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January Issue
2010
Pickens County
Museum of Art & History in Pickens, SC, Features Works by
Ceramic Artists of the Upstate
The Pickens County Museum of Art & History in Pickens, SC, is presenting the exhibit, The Up'State of Clay, featuring a collection of works by ceramic artists of the Upstate, on view through Feb. 11, 2010.
Virginia Scotchie
Nathan Cox
This collection of works from some of the Upstate's most influential ceramic artists includes work by Alice Ballard, Sharon Campbell, Bob Chance, Gary Clontz, Jim Connell, Nathan Cox, Kyleigh Daigle, Roger Dalrymple, Rob Gentry, Diane Gilbert, Sue Grier, Amy Goldstein-Rice, Lynn Jenkins, Peter Lenzo, Cynthia Link, Jennifer Mecca, Johnny Nutt, Jay Owens, Renee Rouillier, Virginia Scotchie, Paula Smith, Chris Troy, Mike Vatalaro, Ashley Womack, Denise Woodward Detrich and David Zacharias.
Diane Gilbert
The exhibition is guest curated by the Johnny Nutt who says about the show, "South Carolina has a long, rich tradition of ceramic production. Edgefield, South Carolina is recognized widely as the birthplace and earliest center of the alkaline-glazed stoneware tradition in the southern United States, and from there spread as far west as Texas and on up into the northeast. By the middle of the 20th century, however, there were virtually no traditional potters working anymore in South Carolina. Today however, a combination of thriving university-based ceramics programs, such as those at Clemson, the University of South Carolina, Winthrop, and Furman, along with the Professional Clay Program offered by Piedmont Tech in Edgefield, have revitalized ceramic production in South Carolina.
Graduates of these programs,
along with newly-immigrated South Carolinians and self-taught
outsider-
artists have brought an incredible diversity of ceramic production
to the Upstate area of South Carolina. It is the hope of the Pickens
County Museum, through this exhibition, to highlight not just
the work of the twenty-six participating artists but to provide
a unique opportunity for folks to see, in a single stop, the wide
array of ceramic art being produced in the Upstate of South Carolina
in these early days of the 21st century."
This exhibition is part of the museum's 2009 - 2010 exhibition season sponsored by Pickens Savings & Loan and Upstate Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery & Dental Implant Center.
The Pickens County Museum of Art & History is funded in part by Pickens County, members and friends of the museumand a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For further information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the Museum
at 864/898-5963.
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