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November Issue 2007
Columbia College in Columbia, SC, Offers Works by Linda Fantuzzo, Mary Walker, & Manning Williams
The Department of Art at Columbia College in
Columbia, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Framing Space: Linda
Fantuzzo, Mary Walker, Manning Williams, on view in the Goodall
Gallery in the R. Wright Spears Music Art Center through Dec.
3, 2007.
The exhibit features works on paper by three acclaimed Charleston
artists, examines the manipulation of space to both create an
idea of place that goes beyond the traditional landscape genre,
and to frame a frequently elusive but nonetheless enticing narrative.
Linda Fantuzzo, Mary Walker and Manning Williams
- all Lowcountry artists who have exhibited widely across the
United States - share strong similarities in their classical training
and ongoing dialogue with place and space. The three differ in
their choice of media and stylistic approaches, even within the
limited context of works on paper.
The exhibition features approximately fifty works that showcase
the artists' different approaches to manipulating space and framing
a narrative. This exhibition is co-curated by Mary Gilkerson,
Professor of Art, and her daughter Julia Gilkerson, former Coordinator
of the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, SC.
Linda Fantuzzo
Fantuzzo was born in New York, but has lived in Charleston for more than twenty-five years. She received her formal training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the College of Charleston. She has been featured in many one-person and group exhibitions at venues such as the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, the Greenville County Museum of Art and the Burroughs & Chapin Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC. Fantuzzo's work hangs in numerous public, corporate and private collections, among them the Bank of South Carolina, Doonbeg Golf Club in Ireland and Kiawah Resort Association.
Manning Williams
Manning Williams, a Charleston native, graduated from the College of Charleston. He pursued graduate studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he met Fantuzzo. Over the course of his career he has shown nationally and internationally with solo and group exhibitions at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, New Orleans, Washington, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Art and the Greenville Museum of Art among others.
Williams' work is included in public and corporate collections such as the SC Arts Commission, R.J. Reynolds Corporation, Citizens and Southern National Bank, Post & Courier Publishing Company, Kiawah Resort Association, Greenville County Museum, South Carolina State Museum and the Gibbes Museum of Art.
Mary Walker
Mary Walker was born in New York, but grew up in North Carolina. She attended the Art Students League in New York, where she studied with Isaac Soyer. Her training also included post-graduate courses at the New York Academy of Art and the College of Charleston. Walker is represented by galleries across the Southeast and East Coast. She was the 2006 recipient of the CCF's Donna and Mike Griffith Lowcountry Artists Fund Award and featured that year in a solo retrospective at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston.
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