Friday, March 24, 2006

Anna Redwine and Tom Stanley: April 7 -18, 2006

if ART, International Fine Art Services
Columbia, S.C.
presents at
Gallery 80808/Vista Studios
808 Lady St., Columbia, S.C.

ANNA REDWINE – Life In One Breath
&
TOM STANLEY – The Neighborhood

April 7 – 18, 2006

Artists’ Reception:
Friday, April 7, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:
Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.
Weekdays, Noon – 7 p.m. and by appointment

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:
(803) 238-2351 – (803) 799-7170 – wroefs@sc.rr.com


For its April exhibition at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, if ART, International Fine Art Services, will present two solo exhibitions. Winthrop University gallery director Tom Stanley will exhibit “The Neighborhood,” hard-edged narrative paintings completed in the past two years. University of South Carolina MFA candidate Anna Redwine’s exhibition, “Life In One Breath,” will consist of 24 white panels with quick, expressive sketches of insects, birds and other animals. The show will be Redwine’s MFA thesis exhibition.

The opening reception for the exhibition is April 7, 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. Opening hours are Saturdays, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Sundays, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m; and weekdays 12:00 – 7:00 p.m. or by appointment. For more information or to make an appointment, contact if ART’s Wim Roefs at (803) 238-2351 or wroefs@sc.rr.com.

Stanley (b. 1950), a Texas native, is among the Southeast’s most prominent contemporary artists and curators. The South Carolina Arts Commission recently selected a five-panel frieze by him for the state art collection. Stanley exhibits throughout the region and beyond, including Europe. He was included in the 2004 South Carolina Triennial, and his work was published twice in the prestigious publication New American Painting.

Redwine (b. 1978), a native of Louisiana, received a BA in English from the University of Mississippi, then came to the University of South Carolina’s art department to pursue graduate studies. She showed at Columbia’s Lewis & Clark Gallery during Vista Lights 2005.

With his new “The Neighborhood” series, Stanley revisits a theme he explored in the 1990s, using elements of imagined and real neighborhoods to create narrative paintings that invite the viewer to take a stroll. The series also is a continuation of Stanley’s paintings about real and mental journeys. In his 1990s series “En Route to Hamlet” he used visual clues from Highway 74 in North Carolina. In his series “Across the River” of 2003 and the “Floating” series of 2004-2005, Stanley explored in fanciful fashion the mysterious, unexplained 1920 drowning death of his grandfather in the Mississippi River at New Orleans. Several Floating paintings will be in the Vista Studios show.

Redwine engages in a balancing act between drawing and painting, as she has for several years. On panels of 2 x 4 feet with white surfaces of rabbit-skin glue and powdered marble, she draws quick, expressive and lively renderings of insects, birds and other animals. She created the works from life, watching the animals outside as she drew them in a minute or two. If the animal moved, the movements became part of the rendering; when the animal left, the drawing was done.

“In East Asian calligraphy,” Redwine says, “this approach is referred to as painting in ‘on breath’. In this body of work, I am using the verb ‘to draw’ to mean not only to place marks on a surface but to extract or distill, in this case the essence of the animal.”

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Works of Art: Anna Redwine

All works of art by Anna Redwine 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.
Cassiopeia, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 30 x 24 in.
 $1.250
Chlorophyll, 2012, ink, watercolor crayon,
 pastel, gouache on board, 30 x 24 in.
$1,250


Eight, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Eighteen, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Eleven, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Fifteen, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Five, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Four, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Fourteen, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Nine, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Nineteen, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

One, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Seven, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Seventeen, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Six, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Sixteen, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Ten, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Thirteen, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Three, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Twelve, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Twenty, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Two, 2014, mixed media on paper, 6 x 6 in., $325

Jellyroll, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 24 x 17 in.

$950
nocturne
Mehmet, 2011, ink, gouache, 
watercolor crayon, 
pastel, on board, 14 x 10 in., $550

In the Pines, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 24 x 17 in., $950

Mine, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 14 x 10 in., $550

Audubon, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 24 x 17 in.

$950

Beacon, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 24 x 17 in.

$950

Juke, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 24 x 17 in.

$950

Bowline, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 30 x 24 in.

 $1,250


Adelaide, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 24 x 17 in.

$950

Wakulla, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 24 x 17 in.

$950

North Fork, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 14 x 10 in.

$550

Avalon, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 24 x 17 in.

$950

Wavering Place, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 30 x 24 in.

$1,250

Euterpe, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 14 x 10 in.

$550

Highwayman, 2011, ink, watercolor crayon,
pastel, gouache, on board, 14 x 10 in.

$550


At Bedtime, 2007
Carbon on paper, 18 x 24 in., $ 625

April Wasp, 2007
Carbon on primed panel, 13 x 24 in., $ 600

April Turtle, 2007
Carbon on primed panel, 24 x 37 in., $ 825

April Nesting Wasp, 2007
Carbon on primed panel, 13 x 24 in., $ 600


On My Way To Tennis, 2007
Carbon on paper, 18 x 24 in., $ 625
Waiting, 2004
Watercolor crayon and 
gesso on paper
24 x 17 in.
$ 850

April Beetle, 2007
Carbon on primed panel, 24 x 37 in., $ 825
Glacier, 2004
Watercolor crayon and
gesso on paper
24 x 17 in.
$ 850

Words, 2004
Watercolor crayon and
gesso on paper
24 x 17 in.
$ 850
Ed, 2004
Watercolor crayon and
 gesso on paper
24 x 17 in.
$ 850
Fishpond, 2004
Watercolor crayon and
gesso on paper
24 x 17 in.
$ 850
Five, 2004
Watercolor crayon and
 gesso on paper
24 x 17 in.
$ 850
Ginrig, 2004
Watercolor crayon and
gesso on paper
24 x 17 in.
$ 850/SOLD