DON ZURLO: The New York Exhibition, November 12 – December 4, 2010

DON ZURLO: The New York Exhibition
November 12 – December 4, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, November 12, 5 – 9 pm
@ if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, SC, (803) 238-2351

For MORE INFORMATION about the exhibition, CLICK HERE.
For a PREVIEW of the exhibition, CLICK HERE.

Don Zurlo, works from The New York Exhibition
@ if ART Gallery

EXHIBITIONS DEANNA LEAMON & DOROTHY NETHERLAND, Sept. 24 – Oct. 5, 2010

if ART Gallery presents at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC, two simultaneous solo exhibitions:

PAINTING-ON-GLASS DEMONSTRATION BY DOROTHY NETHERLAND
Sunday, October 3, 2:30 p.m.

DEANNA LEAMON: HEADS
&
DOROTHY NETHERLAND: D DAYS
Sept. 24 – Oct. 5, 2010

For MORE INFORMATION and a PREVIEW of works by Deanna Leamon, CLICK HERE.
For a MORE INFORMATION and a PREVIEW of works by Dorothy Netherland, CLICK HERE.

Dorothy Netherland, D Days
@ Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC
Sept. 24 – Oct. 5, 2010

Deanna Leamon, Heads
@ Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC
Sept. 24 – Oct. 5, 2010

if ART Gallery EXHIBITION IN AUGUSTA, GA.

if ART Gallery and Mary Pauline Projects, Augusta, Ga., present: 

THE AUGUSTA – COLUMBIA CONNECTION: 
Six Artists From if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
Jeff Donovan – Philip Morsberger – Edward Rice – Laura Spong – Mike Williams – David Yaghjian
September 17 – 26, 2010
@ The Old Academy of Richmond County
540 Telfair St.
Augusta, Ga. 

Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 17, 5 – 7 pm.
Hours: 10 am – 5 pm daily.

The third annual Westobou Festival in Augusta, Ga., will feature six artists from if ART Gallery. With Augusta's Mary Pauline Projects, if ART presents the artist through a group exhibition as well as demonstrations, studio talks and other presentations. The events schedule is below. Columbia artists Jeff Donovan, Laura Spong, Mike Williams and David Yaghjian each also will be in residence for four days during the festival at The Old Academy of Richmond County, 540 Telfair St., where the exhibition, too, takes place. The remaining artist involved in the project are Augusta's Philip Morsberger and North Augusta's Edward Rice. Morsberger is the Westobou Festival's signature artist.

For more information on the Westobou Festival, CLICK HERE.
Westobou Festival if ART Gallery Artists' Events:
– Sept. 17, 5 pm: Mike Williams painting demonstration, 540 Telfair St.
– Sept. 18, 5 pm: David Yaghjian artist talk with wine and cheese, moderated by if ART's             
                          Wim Roefs, 540 Telfair St.
– Sept. 19, 3 pm: Architecture tour with Edward Rice, starting at the Morris Museum of Art, 1 
                          10th St., Augusta. Join Rice for a tour of buildings in Augusta featured in his  
                          paintings.
– Sept. 20, 11 am – 2 pm: Open Studio with Mike Williams and David Yaghjian, 540 Telfair St.
– Sept. 22, 11 am – 2 pm: Open Studio with Laura Spong and Jeff Donovan, 540 Telfair St.
– Sept. 23, Noon: Jeff Donovan ceramics demonstration, Gertrude Herbert Institute, 506 
                          Telfair St., Augusta.
– Sept. 24, 6 pm: Morsberger Mania at the Morris Museum of Art, 1 10th St., Augusta.
– Sept. 25, 3 pm: Laura Spong artist talk with wine and cheese, moderated by if ART's Wim 
For more information, call Wim Roefs at (803) 238-2351.

if ART Gallery EXHIBITION IN AUGUSTA, GA. Opening Fri. Sept. 17, 5–7 pm

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THE if ART GALLERY EXHIBITION @ THE WESTOBOU FESTIVAL IN AUGUSTA, GA.

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.