Installation Shots of Contemporary Carolina Abstraction II

 

Installation Shots of Fantastic Reality: August 24-September 4, 2012

MARY GILKERSON in Columbia Home & Garden Magazine

if ART Gallery artist Mary Gilkerson is featured in Summer 2009 issue of the new magazine Columbia Home & Garden.

For a link to the article, please click here.

Accompanying the article is an image of Gilkerson's painting Edisto River II, 2009, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, pictured here.

This large painting is still available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, SC (803-238-2351 / wroefs@sc.rr.com); price $3,200. First come, first serve. Hurry, hurry.

To see more works by Gilkerson, click here.

Mary Gilkerson (b. 1958) has a prominent presence on the art scene of the South Carolina Midlands as an artist, critic and curator. She teaches art at Columbia College in her hometown of Columbia, S.C. In the past two decades, she has kept up a steady exhibition pace throughout the state and beyond. She has received a grant from the S.C. Arts Commission and twice won top honors in the Florence (S.C.) Museum of Art annual juried art exhibition. Gilkerson holds BFA, MA and MFA degrees from the University of South Carolina. She's an art reviewer for Columbia's weekly Free Times.

New Arrivals – JEFF DONOVAN

To see new ceramic sculptures by JEFF DONOVAN, CLICK HERE.

LAURA SPONG GOES HOLLYWOOD in Lifetime's DROP DEAD DIVA

if ART Gallery artist Laura Spong is part of the Lifetime cable network's new series Drop Dead Diva, but she's feeling fine, thank you very much. Spong's paintings are on view prominently on the show, for instance in the law offices where the series' main character works. The show's producers have rented several paintings by Spong for the series' sets.

To see five paintings by Spong in 30 seconds, click here, which will take you to the show's second episode, called The F-Word. Five of Spong's paintings appear early, between 1' 50" and 2' 20" into the show. At exactly eight minutes into the program, another one of Spong's paintings shows up. At 25' 43'' and at 30 minutes, there are other direct views of three Spong paintings. In total, at least eight Spong paintings grace the walls of the show's law office, where much of the action takes place. The paintings appear in full view throughout each episode of the program.

Drop Dead Diva airs Sundays at 9pm and Mondays at 8pm on the Lifetime channel.

To see images of the eight Spong paintings appearing in the segments above, click here. To see more of Spong's work, click here.

Other relevant links include:
Drop Dead Diva
Lifetime Network
Sony Pictures Television

NEW ARRIVALS by Matt Overend

Click here for new arrivals by Matt Overend.

Studio Still Life No. 402, 2007
Oil on canvas
32 x 30 inches
$ 1,800

Meet Phil Garrett & See His New Horse Paintings: July 14, 2009

For a PREVIEW, click here.

if ART Gallery
1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, SC
presents

Meet Phil Garrett
&
See His New Horse Paintings

Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 6 – 9 p.m.


For more information, CLICK HERE

or

contact Wim Roefs at if ART Gallery:
(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

Joan Mitchell Lithos Fetch Considerably More At New York Auction Than Their Price @ if ART Gallery

Four lithographs by one of the most prominent American Abstract Expressionists, Joan Mitchell (1926–1992), on June 2 sold at New York's Phillips de Pury & Company auction house for considerably more than what they cost at if ART Gallery in Columbia, S.C. Three lithos from Mitchell's 1991 Arbres series fetched $6,875 as a set, unframed. if ART Gallery sells two of those lithos for $1,700 each, framed. Two lithos from Mitchell's 1991 Champs series fetched $2,750 and $2,125 respectively, framed. At if ART, those two lithos also sell for $1,700 each, framed.

Click here to take a look at the Mitchell lithos at if ART Gallery.

New ARRIVALS

Click here to see NEW work by Katie Walker.

Untitled, 2009
21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.
Acrylic, canvas, burlap on wood
$ 600

if ART Artists Laura Spong and Paul Yanko at the Greenville (SC) County Museum of Art

Click here for more information.

Laura Spong

Is It After Me Again?, 2007
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches

NEW ARRIVALS

See NEW arrivals by Paul Reed and Hollis Brown Thornton.

Paul Reed

#8, 1965
Acrylic on canvas
25 x 33 inches

Hollis Brown Thornton

VHS, 2009

Acrylic, pigment transfer on canvas

30 x 25 inches

Meet Matt Overend & See His Most Recent Paintings

For a PREVIEW, click here.


if ART Gallery
1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, SC
presents

Meet Matt Overend
&
See His Most Recent Paintings

Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 6 – 9 p.m.


For more information,
contact Wim Roefs at if ART Gallery:
(803) 238-2351 – if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com