Todd McDonald, Go In To Get Out, oil on panel, 46" x 69"
Exhibition: Privacy
Conundrums
Venue: RIVERWORKS Gallery
Dates:
September 7 through October 21
Hours: 1-6 PM Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
12-5 Tuesday
Reception:
September 7, First Friday, 6-9PM
Privacy is a legal and
personal conundrum. Facebook, HIPPA permissions, even grocery receipts track,
collect, and share our daily lives.
Friends, organizations, retailers know our birthdates, allergies, and
ice cream preferences.
Elizabeth Snipes
Todd McDonald and Elizabeth
Snipes make paintings that address our current Privacy Conundrums. Todd paints jewel toned virtual
structures. Many of his structures
though in a state of stasis illuminate and protect a core. Other structures are
captured at the moment of their destruction or at the moment of their
creation. Todd remarks, “The resulting
images define structures that are synthetic but are rooted in a logic that is
informed by actual visual experience.”
Elizabeth paints solitary, isolated figures enmeshed in echoes of bright
lines that point to and simultaneously camouflage the lone, central figure.
According to Elizabeth, “In each painted or drawn image, I present the figure
as it fluctuates between being recognizable and confusing, present and absent,
familiar and foreign, representational and abstract, static and dynamic, or at
times physical and digital.” Both Todd
and Elizabeth employ mediums (oil and pastel on canvas or panel) as old as art
history to make virtual, digital like images that pose Privacy Conundrums.
Todd McDonald is an Associate
Professor of Art at Clemson University and Elizabeth Snipes is an Assistant
Professor of Art at Lander University.
Elizabeth is Todd’s former student.
RIVERWORKS Gallery is
operated by and for the faculty and students of the Department of Visual and
Performing Arts at Greenville Technical College. The gallery is located at 300 River Street,
Suite 202, along the scenic Reedy River at Art Crossing in downtown Greenville.
For more information on Privacy Conundrums call (864)
271-0679 or visit www.gvltec.edu/vpa/ and click on Riverworks
