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November Issue 2009

Vista Studios in Columbia, SC, Offers Group Show for Vista Lights

Vista Studios' 13 artists will be participating in this year's 24th Vista Lights celebration held on Nov. 19, 2009, from 5-10pm. Come see our new exhibition and visit with the artists as they open their studios and discuss their processes. There are two new artists at the studios, Deanna Leamon and Kirkland Smith. Although they are new to Vista Studios, they are well known around Columbia as two of its finest artists. Come by and see their new studios. The exhibit of works will be on view through Nov. 30, 2009.

Deanna Leamon has filled her new studio with figurative images, including Arms Akimbo. The inspiration for this piece is a certain kind of, nasty sort of, person. Head Study will also be included in the show. "I've been working on heads for a while, everything you might want to express about being human can be done with the head," says Leamon.

Kirkland Smith has brought to the studio her new process for creating in assembling non-recyclable materials and post-consumer waste. Marilyn is a portrait of Marilyn Monroe and is constructed from items we consume and discard daily. She will also include Sixty Minute Man painted in the classical tradition from live model.

Susan Lenz, fiber artist, will show five of the newest pieces in her Decision Portrait Series, which focuses on personal choices without value judgment. Each work is a xylene photo transfer on tea-stained muslin with hand embroidery. The stitched words and titles are meant to reflect the choices made by those depicted, as in the works, Recycler, Patriot, and Living with HIV.

Ethel S. Brody, a non-objective painter, is exhibiting a large painting entitled Multiplicities as well as several smaller works from her Stripe Series.

Jeff Donovan will have mixed media figurative works on canvas mounted to panel.

Pat Gilmartin will be showing several new ceramic sculptures that she completed during the summer. Her most recent piece is called Baobab: The Tree of Life. Her interest is in its fascinating form: a massive trunk with just a cluster of small limbs at the top which sometimes resemble roots.

David Yaghjian continues his figurative "semi-narratives" using acrylics, crayons, and chalk on paper. Among the new work that will be on exhibit will be Downward and Two Hats.

Sharon Collings Licata, who is a sculptor, will include Rock Dove III as a continuation of a series of larger than life, but very quiet, meditative bird sculptures. She will also exhibit Moon Goddess, which is an exploration into the figurative. Half life size, it is of a reclining figure, face down with her hair flowing over her hands.

Artists Stephen Chesley, Heidi Darr Hope, Michel McNinch, and Laura Spong will also present new work and open their studios at Vista Studios.

For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings or call Vista Studios at 803/252-6143 to confirm hours.

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