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December Issue 2004
City Gallery
at Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Nance
Lee Sneddon
The City
Gallery at Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC, will present
an exhibit of mixed media on canvas entitled, Look How Far
the Light Came, by Charleston artist, Nance Lee Sneddon, from
Dec. 8 through Jan. 7, 2005.
Sneddon is a self-taught artist who was born in southwestern Pennsylvania
in 1958. She moved to Hilton Head Island, SC, in 1978. While living
in Hilton Head, she started her own women's accessories business
where she combined her paintings and designs for gifts to produce
wearable art. Sneddon's work has evolved onto large, loose, painted
canvases with the look of contemporary tapestry, interweaving
stylized images of nature and symbols. Her work hangs in the United
States Embassies in Australia and Jordan for the "Arts in
Embassy Program" as well as MUSC Health Care facilities,
restaurants, and private collections.
Sneddon comments on her work: "Can a happy painter become
a 'moody painter'? Sometimes you do not have a choice. I have
been working through special challenges in the last year: in life,
on paper, on wood, on canvas, in acrylic, in oil, in pencil, and
with block printing. I plowed through many mediums with ridiculous
extravagance trying to figure out how to make them suit my self-taught
stubborn mind. It was a journey, and most of the time, alone in
the studio, with the music on, thinking to myself, I know who
I am and why I paint. So I ask again, can a happy painter become
a 'moody painter'? Yes, and sometimes it's fun!"
For further info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings,
call 843/724-7305 or at (www.ci.charleston.sc.us/oca.html).
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