SC.Fellows Part II

Please join us for an artists’ reception on Thursday May 10, 2018, at 701 Center for Contemporary Art from 7-9pm.

Exhibition Dates: May 10 – June 24, 2018
Curated Eleanor Heartney

In partnership with the South Carolina Arts Commission, 701 Center for Contemporary Art and the Henry Ponder Gallery at Benedict College present SC.Fellows Part II, a retrospective exhibition of the S.C. Arts Commission visual arts and craft fellowship recipients. The exhibition at 701 CCA will run from May 10 – June 24, 2018. The 701 CCA artists’ reception will take place at 701 CCA on May 10 from 7-9pm.

The exhibition at Henry Ponder Gallery at Benedict College will run from May 17 – June 24, 2018. Their reception will take place on May 17 from 5-7pm.

SC.Fellows is part of the S.C. Arts Commission’s 50th Anniversary celebration that includes 15 solo- and group exhibitions of current and past fellows throughout South Carolina. The 701 CCA and Henry Ponder Gallery exhibitions are the second part of the retrospective exhibition drawn from the work of the 89 artists who have received S.C. Arts Commission fellowships since 1976 when the program was established. All fellows are current or past residents of South Carolina.

“The 50th anniversary of the South Carolina Arts Commission provides an ideal opportunity to survey the breadth and depth of art made in South Carolina,” says New York art critic and author Eleanor Heartney, who curated SC.Fellows Part I & II. “The recipients of the award were selected solely on the basis of artistic merit, and as the works here reveal, they work in media ranging from ceramic, papermaking and textiles to painting, sculpture, photography, installation and assemblage. The work is equally diverse in content. The fellowship winners present private worlds, wrestle with social and political issues, explore the expressive potential of abstraction, and celebrate the complexities and beauties of the natural world.”

Heartney is a contributing editor for Art in America magazine and the author of several books, including Art & Today (2008). In 2004 she curated Thresholds, the traveling exhibition of art from five Southern states organized by the S.C. Arts Commission. In 2009, she curated The State Art Collection: Contemporary Conversations, a two-part traveling exhibition organized by the commission and 701 CCA.

The 701 CCA section of the second part will present work by James Arendt, Alice Ballard, Patricia Lee Brady, Jonathan Brilliant, Zoey Brookshire, Jeri Burdick, Jarod Charzewski, Jocelyn Chateauvert, Rebecca Des Marais, Linda Fantuzzo, Mark Flowers, Jack Steve Gerstner, Jr., J. Scott Goldsmith, Kristy Higby, Elizabeth Keller, Michael Lavine, Lerry Lebby, Elizabeth Melton, Philip Mullen, Jane Allen Nodine, Jorge Otero, Herb Parker, Clifton Peacock, Michael Phillips, David Ross Puls, Michael Tice and Susan B. Wooten.

The Henry Ponder Gallery at Benedict College section of SC.Fellows Part II will present work by Alice Boyle, M. Tallon Chalmers, Dennis Croteau, Heidi Darr-Hope, Karen E. Davies, Mary Edna Fraser, Eugene Horne, Damond Howard, Judy V. Jones, Kim Keats, Peter Lenzo, Robert F. Lyon, Leo Manske, Paula Smith, Megan Wolfe and Howard Woody.

701 CCA is located at 701 Whaley Street, 2nd Floor, Columbia, SC 29201. During exhibitions, hours are Wed–Sat, 11:00-5:00; Sun, 1:00-5:00. For more information, visit 701cca.org

The Henry Ponder Gallery at Benedict College is located at 1600 Harden Street, Columbia, SC 29204. During exhibitions, hours are Mon-Fri, 10:00-5:00. For more information, visit https://www.ponderartgallerybc.com/