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Art conservation and restoration are essential in the preservation, protection, and repair of art, yet these unique careers are often under the radar for most of the general public. Which, after sitting down with painting conservator Catherine Rogers, I suppose is the whole idea. “My actual work is to be invisible and something you’re really not supposed to see,” Rogers explains. We’re fortunate in Charleston to have incredibly skilled art conservators. We have conservators specializing in paintings, works on paper, photography, gilding, and framing. Their careers are equal parts protecting art and protecting elements that define our culture. “Conservation is just as important as written history in recording our past, and it aids us visually with a study of
history that is art history,” says Rogers. “It’s so important for families, as it’s a record of their ancestors, and it’s important for museums for the same reason. Plus it preserves the beauty of different stages of art history depicting our world,” she continues. After moving to Charleston over 23 years ago, Rogers received a painting that had tiny pinpoint losses throughout the surface of the canvas. After closer observation, she saw the shimmer of salt crystals, which she realized became embedded into the canvas while they were airborne during Hurricane Hugo. Rogers later saw the same effects from the high wind speeds of Hurricane Katrina physically pushing salt crystals through the walls of a church, Saint Joesph Abbey, in New Orleans’ Northshore area. The salt crystals attached to the murals, paintings, Spring 2019 | 11
and saints that adorned the church. The accumulated salt, after a decade of expansion, caused large losses of paint, requiring Rogers’ expert conservation skills. “My goal is to take the artwork back to the artist’s original intentions,” states Rogers. Many times she is going in to potentially remove centuries of past attempts of art conservation. By blending art with modern science, Rogers uses synthetic materials that cause no harm to the artworks and are reversible. This is important so that in the future these materials can be easily removed to ensure the piece can be conserved for years to come. Being this type of unrecognized artist is hard for most of us to understand, but Rogers knew from age 12 that
she wanted to be a conservator. It all started with a family painting found in an abandoned farmhouse where she grew up in South Carolina. Likely purchased by a relative on a European tour in the late 1800s, the piece was in really bad shape. Rogers asked her mother to have it “fixed,” so the painting was taken to New Orleans, where it landed in the hands of an art conservator in the French Quarter. The painting was identified as a copy of an original by a European artist in the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy, and the conservator declared that the piece was worthy of restoring. It now hangs in Rogers’ office. Her formal education started as one of two students in the Pre-Conservation Curriculum at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and while in graduate school in New York, she had the opportunity to do her thirdyear internship in London, both at the
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“He went right for the face, leaving only a smear of paint behind and leaving the painting beyond repair.” Roger’s next project is the upcoming conservation and restoration on the massive murals at the Sottile Theatre at the College of Charleston. ROGERS ART CONSERVATION Catherine G. Rogers, Paintings catherinegrogers@gmail.com
There was a portrait of an ancestor that came her way from a prominent private collection in which the owner, despite good intentions, foolishly tried to clean the painting using a cloth and paint cleaner from a hardware store. Spring 2019 | 13
Paint on Paper WILLIAM HALSEY AT THE GEORGE GALLERY by Emily Reyna
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If you’ve been in Charleston for any length of time, you’ve heard the name William Halsey. Most know his name by our very own Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. But what does the Halsey name mean to Charleston, and why is it so evergreen to our arts community? Born a Charlestonian in 1915, Halsey studied under Charleston greats like Elizabeth O’Neill Verner, who pioneered
the Charleston Renaissance. Even though Halsey was born and died in the same city, he was not in South Carolina his entire life. After graduating college from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Halsey went to Mexico in 1939 after being awarded the James William Paige Fellowship, which ended up greatly influencing his work. “He was supposed to go to Europe, but with the impending outbreak of Spring 2019 | 15
World War II, he went to Mexico City instead,” explains Anne Siegfried, owner of The George Gallery, where his work is represented. “His friends in New York were influenced by the European artists there while Halsey was inspired by PreColumbian Aztec shapes instead.” Having a successful art career via New York City was something Halsey was encouraged to do, as so many artists are even today. Friend and fellow abstract expressionist, Jasper Johns was one of the driving forces in attempting to convince Halsey to establish his career there. But Halsey returned to Charleston, where he started his family, taught younger artists at the Gibbes Museum of Art, and eventually launched the Studio Art program at the College
of Charleston as the first art instructor in 1965. By staying in Charleston, Halsey cultivated an appetite for abstract art when it was still a new, unexplored frontier. Where Verner, his predecessor, was one of the leading voices of the time during the Charleston Renaissance, Halsey expanded on this traditional knowledge of the fundamentals into non-objective painting. “Abstract painting has the same elements you would find in any form of painting,” explains Siegfried. “A functioning composition and an understanding of color theory—Those things are just as important in the traditional as they are in abstract art.”
You're able to get a first-hand look at Halsey’s work at The George Gallery, May 23 through June 22. Siegfried is showcasing smaller works on paper from his estate in a show entitled Paint on Paper to coincide with the opening of the Spoleto Festival USA. “They’re all kinds of little jewels, heavy on medium with rich colors,” says Siegfried, describing his work. “He understood color and shape so well you can just dive into his pieces. These were later periods in his life. He knew what he was doing at this point as a modern master in abstract art; he wasn’t trying to figure it all out.”
You can expect to see a selection of mixed media work from the 1980s and 1990s, right before his death in 1999. His mediums are evident with gestural marks of oil pastel and oil stick. It isn’t obvious looking at the framed work hanging in the gallery, but turn over any one of Halsey’s works on paper and it reveals multiple pencil inscriptions scribbled on the back. “His creative process was very fluid,” says Siegfried as she turns over an oil pastel work by Halsey in the back room of her gallery. “He often changed the orientation of the piece, realizing later that it was meant to be displayed the other way around—or changing titles of pieces, while listing out the medium and year he completed the work.” Spring 2019 | 17
In the same way that Halsey spearheaded abstract art in the Lowcountry in the early to mid 1900s, so too does Spoleto today. “I think there was a direct relationship between what Halsey did for Charleston and what Spoleto has done for Charleston,” Siegfried points out. “Halsey was the avant-garde painter in Charleston. He was represented in New York by the Bertha Schaefer Gallery during the late 1940s through the early 1950s, which really represented a connection to modern expressionist art going on in New York City that was being brought to Charleston. That’s kind of what Spoleto does, it brings us the best of what’s happening in New York or
Europe. It’s our connection to what is happening in the arts, and we get to just sit here and enjoy.” A good piece of art should make you feel something is something Siegfried often says, and when these works were created in the 1990s, they let people feel and explore something new. Charleston was his muse then, and he continues to be ours today. PAINT ON PAPER FEATURING WILLIAM HALSEY May 23 – June 22 The George Gallery 54 Broad St, Charleston georgegalleryart.com
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April 20 – May 4, 2019 Lake City, SC artfieldssc.org ArtFields has quickly gained recognition as one of the Southeast’s premier visual arts competitions. During the nine-day festival, the small South Carolina town of Lake City is infused with music, tours, and, of course, visual art. More than 400 works of art are displayed in renovated 22 | theartmag.com
warehouses, local boutiques and restaurants, and art galleries throughout town. With over $120,000 in prizes awarded to the winners, ArtFields can be life-changing to Southern artists. What’s more: The festival has been transformative to Lake City, helping reignite economic growth in the onceflourishing farm town.
NORTH CHARLESTON ARTS FESTIVAL May 1 – 5, 2019 North Charleston, SC northcharlestonartsfest.com
Now in its 37th year (yes… 37!), the North Charleston Arts Fest dips its toes into visual arts, media arts, dance, music, theatre, and literature. In 2008 and 2018, the festival was recognized by the Southeast Tourism Society as a Top 20 Event. Even better? The majority of the events are free and highlight more than 100 national, regional, and local artists and performers. The festival features ample exhibition opportunities for artists and even more opportunities for us to see great art. Be sure to check out the Judged Fine Art and Photography Exhibitions, Tri-County Youth Art Exhibition, the inaugural Tri-County High School Sculpture Exhibition, and the South Carolina Palmetto Hand Juried Fine Craft Exhibition on view in Exhibit Hall A at the Charleston
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Area Convention Center; the National Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition installed at North Charleston Riverfront Park; and the African American Fiber Art Exhibition, Black Gold, on display at North Charleston City Hall. The North Charleston Cultural Arts Department is also continuing its partnership with the College of Charleston School of the Arts Sculpture Department to present public art installations in green spaces throughout the City.
EXHIBITION ENCORE
One of the newest additions to the festival is the Exhibition Encore, serving as a closing celebration and as a means to spotlight all of the visual art exhibitions. View artwork in a festive atmosphere and make final decisions on any new purchases, all while in a festive atmosphere of music, entertainment, and live art demonstrations. May 4, 12 – 6pm North Charleston Riverfront Park Spring 2019 | 23
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May 10 – 12, 2019 Greenville, SC artisphere.org Concerts, ballets, live visual art demonstrations, juried art exhibitions, interactive experiences, kid-friendly arts activities, yoga, and the best of Greenville’s food, wine, and craft beer scene: Artisphere packs it all into a three-day festival throughout the West End of downtown Greenville. Founded in 2003, the mission of Artisphere was to create a nationally recognized fine arts festival, and it has since grown into a centerpiece of Greenville’s cultural, happenings while generating a total economic impact of nearly $5.8 million in 2018. If you’ve been meaning to pay Greenville a visit, this is the time.
FESTIVAL BEST BETS ART LAB The Art Lab showcases an itinerary of expert artists at work and allows you to try your hand at DIY projects to nurture the artist within. 24 | theartmag.com
ART IN ACTION In a colorful display of paint and energy, visual performing artist Brian Olsen uses his fingertips, palms, elbows, and up to three brushes in each hand to create portraits of famous people on a four and a half by six-foot canvas in a matter of minutes. DEMO ROW If you find yourself wondering, “How did they do it?” then you’ll want to stick around a while to watch expert artists at work as they create handcrafted goods. COMMUNAL SCULPTURE The perfect way to try your hand at creating a piece of temporary public art, everyone is invited to use low-tech PVC pipes and joints to create this large-scale sculptural installation.
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The annual Lowcountry Shrimp Festival is a celebration of the annual Blessing of the Fleet, a long-standing tradition to bless fishermen and shrimpers with a good season...and an excuse to fill your belly with shrimp, beer, and other Lowcountry cuisine. They’ll also have live music and a kid’s corner filled with inflatables, face paint, and a petting zoo.
Over 50,000 guests attend this two-day family friendly festival that highlights local stores, restaurants, and talent in the North Myrtle Beach area. Local bands will entertain guests as they enjoy food vendors, artists and craft booths, and kid friendly activities. Proceeds from this event support local non-profits and community groups.
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This 17-day festival engulfs the city of Charleston with opera, dance, theatre, chamber music, and more. Spoleto is the American counterpart to Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. Charleston’s historic churches, theatres, and public spaces are filled with some of the finest productions from international companies of the highest caliber.
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PICCOLO SPOLETO FESTIVAL May 24 – June 8, 2019 Charleston, SC piccolospoleto.com
Piccolo Spoleto is the sister festival to the concurrent Spoleto Festival USA. Piccolo has a strong visual arts presence, and offers 500+ free or low priced events that welcome both the local community and visitors into the peninsula Charleston boroughs and the neighboring towns and islands.
ORIGINAL GULLAH FESTIVAL OF SOUTH CAROLINA May 24 – 26, 2019 Beaufort, SC originalgullahfestival.org
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Celebrate Charleston’s Gullah Geechee heritage with dance, craft, music, skits, and traditional Geechee cuisine.
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A celebration of music, North Carolina, and its craft brewing traditions, NCBMF will delight you with eight bands and as many NC brewers who can be here, serving free tastings of their finest brews for over three hours, all in the confines of one of the largest open and beautiful areas in Mecklenburg County!
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SOUTH END HOPS FESTIVAL May 18, 2019 Charlotte, NC southendhopsfestival.org
The South End Hops Festival brings North Carolina breweries, food trucks, and bands together, with proceeds benefiting RescuedMe.
MONTFORD MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL May 18, 2019 Asheville, NC montfordfestival.org
Two historic streets in the Montford community will be lined with over 100 artists, craftsmen, plants, and food vendors. Music will be played live nonstop throughout the day with more than 20 bands scheduled to perform on two stages.
ARTSPLOSURE: RALEIGH ARTS FESTIVAL May 18 – 19, 2019 Raleigh, NC artsplosure.org
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TASTE OF CHARLOTTE June 7 – 9, 2019 Charlotte, NC tasteofcharlotte.com
Get your taste buds ready. Featuring more than 30 local restaurants, guests are able to sample appetizers, entrees, and desserts while being entertained by street performers and music.
AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL June 13 – July 20, 2019 Durham, NC americandancefestival.org
Each summer Durham becomes the “beating heart of the dance world” as dance companies from around the world gather to premiere their work. This festival is a major influence in the modern dance world, with over 26,000 people seeing performances by more than 20 companies each season.
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July 18 – 21, 2019 Asheville, NC southernhighlandguild.org
BEER, BOURBON, & BBQ FESTIVAL Aug 2 – 3, 2019 Cary, NC beerandbourbon.com
Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ are the three key ingredients to this traveling festival. The admission ticket grants access to tastings of over 60 beers and 40 bourbons, and barbeque vendors will be nearby for when the hunger kicks in.
HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL September 5 – 7, 2018 Raleigh, NC hopscotchmusicfest.com
Over three days and 12 venues, Hopscotch Music Festival will host over 130 bands, with 25% of the bands being from or based in NC. A wide variety of musical genres take over Raleigh in a citywide celebration of the arts and creativity. Spring 2019 | 31
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May 3 – 5, 2019 Atlanta, GA shakykneesfestival.com This is three days of stellar music lineups. If money and time are no object, go for the three-day VIP pass and tie your shoes tight…there’s dancing to be done.
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OLD FOURTH WARD ARTS FESTIVAL September 28 - 29, 2019 Atlanta, GA oldfourthwardparkartsfestival.com
The Old Fourth Ward Arts Festival at the Historic Fourth Ward Park is a two-day celebration of community and tradition for people of all ages, races, customs, and interests. The festival is a major celebration of the arts while honoring the rich history of the community.
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More than 70 artists descend on Marion Square for the 40th annual Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibition— don't get lost in the crowd! So who should you seek out this year? We’ve worked with the artists to produce a handy guide to what’s happening at the outdoor exhibition to keep you in the know. Here is a tent-by-tent guide for all of the can’t-miss artwork. Logistics: The PSOAE is held from May 24 – June 9 in the heart of downtown in Marion Square, with artists’ tents running predominantly along the Calhoun St and Meeting St sides of the park. Parking: If a coveted on-street parking spot is not available, try the Marion Square Garage right across the street at 399 King St. The Visitor’s Center Garage at 63 Meeting St and George St Parking Garage at 34 St. Philip St are also close by.
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Sheryl Stalnaker Sheryl Stalnaker wants you to feel the energy in her paintings. “I strive to pull the viewer into participation with the scene, such as feeling the tranquility of a still morning or the rolling of waves in the sea,” she explains. Stalnaker often starts a painting on location and studies her subject from life. “I immerse myself in the landscape, gathering artistic inspiration while boating to remote areas, kayaking, surfing, or hiking in the mountains.” She builds up layers of paint using a brush and palette knife, both adding
paint and scraping away to add depth and an interesting textural element to her work. From a distance, the viewer is pulled into the painting, but when viewed closer, her work is impressionistic and even abstract in places, helping her work convey a mood and not just a representation of the scene. sherylstalnaker.com @sheryl_stalnaker_ar tist Martin Galler y 18 Broad St, Charleston
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Merrie McNair Merrie McNair first used her love of color and texture creating interior spaces for her interior design clients after graduating from Parsons School of Design. Now, her expressions are through a paintbrush, with a style balanced between realism and impressionism. As a South Carolina native, McNair spent her childhood summers roaming the beaches and waters of the Lowcountry, and she draws from these memories to create. “I hope my
paintings evoke the senses—a vacation, a childhood memory, or a feeling that only nature can inspire,” she says. This year, McNair will have an array of Lowcountry scenes, from creek sunsets to plated oysters, along with more modern interpretations and representational abstracts. merriemcnair.com @merriemcnairstudio
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Dianne Munkittrick Dianne Munkittrick has devoted herself to the outdoors. From her work on vegetation studies while earning her degree in wildlife management to her career with the US Forest Services, Munkittrick has done everything from radio-tracking deer and elk to cooking and eating rattlesnake. Her lifetime spent in the outdoors has given Munkittrick the ability to create her vivid and lifelike wildlife and landscape scenes. She uses light and
color to set the mood of her work, translating her love of nature through her art. “I strive to paint beyond the ordinary interpretation of nature,” she explains, “and try to instill the awe and wonder that nature inspires into each piece. I aim to capture that elusive moment that transforms an experience with nature from mundane to magical.” diannemunkittrick.com @dianne_munkittrick_fine_ar t
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Kathy Clark Spending her entire life living on the islands surrounding Charleston has undoubtedly influenced Kathy Clark’s appreciation for marshes, tidal creeks, and the ocean. “Translating these visions on paper or canvas has been one of the most satisfying ways of expressing myself,” she shares.
until settling her mother’s estate and stumbling on an envelope filled with her mother’s personal sketches and drawings that the thought of trying to draw and paint entered her mind. “I felt as if my mother sent a message from heaven to bring me out of my grieving period.”
Clark combines impressionism with a touch of realism in her work and states she is always developing her artistic abilities. “I’ll always consider myself an art student and admit that my art career began in my later years after my children were grown,” she says. It wasn’t
kathyclarkfinear t.com @kathyclarkfinear t Perspective Galler y 1055 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, Mt. Pleasant
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Elaine Berlin This will be Elaine Berlin’s 29th year as a participating artist in the exhibition. If you were in Charleston in 2007, you may recognize her artwork from when her piece “Rembrandt’s Favorite” was selected as the official Piccolo Spoleto poster that year. Or more recently, you may recognize her artwork as you stroll by Berlin’s, her family-owned clothing store where her work is commonly displayed in the windows along 116 King Street.
She uses bold brushstrokes to create layers of color in her abstract pieces in a way that harmonizes across the canvas. For her newest work, she is starting to incorporate a palette knife into her process, giving a more textured look to her pieces. elaineberlinoriginals.com @elaineberlin
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Amanda McLenon Amanda McLenon is a conservationist at heart. She started her career teaching high school biology and completed a masters in marine biology. She was part of a 53-day research cruise to Antarctica and is an Ambassador to the South Carolina Aquarium Sea Turtle Rescue Program. Unexpectedly, she began painting in reverse on glass and incorporating maps she had collected over the years. “A chance experiment with paint led me to art, and I found it to be a much more effective way to convey my emotional connection to the natural world,” McLenon describes. She quickly gained
recognition for her wildlife paintings and style, and in 2012 she received the Lowcountry Artist of the Year award. This year, you can expect to see largerthan-life birds on canvas, in motion, flying and preening. “The new series I’m creating features canvases gilded with metal leaf, reminiscent of historic iconography, elevating the status of the subject and reflecting light organically. These pieces are spiritual and full of motion." amandamclenon.com @amandamclenon
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Kellie Jacobs Working primarily in pastel, Kellie Jacobs juxtaposes bright color and soft texture to create mood and expression in her landscapes. "I’m fascinated with the light at the end of the day,” she describes. “When the evening sun is low and warm, touching the tops of the sand dunes and grasses of the marsh, is the time of day I love best." This year, she features her new softly textured pastel paintings, focusing primarily on Lowcountry marshes and beaches. In this new series, she uses watercolor underpaintings with denatured alcohol that creates an intriguing painterly appearance to her work. kelliejacobsart.com Lowcountr y Artists Galler y 148 East Bay St, Charleston Karis Art Galler y 1000 William Hilton Pkwy, Hilton Head
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Hilarie Lambert Hilarie Lambert will tell you she enjoys painting the familiar. Her sense of humor and love of whimsy appears in her subject matter as she paints the rainy day in Paris, not the sunny one, the forgotten radio on the shelf, or the boy feeding pigeons in St. Mark’s Square instead of the Majestic Basilica, all illustrating her joy in the edges of things. For the past three years, Lambert traveled to France, Spain, and Argentina, painting the landscapes. Now she is back in the Lowcountry, focusing on capturing the natural beauty and people of Charleston with her quick, loose but strong brush strokes. “This year’s collection of work at the Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibition reflects this love of my home,” she says. hlambert.com @lambertpaintings
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Lisa Willits Most inspired by the natural beauty of the South Carolina coast, Lisa Willits uses her paintings as a way to explore the things about the landscape that fascinate her. It’s little wonder that glowing skies, tranquil waters, and towering pines are among her favorite subjects to paint. She also captures a particular element of the Lowcountry—the powerful, billowing clouds that hold so much influence over our city. “Paintings with a strong sense of atmosphere have always attracted me, and I strive to emphasize that quality in my artwork as well,” she describes. “I try to convey the sense
of wonder I feel when I’m strolling along the beach and am dwarfed by a towering thunderhead or the calmness that envelopes me while basking in the light of a sublime Lowcountry sunset. I feel very fortunate to live in such a beautiful place, and I hope my paintings provide the viewer with a bit of that serenity to enjoy.” lisawillits.com @lisawillits Lowcountr y Artists Galler y 148 East Bay St, Charleston
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Judy McSween Judy McSween refers to her oil paintings as familiar abstracts. Her paintings are meant to capture experiences that connect us as much as they portray an image. She uses her work to encourage questions and reactions, believing in the power of art to connect people. “I just want you to feel something—like how you react to an ocean sunrise or your favorite song,” she says. Even if you experience discomfort looking at a piece of art, McSween encourages you to acknowledge the feeling. Her reasons for paintings are many, and just as deep and meaningful as her art. “I paint because it brings joy to me
and others, because it preserves sweet memories, because it raises awareness, because it educates, because it heals, and because it is love. I make art to make myself, the people around me, and the world better—one brushstroke at a time.” judymcsween.com @judymcsween Dare Galler y 31 Broad St, Charleston Sandpiper Galler y 2201 Middle St, Sullivan’s Island
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Jennifer Koach Jennifer Koach studied studio art at the University of North Carolina, then she later worked as an interior designer and antique collector after studying at Sotheby's in London. Moving to Hong Kong, she painted theater sets and wall murals in commercial buildings, and after 13 more years in Switzerland, she returned to the States, settling in Kiawah with a studio in Charleston where she has been painting full time for the last 15 years.
scale theater sets and wall murals, gives her work a unique perspective. “I’m certainly not afraid of painting on a big canvas,” she remarks. In fact, she had trouble scaling down at first and had to focus more on composition. “It helped me use large blocks of color and eliminate unnecessary details,” she says. Her painting continues to evolve, and she often finds herself in NYC studying at The Art Students League of New York. “I love the process!”
Her creative talents in the realm of design, particularly with painting large-
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Carla Johannesmeyer Carla Johannesmeyer draws from her own personal narratives to evolve the subject matter in her paintings into sublime moments and dreams “I’m on a journey to further develop and deepen my creative expression,” she says. This year she’s been exploring geometric pattern and harmony in her recent works, enjoying the rhythmic approach of painting mirrored reflections of objects and views found in nature. “These subjects are seemingly unpredictable and chaotic, but with study I can find fractal patterns and golden ratios within its shape and prismatic colors on its surfaces. I view this organization as a counter to an
ever-increasing world of discord, and I find solace in the physical and mental exercise of creating an image.” She prefers a large brush relative to the canvas size and paints with visible, confident brush strokes of layered color. Her work is no stranger to Charleston and has been juried into exhibits at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, City of Charleston Waterfront Gallery, MOJA Festival, and the Gibes Museum of Art. carlajfineart.com @carlj.fineart
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Andre Allen When acrylic paint meets glass, the two marry in a way that doesn’t happen using other media. “The first time I applied acrylic to glass I got excited,” says Andre Allen. The artist, who has dyslexia, describes working with sheets of glass as providing a “sense of freedom.” By painting on the opposite side of clear glass, he is able to envision the front of the painting and work the opposite direction. He then mounts the glass on wood panels, which Allen calls “the frameless frame,” giving the art a
free-flowing feel and the sensation that it continues to move off the picture plane. “The longer I am engaged with this process I realize how unlimited its possibilities are,” he says. wandreallencontemporaryartgallery.com @andreallenstudio W. Andre Allen Contemporar y Art Galler y 140 East Bay St, Charleston
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Lu Bentley Her passion for shape, line, and shading began in childhood and has grown into a calling. Inspired by the natural elements of plant material, strong sunlight, and dancing shadows, Lu Bentley created her current series of vivid, colorful acrylic and oil shadow paintings. “I love to paint shadows, in many colors, shapes and sizes,” describes Bentley. “Just as with people, the shadow side can be filled with depth, wonder, and joy—but, most importantly, with joy.”
straight from my heart and mind, and out my fingers," she says. “When my paintings begin to glow and make me smile, I know I’m on the right path. My goal is to transfer my joy of life through the paint and share it with the viewer.” lubentley.com Studio 151 Fine Arts 175 Church St, Charleston
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Joyce Harvey Boating around the Lowcountry or sailing the East Coast from Florida to New England is how Joyce Harvey spends much of her time. Which makes sense, since many of her paintings reflect her lifelong love of the water.
made me want to touch them,” she recalls. “I love the added dimension of how thick paint captures but also reflects light, allowing one painting to create different moods in changing light conditions.”
Harvey specializes in expressive small oil paintings created with both palette knife and brush. She began painting with a palette knife—enjoying the energy, excitement, texture, and vivid colors it allowed her to create. “Even as a child I was always drawn to paintings that
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Ivo Kerssemakers Ivo Kerssemakers captures natural scenes using long-exposure photography to create dreamy, often surreal, moments. Born in the Netherlands and raised in Amsterdam, he moved to the United States in 1997, ultimately settling in Murrells Inlet, SC. In 2015, he began pursuing photography professionally, with an emphasis on clean, surrealistic, minimalist type imagery.
“I create this effect by using a long exposure technique, where I use neutral density filters up to 16 stops to achieve exposure times of over 4 minutes in bright daylight,� he explains. He recently started printing his photographs on brushed aluminum as well as canvas, art papers, and birch wood. ivokerssemakers.com @ivokee Spring 2019 | 67
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Bob Graham Being born here in the Lowcountry, Bob Graham, who is also affectionately known as The Saltwater Cowboy, draws inspiration for his artwork from the love and affinity he has for this special place and the folks who live here. “I like to focus on individuals— what they’re feeling or thinking,” says Graham.
after an event. “It’s in this moment of contemplation and reflection that I find my subject matter,” he describes. "It's not what you look at that matters so much—it's what you see. I believe everyone has a story to tell if we just truly take the time to listen."
He uses graphite and watercolor to capture the moment right before or
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ART SHOWS Joseph “P-Nut” Johnson, Just About To Jam, acrylic on poster board, 22 x 27.5
Spreading Lowcountry Love
Fortunate
featuring P-Nut
MAY - JULY The Vendue Charleston’s Art Hotel 19 Vendue Range, Charleston thevendue.com
MAY 3 – JULY 13 Dog & Horse Fine Art 102 Church St, Charleston dogandhorsefineart.com
Group Show
Amanda Krantz, Be Like Water, mixed media on canvas, 28 x 48 diptych
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Linwood, Waves, mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36
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ART GALLERIES
Neema Fine Art Gallery
Charleston’s newest art gallery puts the spotlight on African-American Southern artists, with both big-name and emerging artists on its roster. In addition to contemporary paintings and mixed media pieces that often feature larger-than-life African-American women, the gallery represents a number of impressive jewelry makers.
3 Broad St, Charleston neemagallery.com 843.353.8079
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Hagan Fine Art
Whether you find artist and owner Karen Hagan or one of her gallery’s 40-something other artists with a wet paintbrush in hand, it feels like someone is always creating at this expansive space on King Street. Perhaps that’s why the gallery has such a contagious energy. Hagan’s body of work consists of impressionistic Charleston street scenes and painterly landscapes; the other artists’ work varies from whimsical European streetscapes to handmade iron light fixtures.
177 King St, Charleston haganfineart.com 843.901.8124
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Atrium Art Gallery Contemporary art lovers, take note. Atrium Art Gallery may be located in a historic and quaint stucco building on Queen Street, but the walls inside are lined with bright abstract paintings, floral silk screens, and evocative blackand-white photographs. The gallery represents both local and national contemporary artists, with a bend towards nature (think representations of trees and birds and water-like abstracts).
61 Queen St, Charleston atriumartgallery.com 843.973.3300
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Wells Gallery You’ll have to make the trek off of the historic peninsula and on to Kiawah Island to visit Wells Gallery—a trek that’s worth it just for the scenic drive alone. Located within the Sanctuary Hotel, Wells Gallery is dedicated to providing art focused on the Lowcountry and the Southern experience. The artists who show their work here are quite notable—Karen Larson Turner, Stephen Scott Young, and Jonathan Green (yes, that Jonathan Green) to name a few. 1 Sanctuary Beach Dr, Kiawah Island
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DOWNTOWN Visual Arts
*Charleston Gallery Associate Member CGA Art Walks are held the first Friday of each month, 5-8pm
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91 Church St | 843.722.4773 carolinaantiqueprints.com
2. Dog & Horse
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102 Church St. | 843.577.5500 dogandhorsefineart.com
3. Charleston Renaissance Gallery
103 Church St | 843.723.0025 charlestonrenaissancegallery.com
4. Helena Fox Fine Art* 106-A Church St 843.723.0073 helenafoxfineart.com
5. DiNello Art Gallery
111 E Bay St | 843.764.9941 lauradinello.com
14. Horton Hayes Fine Art*
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15. Revealed Art Gallery*
28. Meyer Vogl Gallery*
30 State St | 843.958.0014 hortonhayes.com 119-A Church St 843.872.5606 revealedgallery.com
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124 Church St | 843.958.0010 gayesandersfisher.com
17. John Carroll Doyle Art Gallery*
125 Church St | 843.577.7344 johncdoyle.com
18. Miller Gallery*
149 1/2 East Bay St 843.764.9281 millergallerychs.com
120 Meeting St | 843.276.5899 alkyon.us 122 Meeting St. | 843.805.7144 meyervogl.com
29. Principle Gallery*
125 Meeting St | 843.727.4500 principlegallery.com
30. Sportsman’s Gallery*
165 King St | 843.727.1224 sportsmansgallery.com
31. Hagan Fine Art*
177 King Street | 843.901.8124 haganfineart.com
32. Reinert Fine Art*
179 King St. | 843.345.1785 reinertfineart.com
6. Corrigan Gallery*
19. Charleston Artist Guild*
33. LePrince Fine Art*
7. Neema Gallery*
20. W. Andre Allen
34. Audubon Gallery*
7 Broad St | 843.722.9868 corrigangallery.com 1 1/2 Broad St | 843.353.8079 neemagallery.com
8. Edward Dare Gallery
31 Broad St | 843.853.5002 edwarddare.com
9. Martin Gallery*
18 Broad St | 843.723.7378 martingallerycharleston.com
10. The George Gallery
54 Broad St | 843.579.7328 georgegalleryart.com
11. Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art*
58 Broad St | 843.722.3660 ellarichardson.com
12. Cecil Bryne Gallery*
60 Broad St | 843.312.1891 cecilbyrnegallery.com
13. Mary Martin Gallery of Fine Art
103 Broad St | 843.723.0303 marymartinart.com
160 East Bay St | 843.722.2425 charlestonartistguild.com
Contemporary Art Gallery 140 East Bay St | 843.732.9011 wandreallencontemporary artgallery.com
21. Anglin Smith Fine Art*
9 Queen St | 843.853.0708 anglinsmith.com
22. The Vendue*
19 Vendue Rg | 843.577.7970 thevendue.com
23. Robert Lange Studios*
2 Queen St | 843.805.8052 robertlangestudios.com
24. Gordon Wheeler Gallery* 180 E Bay St | 843.722.2546 gordonwheelergallery.com
25. Lowcountry Artists Gallery*
148 E Bay St | 843.577.9295 lowcountryartists.com
26. Atrium Art Gallery*
61 Queen St | 843.973.3300 atriumartgallery.com
184 King St | 843.442.1664 leprince.com 190 King St | 843.853.1100 audubonart.com
35. Chuma Gullah Gallery
188 Meeting St | 843.722.1702 gallerychuma.com
36. One of A Kind Art and Fine Craft
74 N Market St | 843.534.1774 oneofakindgallery.com
37. Studio 151*
175 Church St | 843.579.9725 studio151finearts.com
38. Tate Nation
257 King St. | 843.568.9911 tatenation.com
39. Jennifer Black
265 King St | 843.763.0861 lowcountrystudio.com/Jennifer.htm
40. Grand Bohemian Gallery* 55 Wentworth St 843.724.4130 grandbohemiangallery.com
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42. Mitchell Hill*
44. Molly B. Right
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416 King St | 843.410.1495 benhamimages.com
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PERFORMING ARTS
Charleston Theatre
K E E P U P W I T H T H E L AT E S T A RT S E V E N T S AT T H E A RT M AG . C O M / E V E N T S OR BY SIGNING UP FOR T H E A RT M AG N E W S L E T T E R
34 WEST 200 Meeting St | 843.901.9343 34west.org
QUEEN STREET PLAYHOUSE 20 Queen St | 843.722.4487 footlightplayers.net
THRU JUNE 1: POWER OF LOVE
PURE THEATRE 134 Cannon St | 843.723.4444 puretheatre.org
America’s sweetheart hires the city’s worst detective agency in this ‘80s musical-comedy. JUNE 14 – SEP 7:: SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE The faculty of Arden High return for a new musical-comedy to the max. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE AT 34 WEST MAY 19: I’M NOT RUNNING JUNE 23: ALL ABOUT EVE JULY 21: THE AUDIENCE CHARLESTON STAGE AT DOCK STREET THEATRE 135 Church St | 843.577.7183 charlestonstage.com JUNE 14 – 30: SHEAR MADNESS
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VILLAGE REP AT WOOLFE STREET PLAYHOUSE 34 Woolfe St | 843.856.1579 woolfestreetplayhouse.com THRU MAY 18: HOLLYWOOD by Joe DiPietro The mysteries unfold in this true unsolved Hollywood crime story about famed director William Desmond Taylor found murdered in his home in 1922. MAY 9: VILLAGE REP GALA Lights, Camera Auction!
MAY 24 – JUNE 2: ALL ABOUT YOU by Liz Butler Duren With heart, humor, and bittersweet reflections of a South Carolina girlhood, Liz shares her story about the search for her biological mother and her struggle to find her place in the world. Since Woolfe Street Playhouse will serve as a venue for Spoleto Festival USA, The Village Rep will present All About You at Threshold Repertory Theatre as part of Piccolo Spoleto.
The 2019 Gala and Live Auction to benefit The Village Repertory Co.
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11. Music Farm 32 Ann St | 843.577.6989 musicfarm.com
12. PURE Theatre 477 King St | 843.723.4444 puretheatre.org
13. Charleston Academy of Music
189 Rutledge Ave 843.805.7794 charlestonmusic.org
14. Jazz Artists of Charleston/ Charleston Jazz Orchestra 93 Spring St | 843.641.0011 jazzartistsofcharleston.org
15. Woolfe Street Playhouse/ Village Rep.
34 Woolfe St | 843.856.1579 woolfestrretplayhouse.com
“WAVES”
“WHEN WE’RE TOGETHER”
LINWOOD
SARA PITTMAN
48 X 36 | MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS
60 X 48 | MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS
“INTO THE SPRING” ELIZABETH FOSTER 24 X 36 | ACRYLIC ON PANEL
CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY
Thirty works of art by thirty artists, each accompanied by the fortunes used to inspire them. This exhibit will help raise funds for local non-profit, I Heart Hungry Kids, and their mission of kids helping kids fight hunger.
Juan Cossio ‘Zen Dream’ mixed media on panel 71 x 32 in
19 VENDUE RANGE CHARLESTON, SC
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