Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Biography: Benny Andrews
Benny Andrews (American, 1930-2006) is among his generation’s most prominent African-American artists. At first his figurative, social-realist paintings went against 1960s art-world trends, though the work has proven to have great appeal across racial and ethnic lines. In the 1960s, Andrews led museum pickets in New York, protesting the exclusion of minorities and women as museum staff or exhibiting artists. He nevertheless refused to be labeled a “black artist” because the label suggested he was interested in African-American subject matter only.
Andrews early on used collage alongside other media in highly designed, textural, expressive works with simple forms and elongated figures. His mixing of media fit in well with art world trends of the past three decades, resulting in increased critical acclaim. His work often provided social and political commentary and took on a different tone as social and racial tensions changed. Andrews’ work is in museums across the country, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Michigan’s Detroit Art Institute, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Ga., and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Ga.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Salon III: January 15- February 4, 2009
For installation images, click here.
For printmaking demonstration schedule, click here.
Lithograph, 94/275
30 x 22 in.
$ 750
if ART Gallery
presents
SALON III: The Print Exhibition
January 15 – February 4, 2009
if ART Gallery
1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. 29205
Reception: Thursday, Jan. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.
Opening Hours:
Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
& by appointment
Printmaking Demonstrations:
Sunday, Jan. 18, 3 – 5 p.m., Marcelo Novo, Print Gocco
Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 – 5 p.m., Phil Garrett, Monotype
Saturday, Jan. 31, 3 – 5 p.m., H. Brown Thornton, Photo Transfer
Sunday, Feb. 1, 3 – 5 p.m., Steven Chapp, Linocut & Photopolymer Prints
For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:
(803) 255-0068/ (803) 238-2351 – if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com
For its January 2009 exhibition, if ART Gallery presents Salon III, an exhibition of prints by gallery artists at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. The opening reception will be Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5 – 10 p.m. The exhibition will be installed salon-style at the gallery’s first floor and continues if ART’s salon-style exhibitions; in December 2008, Salon I & II took place simultaneously at the gallery and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia.
Among the printmaking techniques represented in the exhibition are etchings, dry points, lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts, photopolymer prints, embossings, monotypes, silkscreens and photo transfers.
During the exhibition, gallery artists Steven Chapp of Easley, S.C., Phil Garrett of Greenville, S.C., Brown Thornton of Aiken, S.C., and Marcelo Novo of Columbia will give demonstrations of various printmaking techniques. For times and demonstrated techniques, see above.
Artists in the exhibition include Karel Appel, Jeri Burdick, Carl Blair, Lynn Chadwick, Steven Chapp, Corneille, Jeff Donovan, Jacques Doucet, Phil Garrett, Herbert Gentry, Tonya Gregg, John Hultberg, Richard Hunt, Sjaak Korsten, Lucebert, Reiner Mährlein, Sam Middleton, Eric Miller, Joan Mitchell, Dorothy Netherland, Marcelo Novo, Hannes Postma, Edward Rice, Anton Rooskens, Kees Salentijn, Laura Spong, Brown Thornton, Bram van Velde, Katie Walker, David Yaghjian and Paul Yanko.
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