NOT ALL DRAMA IS FOUND IN THEATER.
Grainger McKoy
opening July 16, 2016 Renowned South Carolina sculptor Grainger McKoy (born 1947) grew up in Sumter, South Carolina, and attended Clemson University, earning a degree in zoology, while also studying architecture. After graduating, McKoy apprenticed for eighteen months with bird carver Gilbert Maggioni in Beaufort. McKoy slowly began transforming his own intricately carved birds into gravity-defying sculptures that play with form and space, while continuing to accurately render each species in detail. The current Greenville County Museum of Art exhibition features a twelve-foot-high basswood model of Recovery Stroke that was carved in 2008 as a maquette for the stainless steel centerpiece of Swan Iris Lake Gardens in the artist’s hometown of Sumter. McKoy’s work has been shown at the High Museum of Art, Brandywine River Museum, Brookgreen Gardens, and many other galleries.
Greenville County Museum of Art
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