Laurie McIntosh & Jim Adams to Partner on Exhibition to Benefit Penland School of Crafts, Opening Oct. 30 at Gallery 80808
October 1, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014 ~
COLUMBIA, SC – In a collaboration as innovative as the Penland residency where they met, S.C. artist Laurie McIntosh brings N.C. sculptor Jim Adams to the Midlands to launch a mixed media exhibition to benefit the legendary Penland School of Crafts. An opening reception will be held in Columbia, S.C., at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios (home to McIntosh’s studio), on Thursday, October 30, 2014, from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The exhibition, “Penland Connections,” will run from Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014 through Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014 at Gallery 80808. Partial proceeds of the exhibition will benefit the Penland School of Crafts’ general work-study scholarship fund.
Penland leaves a deep mark; the school’s annual benefit auction is a who’s who of the Southeast’s most passionate artists, collectors and enthusiasts, and its residency program attracts skilled artists and craftspeople from around the world. A stimulating, transformative, egalitarian place where people love to work, feel free to experiment, and often exceed their own expectations, Penland enriches lives by teaching skills, ideas, and the value of the handmade.
To Laurie McIntosh and Jim Adams – and many other artists in the Southeast and around the globe – Penland means immersion.
“It changed my life,” McIntosh says of her first session in 2000. “For two weeks, 24 hours a day, I was immersed in the practice of making and talking about art with other artists. Since then, I have taken three more sessions over the past 14 years well as a winter resident artist study. It was during this winter residency when I met Jim Adams.”
A skilled metalsmith and sculptor who is well established in the Durham and Hillsborough, N.C. art communities, Jim Adams is a studio artist known for his visceral, architectural work. Jim Adams’ studio practice is based on a procedure wherein the materials he collects become collaborators in the stories he tells through drawing, painting and sculpting. Adams has taught at Penland as well as participating in the winter residency program.
“My experiences at Penland as a student, short-term resident artist and instructor have given me access to facilities and skills that would have taken a lifetime to acquire on my own,” notes Adams. “Like so many relationships to which Penland has led me, this one was destined to bear fruit in the arts. I am honored to be exhibiting with Laurie and grateful for the lasting friendship that is developing.“
McIntosh’s contribution to exhibition will consist of an expression of ideas, displaying her new work, “Pages,” an ongoing series of large, deconstructed paintings created with multiple layers of calligraphic marks and grounds, bound together to create a new visual relationships between the images. Previews of the “Pages” series can be found at http://www.lauriemcintoshart.com.
Join McIntosh and Adams for the exhibition’s opening reception on Thursday, October 30, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Gallery 80808 in the historic Congaree Vista district of downtown Columbia, S.C. For directions and hours, visit http://www.vistastudios80808.com.
Jim Adams & Laurie McIntosh: Penland Connections
October 30 – November 11, 2014
Gallery 80808/Vista Studios
808 Lady Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Admission: Free
http://www.lauriemcintoshart.com
In addition to the upcoming “Penland Connections” show, Laurie McIntosh is featured currently in several exhibitions around the Midlands:
Preview of “Pages”
First Citizens Bank Café
October 2 – October 28, 2014
Artist Reception Oct. 2 during First Thursday Art Crawl on Main
1301 Park Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Admission: Free
“A Sense of Self”
Anastasia and FRIENDS Gallery
October 2 opening during First Thursday on Main
1534 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
(Piece in group exhibition)
Admission: Free
All the In Between; My Story of Agnes
September 19 – December 19, 2014
Richland Library
Garden Level (downstairs)
1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC, 29201
Sunday: 2:00 PM-6:00 PM
Monday – Thursday: 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Friday – Saturday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Admission: Free
“Figure Out”
Through September 27, 2014
Tapp’s Arts Center
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
1644 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Admission: Free
About Laurie McIntosh
Laurie McIntosh has been a part of the Carolina art scene for many years. She graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Art degree from the University of South Carolina and has been honing her skills in the arts. A firm believer in the process of creating, Laurie is drawn to creating new visual relationships between images. In September 2012, she debuted “All the In Between: My Story of Agnes,” resulting in multiple exhibitions and a hardcover print edition. McIntosh is a resident artist at Vista Studios and serves on the Midlands Advisory Board of the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts Foundation. Learn more at http://www.lauriemcintoshart.com.
About The Penland School of Crafts
The Penland School of Crafts is an international center for craft education located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, offering workshops in books and paper, clay, photography, painting and more. Penland’s mission is to support the individual and artistic growth through craft, welcoming everyone – from vocational and avocational craft practitioners to interested visitors.
