January Issue 2001
On the Edge of the Circle: Fine Arts in Multiple Media and Book Illustrations by Tyrone Geter
South Carolina artists Tyrone Geter will be featured in the upcoming Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum exhibit which opens Sunday, Jan. 14 and will continue through Feb. 22 in Myrtle Beach, SC. Geter, who teaches and curates the fine arts gallery at Benedict College in Columbia, will be showing an overview of 20 years of work in oil, charcoal, pastel, and collage, along with original works from children's books he has illustrated in the last 10 years.
The show will reflect Geter's ongoing theme of making connections with his African-American experience and Africa. In the 1980's, Geter lived and taught art in Nigeria. His paintings from that period are realistic and serve to educate about life in Africa as well as to explore his personal themes. Since returning to the United States in 1987, Geter's work has evolved into studies in motion, mixed media and collage. Most recently it has become three-dimensional as Geter explores coming out from the canvas and his framing becomes an integral part of the work.
Geter has illustrated nine children's books, including Sunday Week by South Carolina author Dinah Johnson. While this story has a rural setting, he portrays domestic and street scenes in the neighborhoods of Harlem in Willie Jerome and Irene and the Big, Fine Nickel. White Socks Only, which deals with civil rights issues in 1950's Mississippi, has been named to numerous lists, including the American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists" and Smithsonian Magazine's "Notable Books for Children." Little Tree Growin' in the Shade is a dramatically illustrated lyric history of Black American ties to Africa. Geter has also illustrated numerous book jackets, as well as doing artwork for school textbooks. The Museum has extended invitations to the Horry and Georgetown school districts to bring classes to the exhibit free of charge, so that students may experience original works of art by a noted illustrator of books for children and youth.
Before moving to South Carolina in 1999, Geter was with the art faculty at the University of Akron in Ohio. He has exhibited widely in one-man and group exhibitions throughout the eastern United States, as well as in other countries of the world, and is represented in public and private collections throughout the world. In 2000, Geter received first prize in the MOJA national juried art exhibition in conjunction with Charleston's Spoleto festival. He was also an award winner in the previous year's exhibition, as well as in the 1999 South Carolina State Fair.
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