PHIL GARRETT & BILL JACKSON: HORSES

Showing at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County in Camden, S.C., until Nov. 20, 2009, is an exhibition of art depicting horses by if ART Gallery artists Phil Garrett, paintings and monotypes, and Bill Jackson, metal and bronze sculptures.

Below, see three short video clips of the opening reception on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009.

To see clips of Phil Garrett conducting a monotype printing demonstration as part of the exhibition, CLICK HERE.

  

if ARTwalk: Salon I & II: December 11- 24, 2008

For exhibition installation images, click here.

THE SALON I & II

Dec. 11 – 24, 2008

an exhibition at two Columbia, SC, locations:

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady Street

&

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln Street

Reception and ifART Walk: Thursday, Dec. 11, 5 – 10 p.m.

at and between both locations

Opening Hours:

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.

& by appointment

Open Christmas Eve until 7 p.m.

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 255-0068/ (803) 238-2351 – if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com

For its December 2008 exhibition, if ART Gallery presents The Salon I & II, an exhibition at two Columbia, SC, locations: if ART Gallery and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios. On Thursday, December 11, 2008, 5 – 10 p.m., if ART will hold opening receptions at both locations. The ifART Walk will be on Lady and Lincoln Streets, between both locations, which are around the corner from each other.

The exhibitions will present art by if ART Gallery artists, installed salon-style at both Gallery 80808 and if ART. Artists in the exhibitions include two new additions to if ART Gallery, Columbia ceramic artist Renee Rouillier and the prominent African-American collage and mixed-media artist Sam Middleton, an 81-year-old expatriate who has lived in the Netherlands since the early 1960s.

Other artists in the exhibition include Karel Appel, Aaron Baldwin, Jeri Burdick, Carl Blair, Lynn Chadwick, Steven Chapp, Stephen Chesley, Corneille, Jeff Donovan, Jacques Doucet, Phil Garrett, Herbert Gentry, Tonya Gregg, Jerry Harris, Bill Jackson, Sjaak Korsten, Peter Lenzo, Sam Middleton, Eric Miller, Dorothy Netherland, Marcelo Novo, Matt Overend, Anna Redwine, Paul Reed, Edward Rice, Silvia Rudolf, Kees Salentijn, Laura Spong, Tom Stanley, Christine Tedesco, Brown Thornton, Leo Twiggs, Bram van Velde, Katie Walker, Mike Williams, David Yaghjian, Paul Yanko and Don Zurlo.

Biography: William Jackson

Lot's Wife, 1993/2003

Cast Bronze, 1/6

66 x 7 x 10 in

$14, 500

William G. (Bill) Jackson, Aiken, SC

William G. (Bill) Jackson (b. 1948) had his most recent museum exhibition, Degrees of Separation: From Figuration to Abstraction – Paintings by Philip Morsberger and William Jackson, at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 2005. He has shown at the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in LaGrange, GA, and the Columbia (SC) Museum of art, where two of his life-size welded horses were exhibited for six months. Jackson was represented in South Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, which traveled to four museums and galleries in South Carolina in 2004-2006. In 2005, he was the winner of Aiken, S.C.’s, first South Carolina Regional Sculpture competition, juried by Richard Hunt. 

Resume: William Jackson

Untitled, 2008

Mixed media

18 1/2 x 11 x 3 1/2 in.

$ 600

STUDIED

Northern Virginia College, studied with Jean Auvil
York, Pennsylvania, studied with Don Bridell

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Degrees of Separation: from Figuration to Abstraction, Paintings by Philip Morsberger and William Jackson, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
Broken Stripe, City Art, Columbia, SC 2005
South Carolina Regional Sculpture exhibit curated by Richard Hunt 2005, 1st Place
South Carolina Birds exhibit curated by Wim Roefs 2004
Art Exchange and Sculpture Garden, San Francisco 2002-2003
Solo Exhibit, City Art, Columbia, SC 2001
Solo Exhibit, Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, SC, 2000
Pop Art, the 60s, and Vietnam, Jackson Gallery, Aiken, SC 1999
Solo Exhibit, City Art, Columbia, SC 1996
Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, Chattahoochee, SC 1994
Solo Exhibit, Barry’s Gallery, Morgantown, WV 1994

Artist's Statement: William Jackson

“My personal history is grounded in the early 1970s at Northern Virginia Community College, where I studied drawing and painting with Jean Auvil. The Washington Color Painters were a dominant force in the art world. Auvil taught staining techniques on unprimed canvas, a method used by Helen Frankenthaler beginning in the late 1950s. The Washington Color painters - Morris Louis, Kenneth Nolan, Gene Davis, Paul Reed, Howard Mehring, and Thomas Downing - explored the possibilities of the staining processes, pushing it to new levels. 

Staining gives the canvas a glow and a depth with its matte finish that is not accomplished by other methods. During the 1970s my work was representational and it was not until thirty-two years later that the seeds of abstraction and color, sown by Jean Auvil, germinated. 

I have never grown tired of looking at color. Its psychological impact stimulates emotions consciously and unconsciously. The use of color in painting has yet to find its end. Color continues to challenge and inspire me.”

The Inventory: February 15-26, 2008

Owl No. 2, 2005

Welded bronze

13 x 8 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

$ 6,000

if ART

presents at

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady St., Columbia, S.C.

THE INVENTORY:

A Group Show of if ART artists

Feb. 15 – 26, 2008

Artists’ Reception: Friday, Feb. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sundays, 1 – 5 p.m.

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. and by appointment

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

For its February exhibition, if ART presents The Inventory, a group exhibition of artists from if ART Gallery. The show will consist of many new works by if ART artists as well as older pieces from the gallery’s inventory.

Included in the show will be work by Columbia artists Jeff Donovan, Mary Gilkerson, Marcelo Novo, Anna Redwine and David Yaghjian. Other South Carolina artists include Carl Blair, Jeri Burdick, Phil Garrett, Bill Jackson, Peter Lenzo, Dorothy Netherland, Matt Overend, Edward Rice, Tom Stanley, Christine Tedesco, H. Brown Thornton, Leo Twiggs, Katie Walker and Paul Yanko. Furthermore, the show will present work by former South Carolina residents Tonya Gregg, Eric Miller and Andy Moon. Also included are California collage artist Jerry Harris, Dutch painter Kees Salentijn and German artists Roland Albert, Klaus Hartmann and Silvia Rudolf.

Works of Art: William Jackson

All works of art by William Jackson are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.

Untitled, 2008

Mixed media

18 1/2 x 11 x 3 1/2 in.

$ 600

Lot's Wife, 1993/2003
Cast Bronze, 1/6
66 x 7 x 10 in
$14, 500

Owl No. 2, 2005

Welded bronze

13 x 8 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

$ 6,000