VISTA ENSEMBLE 2017 concerts at if ART Gallery

February 5, 2017

An Evening in Vienna

 (Performers: Patrick Hawkins, Erika Cutler, Jeana Melilli, Brittnee Siemon,

and Gail Ann Schroeder – guest Viola da gamba)

Three Trio Sonatas                                                                    Giovanni Antonio Matielli (1733-1805)

            Sonata in D major

                        Allegretto

                        Largo

                        Tempo di Minuetto

            Sonata in G major

                        Allegro moderato

                        Minuetto

            Sonata in E-flat major

                        Cantabile

                        Minuetto & Trio

Fantasy in D minor, K. 397                                                       Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Selected Lieder                                                                         Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Feuerfarbe 

Abschied 

Das Blumchen Wunderhold 

Mignon 

Gretel's Warung 

An den fernen Geliebten 

Sehnsucht 

           

April 26, 2017

Classical Delights

(Performers: Patrick Hawkins, Erika Cutler, Jeana Melilli, and James Waldo – guest cellist)

Sonata in E minor, WK 146 (1771)                                              Carl F. Abel (1723-1787)

            Moderato

            Adagio

            Minuetto

Trio Sonata in G major, WK 98, Op 16 (c. 1785)                          Carl F. Abel

            Moderato

            Adagio ma non troppo

            Allegretto        

                                   

Trio Sonata in A major, No. 4                                                    Giovanni Punto (1746-1803)

            Andante

            Allegro assai

Sonata in D major for flute, cello, and pianoforte, Op. 21            Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

Quartetto in G major, Op. 1/2 (1786)                                          Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801)  

            Moderato

            Presto

Quartetto in C Major, Op. 1/1                                                   

            Andante

            Tempi di Minuetto

Program for the Historic Keyboard Society of North America Conference

April 27^th

We will use 30 minutes of music from the concert on the 26^th - probably Abel, Clementi and one of the Naumann quartets.

Michaela Pilar Brown: i'm a boss my house, April 14 - May 7, 2016

Ashlynn Browning: Building Blocks, March 11-April 2, 2016

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For more information CLICK HERE

Ashlynn Browning: Building Blocks, March 11 – April 2, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                  March 3, 2016

if ART Gallery presents

ASHLYNN BROWNING

Building Blocks

March 11 – April 2, 2016

Artist’s Reception: Friday, March 11, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Gallery Hours:

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.;

& by appointment

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

            For it’s March exhibition, if ART Gallery presents a solo exhibition with new paintings by Raleigh, N.C., artist Ashlynn Browning. The artist has been with the gallery since 2010, and Building Blocks is her fourth if ART solo show. The exhibition’s opening reception is Friday, March 11, 6 – 9 pm. The show will run through April 2.

            Browning’s geometric but expressive compositions, void of slickness, often involve a precarious combining of forms and shapes to create an off-balanced whole. While that hasn’t changed in the new work, other things have.  “My work merges geometric forms with an intuitive, ever changing process of applying paint,” Browning says. “Many of the forms in my work from 2009 – 2013 functioned as stand-ins for figures. These single figures represented implied narratives as they stood hesitant, crooked and brooding or upright and boldly assured. Each one showed a side of myself.”

“Since 2013, I've become interested more in creating a sense of place, rather than a singular form that is personified. I have been experimenting with stacking and aligning forms and exploring the relationships between them. There is still an element of the forms standing in for figures, but now they exist in groupings and in a more architectural context.”

“Experimenting with the idea of opposing forces continues to be an important part of my work. Bold color is set against muted colors, geometric forms mix with organic ones, and pattern and texture play off smooth color fields. These are variables that I mix and layer in multiple stages until a resonant image appears.”                                                                                                                  “The many layers in each piece speak both to the history of the painting’s creation as well as to the hidden parts of ourselves that we conceal and reveal in time. I know a painting is complete when it has become its own separate entity, one with a sense of dignity and self.”  

Browning (b. 1977) was included in the 2015 and 2009 Southern editions of New American Paintings. The Charlotte, N.C., native in 2002 was a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. She has been included in museum exhibitions at the City of Raleigh Museum, the Fayetteville Museum of Art, the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, all in North Carolina. Browning has had some 20 solo exhibitions since 2003, including at Art Space in Raleigh; Whitespace Gallery and Twin Kittens Gallery in Atlanta, Ga.; and if ART Gallery in Columbia, S.C. She’s been in some 50 group exhibitions since 2000, including at New York’s CUE Foundation and Lincoln Center; Proto Gallery in Hoboken, N.J.; Carroll Square Gallery in Washington, D.C.; Hallway Projects in San Francisco; The Helm Gallery in Tacoma, WA; Artspace in Galway, Ireland; THAT Gallery in Hong Kong; and Atkinson Art Gallery in Southport, U.K. Browning won first prize in the 2010 Carolina’s Got Art juried exhibition and has received grants and residency fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the United Arts Council and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She has BA in studio art from Meredith College in Raleigh and an MFA in painting and printmaking from the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

LAURA SPONG AT 90: Six Decades In Painting, Feb. 4 – 29, 2016 @ if ART & Vista Studios

PHIL GARRETT workshop PAINTING WITH ACRYLICS, March 18 – 20, 2016

Fri., March 18, 6:30 – 8:00 pm; Sat. & Sun., March 19 & 20, 10 – 4 pm

A workshop for painters of all skill levels seeking strategies for using acrylic paints, mediums and gels to achieve a level of finesse usually associated with oil painting techniques. For more information, CLICK HERE.

Phil Garrett's book on painting with acrylics

MARY GILKERSON WORKSHOP – Monotypes: The Painterly Print, Jan. 22 – 24, 2016

Mary Gilkerson Workshop 

Monotypes: The Painterly Print. 

January 22 – 24, 2016 @ if ART Gallery
For more info, and to sign up, CLICK HERE.

New Group: Cassidy + Flowers + Misenheimer + Owens, December 4, 2015 - January 2, 2016

For a preview, click on the artist's names: Cassidy, Flowers, Misenheimer, and Owens

Dorothy Netherland: PolyVores, HELD OVER through November 28, 2015

For a PREVIEW of the 

exhibition CLICK HERE


To read the ESSAY Dorothy Netherland's Growing Pains, CLICK HERE

David Yaghjian: Scenes September 25-October 17, 2015

For a preview CLICK HERE

PETER LENZO: New Works 2013 – 2015, August 21 – September 12, 2015

For a PREVIEW, CLICK HERE.

To read the ESSAY, Peter Lenzo's Second Wind, CLICK HERE.

Peter Lenzo & Joe Scotchie-Lenzo: Origins 2000-2002

                                                                                                         









PETER LENZO & JOE SCOTCHIE–LENZO

Origins 2000 – 2002

June 5 – 27, 2015

Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 6 - 9 pm

Gallery talk: Saturday, June 20, 2:00 pm

For a PREVIEW CLICK HERE

For the ESSAY Peter Lenzo And His Son's Assist, CLICK HERE.

1-27-01, 2001, stoneware and porcelain clay, 
slips, glazes and found objects, 
11 1/2 x 8 x 6 in., $600

Angel Wing/Peter & Joe's Masterpiece, 2000,
stoneware and porcelain clay, slips, glazes and 
found objects, 13 x 8 x 8 in., $850

Father and Son Pierced Tongue Double Snake, 2001,
stoneware, porcelain clay, slips, glazes and found
objects, 13 x 7 x 7 1/2 in., $1,100

Press Hard You're Making
7 Copies/Father & Son, 2001,
stoneware and porcelain clay,
slips, glazes and found objects,
15 1/2 x 9 x 9 in., $900/ON HOLD

Mary Gilkerson: Minervaville, April 24-May 16, 2015

To read Quitman Marshall's catalogue essay Mary Gilkerson's Minvervaville Light, CLICK HERE. 

For a preview CLICK HERE.

Blue Road, Winter, 2012, monotype, 8 x 10 in., $475

Cabin Creek With Poles, Spring, 2012, monotype,
18 x 22 in., $1,200

Meadow, Early Spring, 2012, monotype, 8 x 10 in., $475

Spring Road, 2012, monotype, 10 x 10 in., $495

Philip Morsberger: Text/Subtext, March 20 - April 11, 2015

For a preview CLICK HERE

For a talk by Philip Morsberger about making art, CLICK HERE.

For an essay accompanying the exhibition, CLICK HERE.

INSIDE ACRYLICS PAINTING WORKSHOP with PHIL GARRETT, March 18–20, 2016

INSIDE ACRYLICS PAINTING WORKSHOP with PHIL GARRETT

Playing with acrylics during Phil Garrett's workshop

WHEN: Friday – Sunday, March 18 – 20, 2016

WHERE: if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, SC 29201

                 (803) 238-2351 / wroefs@sc.rr.com

WHAT: A workshop for painters of all skill levels seeking strategies for using acrylic paints, mediums and gels to achieve a level of finesse usually associated with oil painting techniques.

HOW MUCH: $250 per participant, to be paid in advance by cash, check or credit card.

HOW MANY: Limited to 15 participants.

WHAT TO BRING: All tools, including synthetic brushes for thicker paint applications (bristle type) and softer brushes for blending and glazing; a water container; paper towels; one prepared canvas or wood panel, 20 x 16 inches; #2 pencil; notebook; and phone or tablet with camera (see workshop description below for details).

WHAT NOT TO BRING: paint, mediums and gel, all provided by Golden Acrylic, and canvas board, provided by 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 a full refund in case of insufficient participation.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

DAY ONE, Fri., March 4, 6:30 – 8 pm: Informal introduction with wine and cheese to discuss the paints, media and gels used during the workshop and the best way to prepare canvas, linen, wood panels, etc., to get the most from acrylic painting.

DAY TWO & THREE, Sat. & Sun., March 5 & 6, 10 am – 4 pm: Learn which pigments provide clean color mixing and a tried and true palette, how to paint in layers thick and thin and complete several paintings that can serve as reference for future paintings. One-hour lunch break; bring your lunch or go to one the many restaurants near the gallery.

BONUS OFFER

$5.00 discount for participants during the class on Phil Garrett’s widely acclaimed book, Inside Acrylics: Studio Secrets from Today’s Top Artists, which highlights studio practices of prominent South Carolina artists such as Mike Williams and Philip Mullen, both from Columbia, Edward Rice of North Augusta and Patty Brady, Glen Miller and Jim Campbell from Greenville.

Regular price: $29.99; special workshop price, $24,99.

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. 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.

THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will cover how to get oil-like effects using acrylic paints, mediums and gels, including the new OPEN paints. These paints allow for an extended working time that can give painters much more control over blending and overall manipulation to achieve wonderful controlled effects. The paints also can be used in combination with existing Heavy Body and Fluid Acrylics and their mediums, gels and additives. This provides painters a truly comprehensive system of paints. 

On a prepared canvas or panel, workshop participants will work from a selfie taken with your phone or tablet to make a subtractive underpainting using Open Acrylics, complete a value underpainting in grays and go over the best paint and gel combinations for alla prima painting.

The workshop will cover overpainting, blending and glazing. At the end, Garrett will discuss how to correctly varnish the completed painting. Along the way, the workshop will cover lots of solid techniques discussed in Garrett’s book Inside Acrylics while providing a great time painting.