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USC’s McKissick Museumcontinued from Page 22For further information check our SCInstitutional Gallery listings, contact theMuseum at 803/777-7251 or visit (www.artsandsciences.sc.edu/mckissickmuseum).Columbia Museum of Art inColumbia, SC, Offers ExhibitionHonoring Dorothy & Herbert VogelThe Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia,SC, is presenting a crowd-sourcedCommunity Gallery exhibition, ONE x100, on view through Sept. 8, 2013, celebratingDorothy and Herbert Vogel andthe anniversary of their gift of 594 worksto the CMA.This is not a typical community galleryexhibition. The pieces in ONE x100 all fitwithin a 1 x 1 x 1 foot space and demonstrateenthusiasm for contemporary, minimalistor conceptual art practices. Artistswere encouraged to find freedom withinlimitations and create within constraints.The first 100 entries that fit the criteriawere accepted and include: an interactivebook, a stoneware sculpture, fiber art, oilpaintings, mixed media collages, a glasscube and a football helmet, among others.Who are Dorothy and Herbert Vogel?The Vogels, internationally recognizedcollectors of contemporary art, built a collectionof over 4,500 objects spanning allmedia and covering the most innovativeart movements of the late 20th century.Devoting Herb’s salary as a postal clerk topurchase art, and living on Dorothy’s paycheckas a librarian, they collected mostlyminimalist and conceptual artworks. Theyfollowed their own rules: the piece had tobe affordable and small enough to fit intheir one-bedroom Manhattan apartment,on city transportation, and be easily carried.With these limitations, they provedto be curatorial visionaries. Last year, theVogel’s generously gave the CMA 594works from their collection.For further information check our SC InstitutionalGallery listings, call the Museumat 803/799-2810 or visit (www.columbiamuseum.org).Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro,NC, Features New Summer ExhibitionsThe University of North CarolinaGreensboro, is offering several new exhibitson view at the Weatherspoon Art Museumincluding: the kids are all right: an exhibitionabout family and photography, on viewin The Bob & Lissa Shelley McDowell Gallerythrough Aug. 18, 2013; Arlene Shechet:That Time, on view in The Louise D. andHerbert S. Falk, Sr. Gallery through Sept.15, 2013; Art History: Redux, on view inThe Gregory D. Ivy Gallery, The WeatherspoonGuild Gallery, through Oct. 20, 2013;and Resolutely Matisse, on view in Gallery6 through Sept. 29, 2013.the kids are all right brings the bedrocktheme of family into the twenty-first century- an age when love defines the family unitmore than tradition, convention, the law,or even blood. This exhibition will featurephotography and time-based media createdin the last ten years by 38 established andemerging artists who sensitively reveal,with radical openness, the current notion offamily.The exhibition demonstrates today’s reality:Family is a complicated entanglementof people. Uninhibited by the failed promiseof a conventional family, the artists rejectirony and judgment to show us families -natural or found - in whatever forms theytake. The artists take no critical position but,rather, affirm with poignancy and humor theever-shifiting notion of the contemporaryfamily.Justin Kirchoff, “Fight Club”, 2009, silver gelatinprint, 20 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist.Just as families have changed, so too hasphotography. Now that almost everyonecarries a digital camera in the form of a cellphone, human behavior is being extensivelydocumented. Further, they are immediatelydisseminated with little or no editing via e-mail, Facebook, and YouTube. The mediumand the manner in which photography isnow understood substantially contributeto the frankness and honesty of the imagesincluded in the kids are all right.Artists participating in the exhibitioninclude: Janine Antoni, Matt Austin, GuyBen-Ner, Melonie Bennett, Nina Berman,David Bush, Patty Chang, GoseongChoi,Yolanda Del Amo, Todd Deutsch,Jenny Drumgoole, Rafael Perez Evans,Martha Fleming-Ives, Lucas Foglia, LaToyaRuby Frazier, Tiereny Gearon, Aron Gent,Steve Giovinco, David Hilliard, JustinKirchoff, Justine Kurland, Deana Lawson,Jocelyn Lee, Carrie Levy, Lisa Lindvay,Julie Mack, Ryan McGinley, AndreaModica, Sanitago Mostyn, Catherine Opie,Josh Quigley, Robert Rainey, Justine Reyes,Kathleen Robbins, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,Betsy Schneider, Angela Strassheim, ChrisVerene, and Rona Yefman.The exhibition was curated by AlisonFerris. the kids are all right is organizedby the John Michael Kohler Arts Center,Sheboygan, WI, and made possible throughgrants from the Andy Warhol Foundationfor the Visual Arts, the Ruth St. John andJohn Dunham West Foundation, a foundationthat prefers anonymity, BMO HarrisBank, and the Frederic C. Kohler CharitableTrust. This project is also funded by agrant from the Wisconsin Arts Board, withfunds from the State of Wisconsin and theNational Endowment for the Arts. Contributionsfrom the John Michael Kohler ArtsCenter’s loyal corporate, foundation, andindividual donors have also been vital.This exhibition in Greensboro is fundedin part by The Bob and Lissa Shelley Mc-Dowell Fund.The exhibition, Arlene Shechet: ThatTime, of sculptures by Arlene Shechet offersan up-to-the-minute look at her iconoclasticapproach to ceramics. Shechet favorsimprovisational methods and a trial-anderrorprocess over methodical and technicalfacility. At once comically awkward andelegantly poised, her paradoxical formsteeter, lean, bulge, torque, and reach in multipledirections at once, defying their ownweight. “In fact, often things do collapse orfall over, and many don’t make it, but I loveworking on that precarious edge,” she saysof her process. “For me, this has obviousemotional, psychological, and philosophicalmeaning.”Shechet’s latest works combine acartoonish demeanor with painterly effects.She constantly tests glazes and useseccentric color combinations with anexperimental disregard for traditional firingtemperatures and techniques. The resultingvariations in hue, texture, and opacitycreate complex, highly visceral surfaces.Similarly diverse, the bases she makes forher sculptures cover a wide range of shapes,sizes, and materials - from roughhewn timcontinuedabove on next column to the rightTable of ContentsSituated in the heart of the Vista, Gallery80808 is a vital part of the contemporary artscene in the Columbia metropolitan area.Exhibit in theHeart of the Columbia Vista808 Lady Street Columbia, SCThe gallery is available for lease as a highquality location for local, regional, ornational art shows. Lease the main galleryfor a small intimate show or include theatrium and hallways for larger group shows.For more information and termsfor leasing the space, call 803-771-7008or visit us online at VistaStudios80808.com.Arlene Shechet, “In and of Itself”, 2011, glazedand fired ceramic, and wood, 43 1/2 x 11 x 11 in.Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.,New York.bers to painted kiln bricks and welded steel.Each is designed for a specific piece and isintegral to its completion. Once installed,the finished works populate the space of theexhibition like so many characters, suggestiveof both the imperfections and possibilitiesimplicit in the human condition.Shechet (lives in New York City andupstate New York) earned her BA fromNew York University and MFA from RhodeIsland School of Design. Shechet’s workhas been exhibited widely, with recent soloexhibitions at the Museum of ContemporaryArt, Denver; Tang Teaching Museum,Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY;and the Nerman Museum of ContemporaryArt, Overland Park, KS. Her work is inthe collections of the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art, Brooklyn Museum, Los AngelesCounty Museum of Art, and WalkerArt Center, among many other institutions.Shechet’s numerous awards includea Guggenheim Fellowship, AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters Award in Art,Anonymous Was A Woman IndividualArtist Award, and Joan Mitchell FoundationPainters and Sculptors Grant. She isrepresented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co.,New York, James Kelly Contemporary,Santa Fe, and Shoshana Wayne Gallery,Santa Monica.Arlene Shechet: That Time was organizedby Ashley Kistler, Director, Anderson Gallery,VCU School of the Arts, Richmond, VA.With the exhibition, Art History: Redux,Henri Matisse, “Nu au coussin bleu (Nude withblue cushion)”, 1924, transfer lithograph onpaper, 29 7/8 x 22 in. Bequest of Etta and ClaribelCone, 1949.this journey through the history of art willexplore the nuanced distinctions betweeninspiration, innovation, and imitation. Inthe works included in the exhibit, the artistsconsider and probe art historical precedentsin search of standards, ideals and icons, butultimately produce unique objects that arenoteworthy in themselves.Known for his use of bright colors, flatpatterns, simplified forms, and gracefullines, Henri Matisse developed a uniqueartistic vision that continues to draw admirersto this day. Drawn from the Museum’spermanent collection, the exhibit ResolutelyMatisse, showcases Matisse’s devotionto the human form. The exhibition alsoincludes images by other artists whosestylistic similarities in subject and techniquesuggest a broadly shared set of artistic concernswith Matisse.For further information check our NC InstitutionalGallery listings, call the Museumat 336/334-5770 or visit (http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/).The deadline each month to submit articles, photos and ads is the 24th of the monthprior to the next issue. This will be July 24th for the August 2013 issue of Carolina Arts.Carolina Arts, July 2013 - Page 23