Exhibitions & Shows
AAG Gallery At ACA - February 2012 Ann and Bill LeMay
Aiken artists, Ann and Bill LeMay, will present a combined exhibit Feb 2-28 in the Aiken Artist Guild Gallery of the Aiken Center for the Arts. The opening reception for the husband and wife team will be Feb. 16, 6-8 pm. The reception is free and open to the public.
"We share very similar interests when it comes to art. It enlivens our relationship and we often travel and paint plein air and visit museums, love musical events and just about everything to do with art. We ask each other's opinon on a work in progress. This provides a nice way of supportive feedback and honesty." comments Ann.
The exhibit will feature Ann's exploration of abstract art. "I have always been deeply inspired by the often magnificence of my natural surroundings, colors, and distance of perspective." Ann explains. The artist uses layers of depth of paint and texture to bring some of the painting into the foreground more, in addition to using the opposite with areas of smooth paint and soft color to create more of a sense of space. There is a theme of warm, strong, hot reds, peach and yellow accented with blues in the work. The range of light to quite dark colors creates a dramatic look in the paintings.
Bill employs bold texture with color and value contrast as he paints in oil and acrylic. "Painting for me is an ever changing challenge to impart feeling, excitment and energy to a variety of subject matter. There is never a feeling of complete satisfaction with any of my paintings becasue I know that painting is a process and not an accomplishment. Painting for me will always be a quest for the sublime." shares Bill.
The combined exhibit will run throughout the month of February in the Aiken Center for the Arts at 122 Laurens St. SW in downtown Aiken, SC.
Hitchcock Healthcare February 2012 - Lorenzo Williams
Award winning artist, Lorenzo Williams, will be the featured Hitchcock Health Center Artist of the Month. The February exhibit is sponsored by the Aiken Artist Guild in cooperation with the Health Center. Born in Johnston, SC Williams has been a professional artist for more than twenty years. In 1996, he received his Bachelor Degree of Art in Interdisciplinary Studies from the USCA and received his Master Degree of Art in Teaching in 1999, from Lander University in Greenwood, SC. The artist now teaches at Butler High School in the Fine Arts Department.
Williams has presented a variety of solo exhibits and received various awards throughout the South. In 2009, he received the Community Champion Award in Education in Augusta, GA and was chosen as a Star teacher for 2007-2008, at Butler High School.
The exhibit will showcase Williams's colorful acrylic paintings--portraits and a variety of other subject matter. "My goal is to inspire, motivate, and encourage others to live their dreams to the fullest. I believe that everyone is successful if you stay focused." states the artist. It was a teacher who encouraged Williams to change his life.
"I was a high school dropout for ten years and a custodian for a middle school. My fifth grade teacher said to me 'When are you going back to school and get your diploma?' My response was that I didn't have the time. I have a family and job which pays the bills and the benefits are good. She encouraged me to use my artistic skills and talents to change my life. The rest is history." relates Williams.
The exhibit will run from Feb. 2-28. The Center is located at 690 Medical Park Dr. in Aiken, SC. The hours are: weekdays 5 am to 9 pm, Sat. 8-3 and Sunday 1-6. You may call the Center at 803-648-8344 for directions.
Hitchcock Healthcare January 2012 - Ron Buttler
January's Artist of the Month at the Hitchcock Health Center will be award winning artist Ron Buttler. The exhibit will run from Jan 2-30 at the Center. Recently Ron has been working on a series of small landscapes in oil and a series of three-dimensional mixed media paintings.
AAG Gallery At ACA - January 2012
Photographer John Glave, Jr. will be exhibiting in the Aiken Artist Guild Gallery of the ACA during the month of Jan. The opening reception is Jan 12 6-8 pm at the Aiken Center for the Arts. John's current work is based on minimal editing and cropping. He relies on the richness of the many technical variables and adjustments of the digital camera to render realism into his images which the mind and eye accomplish automatically when viewing an actual scene.
AAG Gallery At ACA - December 2011
Aiken artist Ron Rappoport will present a solo exhibit in the Aiken Artist Guild Gallery at the Aiken Center for the Arts during the month of December. The opening reception is Dec. 8, 6-8 pm at the center and is free and open to the public.
Rapppoport was born in Ohio living in several large cities before moving to Aiken in 2000. As a "self taught" artist, he paints in acrylic on canvas with special interest in subjects such as water mills, old barns and covered bridges. The artist has been particulary inspired by his wife's uncle, Eric Sloane, a well known artist and author.
Having spent many vacations on boats and on beaches in the US and in the Caribbean, he decided to paint a series of beach and harbor scenes this past year. "I liked the beautiful colors of the Caribbean houses and buildings so some of my paintings use those colors." explains Rappoport.
The exhibit will be on display Dec. 2 to 29th.
Artist contact: 803-641-9030
