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October Issue
2009
Carolina Galleries
in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Stephen Chesley
Carolina
Galleries in Charleston, SC, will present an exhibit of new works
by Columbia, SC based artist Stephen Chesley, on view from Oct.
2 - 31, 2009.
Known across the Southeast for his fantastically moody, compelling and sometimes dark landscapes, Chesley is one of our most collected artists. His work is frequently likened to the palette and style of 19th Century Tonalist artists such as George Inness or his student Elliott Daingerfield.
Born in 1952 in New
York, Chesley grew up in Virginia Beach, VA. He graduated from
Virginia Commonwealth University and received his Master's degree
from the School of Architecture at Clemson University. Chesley
is a modern tonalist painter yet credits diverse artists such
as Inness, Hopper, Pollock, Rembrandt, and Seurat as influences
in his work. His paintings often depict the fleeting light of
dawn and dusk, combined with primordial elements such as water,
wind, and fire.
Chesley's work is in the collections of BellSouth, Carolina First
Bank, Columbia Museum of Art, Erskine College, Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, National Bank of South Carolina, Savannah College
of Art & Design, State of South Carolina Art Collection, and
others.
Carolina Galleries will also feature 19th and 20th Century Southern art including work of the Charleston Renaissance by Alfred Hutty, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, William Aiken Walker, William Halsey, Elizabeth White, Birge Harrison, and Benjamin Franklin Reinhart. Our contemporary artists are carefully selected to compliment the 19th and 20th Century Southern aesthetic: Craig Crawford, Julyan Davis, Gary Grier, Johnson Hagood, Chestee Harrington, Philip Juras, Tom McNickle, Margaret M. Peery, Philip Smallwood, Mickey Williams, Evan Wilson and Stephen Scott Young.
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
843/720-8622 or visit (www.carolinagalleries.com).
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