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August Issue 2007
Pickens County Museum of Art & History in Pickens, SC, Features Three Photography Exhibitions
The Pickens County Cultural Commission is pleased to announce a very special exhibition at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History in Pickens, SC. The exhibit, Trends in Photography, featuring works by thirty-five regional photographers will continue through Aug. 25, 2007.
Serving as a survey on the state of photography in the South Carolina Upcountry, Trends in Photography is an ambitious endeavor featuring photographers as artisans through three separate thematic displays.
The main exhibit, in the museum's G-1 Gallery is simply Photographers in the Carolina Upcountry and consists of a wide range of regional photographers dealing with a wide variety of techniques and subject matter. Included in this mix are Terri Bright, Barbara Ann Castelloe, Terry Davenport, Polly Donohue, Marie Gruber, Jack Kates III, Sandy King, Thomas King, Carl Lane, Steve Marlow, Mali Martin Hardy, Dede Norungolo, Ernie Norungolo, Ken Osburn, Blaine Owens, Bev Peeples, Jack Schmidt, Kim Sholly, Robert Silance, Blake Smith, Steve Stinson, Rebecca Stockham, Dana Taylor and Skip Woodward.
In the museum's new wing Focus Gallery, featured is The Manipulated Image, which features the work of five artists that may begin with photography, but through one means or another, manipulates that photograph into something new. Manipulations may include hand coloring or altering, digital treatments and a variety of installation work. Nonetheless, it remains photography in a broad sense of the word. Included in The Manipulated Image are Debbie Cooke, David McIlwain, Phil Moody, Michael Slattery and Jean Paul Tousignant.
Finally, the museum has brought together, in the Sealevel Gallery, an elite group of six true artisans that, through conversation with numerous regional photographers and the museum's own curatorial staff, might be known as The Photographers' Photographers. This diverse mix of talented professionals, consisting of Clay Bolt, A. David Crosby, Diane HopkinsHughs, Blake Praytor, Bill Robertson and Sam Wang will represent the aspirations found in the numerous strata of any arts community.
From this group of photographers, a cross section
of styles is represented and a figurative pulse-taking of the
photographic arts is accomplished. As each artist looks at the
world around them and explores the variety of media and technique
that is available to them, they share with the viewer what it
is that they have found, and what it is that they present as part
of the numerous 'trends in photography'.
The Pickens County Museum of Art & History is funded
in part by Pickens County, members and friends of the museum and
a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives
support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more info check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call 864/898-5963 or visit (www.co.pickens.sc.us/culturalcommission).
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