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University of South Carolina Scholar Commons Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter McKissick Museum 1-1991 Under the Dome - January 1991 McKissick Museum--University of South Carolina Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/dome Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation University of South Carolina, "McKissick Museum - Under the Dome, January 1991". http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/dome/36/ This Newsletter is brought to you by the McKissick Museum at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I~I ONDER THE DOME The Barnyard Quilt, 1917 by Mittie Barrier By the Fireside: 200 Years of American Needlework January 20-March 17, 1991 MCK I SSICK MUSFLM - TilE UNIVERSITY Or SOUTII ( ' AROI , INA VOLUME 1 JANUARY 1991 ISSUE 1 M C K I C; SIC K MUS [ U M - T II E L 1\ I V f: R SIT Y () f SOL T II C ,\ R () I. I ;\! A Jim Klukkert I Judith Black: Family Photographs January 13-February 24, 1991 Anyone who has seriously attempted to Jim Klukkert's photographs are also of make portraits of a family will agree that it his family but tend to be more candid, docu is difficult work at times for all included. menting more specific moments in family Two different views of family can be seen in life. His subjects are unconcerned by his the works of Judith Black and Jim Klukkert presence-or the presence of the camera. on display in McKissick's art gallery. The familiar images are seen on a more Judith Black's black and white photo personal level and, at times, remind us of graphs, made over a period of five years, the humorous memories we all have of chronicle the lives of her four children from family life. early childhood through adolescence. Com '1 believe in the specialness of common pOSitionally simple and direct, these por people, common places, and the routine of traits provide evidence of the subtle physi life," Klukkert said, "I am making these EXHIBITIONS cal changes that occur with the p~55ing of photographs as a member of this sroup; this time. is reflected in the lack of concern these '1nstead of viewing my world as limited people show towards my camera, and in my by the four walls of inclusion in some of these photographs." my house and my Klukkert's and Black's candid presenta four children," Black tion of family life challenges the viewers' wrote, "I use por idea of what photography should be. To traits of myself and these artists iJ is spontaneous and direct, other family mem never posed. Both of them have received bers to express national recognition for their work and themes of growth Judith Black was the recipient of a Guggen and change, and to heim Fellowship in 1986. explore the relation ships in our family." Laurs snd Erik. 1989. by Judith Black Todd Murphy: Recent Works January 13-February 24, 1991 Soon, you'll be able to view a collection Murphy answered, IIMore than anything, I of contemporary artwork by Todd am convinced that there is no such thing as Murphy-shaped by influences of the exaggerated art, and that there is salvation Soviet Union, Europe, Africa and the Deep only in extremes." South-by simply visiting one museum: Born in 1962 and originally from The McKissick Museum. Chicago, Murphy's family One art critic has said moved to Atlanta when that the scale of Murphy's Todd was ten years old. He work is spatial and monu- has lived in the South since mental, his images powerful then. and impressive, and their .~ Murphy attended the surfaces "painterly" and i University of Georgia bold. The structure of where he studied Drawing Murphy's work is expression- and Painting under Jim istic, its style is abstract, its Herbert, Herb Creecy and subject matter is the human Bill Paul, and minored in figure, and its message is the the Russian language. human condition[ added the Although Murphy's critic. work has been influenced Overall, this artist's by his extensive travels to works possess an aura of the Soviet Union, Europe directness and honesty about and Africa, it has also been subject matter, form and influenced by the deep content. Murphy's art-like South. that of other 20th century "Vladimir's Carrot", 1989. Murphy, after all, has artists-makes powerful by Todd Murphy lived in the South for the comments about the nature of humanity past 18 years. In fact, he currently resides and society. and works in his Athens Georgia studio and When asked about the high drama and in Atlanta, where he has participated in monumentality in his art, for an article several group exhibitions. which appeared in the September/October Today, his paintings are in numerous 1989-issueof S6uthem ~ magazine, private collections. ~1 M C K ISS I C K MUS I: U M - T II E U N lYE R SIT Y 0 F SOU T I I CAR 0 L I \J A . John McWilliams: Land of Deepest Shade March 31-.May 26, 1991 Photographer John McWilliams could cludes 127 black and white photographs have taken color photographs of familiar mostly landscapes of Georgia, South Caro scenes in the South like countless others lina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, have done before him. Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and But he decided not to. Oklahoma. Instead, this talented artist has used Seventy-one of McWilliams's photo black and white photography to capture graphs have also been published in his new images of this region's barren, cut-over, book, Land of Deepest Shade: Photographs of trashed, contaminated, ever-sanitized, the South. They're described as "romantic vanishing wild places. and ironic" and as showing "man's reckless Why? hand and nature's mysterious dignity." Because McWilliams wanted to produce McWilliams, born in Pittsfield, Massa- photographs that are different-~werfully chusetts, studied at the Rhode Island School EXHIBITIONS different. His exhibition, Land Of Deepest of Design before moving to Atlanta in 1969 Shade, proves that he has accomplished his to head the photography program at Geor- goal. gia State University. 'Wherever the land is in jeopardy or Besides receiving many grants and limbo, McWilliams is likely to set up shop," awards during his career, McWilliams's said Theodore Rosengarten in the introduc work is also in the permanent collections of tion to the exhibition's catalog. the High Museum; Museum of Modem Art, "The sites he selects are poised before New York; National Museum of American change, resisting change or undergoing Art, Smithsonian Institution; Fogg Museum, permanent alteration." Harvard University; and about a half-dozen The show, which is travelling across the other prominent museums nationwide. United States during 1990 and 1991, in- Faculty Selects Student Art Show March 10-Apri121, 1990 This spring McKissick Museum will Approximately 60 works, selected by present two annual exhibitions focusing on members of the Art Department, will the achievements of students from USC's comprise the exhibition. Faculty members Department of Art. Visitors will have the will select up to five undergraduate works opportunity to view a broad selection of to represent each field of study within the works in the Faculty Selects Student Exhibition art department. Selection of graduate works as well as works by two Master of Fine Arts will be made collectively by those faculty candidates in the 1991 MFA Exhibition. members working directly with the student USC's Department of Art, supported by in question. The exhibition will then be McKissick Museum, each year sfonsors a juried by Michael Tyzack, painter and student art exhibition open to al Columbia Professor of Drawing and Painting at the campus graduate and undergraduate College of Charleston. Awards will be stuaents seeking a degree in the visual arts. presented afterwards. "The jurying and This year's show, scheduled from March 10 awards process is important to the student's to April 21, will include works in various need for challenge, recognition and achieve mediums, from drawings on paper and ment," Richard Weis said. paintings on canvas to sculpture, ceramics, The exhibition is organized and directed glass, jewelry and prints. by a committee of art department faculty The Student Exhibition is an opportunity and student representatives who set guide for students to work toward the standards lines and criteria, publicize the show, and of excellence set forth by their instructors sponsor the reception. This year's commit and to share with the public the product of tee will include: Jim Edwards, Gunars their efforts. Whether meeting the chal Strazdins, Howard Woody and Richard lenges of traditional art techniques or daring Weis, who will serve as Chairman. A public to experience beyond those limits, the body reception and awards ceremony will be held of works represented in this yearly exhibi at the Museum, concurrent with USC tion never fails to capture audiences with its Showcase, from 1 :30 to 3:30 p.m. on Satur inherent sense of vitality and growth. day, April 6. M C K ISS ILK \;1 USE U M - T I I F L N I \' E R SIT Y 0 F SOU T I I (.:\ I{ 0 LIN A Master of Fine Arts Exhibition March 17-Apri121, 1991 McKissick will host a Master of Fine self and self within society." Arts exhibition featuring works by Frances In striking but complimentary contrast Perkins and He-Seung Pak, two female to Perkins's "dark into light" series are He students completing their MFA degrees.