Surface Appeal with Fringe Benefits
works by Myles Calvert
Center for the Arts | Dalton Gallery
121 E. Main St. Rock Hill, SC
April 8 - May 7 , 2022
RECEPTION
Thursday, April 14, 2022
5:30 - 7:30 PM
DALTON GALLERY
Imagery of recognizable objects, such as toasters, spoons, and ottomans, are combined with specific colour harmonies to suggest a particular emotion based on individual experience. Similar to the ideals of Romanticism, the combination of object and colour reference a unique time period and emotional memory. The experience changes for each viewer based on their life experience to date. Colour palette preferences shift between the biological sexes, with exposure to media trends and influences, and most noticeably with age. Objects may change and become fluid representations of the past yet pull forward a moment that may have otherwise been lost.
Surface Appeal with Fringe Benefits is an exhibition consisting primarily of traditional and experimental printmaking processes, and also includes neon installations, changing the lighting and atmosphere within the exhibition space.
Myles Calvert’s current work explores the relationships that develop between everyday objects of comfort and color theory. The chosen focal objects have been universal, recognizable and at times, mundane. Calvert questions why they must be objects at all, when the broad subject of landscape should also be challenged. His influences are drawn from printmakers such as Richard Hamilton, Patrick Caulfield, and Josef Albers, but also contemporary painters, designers, and digital artists who exceptionally manipulate color (Flavia da Rin, Anish Kapoor, Mario Testino).
Myles’ interests are rooted in the ideals of Romanticism - exploration of unique moments and personal emotion through the use of identifiable shape and color variants. Unique surfaces are explored through print (screenprint, photopolymer etching, laser woodblock, lithography) - specifically, halftone structures and manipulations of those patterns / angles to achieve controllable photographic to distorted variants. The digital glitch present through Adobe software programs drives forward the question of technologies place and developing role in traditional processes. In particular, focus has been on melding traditional woodcut with laser woodcut variants, exploring MDF vs, plywood and plexiglass matrices.
Imagery of recognizable objects, such as toasters, spoons, and ottomans, are combined with specific color harmonies to suggest a particular emotion based on individual experience. Similar to the ideals of Romanticism, the combination of object and color reference a unique time period and emotional memory. The experience changes for each viewer based on their life experience to date. Color palette preferences shift between the biological sexes, with exposure to media trends and influences, and most noticeably with age. Objects may change and become fluid representations of the past yet pull forward a moment that may have otherwise been lost.
PERIMETER GALLERY
[Ma(i)n]us Dei
Works by Matty Squires
EXHIBITION | April 8 - May 7, 2022
RECEPTION | Thursday, April 14, 2022 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM
[Ma(i)n]us Dei is a study of the intersectionality between divinity, man, and creation. With a primary focus on the breakdown of the common motif of the Manus Dei, or hand of God, each piece within this collection is taken from an aspect of man, the Judaeo-Christian Christ, conception, divinity, community, and self. Broken down, [Ma(i)n]us Dei is main, or hand in French, man, I, and God. Divine hands reach down for creation of a broken people. Purity is left for the wretched, and man stumbles and challenges oneself with hands outstretched towards the sky. Oops, this jargon may just be nonsense. I digress. Hands and primary colors. Three. I’m queer and think about God. That is all.
MATTY SQUIRES
website | https://www.mattyjprints.com
Matty Squires is an artist, occasional writer, and future educator in the Rock Hill, SC area. Primarily working in ceramics and printmaking, Matty began making art in 2017, when they first took a ceramics course at Winthrop University and fell in love with clay. Following a short hiatus in making art due to health issues, Matty discovered a new love in printmaking, as they love the idea of making more affordable and accessible art, wanting to help remove the notion that buying, appreciating, or owning art is a privilege rather than something almost anybody should be allowed to do. In their studies and preparation to be a special education teacher, Matty discovered a fascination in hands and human communication, as hands are an expressive, communicative, and powerful extension of our bodies. Because of this, Matty primarily features hands and fingers in most of their works, attempting to expand upon this idea and further explore the artistic and emotional embraces that hands can bring. In addition, Matty enjoys working with organic shapes, juxtaposition, and language in many of their works. When Matty is not creating, they spend their time writing nonsensical nonsense and reflections on random topics, poking fun at and satirizing the idea of philosophical writings and the elitist nature of academic language in an attempt to actually put their degree in Philosophy and Religion with a minor in International and Global Studies to use.
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EDMUND D. LEWANDOWSKI CLASSROOM GALLERY
HAND. BLOCK. FIBER.
Winthrop University Printmaking Exhibition
EXHIBITION | April 8 - May 7, 2022
RECEPTION | Thursday, April 14, 2022 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | Fine Arts
website | https://www.winthrop.edu
The printmaking concentration at Winthrop is designed around a thorough technical education in traditional and non-traditional print media. This, combined with a challenging questioning environment towards subject-matter and its relevance to contemporary art and the student's personal interests, is founded on strong drawing skills.
Image-text relationship and the ideas sequential imagery are also investigated. Printmaking involves techniques which are utilized in both the fine-art and commercial-industrial worlds. It is not surprising, therefore, that students have gone on to work in a variety of fields, including commercial screenprinting, digital imaging, graphic design, as exhibiting fine artists and teachers in both high school and in higher education.