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The area of Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina is blessed with an amazing pool of artistic talent. For the most part, these artists know each other. They compete against one another. They socialize with one another. They commiserate with one another. They are a community and their continued investment of ability and support within that community is reflected in the enthusiasm and vitality of that which they create. It is the goal of The Artist Index to share these special people with the world that inspires them and to promote the galleries which encourage and support their efforts.
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| Vadim Bora • Asheville |
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L'Heure
Blue/The Blue Hour
The
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A North Ossetia native from Russia's Caucasus Mountains, Vadim Bora is a virtuoso in graphite, ink, and charcoal. From interpretive portraits in oil to humorous caricatures, from monumental sculpture to interior decorative forms, the artist captures in only a few lines, the essence of figure and emotion. Bora was awarded the coveted status of “Person with Extraordinary Abilities” by the U.S. Government and moved to the United States in 1993. In 1998, he opened his own studio-gallery in the bustling heart of downtown Asheville. There he creates his master works, found in museums and private and corporate collections around the world, including the Ministry of Culture Collection in Moscow, Russia. In the summer of 2002, the artist opened Vadim Bora Gallery, a showcase of classical and contemporary sculpture, painting, and works on paper. It is also located in downtown Asheville. Gallery representation
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Linda
Hyatt Cancel • Laurens |
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Pawleys
Island
Light
at the End of the Tunnel
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One of Carolina Gallery's top selling artists. Linda Cancel studied Visual Merchandising and Display Design at Spokane Falls Community College in Spokane, Washington. Whether rendering the glacial valleys of northeast Washington, the barren hills of Central Idaho, the pastures and forests of the South Carolina Upstate or the marshes of the Carolina low country, Linda Cancel's tonalism finds its voice in the effects of atmosphere on the horizon. Gallery representation
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Daniel Cromer • Spartanburg |
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Cypress
Trees; Santee Wet-Lands
White
Hats on the Trail
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A native of Spartanburg, Cromer attended Art Schools in Nashville, Pittsburgh and New York. He holds an Honors degree from the Art Center School in Los Angeles. He has traveled extensively as a professional artist, painting and exhibiting internationally. He lived in Europe for many years and was based in London. Cromer returned to South Carolina in 1993, making homes in Spartanburg and Beaufort, where he is active as an exhibiting artist. He has lectured and taught at the Spartanburg Art Museum School (SAM) and holds regional workshops. He is a "Member with Excellence" in the South Carolina Watercolor Society and served as Exhibition Chairman for the year 2000. Cromer's work is represented internationally in many private and public collections. "I have been painting for over 50 years, always experimenting with new ideas as experience and maturity develop. Although I have worked with most media, I always return to watercolor for its absolute purity of color and light; plus the ability to establish a pictorial idea fast and spontaneously. My current work has been described as 'fresh, cleanly executed, and brilliant in color.' The sum total of my work to date covers various themes and "isms" but the enduring fact is that all my work has its beginning and/or end in my personal love and experience with landscape—here, there and everywhere!" Selected Exhibitions: Group Shows:
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Scott Cunningham • Spartanburg |
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A
Question for the Millennium
Just
Sittin' a Spell…
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After receiving degrees from Brevard College and the University of North Carolina, Cunningham spent the better part of a year in Lausanne, Switzerland before coming to Spartanburg, SC where he worked as an architectural illustrator and a graphic designer. In addition to his career in the commercial arts, over the last twenty years Cunningham has been deeply involved in the development and promotion of the visual arts in Spartanburg and the surrounding region. He has served The Artists' Guild of Spartanburg, The Guild of South Carolina Artists, and was involved in helping to start The Guild Gallery on Main in downtown Spartanburg as well as The Art of the Upstate Gallery at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport. Since August of 2000, he has scheduled and overseen curation of exhibitions for Spartanburg Art Museum (110 exhibits through 2/08). Beginning about 2005, Cunningham began to channel his creative energy into the production of fine art. Gallery representation
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Ann Dergara • Brevard |
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The enthusiasm with which Ann Dergara approaches her art is a lifelong passion. Born to Norwegian-German parents who recognized and nurtured her creative abilities, the Greenville native sold her first painting five years prior to beginning her formal education at Georgia State University. In 1978, a printmaking course at Atlanta College of Art led her to Dick Williams and the innovative and contemporary Odyssey Studio. The artist pursued the etching and the collagraph, later the serigraph, and in 1990 began monoprinting. Although her mastery of the art of printmaking is described as remarkable, painting remains Dergara’s first love, and a vibrant testament to her profound talent. Santiago Leon of ARTEFINO speaks for many admirers that Ann’s work is typical of an artist assured of her own talent; it is unconstrained, blending great skill and maturity with the free spirit of a child. Dergara is intent on achieving the original, the unique, the different - but only as it celebrates what is positive and beautiful. Her brilliant use of color expresses her passionate respect for the harmony of nature - a recurring theme in a body of work that brings her growing, international acclaim. Gallery representation
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Dottie Dillard • Spartanburg |
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The
Creation of the World # 1
The
Nutcracker # 3
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Specializing in performance photography, Dottie Dillard has photographed some of the greatest dancers in the world. She has been a company photographer with Ballet Internationale and has photographed the San Francisco Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Metropolitan Classical Ballet, and Washington Ballet. Her images have appeared in Pointe Magazine and she is a member of ASMP. She was one of 157 winners out of over 50,000 international entries in the American Photo Magazine contest 2004. The Center for Fine Art Photography has exhibited her work. At a young age, Dottie studied ballet with Nina Stragonova and Lisan Kay at the Ballet Arts Studio in Carnegie Hall. She later was awarded a full scholarship with American Ballet Theatre where she studied with Dimitri Romanoff, Alexandra Danilova and other noted instructors. From ages 15 to 17, while continuing her classes at ABT, she was a member of the Ballet Company of Radio City Music Hall. She also was a principal dancer with the Denver Company of Ballet Theatre. Graduating with degrees in English, French and Education, she was hired by the Department of Defense as a teacher in the school system for dependent military children in Germany. Galleries
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Trey Finney • Spartanburg |
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Mile
High View
Granite
Transition
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Raised in Spartanburg, Trey Finney attended the College of Charleston from 1981 to 1983. In 1984 he transferred to the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida where he graduated in 1987 with a degree in Illustration. In 1989, after two years of working as an architectural illustrator, he was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation and spent the next fifteen years as an animator with the Florida studio in Lake Buena Vista. While at Disney Feature Animation he contributed to nine animated features and several animated shorts. Some of these credits include, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Aladdin”, “The Lion King”, “Pocahontas”, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Mulan”, “Lilo & Stitch” and “Brother Bear”. Trey is a member of the Society of Animal Artists and the Oil Painters of America. He has been juried into the annual “Birds in Art” shows hosted by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and hangs in their permanent collection. In December of 1995 he took first place in the wildlife competition with a painting entitled, “Deep Creek, Black Bear” held by The Artist’s Magazine. Other highlights include an “Award of Excellence” presented by the Society of Animal Artists and acceptance in the annual Arts for the Parks shows and sales held in Jackson, Wyoming. He and his wife Christine Lawrence Finney, another former Disney animator, now reside and paint full-time in Spartanburg. Gallery representation
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Lynn Greer • Greenville |
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The
Dinner Hour
Last
Catch
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National Publications
Selected National and Regional Juried Exhibitions
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Dan
Helgamo • Marshall |
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The
Last Colors
Food
for the Moon
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Claire Miller Hopkins, PSA, PSWC, SPS • Spartanburg |
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Breakfast
Comin' Up
Expectancy
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Jill Jones • Spartanburg |
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Green
Goddess
Sacred
Spaces
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Jill Jones holds degrees from the University of South Carolina and Converse College. Working primarily in oils and pastel, she has had work included in exhibitions juried by such prestigious curators as Lilian Tone of the Museum of Modem Art in New York, nationally-known artist Burton Silverman and internationally-known artist and illustrator Sue Coe. Her work has garnered numerous awards, including Best of Shows from Upstate Visual Arts in Greenville, SC, the Anderson County Juried Exhibition in Anderson, SC and the Artists' Guild of Spartanburg. Jones focuses almost exclusively on landscapes, painting largely from memory of a childhood spent in the rural Upstate of South Carolina. The scenes are pointedly simple - fields overtaken my kudzu, forgotten peach orchards and overgrown fields - and recall long days spent on horseback exploring her surroundings. But the work is less sentimental than it is dark and moody, with something of an existential quality. "To me, all landscapes are self portraits," Jones says. "Trees serve as surrogates for the human form. Skies reflect mood. Even the lay of the land, whether rolling and expansive or flat and confined, represents less the world around me than a world within." She expresses this with a simplified language of color and form, using a grayed-down palette of greens, blues and violets. She often begins a painting with nothing more than a general idea of what she wants to express: the contrast of a shady path that empties into white-hot sunlight; the silhouette of a hedge at dusk; an eerily still yellow sky. "I prefer to err on the side of simplicity. Too much information and the mystery is spoiled. That's why I paint from memory. It helps me edit extraneous details and focus on shape and shadow, mood and feeling - the elements of landscape painting I like most." Jones has been represented since 2002 by Elder Gallery in Charlotte, where she has been featured in both solo and two-person shows as well as regular gallery exhibitions. Her work is included in private and corporate collections across the United States. Gallery representation
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Bob
LoGrippo • Simpsonville |
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Charleston,
SC giclees available through Carolina Gallery in Spartanburg, SC
Northwest
Peace
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National Awards
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Dale
McEntire • Saluda
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Grateful Afternoon
High Path
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Art is a continuous learning experience that provides me the opportunity to explore the natural world as well as myself. By being sensitive to the beauty of geometry and its flow into all creation, I find myself with a boundless source of inspiration. Education
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Keith
Spencer • Gowensville |
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Katherine in Landscape
Walk in the woods at night
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After being a Creative Graphic Artist for Umbro USA, Greenville, SC, in 1996 Keith Spencer formed his own studio and began creating artwork for a wide range of local, national and international clients. Keith's illustration, fine art and design can be found around the world in advertisements, books, package designs, posters, catalogs, web designs, logos, promotions and surface prints and embroideries for active, team, leisure and licensed apparel. In 2000 Spencer decided to pursue his painting full-time. Partial client list Reebok Int'l, Champion Apparel, Umbro USA, Kappa Intl, And-1 Inc., K.P.N.G. Inc., Immaculate Baking Company, Gibbons Peck Sofield Ltd., Precaryous Apparel, NV-THS, Chambers Containers, Greg and Greg Advertising, Erdas Inc., GT Bikes, and Harley-Davidson. Licensed work on behalf of clients Chicago Bulls, LA Lakers, Boston Celtics, NJ Nets, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Timberwolves, New York Knicks, WNBA LA Sparks, University of Michigan, Ohio State, Harvard, UCLA, Notre Dame, New England Revolution. Colorado Rapids, Manchester United, Miami Fusion, Ajax Amsterdam, Futbol Association of Ireland, Chelsea Futbol Club, England Futbol Club and the Major League Soccer Association. Exhibitions
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Suzanne Zoole • Spartanburg |
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At
the Beach Front Door
Joined
at the Hip
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Suzanne Zoole holds degrees from Agnes Scott College, the University of Colorado and North Texas University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. Her serious pursuit of art followed these academic achievements with the intensive study of water-media with nationally known artists. She is a Signature Member of both the National Watercolor Association and the South Carolina Watercolor Society. In 2006 Zoole was juried into the prestigious American Watercolor Society's annual show, winning an award and, having her painting chosen as part of the traveling exhibit, A grant was awarded to her by the Spartanburg Arts Partnership in 2004., enabling her to paint a series entitled: "The Bed,: Archetypal, and Ordinary". For two consecutive years she has been designated as a fellow in the Artist in Residency program at the Hambidge Center. Chairs, tables and sofas continue to be central, to many of Zoole's interiors, implying social interchange and projecting ) warmth., comfort and hospitality. Recently, the subject of the bed led to a series of paintings. Currently, the content of her paintings has shifted from the psychological and social to the more spiritual in her series "House Blessings", Zoole continues to paint her interiors, as she seeks to see her subject matter from a different perspective. "The composition of a scene—what you might see through a camera lens—is what initially catches my eye and sparks my interest," says Zoole, "Then I either take a digital picture or makes a quick sketch." The basic sketch is then transferred to paper or canvas. Once a sound composition is established, it is then refined with color, line -md design, Embellishing or decorating the surface, using stamps that she has custom-made, as well. as collaging images into the work, adds additional layers to her work. Characteristic of her paintings is the dark outlining of the shapes within the compositions. Selected Juried Exhibitions
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Art Publications
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