"Lowcountry Blooms" by Alexandra Kassing

 

 

Featured May 2015 show at Art Central Gallery:

“Lowcountry Blooms,” paintings by artist Alexandra Kassing, is the featured May 2015 show at Art Central Gallery in Summerville. “I am inspired each year by the colors of the Spring, as a flurry of new growth and blooms seems to fill almost every part of our lush lowcountry landscape,” said Kassing. “Besides the floral display, there seems to be a myriad of different shades of green.”

The show features familiar local scenes - such as palette knife oil sketches of various scenes around Summerville, majestic oaks, and even Summerville past in “The Pine Forest Inn” - a contemporary acrylic painting of the now disappeared landmark.

 

Images of azaleas feature prominently in the show, such as in “Azalea on the Ashley” pictured here. “Yes, there are a lot of azalea in this series,” laughs Kassing, “they are our Summerville flower for a reason! They never fail to inspire when they put on their yearly show.”

 

“Lowcountry Blooms” will be featured May 1-31, 2015 at Art Central. Meet the artist at the Third Thursday reception May 21 5-8 p.m.

For more of the artist's work visit the gallery website: http://www.artcgalleryltd.com/AlexandraKassing.html
or the artist's website: www.alexandrakassing.com
 

"Renewal" by June Sullivan April 2015 featured show

 

Art Central Gallery is pleased to present June Sullivan's new photographic exhibit entitled "Renewal", which will be open through the month of April 2015.

 

Perhaps this time of year any winter seems worse than last year, but this winter in particular has been long and hard. For that reason, photographer June Sullivan is especially excited to think about spring and all it offers.

 

"I started to entitle this display 'Pieces of April'," Sullivan says, "after the old Three Dog Night love song that keeps running through my head.  But, as I worked on it, I realized that it's something more.  As God breathes his warm breath on the earth and it becomes green and colorful, it is more than the flowers, birds, and butterflies that burst forth. It is our very souls that expand with the balmy air and the dazzling color.  The cold winter is gone; the earth is green; and we are renewed with the spring."

 

See more of Sullivan's work on our website below. Meet the artist at Art Central for the Third Thursday reception, April 16, 2015 5-8pm.

http://www.artcgalleryltd.com/artistofmonth.html

 

March 2015 featured show

"Into the Unexpected"

Mixed Media by Delaine Walters

 

 

What is normal art?  For Art Central artist, Delaine Walters, the idea of normal has to include “what if?”  In the exhibit of her newest work, “Into the Unexpected”, on view at the gallery through March, she intentionally sets out to explore her creative process.  Walters says she “turned things upside down and sideways, used paper, fabric, gels, threads, stamps and whatever popped” into her mind.

The result is a group of paintings that are realistic with a big splash of abstract.  “DBLE Dogwoods”, shown above, is woven.   Other paintings include peacock feathers, portions of old paintings, found objects and metallic paint. 

Walters’ imagination has produced paintings that are fun and engaging.  Stop by Art Central during March 2015 to see “Into the Unexpected.”  Meet the artist at the Third Thursday reception, March 19th 5-8pm. For more images from the show visit: http://www.artcgalleryltd.com/artistofmonth.html

"Portrait of the Lowcountry"

pastel paintings by Laura Cody

“Portrait of the Lowcountry”, an exhibit of pastel paintings by Laura Cody is featured for the month of February 2015 at Art Central Gallery.  These paintings depict people who could be your neighbors.

In fact, one portrait, “Kelsey”, shown below, is of a visitor to Art Central.  Cody was on duty that day and was completely taken with her blue hair scarf.  The young lady graciously agreed to a few photos, which Cody used to create the painting.

Cody finds much of her inspiration this way—by just keeping her eyes open to the everyday beauty around her.  Although she has been in South Carolina since 2001, the landscape, people and culture of the Lowcountry still seem new to her, and she finds them inspiring.

Cody’s move to the area coincided with retirement as well as a return to her early love, art.  She says her creativity “started pouring out of me at once!”  The artist’s zest for life and for painting elevates these portrayals of regular people engaged in ordinary activities to new heights.

“Portrait of the Lowcountry” will hang at Art Central Gallery through the month of February.  Meet the artist at the Third Thursday reception, February 19, 2015 5-8pm. See more of Laura's work at: http://www.artcgalleryltd.com/LauraCody.html

 

 

An Artist’s Life

A Retrospective of the Work of Detta Cutting Zimmerman, 1945-2014

Art Central Gallery is celebrating the talents of a colleague, Detta Cutting Zimmerman, with an exhibit of her art during the month of January 2015.  

The earliest work is a drawing from her art school portfolio, a fashionable young lady in a pink suit.  The latest work is much the same subject matter but with a thoroughly modern twist; it is a painting of bikini-clad girls sunbathing on Folly Beach.  Detta loved to paint the beach and people having fun in the sun.

In her early career, Detta devoted many years to detailed ink drawings of people and historical buildings.  She continued to draw many local scenes upon moving with her family to the Low Country from her native Nebraska.

Then, she turned her attention to painting.  First in oils and then in acrylics, she painted her surroundings with a keen eye for color and composition and a real love for her subject matter.

In particular, Detta enjoyed arranging and painting flowers and vegetables grown in her own backyard.  A classic ‘Detta’ still life includes a vase of flowers, her linen cloths and her stool set up on the porch with the yard stretching out to the fence.  She loved a challenge and sometimes would include many patterns and objects just to see that she could capture it all in one unique composition.

Art Central Gallery is pleased that Detta’s work will still be available, both original works and reproductions, thanks to her husband, Delbert Zimmerman.  “An Artist’s Life” will hang until the end of January 2015.  Meet the artist’s husband and friends at Third Thursday, January 15, 2015 5-8pm, and see more of her work at www.artcgalleryltd.com.

September 2014 Featured Show

"All God's Creatures"

Batik paintings by artist Jan Dalton 

 

Artist Jan Dalton loves animals.  They have played a big role in her life since childhood and appear often in her artwork.  

About her new Art Central exhibit, All God’s Creatures, the artist says, “My inspiration for the batiks came from a recent visit to the zoo.  The sun was shining and I was off to explore one of my favorite subjects- all of God’s creatures big and small.   My creative juices were flowing:  the lions, the tigers,
the flamingos, Oh my!  The glorious colors, rich yet delicate- the graceful long necks and the wonderful feather clusters- there’s only one way to express it and that’s through a Batik watercolor on rice paper.  Then I needed to do another batik, a sea turtle, and another, a group of silly horses.”  

See more of Dalton’s collection, “All God’s Creatures”, at Art Central Gallery during the month of September 2014.  Meet the artist at Third Thursday, September 18th 5-8pm!

www.artcgalleryltd.com

Art Central Gallery July 2014 featured show

Mary Ann Bridgman
"FROM the EDGE"

"Above Short Central" watercolor $725

Views of the world around us become special not in what we see but in how we see them.  In Mary Ann Bridgman’s new exhibit at Art Central Gallery, “From the Edge,” the artist captures the beauty and nostalgia of local landscapes and street scenes from a different perspective. Several of Bridgman’s paintings are images seen from above, from the edge of tall buildings.

“From the Edge” will hang at Art Central Gallery through the month of July 2014.  Meet the artist at the Third Thursday reception, July 17th 5-8pm and see more of her art at www.artcgalleryltd.com.