COLOR FIELDS, FORMS & FRACTURES, Aug. 27 – Sept. 7, 2010 @ Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

if ART Gallery presents
@
Gallery 80808/Vista Studios
808 Lady St., Columbia, SC


COLOR FIELDS, FORMS & FRACTURES
Ashlynn Browning
Philip Morsberger
Paul Reed
Tom Stanley
Katie Walker
Paul Yanko
&
Don Zurlo


For EXHIBITION INSTALLATION PICTURES, CLICK HERE.
To VIEW the artists' work, CLICK on their names: Ashlynn Browning, Philip Morsberger, Paul Reed, Tom Stanley, Katie Walker, Paul Yanko & Don Zurlo. 
Hours: Weekdays, 11 – 7; Sat, 11 – 5; Sun, 1 – 5.

CLOSING RECEPTION MARCELO NOVO STUDIO SALE, AUG. 31, 2010, 6 – 8 PM

SALE HAS ENDED!
15 percent off all paintings and prints!

MARCELO NOVO STUDIO SALE 

CLOSING RECEPTION

Tuesday, Aug. 31, 6 – 8 pm

@ Novo Studio, 22 Bluff Rd, Columbia, SC

For an appointment to view Novo's work in his studio, call (803) 238-2351.

For MORE INFO, directions and a small sample of works on sale, CLICK HERE.

JEFF DONOVAN: Post-Retrospective Perspective, August 13 – September 4, 2010, @ if ART Gallery

Artist's Reception: Friday, August 13, 6 – 9 p.m.

JEFF DONOVAN:

Post-Retrospective Perspective

Aug. 13 – Sept. 4, 2010

@ if ART Gallery

Artist's Reception: Friday, August 13, 6 – 9 p.m.

For a PREVIEW, CLICK HERE.

Since the overwhelming success of his mid-career retrospective earlier this year, Columbia, S.C., artist Jeff Donovan has been on fire. The ceramicist and painter has completed some 15 new paintings that will be shown in this upcoming exhibition at if ART Gallery. 

To read the biographical article about Jeff Donovan from the catalogue of his January 2011 retrospective, CLICK HERE.

if ART Gallery SUMMER HOURS

From June 24 through July 26, if ART Gallery will be CLOSED Sunday & Monday; OPEN Tuesday - Friday, 1:30 – 7:00 p.m.; and, Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

NUDES & OTHER NEW WORKS BY MATT OVEREND

if ART Gallery has a new collection of works by Matt Overend, including nudes, landscapes and studio still life paintings. To see the work, CLICK HERE.

Torso, 2002
Oil on canvas
32 x 40 in.
$ 2,500

Studio Still Life Containers No. 4, 2010

Oil on canvas

22 x 24 in.

$ 1,500

SOLD

Gesture In Orange And Lavender, 2010

Oil on canvas

20 x 21 in.

$ 1,350

SOLD

Summer Field, 2009

Oil on canvas

24 x 18 in.

$ 1,350

To see more new work by Matt Overend, CLICK HERE.

MEET ASHLYNN BROWNING @ if ART Gallery

May 28, 2010, 6 – 9 pm.
The paintings will be on display until June 12, 2010.  CLICK HERE  for a PREVIEW.

ASHLYNN BROWNING (b. 1977)

North Carolina abstract-expressionist painter Ashlynn Browning is a recent addition to if ART Gallery. Applying vigorous and robust layering and brush work, her paintings center on line and its ability to convey emotional information. "Experimenting with different line qualities and layers," Browning says, "is an integral part of my process, which involves a lot of drawing." Browning is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and has exhibited at New York’s CUE Foundation and Lincoln Center. Other recent exhibitions include those at Hallway Projects in San Francisco and Flanders Gallery in Raleigh, N.C. Browning has received grants and residency fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the United Arts Council and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her work was featured in the 2009 Southern edition of New American Paintings. Browning was born in Charlotte, N.C., and lives in Raleigh.

For Ashlynn Browning's artist's statement, CLICK HERE. 
For an April 21, 2010,  review on nc artblog of Browning's recent exhibition of new work at Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill, N.C., CLICK HERE. The exhibition presents Browning's most recent paintings; if ART Gallery will present works from 2007-2008 on May 28, 2010.
For a April 11, 2010,  Raleigh News and Observer article about Browning, CLICK HERE.
For 2007 review on IndieWeek.com, CLICK HERE.

NEW LARGE TRIPTYCH BY LAURA SPONG

if ART artist Laura Spong has recently completed a large triptych called Once In A Green Moon. The painting measures 40 x 90 inches. The image is below, as is an image of Spong hanging the painting to be photographed.

RUSSEL BILES JOINS if ART Gallery

Greenville, S.C., ceramic artists Russell Biles has joined if ART Gallery. Biles creates satirical cast-porcelain sculptures with a political, cultural and social bite. He is among South Carolina's nationally most prominent contemporary artists. Biles will be in the Columbia Museum of Art exhibition SC6: South Carolina Innovators In Clay, which opens in June. He has been represented by major league contemporary-ceramics galleries such as Garth Clark Gallery in New York and Massachusets' Ferrin Gallery. Biles consistently shows in museums, art centers and galleries across the country, and his work has been in several S.C. Triennial exhibitions. His sculptures are  in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Museum of Art and Design in New York City. At if ART, Biles is showing small, totem-like porcelain sculptures from his So Fresh series. The sculptures are assembled from shards of Biles' Wee Art Club series, which consists of three-inch sculptures of different prominent figures. Included in the Wee Art Club series are Barak Obama, George W. Bush, the Frankenstein monster, Kim Il Sung, Andy Warhol, Michelangelo's David and others. The So Fresh sculptures combine parts of these and other figures in vertical structures five to 11 inches tall.


For IMAGES of Russell Biles sculptures at if ART Gallery, CLICK HERE.

MEET MARY GILKERSON and see her new paintings and monotypes

@ if ART Gallery, Friday April 16, 2010, 6 – 9 pm

FOR A PREVIEW, CLICK HERE.

EXHIBITION HELD OVER 
THROUGH SAT, MAY 8, 2010.

NEW WORKS BY DEANNA LEAMON, AARON BALDWIN & ASHLYNN BROWNING

For new works by Deanna Leamon at if ART Gallery, CLICK HERE.
For new works by Aaron Baldwin at if ART Gallery, CLICK HERE.
For new works by Ashlynn Browning at if ART Gallery, CLICK HERE.

New 1963-1964 CLASSIC COLOR FIELD PAINTINGS BY PAUL REED

if ART Gallery has a new collection of classic color field paintings by Washington Color Field painter Paul Reed in the gallery.

For more information, call Wim Roefs at (803) 238-2351.

For new works in the gallery by Reed from this period, CLICK HERE.

The new arrivals are from the same period as the work by Paul Reed on the cover of Volume II of the 3-volume book The New American Abstraction 1950–1970 by French art historian Claudine Humblet.

For an essay about Paul Reed by Wim Roefs, CLICK HERE.

Washington, D.C., native Paul Reed (b. 1919) in 1965-1966 was with Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis among the six painters in The Washington Color Painters, the first nationally traveling Washington Color Field exhibition. Reed has experimented with media and techniques throughout his career. After an Abstract Expressionist period, Reed in 1959 began staining canvasses using water-based acrylics, then a recent invention. Over the next five decades, he also created metal sculpture and photographic collages. He made pastel drawings and shaped canvases, some of them directly nailed to the wall. He also produced gouache paintings done on plexiglass and transferred to paper. Reed’s work is in dozens of museums across the country, including the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, all in D.C., the Detroit Institute of Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. In South Carolina, his work is in the Greenville County Museum of Art and the Columbia Museum of Art.

Installation Shots of Zoological Society

Preview for Zoological Society

David Yaghjian, Scene XXII Bicycle, 2012, oil on canvas,
18 x 18 in., $1,600

David Yaghjian, Pig, 2010-2012, oil on canvas,
30  x 30 in., $3,000

Leo Twiggs, Country Fair, 2008, batik on cotton

18 ½ x 24 in., $ 8,500

Moneymaker, 2013, oil on panel,
24 x 18 in.

Bluebuck, 2013, oil on panel, 35 x 48 in.

Hare Scare, 2013, oil on panel,
48 x 35 in.

Kees Salentijn, Carmen, 2011
Oil on canvas, 12 x 10 in., $1,150

Anna Redwine, April Turtle, 2007

Carbon on primed panel, 24 x 37 in., $ 825

Marcelo Novo, Rhino Stamp, 2010,
acrylic on stamps on canvas, 8 x 10 in., $550

Marcelo Novo, Puzzled, 2011,
acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in., $1,300

Philip Morsberger, Hats Off!, 2004–2007

Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in., $ 10,000

Philip Morsberger, The Searcher, 1993-2009, oil on
canvas, 29 3/16 x 18 13/16 in., $5,500

Peter Lenzo, Why Can't We Be Friends?, 2010,
Stoneware, nichrome wire, porcelain slip and
found objects
27 x 12 x 9 in., $5,000
For additional views CLICK HERE

Roland Albert, Teir 221003/1 (Alt Tier)

(Animal 221003/1(Ancient Animal), 2003

Shellac on drawing board

11 x 8 in., $325

Roland Albert, Teir 051003/1 (Verhoffend)

(Animal 051003/1(On Alert), 2003

Shellac on drawing board

11 x 8 in., $325

Leo Twiggs, Targeted Man With Cow #1, 2011, mixed media
on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 in., $850

Peter Lenzo, Red Chicken Dreaming, 2012, stoneware,
nichrome wire, glazes, porcelain slip, and
found objects, 18 x 12 x 8 in., $1,300
For additional views CLICK HERE

Diane Kilgore-Condon, Tuft, 2012, oil on panel,
24 in. across, $550

Diane Kilgore-Condon, Tommy Diptich, 2011, oil on panel,
diptych, 46 x 70 in., 46 x 35 in. each, $2,800

Tonya Gregg, Sunset Bather, c.1998, oil on canvas,
24 x 24 in., $1,300

Phil Garrett

Phil Garrett

Phil Garrett

Steven Chapp

Phil Garrett

Steven Chapp

Steven Chapp

Carl Blair, Help, I've Got Something Stuck In My Bad Eye, But My Leg Feels

 A Lot Better, 2008, Polychrome wood, 23 x 28 x 15 inches, $ 3,100

Roland Albert, Tier 221003/2 (Sich Unwended)
(Animal 221003/2 (Turning Around)), 2002
Glue, sand mix on drawing board
11 x 8 in
$325

Roland Albert, Teir 221003/3 (Tupfeltier)

(Animal 221003/3(Turning Around)), 2002

Glue, sand mix on drawing board

11 x 8 in., $325