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City
Art Gallery in Columbia, South Carolina once again
presents exceptionally talented emerging artists for “School’s
Out III: Emerging Artists of the Southeast.” For the
third consecutive year City Art has conducted a competition
seeking recent MFAs, BAs, and BFAs of the southeastern region,
and now looks forward to presenting its third generation of
talented new artists. The exhibit features work that
encompasses a variety of media and that exemplifies exciting
new directions in contemporary art.
School’s
Out III results from a nominating process in which City
Art asked studio art faculty members throughout Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama to identify
their most talented graduating artists – those who are, in
their estimation, significant enough to have a chance at
success in the competitive art culture. In a twist from the
previous selection process, this year City Art also elected to
trust the talents of Melanie Neil, a senior art student at
Columbia College, to curate this year’s show.
Neil, who helped to curate a show of Native American
art at Columbia College this past year, tirelessly poured over
the applicants and chose those artists both who displayed high
levels of professionalism and whose work, when shown together,
would exemplify the tempo of the contemporary visual culture
in the southeast. Featuring these talented emerging artists,
this year’s exhibit at City Art will be strong on technical
skills and creative visions in oils, mixed media, photography,
sculpture, and installation.
THE EMERGING ARTISTS:
- Jim
Arendt, MFA candidate at the University of South Carolina.
Painting.
- Hadley
Breckenridge, MFA candidate at Georgia State University.
Photography.
- Jennifer
Drinkwater, MFA candidate at East Carolina University.
Painting.
- Lauren
Kussro, MFA candidate at the University of Tennessee.
Printmaking.
- Erin
Murphy, MFA candidate at the University of Tennessee.
Installation.
- Theresa
Sporer, MFA candidate at the University of Georgia.
Sculpture.
- Jason
Wech, MFA candidate at the Savannah College of Art and
Design.
Sculpture.
- Addison
Will, MFA candidate at Georgia State University. Photography.
- Andrew
Hayes, BFA candidate at the University of South Carolina.
Sculpture.
The
exhibit opens for Artista Vista April 29 and continues
through May 28, 2005. For
more information see www.cityartonline.com
or call 803-252-3613. City
Art is located at 1224 Lincoln St, Columbia, SC 29201.
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