[Scmusenet] 28th Annual Juried SC Artists Exhibition to open This Saturday, April 28 at the Pickens County Museum

[Allen Coleman]

TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL JURIED SOUTH CAROLINA ARTIST'S EXHIBITION


Exhibition celebrating some of the state's finest artisans to open April
28 at the Pickens County Museum 


 

The Pickens County Cultural Commission is pleased to announce that the
"Pickens County Museum's Twenty-Eighth Annual Juried Artist's
Exhibition" will open to the public with reception and awards ceremony
on Saturday April 28, from 5 until 8 p.m., and will continue through
June 9, 2007.

 

Amy Funderburk, a professional artist working in Winston-Salem, NC,
served as juror for this year's competition. Specializing in oils,
pastels, and black & white photography, Funderburk graduated summa cum
laude in 1988 from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Her work
has been exhibited widely across the country, including exhibitions in
Chicago, Delaware, Maryland, New York State, Ohio, and South Carolina.
She is best known for her large figurative symbolic paintings that use
myth and the visual narrative as modern metaphor. Funderburk has been a
freelance Exhibitions Coordinator and curator since 1989. A former art
instructor with the Sawtooth Center for Visual Art and Forsyth Technical
Community College in Winston-Salem, she now conducts various art
workshops and seminars, and has served as juror for an array of regional
exhibits. She and her husband, photographer James C. Williams, led an
artists' workshop to the Republic of Ireland in 2005. Funderburk has
also written freelance reviews and articles for numerous publications
since 1994.

 

Funderburk spent the day of April 14 looking at, and contemplating 334
works of art representing 183 South Carolina artisans. The vast array of
paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, ceramics, fiber and other
mediums made for the difficult task of selecting works for, and
eliminating works from, the final show. The impressive final selection
of 160 works of art represents 118 individuals currently creating visual
art in this state. 

 

About the jury, Funderburk said, "I was really impressed with the
variety and amount of really high caliber work entered into the
competition." She continued, "Everyone in the show, including many I had
to decline, had excellent technique with their various media. Beyond
that, a lot of people who I felt were going beyond excellent technique
had me looking for artists who say more with their piece, whatever that
message or narrative might be. One who is using their art as a voice...
perhaps a visual voice? I feel there were a lot of powerful visual
voices in this exhibit."  

 

Thanks to the kind sponsorships of Pickens County & the Pickens County
Cultural Commission, Roger & Susan Benjamin, Connie & June Bowers,
Central Textiles, Inc., Donald & Margaret Collins, Seth & Doreen
Heimlich, Dr. Hal & Sue Jameson, Greystone Industries, Inc., Liberty
Denim LLC, Robinson Funeral Home & Crematorium, John & Judy Rozelle and
Ralph & Shirley Sarlin, cash and purchase awards valued more than $
6,000.00 will be presented at the April 28 Opening Reception. The
Pickens County Museum of Art & History is funded in part by Pickens
County, friends and members of the museum and a grant from the South
Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National
Endowment for the Arts.

            

No matter where your individual taste in art may lead, you will find
satisfaction in this exhibition. The variety of work represented is a
generous reflection of the community of artists presently at work in
South Carolina.

            

Located at the corner of Hwy. 178 at 307 Johnson Street in Pickens SC,
the museum is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. until
5:00 p.m., Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays from
9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free but donations are welcomed.
For more information call the museum at (864) 898-5963.

 

 

 

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