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November Issue 2007
Vista Studios in Columbia, SC, Features Fall Group Exhibition
Vista Studios in Columbia, SC, will present Fall Exhibition 2007, which opens at Gallery 80808 as part of Vista Lights on Nov. 15 and continues through Nov. 27, 2007. The exhibit features new works by the 13 artists of Vista Studios. On Nov. 15, from 5-10pm, visitors can tour their open studios. Step in the creative space of each artist and discover a journey underway.
Pat Gilmartin
Pat Gilmartin pursues two established directions in her ceramic work in Fall Exhibition. The bas relief disk Hurricane Katrina is carved with symbols of flood waters, broken levees, and refugee trailers. This topical work achieves archeological weight. In contrast the delightful Chase is a suspended figure striding with elongated limbs.
Laura Spong contributes evocative non-objective paintings to the exhibition. Each is an expressionist journey that, the artist hopess prompts the viewer's own introspective journey.
The literal and figurative journey factors into one of Don Zurlo's new canvases. Zurlo translated a stream of consciousness sketch made while on a road trip to a family wedding into Wedge North in Off Beam Mode.
Susan Lenz continues her materials exploration
with Strata Series, inspired by cross sections of the earth's
surface. Stitched to water-soluble fabric (which is later rinsed
away) each Strata is a lace of horizontal fibers and free-motion
embroidery. The surface evokes sedimentary earth, veins of metal,
and faceted gemstones.
In the hands of Sharon Licata, stone is but a veil. Licata carves
alabaster to daring thinness in Through the Veil to depict
the thin veil between worlds. A second sculpture, Getting back
on the Totem, is a limestone testament to power regained when
a woman restores herself high in her own priorities.
Jeff Donovan adds to Fall Exhibition his signature paper clay-built figures that are both whimsical and serene. Painter Stephen Chesley contributes landscapes. Each canvas is a haunting play of shadowed and luminous forms, an uneasy pause at evening's last light. And, Ethel Brody presents the light-hearted "fantasy" Big Rock Candy Mountain and the hard edged Color Wheel Series. The five paintings of the series are a fresh exploration of color fundamentals.
David Yaghjian
The circus continues in the playful and deftly scribed paintings of David Yaghjian. His familiar old man in briefs heroically lifts a bull and launches from a high dive. Pat Callahan questions the forces at play in her juggling of competing passions and responsibilities in new shadow boxes titled scattershot, trying to hold center, and spin again. New mixed media works by Heidi Darr Hope, landscape paintings by Michel McNinch, and figurative works by Robert Kennedy complete the exhibition.
For further info check our SC Commercial
Gallery listings, call 803/252-6134 or visit (www.gallery80808vistastudios.com).
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