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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Three
Watercolorists in Exhibition at the Pickens County Museum<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Exhibits
featuring Dale Cochran, Lynn Greer and Russell Jewell to open June 27<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'><img width=576 height=358 id="_x0000_i1030"
src="cid:image005.jpg@01C9F325.78C75A40"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Pickens County Museum of Art & History</span></b>
will be presenting<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> “Three
Watercolorists in Exhibition” </span></b>from <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>June 27 through August 27, 2009</span></b>. Please join us from <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>6:00 until 8:00 p.m. on June 27</span></b> as we host
a reception to meet the three artists featured in <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>“Dale Cochran: Extraordinary Experiences,” “Lynn Greer:
Night Views” </span></b>and<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
“Russell Jewell: Legacy and Light.” </span></b>All three
exhibitions will continue through August 27, 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Watercolor is a tradition that spans the chronicles of history. Primitive
man’s use of pigments mixed with water to create cave paintings evolved
to the ancient Egyptians work on papyrus and traditional Asian masters painting
on silk and handmade paper. In the Middle Ages illuminated manuscripts were
brightly colored with the medium. The increased availability of paper by the
fourteenth century allowed for the increase of artistic possibilities so
artists such as Albrecht Durer, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean Honore Fragonard and
many more used watercolor as a means of drawing and developing compositions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
With the production of higher quality papers in the late eighteenth century,
the first national school of watercolorists emerged in Britain. These
renderings encompassed visual identity of ports of sea, as well as the
surrounding landscape and in 1768, influential topographers founded the Royal
Academy which encouraged watercolorists to carry the medium beyond their own
technical achievements, encouraging the likes of Joseph M. W. Turner to grow into
one of the most influential painters of the nineteenth century.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
The earliest American watercolors were often created for documentation of the
"new world", thus American artists worked in the shadow of European
masters until the late nineteenth century. Gradually, painters such as Thomas
Eakins, Winslow Homer and James A. M. Whistler began to develop artworks that
challenged the Europeans and the rise of American painting ensued. Watercolor
became an inevitable medium for the American painter who, from the beginning,
made landscape painting one of the dominant features of the American art
tradition. Watercolor's inherent luminosity, combined with its capacity for
rapid execution, gave landscape painters an ideal means for recording the
fleeting effects of nature. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=red
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a
name=SelmaBlackburn></a><a name=SergeiBongart></a><a name=RexBrandt></a><a
name=AdrianaBuggino></a><a name=JeanBurman></a><a name=EvanCharteris></a><a
name=Cheng-KheeChee></a><a name=FrancescoClemente></a><a name=WilliamH.Condit></a><a
name=MicheleCooper></a><a name=SharonCrosbie></a><a name=TheresaR.Einhorn></a><a
name=NitaEngle></a><a name=JeanGrastorf></a><a name=IrwinGreenberg></a><a
name=TonyvanHasselt></a><a name=RayHendershot></a><a name=JohnHulsey></a><a
name=KwanY.Jung></a><a name=BillKerr></a><a name=WillemdeKooning></a><a
name=FrankLaLumia></a><a name=RobertLovett></a><a name=MarydeLoyht-Arendt></a><a
name=AngelaLynch></a><a name=FrankMarcello></a><a name=DonnaJoMassie></a><a
name=DianneMiddleton></a><a name=DavidMilne></a><a name=CarltonPlummer></a><a
name=JohnSingerSargent></a><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Dale Cochran<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“Extraordinary
Experiences”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'><img width=576 height=358 id="_x0000_i1027"
src="cid:image006.jpg@01C9F325.78C75A40"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
South Carolina native Dale Cochran is an artist with a gift for revealing the uniqueness
and beauty in things seemingly plain, illuminating the stories and spirits
behind the ordinary - an old barn, a basket of pecans, a child caught in a
moment of imagination, a crayon on pavement. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Dale was a child when he began his journey as an artist, lying on the floor
beside his dad’s drawing board. As a high school student, Dale
experienced his first formal training and then continued his studies at
Anderson University, receiving an associate degree in art, and then Winthrop
University, earning a bachelor’s degree in visual arts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
About this exhibition Dale say, "The title of this exhibition -
Extraordinary Experiences - supports my belief that when we take the time to
look and listen to the world around us, the commonplace and ordinary become
extraordinary. Through the years, I’ve made many attempts to write an
artist statement that describes my work. But I’ve come to realize that my
work isn’t complicated; it’s simply a visual interpretation of my
experiences, relationships and observations. Sometimes there are stories behind
the inspiration for the piece; at other times, it’s just the visual
intrigue of the subject."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Dale has been professionally involved in the arts for more than 30 years as an
award-winning artist, illustrator, instructor and graphic designer.
Dale’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications.
For more information about the artist and his work visit www.dalecochran.com.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Lynn
Greer<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“Night
Views”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'><img width=576 height=359 id="_x0000_i1028"
src="cid:image007.jpg@01C9F325.78C75A40"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=red face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> A
Greenvillian since the age of eight, and Fine Arts Center student, Lynn <font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>Greer </span></font>is a 1979 University of
Georgia graduate with a BFA in Graphic Design. After eight years as an Art
Director, she left to join the ranks of, as she calls it, “poor starving
artists.” For the last twenty-one years she has made a living as a
working artist; painting commissioned works, organizing one-woman exhibits,
taking part in outdoor arts festivals and entering juried competitions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> About
making watercolors Lynn says, “I love the watercolor medium. The fluidity
and the unlimited ability to surprise both add to the enjoyment of painting. I
am exhilarated by the process as well as the product, whether I am painting a
floral, a portrait or a cityscape. I feel fortunate when I am able to
communicate my joy to others.” She continues, “My current body of
work focuses on the glow of lights in urban, suburban and rural settings. I am
interested in exploring the many possibilities inherent in this subject matter.
How many ways can I portray the stages of evening, using both color and
contrast? I am also fascinated by the variety of hues in the night sky,
depending on season, weather and reflected light from the landscape below. The
lights are the stars. The architecture and surrounding landscape play
supporting roles.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Lynn is a
member with excellence of the South Carolina Watercolor Society, a signature
member of the Georgia Watercolor Society, and a board member of the
Metropolitan Arts Council in Greenville, SC. She has recently been
included in AMERICAN ARTIST WATERCOLOR MAGAZINE, as one of twenty emerging
artists across the US. She lives in downtown Greenville with her husband Henk
VanDyk.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Russell
Jewell<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“Legacy
and Light”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'><img width=576 height=357 id="_x0000_i1029"
src="cid:image008.jpg@01C9F325.78C75A40"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Russell
Jewell is an artist/educator from Easley, South Carolina. For more than
twenty-five years he has carved a career out of the combining forces of art and
education. Jewell's qualifications for such a career include a Bachelors degree
in Art Education, a Masters of Art degree from the University of South Carolina
and a Doctorate of Education from the University of Georgia. He is a certified
Advanced Placement teacher and has received certification by the National Board
for Professional Teachers Program.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> On the
artistic front Jewell has been juried into many national exhibitions including:
Watercolor USA, Northeast Watercolor, Northwest Watercolor, Watercolor West,
Adirondacks Exhibition of American Watercolor, Easton Maryland’s Premiere
Plein Air Competition, Telluride Plein Air, as well as the National Watercolor
Society exhibition. He has been the recipient of a plethora of awards and
honors and his work is widely published<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> When asked
to speak about his upcoming exhibition, Dr. Jewell said, “The works of
‘Legacy and Light’ reflect my artistic development as it was
coupled with the actual physical and social environment of a growing
family. As my family grew and matured so too grew my
artistic knowledge and personal awareness. My life has always
coupled art with education. My passion seems to encompass both of these ideals
in the form of a ‘give and take’. As an artist, the more education
I take, the more I have to give back. This give and take fuels a personal
passion to share, not only my art, but my art knowledge as well. I often
compare the artist with the magician. Both the artist and the magician must
first, intellectually, learn the tricks of their trade but it is the viewer who
perceives the magic in their work. I encourage everyone to find their passion
and share the magic.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Russell
Jewell is a signature member of the S.C. Watermedia Society and the National
Watercolor Society. In 2008 he received a US patent for his Jewell Box plein
air viewfinder. His viewfinder and his work can be viewed at
www.russelljewell.com. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Three
Watercolorists in Exhibition is part of the museum’s 2008 – 2009
exhibition season sponsored by <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Blue Ridge Electric
Cooperative</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pickens</span></b> <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Savings & Loan</span></b> and <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Upstate Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery & Dental
Implant Center </span></b>along with <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cornerstone
Bank</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>First</span></b> <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Citizens</span></b> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Bank</span></b>,
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>ING Financial Partners - Sam Head, Liberty</span></b>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Family</span></b> <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Pharmacy</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Richard &
Laura Powers</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pumpkintown Community
Club</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Mr. & Mrs. Alfred
Robinson & Family</span></b> and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>the</span></b>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Rozelle Stone Company.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The Pickens County
Museum of Art & History is funded in part <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>by Pickens County</span></b>, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>members and friends of the museum </span></b>and a
grant from the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>South Carolina Arts Commission</span></b>,
which receives support from the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>National
Endowment for the Arts</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Located at the corner
of Hwy. 178 at <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>307 Johnson Street</span></b>
in <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pickens SC</span></b>, the museum is open <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Tuesdays</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Wednesdays</span></b>
and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Fridays</span></b> from <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m</span></b>., <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Thursdays</span></b> from <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>9:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.</span></b> and <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Saturdays</span></b> from <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>9:00 a.m.
until 4:30 p.m</span></b>. Admission is free but donations are welcomed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> For more information
please contact the museum at (864) 898-5963.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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