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February Issue
2011
Sumter County Gallery of Art in Sumter,
SC, Offers Three New Exhibits
The Sumter County Gallery of Art in Sumter,
SC, is presenting three new exhibits including: the 33rd Annual
South Carolina Watermedia Society Traveling Exhibition, the
Sumter Artists' Guild Winners Show and Bobbi Adams:
Ephemera, all on view through Feb, 18, 2011.
The South Carolina Watermedia Society (SCWS) is the largest statewide
visual arts guild with a mission to promote South Carolina artists
by providing exhibition opportunities and educational programs.
The 2010 SCWS Traveling Exhibition is an especially vibrant
one. The juror for the show was Barbara Nechis. She has been a
faculty member of Parsons School of Design and has taught seminars
at Pratt Institute and throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
She has served as a juror and director of the American Watercolor
Society, and is the author of Watercolor From the Heart
and Watercolor the Creative Experience.
Winner of the Best in Show award was The Letter by Kathy
Caudill. Sumter is well represented in the show with two Sumter
artists represented including Denise Greer, who won the Guy Lipscomb
Memorial Award for her mixed media work Daybreak and Rose
Metz, who won the William Randolph Sims Family Award for her acrylic
Still Life.
Sumter County Gallery of Art Director Karen Watson says this is
evidence of what Sumter residents have known for a long time;
Sumter is a city rich in artists and artistic talent. Frank McCauley,
Asst. Director and Curator of the Sumter County Gallery of Art,
says that this show "Has a wonderful selection of diverse
work with a little something for everybody. The variety of imagery
and subject matter is stunning; from mixed media abstract works
to more traditional representational work including landscapes,
figural, and still life compositions. The South Carolina Watermedia
Society show is one of the finest examples of the incredible talent
of South Carolina artists."
McCauley goes on to say, "that this year's Sumter Artists
Guild Winners Show is also an exciting one because it showcases
such a broad range of mediums and approaches."
Mary Tuggle's photograph, The Sandlot: Devon, won first
place, Marcia Bugg's exquisite ceramic piece, Vase, won
second place, and Kathy Casey's abstract painting, A Sense
of Place, won third place. Long time Sumter artist, Denise
Greer is also included in this show for her Honorable Mention
piece Poultry in Motion. Rounding out this impressive group
are Gail Young Turnmeyer for her delicate Honorable Mention work
Country Barn, and finally Gary Hallmark's bold Honorable
Mention abstract composition Drive In & Coke.
The Sumter County Gallery of Art is also proud to present a special
exhibition of work by Bishopville, SC, artist and long time guild
member Bobbi Adams. This exhibition, Ephemera, highlights
a selection of her handmade paper collage works that incorporate
elements from her own environment, that of a Master Gardener,
including but not limited to flowers and seeds, herbs, animal
bones, along with unique cast paper elements and other found and
appropriated objects.
About this series Adams observes: "As I began my artistic
life, my work was rooted in 19th century Impressionism and color
as light. While light is still important, it is not external anymore,
but internal, so my images and medium have changed to incorporate
who I am now and the spiritual direction and inner vision in which
my life has been directed."
Adams was born in 1939 in New Jersey. She graduated in 1961, magna
cum laude, with a BS in zoology from Wheaton College in Wheaton,
IL. She attended the Art Students League and the National Academy
of Design; both in New York City, and while studying at New York
University took part in the international study program in Venice,
Italy for two years. In 1998 she earned an MA in Art from New
York University.
Adams has been in many solo and group exhibitions including exhibitions
at: USC Sumter, Sumter, SC, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC,
Francis Marion University, Florence, SC, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner
Studios, Charleston, SC, the Atlantic City Civic Center, New Jersey
and the Biennale Internazionale Dell' Arte Contemporanea, Florence,
Italy.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the Gallery at 803/775-0543 or visit (www.sumtergallery.org).
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