[Scmusenet] Three Upstate Artists to be featured in new Pickens County Museum Exhibitions

[Allen Coleman]

Three Upstate Artists to be featured in new Pickens County Museum
Exhibitions

Reception to meet the artists this Saturday, December 8 from 6 until 8
pm

 

     The Pickens County Cultural Commission is pleased to announce the
opening of three very special exhibitions at the Pickens County Museum
of Art & History. Please join us from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. on December
8, 2007 as we host a reception to meet the three artists featured in
"Michel Bayne: Clay Canvas," "Jeanet Dreskin: The Vastitude Paintings"
and "Deborah Pagano: Narrative Collage & Assemblage." All three
exhibitions will continue through February 14, 2008. 

 

"Clay Canvas"

Southern Folk Pottery by Michel Bayne 

 

    Living in Greenville, SC, and making pottery since the 1980s, Michel
Bayne makes historically-inspired, slip-decorated stoneware, keeping
alive a long-standing tradition that has existed in the
early-established communities of folk potters throughout the Southern
regions of the United States. 

 

    About his pottery Bayne says, "My work reflects an intense interest
in history and folk life in the 19th century. The forms I create are
reminiscent of vessels made in South Carolina; their shape is so round
and full.  I have taken the traditional designs using incising or
colored slips to a more complicated level of detail.  It is inspiring to
think of daily life in an unspoiled America and I have a deep yearning
to have lived during that time.  I'm hoping to inspire Folks today to
think about their American heritage."


 


Jeanet Dreskin

"The Vastitude Paintings"

 

    Living in Greenville, SC, Jeanet Dreskin's illustrious career has
included more than fifty One woman exhibitions in a variety of venues
including, the Columbia Museum of Art, SC; the Lowe Gallery, New
Orleans, LA; the Greenville County Museum of Art; the Georgia Museum of
Art, Athens, GA; Furman University; Clemson University; the Asheville
Museum, NC and more.  Her paintings can be found in the permanent
collections of the National Museum of American Art, Washington DC; the
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; The Greenville County Museum of Art,
Greenville, SC; the E. Hampton Museum, NY; the Zimmerli Museum, New
Brunswick, NJ; the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC; South Carolina State
Art Collection; Texas Art Association Collection, Austin, Texas; Clemson
University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR),
Imperial Chemicals, Manchester, England; J. Strobel of W. Sohne, Munich,
Germany and many more public and private collections. 

 

    Her accolades include awards and selection into exhibitions at the
American Contemporary Exhibition, Palm Beach, FL and New York, NY;
National Academy of Design, New York, NY; International Grand Prix,
Cannes, France; Isette Colle Di Roma, Rome, Italy; Jehanger Gallery,
Bombay India; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngston, Ohio; Broome
St. Gallery, New York, NY to name but a few. In 2004, the Governor of
South Carolina awarded her the Elizabeth O'Neil Verner Lifetime
Achievement Award in the Arts. 

 

    Jeanet received her B.F.A. from Tulane University and her M.F.A.
from Clemson University as well as her Medical Art certificate from John
Hopkins University.  She also studied at the NY Art Student League.  She
teaches at the (Greenville County) Museum School of Art and has taught
at the SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities and for the
University of South Carolina.

 

    When referring to her work, Dreskin says, "In my paintings I develop
layers of transparency to create a sense of growth and uninhibited flow.
As in nature's cycle, these shapes that I paint are often eroded and
destroyed before being recreated from within. In the 'Williwaws' series
the elements of wind and water, quiet and turbulence intermingle at
various levels of perception to create a sense of uninhibited flow. In
contract to these cheerful, happy paintings, my 'Sere' series deals with
the somber effects of man's encroachment and waste of our environment.
In the drawings and paintings, I try to visually express this 21st
century dilemma. I have been exploring concepts of birth, growth and
life in a land of environmental destruction." She continues, "With fluid
and merging shapes, I develop levels of perception of the constantly
changing earth and water forms. Looking inside of the beauty and
vastness of those forms, I find the inner erosion and destruction
presented in the series."

 

"Narrative Collage & Assemblage"

The work of Deborah Pagano


 


    Living in Clemson, SC, Deborah Pagano studied painting and
illustration at the University of Connecticut where she received her
Bachelors of Fine Arts degree. She has furthered her studies in mixed
media art techniques at the Greenville Museum of Art in SC and Arrowmont
School of Arts & Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. She has over fifteen years
experience as a freelance illustrator/graphic artist and as an art
instructor for both children and adults, teaching at both public and
private institutions. In 1995 she transitioned over to
collage/assemblage after acknowledging a love for ephemera. 

 

    A member of the National Collage Society, Pagano is a co-founder of
The Arts Center in Clemson, SC.  

 

    "My work," says Pagano, "incorporates found objects and multiple
paint & paper layers to create rich textures that convey fragmentary
messages and stories to be completed by the viewer. I thrive on the
beauty of decay, multiple layers and rich textures that can be found in
old books, rusted objects and organic matter.  Vintage photographs are
often included because of the emotions that they can be made to convey."
She Continues, "My work deals with issues that I have been confronted
with and for which I feel strongly about. Creating visual commentary on
contemporary issues brings me a sense of calm and relief." 

 

"Deborah Pagano: Narrative Collage and Assemblage" is sponsored in part
by The Reserve at Lake Keowee Community Foundation.

 

     The Pickens County Museum of Art & History is funded in part by
Pickens County, members and friends of the museum and a grant from the
South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National
Endowment for the Arts.

 

     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 please contact the museum at (864) 898-5963

 

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