September 1–September 30, 2009
Artist Talk and Reception:  Thursday, September 17, 12-1 pm
Goodall Gallery
Spears Music/Art Center

Columbia College opens the 2009-2010 gallery season with Textile Constructions, a solo exhibition featuring South Carolina artist, Terry Jarrard-Dimond, beginning September 1 and running through September 30. The exhibit will feature recent textile works involving of quilting techniques and nonobjective imagery.
 
For the past several years, Terry Jarrard-Dimond has been working in the ways of quilt making to develop a body of work that she describes as “textile constructions using fabric, dye and stitching”.  Even though elements of quilting are found in the works, these are not your grandparents’ quilts. Jarrard-Dimond’s current work in textiles is relatively a new medium for her, but her work in “constructions” is rooted in her childhood.  Growing up as a young girl in a small southern community, Jarrard-Dimond ‘s artistic energeries weren’t met by established art school programs offering her training and education.  In the meantime, her desires were fulfilled by simply “making things.”  Making things eventually turned into formally studying art at Winthrop and Clemson University to develop a career as an artist, sculptor and teacher.  It wasn’t until the 1990’s Jarrard-Dimond began to work more with textiles after being employed as a textile designer with a large manufacturer in South Carolina’s upstate region.  During this period Jarrard-Dimond learned about the craft of quilt making and produced manufactured designs based on traditional quilt techniques.   When Jarrard-Dimond applied these techniques to her personal work, the journey toward her current textile pieces began.  
 
As Jarrard-Dimond honed necessary quilting techniques and skills, she gained ownership over the process freeing her to develop an artistic voice and preferred nonobjective or abstract imagery to “drive the development” of her aesthetic and style.  Jarrard-Dimond describes her work as expressing “interior landscapes . . . often filled with figures, structures and spaces.”  Each landscape is “a record of my studio experience, my inner life, my imagination and my dreams. The works are abstract compositions that invite interpretation. They can originate as a response to a color, a song, something I’ve read, a thumbnail sketch or any combination of things I experience in daily living.”  Her work is intensely machine quilted, dyed and stitched , and transcends traditional quilting to a realm of evocative contemporary textile art.
 
Jarrard-Dimond’s work has been shown regionally, nationally and internationally with works in the collections of Coca-Cola International, Atlanta, Georgia;  The Federal Reserve Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina and The State Museum of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina as well as numerous private collections.  
 
The Columbia College Goodall Gallery is located in the Spears Music and Art Center in downtown Columbia on North Main Street, 1301 Columbia College Drive.  Gallery hours are Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.  For further information about exhibits please contact Jackie Adams at (803) 786-3088.

ARTIST: Terry Jarrad-Dimond
TITLE: "Joy and Sorrow"
DATE: 2008
MEDIUM: Quilt

ARTIST: Terry Jarrard-Dimond
TITLE: "Memoir of an Uncrowned Queen"
DATE: 2008
MEDIUM: Quilt

ARTIST: Terry Jarrard-Dimond
TITLE: "Corner Office"
DATE: 2009
MEDIUM: Quilt