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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
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font-weight:bold'>DABNEY MAHANES: A Journey with the Figure<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>Painting exhibition opens September 19 at the Pickens County Museum<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<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 Cultural Commission</span></b> is
pleased to announce the opening of a very special painting exhibition at the <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Pickens County Museum of Art & History</span></b>.
Please join us from <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>6:00 until 8:00 p.m. on
September 19, 2009</span></b> as we host a reception to open “<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Dabney Mahanes: A Journey with the Figure”.</span></b>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Now living in
Greenville, SC, Dabney Mahanes was born in Virginia. She received her B.F.A.
from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1959 and then worked in the field of
advertising as an illustrator for McGraw-Hill. She has three children, two
grandchildren and five cats, all whom she loves dearly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> It was later in life
that Dabney decided to pursue her passion as a serious painter. She has studied
art under Jeanne Dobie, Alex Powers, Henri Casselli, Cecile Martin, Meinrad
Craighead and has enjoyed tremendous guidance from Julia Peters, Henry Fagan,
Glen Miller and Michael Brodeur. Dabney works daily out of her Pendleton Street
Art District studio in West Greenville.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> When referring to
her work, Dabney says, “As far back as I can remember I have loved
drawing figures. That attraction has stayed with me. Now I am committed to
creating art through painting.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> She continues,
“The human figure allows me to explore the full range of my creative
process. I can find rhythmic line in the movement of body gesture, shapes in
human contours, composition with figures in relationship to one another and
their environment, and content in the human story. I suppose that much of my
work would define me as a portrait artist. I find inspiration in a pose, an
expression, an attitude, a situation and I am moved to capture that ‘up
close’ and personal moment through my own emotional expression. I love
working the paint, using vivid color, and as Jeanne Dobie would say,
“making color sing”.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> This exceptional
collection of paintings representing a decade of Mahanes’ figurative
exploration will remain on display in the museum’s new wing Focus Gallery
through <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>November 19, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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<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 by <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Pickens County</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>members</span></b> and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>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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<p class=MsoBodyText2><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Located at the corner of Hwy. 178 at 307
Johnson Street in Pickens SC, the museum is open <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Tuesdays, Wednesdays </span></b>and<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
Fridays </span></b>from<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 9:00 </span></b>a.m.
until<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 5:00 </span></b>p.m.,<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> Thursdays </span></b>from<b><span style='font-weight:
bold'> 9:00 </span></b>a.m. until<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 7:30 </span></b>p.m.<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>and<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
Saturdays </span></b>from<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> 9:00 </span></b>a.m.
until <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>4:30</span></b> p.m.<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> Admission is free</span></b> but donations are
welcomed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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