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June Issue 2005
City Art Gallery in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Ed Shmunes & Robin Smith
City Art Gallery in Columbia, SC, presents the exhibit, Ed Shmunes & Robin Smith: Images, on view from June 16 through July 25, 2005. This exhibit will showcase mostly images of flowers produced both by traditional digital photographic techniques and also the result of scanning objects directly on the scanner. The results are striking, colorful portraits of the natural world.
Surreal, yet honest, Ed Shmunes creates digital
photography that amusingly and beautifully exposes life around
him. The botanical images have bypassed the camera in that the
actual objects have been scanned in a layered fashion along with
chosen materials. The resultant images have been manipulated as
necessary to achieve the end result.
Shmunes has been photographing for eighteen years. During this
period his work has received 101 awards from international, national,
and regional shows. Shmunes' work is in collections at the Columbia
Museum of Art, Southwest Texas State University Art Gallery and
the South Carolina State Art Collection. His work also is included
in numerous private and corporate collections.
"I see my work as a visual ongoing commentary on the world that's whizzing by me," says Shmunes. "This environment with its juxtaposed absurdities leaves intrusive imprints on my persona and its outpourings. I use humor to cover up the madness and the inevitable anger as I try to make some sense of it as reflected in my work."
Robin Smith photographs the world around him
and creates timeless and classic images. This show at City Art
includes a group of floral "close-ups" that are strikingly
bright and whimsical as well as more traditional floral portraits.
Smith is a native of Louisville, KY. He spent his teenage years
in Charleston, SC, and owns a photographic studio, PhotoVision,
in Columbia, SC. His career spans over thirty years as a commercial
photographer and a producer of video productions, as well as 4
x 5 format black and white fine art photography and watercolor
paintings. A new dimension of his talents is digital photographic
art. He has a deep appreciation of the world around him, which
shows in his photography and paintings.
Smith has exhibited at the Columbia Museum
of Art and other shows in the community. You see his photography
in several books, most noted are: Camden, Homes and Heritage,
Robert Mills, Architect, G. W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate,
and In This Place, a coffee table book illustrating the
Kanuga Conference Center. His work is featured in numerous other
books, brochures and annual reports.
For more info check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call
the gallery at 803/252-3613 or at (www.cityartonline.com).
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