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November Issue 2007
City of Charleston Features Works by EMS Barnwell
The City Gallery at the Gaillard Auditorium (second floor) in Charleston, SC, a temporary venue during renovations to the Dock Street Theatre, will present the exhibit, New Drawings by EMS Barnwell, featuring works of pen, ink, and pencil on paper, from Nov. 6 - 30, 2007.
Born in 1972 in Atlanta, GA, Barnwell grew up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, spending early childhood years all the way through high school on what was then an underdeveloped Kiawah Island, SC. In 1994, she received a BFA from the College of Charleston and was awarded the 1994 Liberace Foundation Scholarship for Visual and Performing Arts.
After teaching for a while in Dallas, TX, Barnwell returned to the Lowcountry to document offshore sea excursions, through pen and ink drawings, and simultaneously earned a USCG Captain's Licence. In 1989, she completed a residency program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, NY. Barnwell's drawings and oil paintings are in private and public collections throughout California, Colorado, New York, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Barnwell comments on her work, "Capturing the spirit of change, this body of work explores present day places and the energy and activity surrounding them. When the line roams freely, the process of drawing becomes as important as the finished work. The drawings become less representational and become more about movement, space and time."
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call Francina Smalls-Joyner at the City at 843/724-7305
or visit (www.ci.charleston.sc.us/oca.html).
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