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Yvette
Cummings: Revisited
Saturday
August 28, 2004 – Saturday October 2, 2004
Opening
reception Thursday, September 9, 2004
City
Art Opens the Cultural Season with Yvette Cummings:
Revisited
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COLUMBIA
S.C.---Yvette Cummings explores both the art of encaustic
painting and large-scale figurative oil painting.
Her solo exhibit at City Art Gallery entitled
“Revisited” opens Saturday, August 28, 2004 and continues
through Saturday, October 2, 2004.
City Art will host a reception with the artist
September 9, 2004, 6 to 8 p.m. The public is welcome.
Encaustic,
a technique used by the ancient Greeks, is a medium comprised
of melted wax and colored pigment. Once the wax hardens, a
rich, unique texture and finish is produced on the surface.
“Encaustics are used as a metaphor for the physical body.
Its constant shifts in malleability mirror our own
physicality,” according to Cummings.
Cummings’
show delves into her visualizations of the internal. The
organic forms within the encaustic pieces conceptualize a
perception of what sensations inside the body would “look
like”. In her
large-scale figurative oil paintings she utilizes the inside
of fruit to represent the inside of the body and placese those
images next to the female figure to compare the internal and
the external.
Influenced
by 19th century images and painting styles,
Cummings incorporates images taken from Pablo Picasso’s La
famille de saltimbanques (Family of Acrobats). In PP
spreading his pomegranates, Cummings strays from the
original content of Picasso’s acrobats. Three foreground
figures are used to create a family dynamic that illustrates
the external effects of the internal transformations. In
the appropriation of John Singer Sergeant’s The Daughters
of Edward D. Boit, Cummings depicts beautiful children to
create a façade for these internal changes.
A
native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Cummings is an adjunct art
instructor at the University of South Carolina and has shown
her work in a number of group exhibitions throughout the
Midwest. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the
University of Cincinnati in 2003.
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