IMAGES & VIDEO OF THE EXPANDED if ART Gallery

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if ART Gallery Expansion Celebration, August 24 – 25, 2013

if ART Gallery Is Expanding!

Into the former Lewis + Clark space  

next door to the gallery's current location

Please join us for the

Opening Weekend Celebration: 

Saturday, August 24, 11 am - 7 pm

Sunday, August 25, 1 - 5 pm  

  

Drinks, Snacks & Lots of New Space and Walls

with Tons of Art  

            The if ART Gallery expansion doubles the gallery's exhibition space to about 2,300 square feet. The extra space became available after Vista pioneer Clark Ellefson of Lewis + Clark completed the move of his workshop from Lincoln St. to his new location on Huger St., behind the One Eared Cow building.

            The gallery will use the extra space not just to show more work from the gallery's inventory but also to mount temporary solo and group exhibitions. The enlarged space also will be available for rentals for weddings, receptions and other events. 

            Since the gallery's opening in November 2006, if ART Gallery has organized close to 70 exhibitions either at the gallery or at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios. In addition, the gallery has organized exhibitions of gallery artists for the Fine Art Center of Kershaw County in Camden, S.C., the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, S.C., the Westabou Festival in Augusta, Ga., and other venues. If ART Gallery has published about two dozen exhibition catalogues and other extensive print pieces about gallery artists, more than all other galleries in South Carolina combined in the past seven years. 

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KLAUS HARTMANN & REINER MAHRLEIN: Kaiserslautern Calling, April 18 – May 11, 2014

Continuing the exchange of artists between Columbia and its German sister city Kaiserslautern, if ART Gallery presents an exhibition by Kaiserslautern artists Klaus Hartmann and Reiner Mährlein, who both have been represented by the gallery since it opened in 2006. The Kaiserslautern artists also will be in town for 16 days in April to create a public sculpture for Columbia’s downtown Vista district. The sculpture, a project of the Congaree Vista Guild, will be placed along Lady Street at Lincoln Street and unveiled during Artista Vista on Thursday, April 24.

            The exhibition of Hartmann’s and Mahrlein’s work at if ART will include a bronze cast of the model for the Lady & Lincoln sculpture as well as other sculptures by both artists and steel-and-granite embossings by Mährlein.

            Klaus Hartmann (b. 1960) for many years has been a prominent fixture on the art scene of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Hartmann has been, worked and exhibited in Columbia many times since 2001, the last time in 2012 as one of the creators of the a joint mural of Kaiserslautern and Columbia artists. He teaches at the Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern (the Kaiserslautern College of Applied Sciences) and has taught at the University of Kaiserlautern. Hartmann exhibits widely throughout Germany and has produced several public sculptures, for instance for the city of Kaiserslautern and the Rhineland-Palatinate Department of Culture.

Mährlein , too, came to Columbia first in 2001, and has worked and exhibited here several times since. Mährlein is a widely acclaimed artist throughout Germany and has completed several large public sculptures. He studied art at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts and at the Ecole Nationale Superieur de Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. He has been in solo and group exhibitions and has participated in exchanges throughout Germany and the rest of Europe as well as Argentina. His work is in several public collections in France and Germany, including that of his hometown’s main museum of fine art, the Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern.