Arts Calendar

Main Street Real Estate Gallery
Coldwell Banker Caine presents Greenville Artist:

Kiah Bellows
Thursday, July 27
6:00 – 8:00 PM

Join us for the artist’s opening reception including hors d’oeuvres and a viewing of Kiah’s art on display at the mains street real estate gallery from July – September.

UPSTATE Gallery on Main is honored to present Inhabiting Experience, a selection of recent works by Greenville, SC, painter MARK BROSSEAU. The exhibition opens on July 11 and runs through August 25, 2017. An artist reception will be held on July 20 from 5-8 pm during Spartanburg ArtWalk.

July 26th – September 1, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, August 18 | 6:30 – 9:00 PM

Presenting a diverse exhibit of over thirty woodworking artists.

The Greenville Woodworkers Guild was established by a group of five professional woodworkers in 1981 and has grown to a membership of 700 plus craftsmen and enthusiasts practicing their individual skills.

For more information please visit our website:
greenvillewoodworkers.com

Metropolitan Arts Council
16 Augusta Street | Greenville, SC 29601
Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
(864) 467-3132 | greenvilleARTS.com

Found Paintings Exhibition:  
Recent Work by Liz Rundorff Smith 
August 1 – 25, 2017
Thompson Gallery / Roe Art Building
Furman University

Closing Reception:  Friday, Aug. 25, 6 – 7:30pm

Hello Friends!  Please visit “Found Paintings”, a solo exhibition of my recent work, in the Thompson Gallery, Roe Art Building of Furman University, Aug. 1-25, 2017.

If you’d like to hear more about the work and what I’ve been up to . . .  join me on Friday, August 25th for a closing reception and artist talk from 6 – 7:30pm in the gallery.

Regular Thompson Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

CLICK HERE to learn more about the exhibition.

PRE-SALES BEGIN TUESDAY, AUGUST 1

Hey, Greenville, you know Sarah Mandell, right? You’ve seen those amazing silhouetted necklaces and laser-cut leather bracelets. You know, Once Again Sam! Oh yeah, now it’s clicking. She is a Greenville staple. She is a crafting genius. And now she’s upping her game and releasing a new series of felted landscapes that we get to exhibit right here at Art & Light. Kudos to killing it and then challenging yourself to do something brand new.

The show, Fibers of the South, will open on August 5th and end with a bang on August 19th. Because on Saturday, August 19th from 10am to 4pm we will get to enjoy a trunk show of Once Again Sam handmade jewelry.  READ MORE ON THE A&L BLOG

COMING SATURDAY, AUGUST 12TH:  A VISIT WITH COLUMBIA, SC ARTIST HEATHER LAHAISE – ALL NEW PAINTINGS FROM HEATHER!  SAVE THE DATE!

August 8th – Sept. 15th, 2017

Laura Nance
Artist Statement:
My desire is to let my paintings reflect the joy and sweetness of a beautiful piece of music. Working primarily with acrylic paint and ink, I incorporate a variety of gels, pastes, papers and cloth to create textural effects. I have an extensive background in the performing arts. I studied and worked as an actress in New York and performed around the world as a professional singer. As an actress it is exciting to dig deep into the soul of the character to be portrayed. As a singer I love getting into the very heart of the lyrics of a song. As a visual artist, I am motivated by the prospect of distilling and applying the “joie de vivre” of a live performance to the visual arts. I’m truly amazed and blessed each time I watch the heart and soul of a painting come to life.

www.greenvillearts.com/artist/laura-nance

Dan Williams
Artist Statement
The inspiration for my painting comes directly from nature. It’s simply a matter of looking for those compositions that are all around us. I’m catching the color, light and shadows in that brief moment before the shadows change. I have found that a quick photo for reference will capture that mood. To be able to share that view and have it recognized by others, gives me the greatest pleasure.

www.greenvillearts.com/artist/dan-williams

Givens Parr
Narrative Objects
August 10 – September 16

Opening Reception
Thursday, August 10
7-9 PM

Preview Exhibition

Coffee and Conversation
Saturday, August 12, 11 – noon

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Friday  1-5
Saturday 10-5

sandy@hamptoniiigallery.com

Snap to Grid. Migrate from Center. Deviate and Expand. is a single exhibition with a three-phrase title. Each phrase is applicable to each of the works in Paul Yanko’s exhibition consisting of five works on paper anchored by a site-specific wall mural. The works initiate from a horizontal grid with abstract shapes and images that migrate from the center as they deviate from that grid with marks that expand to describe texture and record shapes and colors. Paul speaks of his grid as “shelving to categorize and organize objects.” His works are autobiographical, an amalgam of the visual vocab-ulary Paul has been building since childhood in his mother’s kindergarten classroom, through his lifelong encounters with art, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, his great grandmother’s sampler, and the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud, Paul Klee, and Claude Monet. His collection, though lyrical and poetic, is not just a personal language. Paul asks, like Monet’s haystacks, “for engage-ment over time, not just an instant read.”

He often uses “reveal” in speaking about his process and his completed works. Each phrase in Paul’s title refers to an action. He is inviting us to accompany him as his process reveals his images. Starting First Friday, August 4, Paul will begin work on his mural in Riverworks Gallery, and we can literally accompany him as he reveals those shapes, colors, and textures.

Paul Yanko teaches in the Visual Arts Department at South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. He holds a MFA in painting from Kent State University and a BFA in illus-tration from Cleveland Institute of Art. Paul has shown his work extensively, including exhibits at the Cleveland Museum of Contem-porary Art and the McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, Ohio. His work is in the Greenville County Museum of Art as well as many other private and public collections. He has recently com-pleted a public art commission in Columbia, SC and locally the entry doors and window clings of Lululemon Athletica on Green-ville’s Main Street. Please visit his website, www.paulyanko.net.

RIVERWORKS Gallery is operated by and for the faculty and students of the Department of Visual Arts at Greenville Technical College. The gallery is located at 300 River Street, Suite 202, along the scenic Reedy River in downtown Greenville, South Carolina.

For more information, contact:

Fleming Markel

Gallery Director

RIVERWORKS Gallery

Greenville Technical College

(864) 271-0679

fleming.markel@gvltec.edu

www.gvltec.edu/riverworks

August 12 – September 22, 2017

Vitreous Vessels | Hayden Wilson

America on the Edge | Sandee Johnson

Tides, Totems & Teapots | Gary Huntoon & Diane Hopkins-Hughs

Opening reception: Saturday, August 12, 2017
Artist’s Walk & Talk: 5pm | Reception: 6 – 7:30 pm