SC Watermedia Society
Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners
Bobbi Adams: Ephemera
“South Carolina Watermedia Society Traveling Exhibition”, “Sumter Artists Guild Winners Show” and “Bobbi Adams: Ephemera”
When: Thursday, January 6 (opening reception from 5:30-7:30 pm) through February 18, 2011
Where: Sumter County Gallery of Art, 200 Hasel St., Sumter, SC 29150 (adjacent to Patriot Hall on Haynesworth St.)
Highlights: The Sumter County Gallery of Art opens the New Year with three special exhibitions: The 33rd annual “South Carolina Watermedia Society Traveling Exhibition”, the “Sumter Artists’ Guild Winners Show” and “Bobbi Adams: Ephemera”.
The South Carolina Watermedia Society (SCWS) is the largest statewide visual arts guild with a mission to promote South Carolina artists by providing exhibition opportunities and educational programs. The 2010 SCWS show is an especially vibrant one. The juror for the 2010 SCWS show was Barbara Nechis. She has been a faculty member of Parsons School of Design and has taught seminars at Pratt Institute and throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. She has served as a juror and director of the American Watercolor Society, and is the author of Watercolor From the Heart and Watercolor the Creative Experience. Winner of the Best in Show award was “The Letter” by Kathy Caudill. Sumter’s own Denise Greer won the Guy Lipscomb Memorial Award for her mixed media work “Daybreak”. Frank McCauley, Asst. Director and Curator of the Sumter County Gallery of Art says that this show: Has a wonderful selection of diverse work with a little something for everybody. The variety of imagery and subject matter is stunning; from mixed media abstract works to more traditional representational work including landscapes, figural, and still life compositions. The South Carolina Watermedia Society Show is one of the finest examples of the incredible talent of South Carolina artists.
McCauley says that this year’s Sumter Artists Guild Winners Show is also an exciting one because it showcases such a broad range of mediums and approaches: Mary Tuggle, whose photograph, “The Sandlot: Devon” won first place place, Marcia Bugg, whose exquisite ceramic piece, “Vase” won second place, and Kathy Casey, whose abstract painting, “A Sense of Place” won third place. Long time Sumter artist, Denise Greer has been busy as she will be included in this show as well for her Honorable Mention piece “Poultry in Motion”. Rounding out this impressive group are Gail Young Turnemeyer for her delicate Honorable Mention work “Country Barn”, and finally Gary Hallmarks bold Honorable Mention abstract composition “Drive In & Coke”.
The Sumter County Gallery of Art is also proud to present a special exhibition of work by Bishopville artist and long time guild member Bobbi Adams. This exhibition “Ephemera” highlights a selection of her handmade paper collage works that incorporate elements from her own environment, that of a Master Gardner, including but not limited to flowers and seeds, herbs, animal bones, along with unique cast paper elements and other found and appropriated objects.
About this series Adams observes: “As I began my artistic life, my work was rooted in 19th century Impressionism and color as light. While light is still important, it is not external anymore, but internal, so my images and medium have changed to incorporate who I am now and the spiritual direction and inner vision in which my life has been directed.”
Bobbi Adams was born in 1939 in New Jersey. She graduated in 1961, magna cum laude, with a BS in zoology from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. She attended the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design; both in New York City, and while studying at New York University took part in the international study program in Venice, Italy for two years. In 1998 she earned an MA in Art from New York University.
Adams has been in many solo and group exhibitions including exhibitions at: USC Sumter, Sumter, SC, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC, Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Studios, Charleston, SC, the Atlantic City Civic Center, New Jersey and the Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy.
The Sumter County Gallery of Art’s current exhibitions John Hull: Big Bad Love and Linda McCune: Resilience will continue to run through December 31st, 2010.
RELATED PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Opening Reception
Thursday, January 6, 2011, 5:30-7:30 pm
Many of the winners of the Sumter Artists Guild show will be in attendance to discuss their work.
GENERAL GALLERY INFORMATION
Location: 200 Hasel St., Sumter, SC 29150 (adjacent to Patriot Hall).
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday 1:30 – 5:00 pm. Closed Mondays and major holidays
CONTACTS AND INFORMATION:
Karen Watson, Executive Director, Sumter County Gallery of Art, 803.775.0543, or director@sumtergallery.com
Sumter Gallery of Art website: www.sumtergallery.org
For more information about SCWS, go to www.fineartsemporium.com.