Framing Space:
Linda Fantuzzo, Mary Walker, Manning Williams
October 25 - December 3, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 25, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
 
Columbia College announces the opening of the exhibition Framing Space: Linda Fantuzzo, Mary Walker, Manning Williams on October 25, 2007, in the Goodall Gallery.

An opening reception:
Thursday, October 25, from 5:30 - 7 p.m., and is open to the public.
Goodall Gallery hours:
Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m
Thursday-Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
Admission is free.  
 
Featuring works on paper by three acclaimed Charleston artists, this exhibition examines the manipulation of space to both create an idea of place that goes beyond the traditional landscape genre, and to frame a frequently elusive but nonetheless enticing narrative.
 
Linda Fantuzzo, Mary Walker and Manning Williams are all Lowcountry artists who have exhibited widely across the United States. They share strong similarities in their classical training and ongoing dialogue with place and space. The three differ in their choice of media and stylistic approaches, even within the limited context of works on paper.
 
The exhibit features approximately fifty works that showcase the artists' different approaches to manipulating space and framing a narrative. This exhibition is co-curated by Mary Gilkerson, Professor of Art, and her daughter Julia Gilkerson, former Coordinator of the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston.
 
Fantuzzo was born in New York, but has lived in Charleston for more than twenty-five years. She received her formal training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the College of Charleston. She has been featured in many one-person and group exhibitions at venues such as the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, the Greenville County Museum of Art and the Burroughs & Chapin Museum in Myrtle Beach. Her work hangs in numerous public, corporate and private collections, among them the Bank of South Carolina, Doonbeg Golf Club in Ireland and Kiawah Resort Association.
 
Williams, a Charleston native, graduated from the College of Charleston. He pursued graduate studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he met Fantuzzo. Over the course of his career he has shown nationally and internationally with solo and group exhibitions at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, New Orleans, Washington, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Art and the Greenville Museum of Art among others. His work is included in public and corporate collections such as the SC Arts Commission, R.J. Reynolds Corporation, Citizens and Southern National Bank, Post & Courier Publishing Company, Kiawah Resort Association, Greenville County Museum, South Carolina State Museum and the Gibbes Museum of Art.
 
Walker was born in New York, but grew up in North Carolina. She attended the Art Students League in New York, where she studied with Isaac Soyer. Her training also included post-graduate courses at the New York Academy of Art and the College of Charleston. Walker is represented by galleries across the Southeast and East Coast. She was the 2006 recipient of the CCF's Donna and Mike Griffith Lowcountry Artists Fund Award and featured that year in a solo retrospective at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston.

Linda Fantuzzo “Igniting the Night”

                   
Manning Williams “Untitled”

         
Mary Walker “The Stations Contemplation #7”

 
Goodall Gallery
The Department of Art
R. Wright Spears Music Art Center
Columbia College
1301 Columbia College Drive
Columbia, SC 29203
 
For additional information, call 803.786.3088.