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SUMMARY:Regarding Facets Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:RECEPTION: MAY 9\nworks by Veda Saravanan & Felicia VanBork\nEXHIBIT OVERVIEW\nWith a mix of real and abstract influences Regarding Facets portrays human forms and faces in ways beyond what the eye perceives. Veda Saravanan’s cubist inspired figures and Felicia van Bork’s brush-stroked faces invite the viewer to see more than merely line and color. \nEXHIBIT STATEMENTS\nVEDA SARAVANAN\nThis body of work is inspired by Picasso ‘s Cubism. He felt that we do not see an object from one angle or perspective\, but rather from many angles selected by sight and movement.  \nI like the natural mixing of colors\, overlapping on each other and then forming different shapes and colors. Cubism is known for its deconstructed\, geometric representations\, and its complete form of abstraction. \nIn addition to the cubic formation of different geometric shapes\, this collection is also figurative. I like to narrate women’s moods and movements. \nI never limit myself to one medium or style. I’m inspired by colors and shapes and all kinds of forms. In my art\, I include many angles and lines\, but make sure there is connectivity between the lines.  \nAs an artist I focus on form and color\, this allows me to be between realism and abstract. \nARTIST BIO Veda Saravanan\, has always been self taught and experimental with her color palette. She doesn’t hesitate to let her colors speak to her and bring brightness to her different forms of art. Veda loves to see the surprise element in the outcome of using different colors and designs. Traveling has really impacted the different ways she uses colors and culture in her work. She has been traveling since a young age and continues do so as a passion towards her art. Her distinctive style and cultural upbringing allowed her to become the artist that she is today. She has been all over the world and it continues to inspire her work. \nFELICIA VANBORK\nFelicia van Bork was drawing portraits before she was two. Today\, she is an artist who competes against herself to be “not boring.” In her search to document her world in a way that is accurate and expressive\, she pushes herself to use the minimum number of brushstrokes\, paint the most accurate likeness possible\, and dare to incorporate the most surprising and fresh mark-making she can.  \nHer several interrelated bodies of work all investigate the tension between representation and experience; she creates images that combine the appearance of an observed subject with the experience of responding to that subject. \nARTIST BIO Felicia van Bork’s paintings\, both abstract and representational\, are in many private and public collections. She is also known for in her “How To” series of collage work\, which is featured in the permanent collection of the Mint Museum in Charlotte\, NC\, and which took her to the American Academy in Rome as Visiting Artist in 2017 and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2022. Her love of color and teaching come into play at Charlotte’s McColl Center as well. There\, she is the Coordinator of the Printmaking Lab and co-host of Draw McColl Center\, a weekly open life drawing studio. She founded the international online portrait group\, @portraitpalsgroup. She teaches printmaking workshops at McColl Center\, and private classes including her popular Liberated Brush workshop. Her “Heads” series of encaustic portraits earned her a spot in MassArt’s MFA program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, where she graduated in 2011. She was the Art Director at Columbia University’s Columbia Scholastic Press Association and went on to be a professor in the art departments of universities and colleges including Penn State\, The Behrend College; Central Piedmont Community College; Columbia University; UNC Charlotte; and Davidson College\, teaching graphic design\, painting\, drawing\, life drawing and portraiture. Among many honors and residency fellowships\, she was the Featured Artist at Central Piedmont’s Sensoria arts festival in 2018. Her work has also been selected for representation at the National Portrait Gallery.
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/regarding-facets-exhibit/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Exhibit
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SUMMARY:Reception | Goobers Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBIT DATES: MAR 4 – APR 19\, 2024\nARTIST INTERVIEW: MAR 14\nEXHIBIT OVERVIEW \n“Goobers” is a trio show inspired by the signs and vendors of the backroad culture of the Carolinas—it’s allure\, charm\, and quirkiness. Through its playful weathered textures\, “Goobers” invites the viewer to approach “the southern thing” with reflection and sensitivity.
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/reception-goobers-exhibit/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Reception
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240420
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SUMMARY:Goobers Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:ARTIST INTERVIEW: MAR 14\nRECEPTION: APR 18\nworks by Kevin Morrissey\, Andrew Frye & Kyle Morrissey\nEXHIBIT OVERVIEW\n“Goobers” is a trio show inspired by the signs and vendors of the backroad culture of the Carolinas—it’s allure\, charm\, and quirkiness. Through its playful weathered textures\, “Goobers” invites the viewer to approach “the southern thing” with reflection and sensitivity. \nEXHIBIT STATEMENT\nA body of work documenting Boiled P-Nut Signs and vendors. Kyle Morrissey\, the photographer captured photographs of the various roadside stands and signs. Andrew Frye and Kevin Morrissey then used the sign text\, imagery and textures to create collaborative pieces focusing on their shared affection for alternative painting processes and love of texture. Andrew and Kevin’s works blend their alternative painting methods of Andrew’s poured paint and Kevin’s spray paint stencils. The duo passed the works back and forth in the studio layering Morrissey’s spray paint stencils and sanding methods over Frye’s poured paint methods and vice versa until the final image became a unified piece with dynamic layers of textures pushing and pulling between background\, midground\, and foreground. \nBoth photographs and paintings express themes in the spirit of the uniqueness of life in the south. We chose boiled peanuts as our imagery to unify the vision & playfully symbolize the complexities of “the southern thing”; it’s allure\, it’s charm\, it’s quirkiness\, and through the textures….there is weathered history that needs to sensitively be observed and reflected upon. \nKEVIN MORRISSEY\nARTIST BIO Kevin Morrissey was born\, lives and works in Summerville \, SC. Earned a BFA in Arts Education from Winthrop University in 2003 and has spent the last 20 years teaching art\, making art\, and championing community art projects. \nANDREW FRYE\nARTIST BIO Raised in the rubber city and receiving his BFA in painting/ drawing from the University of Akron\, OH in 2005\, Andrew Frye relocated to San Francisco\, CA to gain gallery experience. He worked primarily as a gallery preparator and curator assistant to a handful of galleries in the Bay Area. Returning to the southeast years later\, Frye spent a brief stint in education while continuing his art making practice. After years of receiving steady art commissions and a new need to be home\, Frye walked away from education in 2020 to make art and raise children full time. \nKYLE MORRISSEY\nARTIST BIO Kyle Morrissey is a photographer and painter that lives and works in Charleston\, SC. He graduated from Winthrop University in 2011\nwith a BFA in General Studio concentrating in Photography and Painting. He finds shared sensibilities between the mediums that often inform his work.
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/goobers-exhibit/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Exhibit
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SUMMARY:Reception | Inside Outside Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night that celebrates the exhibition: Inside Outside \nEXHIBIT OVERVIEW \nThe reflective photos of Nicole Driscoll’s series\, “You can’t eat your feelings” and Jinna Kim’s expansive photos in her “Korean Pavilion at World Expo” series summon us to engage internally and with the world around us\, inviting the viewer toward intimate\, communal\, yet personal paths. This is Inside Outside.
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/reception-inside-outside-exhibit/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Reception
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240217
DTSTAMP:20240123T205338Z
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SUMMARY:Inside Outside Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:works by Nicole Driscoll & Jinna Kim\nEXHIBIT OVERVIEW\nThe reflective photos of Nicole Driscoll’s series\, “You can’t eat your feelings” and Jinna Kim’s expansive photos in her “Korean Pavilion at World Expo” series summon us to engage internally and with the world around us\, inviting the viewer toward intimate\, communal\, yet personal paths. This is Inside Outside. \nEXHIBIT STATEMENTS\nNICOLE DRISCOLL\nI’m a binge eater. \nIt started in the dark basement pantry of my youth\, where I consumed snack after snack in secret. I found intricate hiding spots for discarded wrappers\, hoping no one would see. Continuing into adulthood\, I use food as an outlet for my stress and anxiety. \nWhen 2020 hit\, the isolation\, tensity and uncertainty made me binge even more. I found comfort in food as the world around me changed. With time for self reflection\, I was able to see the bad relationship I had with food and how I used it to cope. \n“You can’t eat your feelings” is a series of polaroid photographs of my recent binges. Using polaroids was a way to instantly document them as they happened. Each photo has a note of reflection. Why did I binge at that moment? What was I feeling? What was I avoiding? \nARTIST BIO Nicole Driscoll is a filmmaker and photographer based in Charlotte\, North Carolina. Her projects have been included in galleries and festivals such as The Light Factory\, The Curated Fridge\, Goodyear Arts\, and the Click Photo Festival. In 2014\, she developed Films on Tap\, a film festival that pairs local short films and locally brewed beer. Through ArtPop Street Gallery\, Driscoll’s photograph\, “Hands in the Sky\,” has been selected for prominent display on media spaces and billboards throughout the Charlotte area for the entire duration of 2023\, including a billboard in New York City. She currently works as a teaching artist at Studio 345\, an after-school program for at-risk youth\, and as a freelancer in the greater Charlotte community. \nJINNA KIM\nMultidisciplinary artist Jinna Kim’s world expo photo series was taken in March 2022 during the closing month of Expo Dubai which was deferred for over a year due to the pandemic. She traveled there with an Arts & Science Council grant to experience world class art first hand. Her photographs printed on wood as archival pigment prints is her means of sharing the world expo in the Carolinas as well as a peek into her immigrant heritage. “Korea Pavilion at World Expo” captures the country pavilion’s exterior facade which changes color throughout the day because the architecture is dynamic with the cubes actually moving. Jinna was born in South Korea so this particular pavilion is from her motherland. \nARTIST BIO Initially trained in classical music\, Jinna Kim is a Korean American multidisciplinary artist\, filmmaker\, photographer\, violist and more based in Charlotte\, NC. In addition to being a SAG-AFTRA eligible actress\, Jinna continues to shoot short films and photographs\, make music\, and create public installations and interdisciplinary projects that highlight diverse perspectives while sneaking in educational and unique cultural content in delightful ways. Her first short film about suffragist Mabel Lee titled “Chinese Girl Wants Vote” is now part of the Digital Public Library of America. Jinna recently won grants and scholarships from the Arts & Science Council and Kunstlerstadt Kalbe in Germany. She previously worked at The Public Theater and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan.
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/inside-outside-exhibit/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Exhibit
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SUMMARY:Reception | Piranesi Imagined  | Friends of Friday Arts Project Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBIT OVERVIEW \n“When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of three Tides.” \nfrom the book Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke \nWith this opening line author Suzanna Clarke takes her main character on a quest to discern the mysteries of his world. This year\, our “Friends of Friday Arts Project” are exhibiting work created during “drawing nites” and on their own. Piranesi by Clarke was this year’s inspiration. This book of “magical realism” is rich with imagery both ancient and contemporary. \nAll pieces are attempts to mingle the artist’s musings with the author’s story as they read or listened to the book\, and looked at models or still life’s inspired by Piranesi. These works were completed by adolescents\, adults\, hobbyists\, and professionals of varying ages and experience. \n— \nWe like to make space to show work created by artists in our community. In that spirit\, Friends of Friday Arts Project Exhibit showcases artwork created during various Drawing Nite* events throughout the year. \nThis exhibit is a collection of artwork Inspired by Piranesi—a novel by Susanna Clarke. \n*Drawing Nite is a twice-monthly event that is free and open to the public 
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/reception-piranesi-imagined-friends-of-friday-arts-project-exhibit/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Reception
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231119
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SUMMARY:Piranesi Imagined | Friends of Friday Arts Project Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBIT OVERVIEW \n“When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of three Tides.” \nfrom the book Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke \nWith this opening line author Suzanna Clarke takes her main character on a quest to discern the mysteries of his world. This year\, our “Friends of Friday Arts Project” are exhibiting work created during “drawing nites” and on their own. Piranesi by Clarke was this year’s inspiration. This book of “magical realism” is rich with imagery both ancient and contemporary. \nAll pieces are attempts to mingle the artist’s musings with the author’s story as they read or listened to the book\, and looked at models or still life’s inspired by Piranesi. These works were completed by adolescents\, adults\, hobbyists\, and professionals of varying ages and experience. \n— \nWe like to make space to show work created by artists in our community. In that spirit\, Friends of Friday Arts Project Exhibit showcases artwork created during various Drawing Nite* events throughout the year. \nThis exhibit is a collection of artwork Inspired by Piranesi—a novel by Susanna Clarke. \n\n*Drawing Nite is a twice-monthly event that is free and open to the public 
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/piranesi-imagined-friends-of-friday-arts-project-exhibit/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T183000
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SUMMARY:Reception: Wavelengths
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night that celebrates the exhibition: Wavelengths \nEXHIBIT OVERVIEW \nFrom the prism to the curl\, this exhibit showcases work by recent graduates of Winthrop University. Kai’s vivid colors strike the eye while sharp lines bring a calm repetition. Jewel’s varied visuals and rich textures draw you into the deeper meaning behind the pieces.
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/reception-wavelengths/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Reception
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230807
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230923
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SUMMARY:Wavelengths
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBIT OVERVIEW \nFrom the prism to the curl\, this exhibit showcases work by recent graduates of Winthrop University. Kai’s vivid colors strike the eye while sharp lines bring a calm repetition. Jewel’s varied visuals and rich textures draw you into the deeper meaning behind the pieces. \nEXHIBIT STATEMENTS \nJEWEL EDWARDS \nThe work Beauty and Audacity functions to embrace and normalize Black natural hair. The series combines photography\, fiber arts\, screenprinting\, and painting while exploring the influence of European beauty standards on self-identity. Inspired by hair catalogs and magazine advertisements\, the portraiture celebrates the versatility of Black hair as an art form. The series involves three 46” x 32” mixed media wall hangings. This work consists of self-portraits depicting different hairstyles exploring themes of self-identity and its relation to Black identity and womanhood. In the self portraits\, I am reclaiming the gallery space by having the audacity to be myself. The phrase “good hair” is associated with the words clean\, straight\, and professional which is seen as the contrary to Black hair. By reclaiming the phrase “good hair” to include kinky textured hair\, the power is shifted from the proximity of whiteness to black is beautiful. \nDissatisfied with the lack of Black representation in the art history canon\, I challenge this by revisioning ornate European motifs and the traditional frame. I achieve this by using natural hair elements such as braids. The fabric borders serve as a protective barrier of love and comfort provided by self\, family\, and ancestral connections. Following the path of artist Faith Ringgold\, my inspiration is rooted in showcasing a positive representation of Black women and bringing Black stories into contemporary art spaces. By acknowledging the cultural importance of Black hair and its implication on beauty standards\, I share the beauty of naturally textured hair. \nARTIST BIO Jewel Edwards is a public school art teacher and visual artist based in Greenville\, SC. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Winthrop University in Rock Hill\, South Carolina and is an alumna from the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville\, SC. As an interdisciplinary artist\, Edwards uses photography\, video\, screenprinting\, and painting to explore her self-identity and its relation to Black identity and womanhood. She has exhibited at Lyndon House Arts Center and several times in the Rutledge and Lewandowski Gallery at Winthrop University. Throughout her time at Winthrop University\, Edwards has received several awards including 1st and 3rd place at Winthrop’s Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. \nKAI GRIFFIN \nOf the numerous works within my Tensions series\, Tensions 2.2 (black\, smoke gray) holds the most visual and allegorical of stories. The work is all about “sevens”: I was seven years sober\, ending a seven year relationship\, and took the serenity prayer and translated it into the seven most spoken languages of the world. I created a pattern with the repeated prayer in its seven varying prose\, laser etching this pattern onto both the front and back of the black acrylic shards in the work. The beautiful script\, created in English\, Mandarin\, Hindi\, Spanish\, French\, Arabic\, and Bengali\, lends delicacy to the bold\, graphic piece and provides a visual recount to its creation. \nARTIST BIO For over twenty years\, Kai Griffin (b. 1981) has proven to be a creative\, innovative\, and intensely trained professional\, specializing in trendsetting beauty\, fitness\, and wellness. Applying those same principles and experiences\, Kai developed his spark for creating art; art with convergent points where classical theory meets modern work\, where analog meets digital\, where handcrafted meets laser cut. Kai holds a BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Winthrop University and resides in Charlotte\, NC.
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/wavelengths/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Exhibit
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230701
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SUMMARY:Time Dreams of Itself
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBIT OVERVIEW \nThe earth and ecology that once determined human lives has given way to the atemporal stoicism of technology. Work filled with floating symbols\, secretive figures\, and mysterious sources of light—drawn from classical paintings and liturgy—beckon us to remain human. \nEXHIBIT STATEMENT \nThe old\, cyclical order of the earth and ecology that once determined human lives has given way to the atemporal\, uncaring regime of technology. The present grows more chaotic every day; symbols and images detach from their original meanings and associate in new ways. I depict human hopes and fears against this new background. I fill my work with floating symbols\, images with multiple meanings\, mirrors\, secretive figures\, and mysterious sources of light. I combine motifs from classical paintings and the liturgy with references to niche internet communities and the iconography of smartphones\, satellite imagery\, and commodities. I draw and paint everything by hand\, but I sometimes work with a stylus as well as a paintbrush\, or paint on industrial plastic instead of paper or canvas. Overall\, I want to find a way to make sense out of the visual chaos around us—distill and synthesize some of the contemporary human experience\, crystallize it into a small moment of beauty. As our relationship to the earth changes\, we can’t help but change as well—but beneath the endless simulation\, imitation\, mass production\, I have faith that something human yet remains. \nMAT DUNCAN \nARTIST BIO Mat Duncan holds a BFA in Printmaking from Winthrop University\, an advanced Art & Art Theory certificate from Winthrop’s sister school\, the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences in Imatra\, Finland\, and a master’s degree in Museum Studies from Harvard University. Duncan primarily works in acrylic\, watercolor\, and gouache on paper and mylar. His recent work focuses on ecology and explores how\, as our relationship to the earth changes\, we sometimes change along with it. He describes his own works as brief snapshots of dreams or nightmares\, depicting human hopes and fears against the backdrop of a distorted natural world.
URL:https://www.fridayartsproject.org/event/time-dreams-of-itself/
LOCATION:Courtroom Gallery\, at the Gettys Center 201 E Main St\, 2nd Floor Hallway\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29730\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courtroom Gallery,Exhibit
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