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| Mandy Ferguson, Demolition (Transitional Landscape II) |
Mandy is an artist from Easley, South Carolina. Originally a graduate from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor’s Degree in Marine Science, she received her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Converse College in May 2015 while working as a photographer/ page designer at a weekly newspaper. She is currently pursing the Master of Fine Arts degree in Art with an emphasis in printmaking at Clemson University.
Ferguson’s work has recently shown at the Bite, Scratch, Expose: New Printmaking exhibit at the Morean Arts Center in Saint Petersburg, Florida, the Southern Graphics Council International member portfolio exchange, “Expectation of Privacy,” which displayed in Knoxville, Tennessee and Signs of the Times Contemporary Broadside Juried Exhibition at the Flakoll Gallery in Fargo, North Dakota. She has also received recognition for her prints by the
Spartanburg County Library College Invitational Art Exhibition and Creative Quarterly: Journal of Art and Design. In addition, her photojournalism has garnered several awards through the South Carolina Press Association’s annual
competition.
Her eclectic interest in the visual arts is realized through her prints, which combine photographs, drawings, printmaking and sculptural elements into works that explore technological dependency and loss of identity.
March 15 – April 14
Kai Lin Art
999 Brady Avenue NW Suite 7
Atlanta GA 30318
Wednesday - Friday 12 - 6 pm
Saturday 12 - 5 pm
Sun - Tues by appointment.
Opening reception and awards ceremony: Thursday, March 16th from 7:00-19:00pm.
The winners of the awards will be announced March 16th during the opening reception.
Sydney A. Cross, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts: Northern Arizona University in 1977 and her Masters of Fine Arts: Arizona State University in 1980. She taught printmaking and art for 33 years. In 2015, she retired from teaching at Clemson University where she was awarded the title of Distinguished Alumni Professor of Art. Always professionally active, she held the office of vice president and then President of the Southern Graphics Council (1996-2000), the largest printmaking society in North America. She has also been awarded residencies at Frans Masareel Graphic Center in Belgium and the Virginia Center of Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, VA. Cross has given numerous panel presentations at regional, national, and international conferences and symposiums. As an artist she has participated in several important portfolio exchanges, including Suite X, Printer’s Almanac, Tempe Suite, Images 2010, and Drawn to Stone, a celebration of Two Hundred Years of Lithography. Her work has been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally, and can be found in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian Museum, and Boston Museum of Fine Art to name just a few.
For more information about Mandy's work, please go to: http://mlfergus.weebly.com/
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