Center for Visual Arts - Lee Gallery, 1-101 Lee Hall, 323 Fernow Street, Clemson, SC
August 11-September 4, M-TH
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Lee Gallery, 1-101 Lee Hall
This showcase celebrates
the bringing together of four artists focus in drawing who met at
Clemson University and are now dispersed geographically throughout the
U.S. as careers develop and expand.
While each artist has
pursued a singular direction of thought and have not worked in close
proximity to each other for many years, there are relationships to be
found in this showcase. The drawings in this exhibition demonstrate a
deep awareness of and relation to the natural, biological world. The
works display drawing approaches that veer from highly sensitized
systems of recording to open aggression. Transmitted are explorations of
distance and proximity, the contemporary landscape, formation of
matter, and systems of belief. Artists employ drawing to investigate and
recompose their subjects.
Former Clemson art
professor, Heidi Jensen invited three of her former students John Allen,
Bethany Flagg Pipkin and Jackson Zorn to present drawings in this
exhibit. These now alumni received Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in
visual art with concentrations in drawing from Clemson University and
all recently received Master of Fine Arts degrees from programs located
in Florida, Indiana, and North Carolina.
