is represented in the South Carolina State Art Collection, the Greenville County (S.C.) Museum of Art and other public and private collections in Europe, Japan and the United States.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
18/100 Southern Artists: The if ART Contingency: October 28 - November 17, 2012
18/100 Southern Artists
The if ART Contingency
October 28 - November 17, 2012
@ if ART Gallery
1223 Lincoln St.
Columbia, SC
1 new book about Southern artists
100 artists in the book
18 of 100 artists from if ART Gallery
ARTISTS' RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING
Sunday, October 28, 2 - 4 pm
To view works of art featured in 100 Southern Artists available at if ART Gallery CLICK HERE
For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART Gallery
(803) 238-2351/ wroefs@sc.rr.com
Friday, October 12, 2012
Columbia/Kaiserslautern The International (Mural) Project Final Days
FINAL DAYS
COLUMBIA / KAISERSLAUTERN:
The International (Mural) Project
Ends Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7 pm
A Group Exhibition & Mural Project Featuring:
Roland Albert, Stephen Chesley, Jeff Donovan, Ralph Gelbert, Mary Gilkerson, Tonya Gregg, Klaus Hartmann, Jorg Heieck, Peter Lenzo, Reiner Mahrlein,Janet Orselli, Anna Redwine, Silvia Rudolf, Laura Spong, H. Brown Thornton, Mike Williams & David Yaghjian
Exhibition Hours: Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sun., 1 – 5 p.m.
To VIEW the MURAL in progress, CLICK HERE.
To PREVIEW the participating artists' work, click on their names in the far-right column of this page.
For MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE.
To view INSTALLATION IMAGES, CLICK HERE.
To PREVIEW the participating artists' work, click on their names in the far-right column of this page.
For MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE.
To view INSTALLATION IMAGES, CLICK HERE.
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| courtesy www.forrestcstudio.com |
Monday, October 1, 2012
ENID WILLIAMS BOLDLY GOES – Essay
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Enid Williams Boldly Goes
By Wim Roefs
Enid
Williams’ paintings invariably draw attention from people looking through the if
ART Gallery windows, pulling folks of all ages and backgrounds inside.
“Look,
donuts.”
“Life
savers.”
“It’s
like the universe. Space.”
“Or
microcosms.”
“That
must be a lot of work.”
“Does
she paint each one by hand?”
“Each
one” refers to the circular and oval shapes of different sizes, colors and
density or translucency, typically with a hollow center, with which Williams
builds her compositions. “As an artist,” she says, “I am interested in slowing
the viewer’s gaze by creating an image that requires more careful engagement.”
In 2012, she told an interviewer: “I appreciate
any commentary but I enjoy it when viewers draw parallels from other disciplines
– science, music or others. My titles often derive from other disciplines as
well … I enjoy titles that work on different levels, when possible. The visual
and metaphorical implications are more compelling.”
Williams’ paintings are simultaneously grand and
detailed, the details never getting lost in the overall composition or obscuring
it. The patterns seem as random as they are deliberate, suggesting chaos and
chance where there’s clarity and a system – one that develops as the painting takes
shape in Williams’ studio. Clearly defined circular shapes dart around in front
of fainter ones in the back, grounded, the whole moving every which way without
being all over the place.
Williams uses a broad range of colors, especially
for the larger paintings, nevertheless achieving great color cohesion while
moving the overall pallet from one painting to the next. Each painting’s “white
void is very specific,” she said in 2012 of the compositions’ background. “The
quiet of that space makes the noise more audible.” The works’ scale shifts
between paintings, changing the nature and intensity of their radiating energy.
Imploding or exploding, Williams’ paintings boldly go.
“My
work is an inquiry into the physical and intellectual process of perception,
especially the manner in which we read and understand pictorial space,”
Williams says. “I rely on
a complex ordering of form and color to create
elaborate visual scenarios that
appear to be in continual flux. There is
little evidence of pictorial hierarchy.
Instead, the optical effects create an
ambiguous space, both undermining and
heightening our desire for logic and
order.”
“My
vocabulary of small circular shapes is meant to evoke a
sense of playfulness,
while also reflecting a certain temporality of
appearances. In this way, meaning
might manifest itself in a sense of time and
place.”
Charts
that test for colorblindness were the initial inspiration for the paintings.
Any writings addressing perceptual phenomena interest Williams. “The broader
trajectory of painting’s history is also important and inescapable,” she said
in 2012. Referring to Abstract Expressionism, she added: “I embrace the
lineage, but my marks are deliberately un-heroic. It’s my tongue-in-cheek
commentary on how my work both derives from and stands apart from the
particulars of Ab-Ex.”
–
Wim Roefs is the owner of if ART Gallery.
Monday, September 17, 2012
COLUMBIA / KAISERSLAUTERN: The International (Mural) Project
if ART
Gallery presents
@
Gallery 80808/Vista Studios
808 Lady St., Columbia, SC 29201
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| Columbia artists Mike Williams, Tonya Gregg and Mary Gilkerson and Kaiserslautern artist Klaus Hartmann, sitting on the floor, working on the mural on Sunday, September 30, 2012, at Vista Studios. The mural will become the centerpiece of the exhibition. For more pictures of the mural on progress on this date, CLICK HERE. |
COLUMBIA /
KAISERSLAUTERN:
The
International (Mural) Project
A Group
Exhibition & Mural Project Featuring:
Roland Albert,
Stephen Chesley, Jeff Donovan, Ralph Gelbert, Mary Gilkerson, Tonya Gregg,
Klaus Hartmann, Jorg Heieck, Peter Lenzo, Reiner Mahrlein, Janet Orselli, Anna
Redwine, Silvia Rudolf, Laura Spong, H. Brown Thornton, Mike Williams & David Yaghjian
October 4 – 16, 2012
Artists’ Reception: Friday, October 5, 2012, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion about the
Columbia/Kaiserslautern Artists Exchange: Sunday,
October 7, 2:00 p.m.
Exhibition Hours: Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Sat.,
11 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sun., 1 – 5 p.m.
To PREVIEW the MURAL in progress, CLICK HERE.
To PREVIEW the participating artists' work, click on their names in the far-right column of this page.
For MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE.
To view INSTALLATION IMAGES, CLICK HERE.
To PREVIEW the MURAL in progress, CLICK HERE.
To PREVIEW the participating artists' work, click on their names in the far-right column of this page.
For MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE.
To view INSTALLATION IMAGES, CLICK HERE.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Mary Gilkerson @ Rosso Trattoria Restaurant
if ART Gallery & Rosso Trattoria Restaurant
present
M a r y G i l k e r s o n: Paintings & Monotypes
Artist's Reception: Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 5:00 - 6:30 pm
@
Trenholm Plaza
4840 Forest Drive, Columbia, S.C. 29206
Saturday, June 16, 2012
FANTASTIC REALITY @ Gallery 80808/Vista Studios
FANTASTIC REALITY
Introducing: Diane Kilgore Condon & Bob Trotman
Featuring: Jeff Donovan, Janet Orselli, Peter Lenzo, Philip Morsberger, Dorothy Netherland, David Yaghjian, Kees Salentijn & Marcelo Novo.
August 24 – September 4, 2012,
@Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, 808 Lady St., Columbia, SC
Artists' Reception: Friday, Aug. 24, 5 – 9 pm
Gallery Talk Diane Kilgore Condon: Sat. Aug. 25, 2 pm.
Artist Salon Series Talk Bob Trotman @ Columbia Museum of Art: Friday, August 31, noon.
To see sculptures by Bob Trotman and see him discuss his work, CLICK HERE.
To see paintings by Diane Kilgore Condon and see her discuss her work, CLICK HERE.
Click on these artists' names to see their work: Donovan, Lenzo, Morsberger, Netherland, Novo, Orselli, Salentijn & Yaghjian.
For INSTALLATION SHOTS of the exhibition CLICK HERE.
Gallery Talk Diane Kilgore Condon: Sat. Aug. 25, 2 pm.
Artist Salon Series Talk Bob Trotman @ Columbia Museum of Art: Friday, August 31, noon.
To see sculptures by Bob Trotman and see him discuss his work, CLICK HERE.
To see paintings by Diane Kilgore Condon and see her discuss her work, CLICK HERE.
Click on these artists' names to see their work: Donovan, Lenzo, Morsberger, Netherland, Novo, Orselli, Salentijn & Yaghjian.
For INSTALLATION SHOTS of the exhibition CLICK HERE.
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| Installation shot of Fantastic Reality. |
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| Diane Kilgore |
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| Bob Trotman |
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