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January Issue 2004
Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, Features Group Exhibition on Paper
The Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, will present the exhibition, Works on Paper, featuring works by Roscoe Conn, Liisa Jasinski, and Laura Spong. The exhibit will be on view from Jan 10 through Mar. 5, 2004.
Roscoe Conn, a Forest City, NC, resident, currently teaches in the Rutherford County school system. Conn is a self-taught artist who began painting in the early 90's. While painting and showing his work in numerous exhibits at the Blue Spiral 1 in Asheville, NC, and Upstairs Gallery in Tryon, NC. He started painting at an early age, and his works are greatly influenced by the artist Romare Beardon. Conn's mixed media works are bold, color infused cityscapes and landscapes that have an almost folk-art feel to them.
Liisa Jasinski grew up in Helsinki Finland. Her typical Finnish education included art, literature, philosophy, history and the mastery of five languages.
Jasinski's first career was writing; she worked as a journalist and translator. She then wrote plays for the stage and television; and a children's storybook. She received an MA degree in psychology from the University of Helsinki in 1972. Jasinski came to the US as an Au Pair, and from this was able to work with Dr. Alexander Lowen in New York. She pursued a career in psychology, moved to North Carolina, and married in 1980.
Jasinski's career as a professional artist began in 1992. The greatest influences to her work are Kandinsky, Miro and several other abstract expressionists. Her work has won numerous awards and is exhibited in private and corporate collections throughout the US. Jasinski now resides in Newberry, SC, with her husband.
Laura Spong, a resident of Columbia, SC, paints with her fellow artist at Vista Studios in Columbia. She paints in a nonobjective espressionistic style on canvas and paper. Painting since 1991, she has been in numerous shows and exhibits throughout the Southeast. A graduate of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, she majored in Art History and English. Spong also attended art classes at the Richland Art School at Columbia College. Her work is represented in many galleries throughout the Southeast.
Jan. 10 will also be the start of a new venue for Conn Gallery. The gallery will start presenting works by its permanent artists in the front gallery, and rotating shows in the more intimate back space. The gallery's list of permanent artists will be expanding, so come their new setup in 2004.
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings or call the gallery at 864/457-5050.
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