February Issue 2001
Francis Marion University in Florence, SC, Features Three New Exhibits
The art galleries of Francis Marion University
in Florence, SC, are displaying three exhibits on view through
Mar. 2. Glasswork from One Eared Cow Glass and photos by Ann Lane
will be displayed in the Hyman Fine Arts Center galleries. Also
through Mar. 16, paintings by Mana Hewitt will be exhibited in
the Smith University Center Gallery.
One Eared Cow Glass is one of only two working glass studios in
SC, offering a rare opportunity for visitors to see skilled craftsmen
using the techniques and tools of an art form dating back thousands
of years. At the Columbia studio, visitors can watch molten glass
that has been heated to 2,400 degrees, blown and shaped into a
work of art. The studio was founded in 1992 by three young art
graduates from the University of South Carolina.
Lane's Impressions of Mexico exhibit includes photos taken in San Miguel de Allende, a colonial city designated as a national monument by the Mexican government. Lane has been visiting and photographing Mexico since 1991. Many of the photographs in the exhibit were taken in September and October 2000 during celebrations. Lane is a resident of Marion, SC, and retired in 1997 after working for 27 years at Wellman Inc. in Johnsonville, SC.
Hewitt is gallery director and an instructor in the Department of Art at the University of South Carolina. "My paintings stem from three areas of interests: the figure, the use of a metallic surface as illumination, and a fascination with body decoration," she said. "Thus my work becomes a synthesis of these elements. In turn, this allows me to explore body decoration as symbolic of individual mythology and light as created by surface."
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