if ARTwalk: Salon I & II: December 11- 24, 2008

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THE SALON I & II

Dec. 11 – 24, 2008

an exhibition at two Columbia, SC, locations:

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady Street

&

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln Street

Reception and ifART Walk: Thursday, Dec. 11, 5 – 10 p.m.

at and between both locations

Opening Hours:

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.

& by appointment

Open Christmas Eve until 7 p.m.

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 255-0068/ (803) 238-2351 – if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com

For its December 2008 exhibition, if ART Gallery presents The Salon I & II, an exhibition at two Columbia, SC, locations: if ART Gallery and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios. On Thursday, December 11, 2008, 5 – 10 p.m., if ART will hold opening receptions at both locations. The ifART Walk will be on Lady and Lincoln Streets, between both locations, which are around the corner from each other.

The exhibitions will present art by if ART Gallery artists, installed salon-style at both Gallery 80808 and if ART. Artists in the exhibitions include two new additions to if ART Gallery, Columbia ceramic artist Renee Rouillier and the prominent African-American collage and mixed-media artist Sam Middleton, an 81-year-old expatriate who has lived in the Netherlands since the early 1960s.

Other artists in the exhibition include Karel Appel, Aaron Baldwin, Jeri Burdick, Carl Blair, Lynn Chadwick, Steven Chapp, Stephen Chesley, Corneille, Jeff Donovan, Jacques Doucet, Phil Garrett, Herbert Gentry, Tonya Gregg, Jerry Harris, Bill Jackson, Sjaak Korsten, Peter Lenzo, Sam Middleton, Eric Miller, Dorothy Netherland, Marcelo Novo, Matt Overend, Anna Redwine, Paul Reed, Edward Rice, Silvia Rudolf, Kees Salentijn, Laura Spong, Tom Stanley, Christine Tedesco, Brown Thornton, Leo Twiggs, Bram van Velde, Katie Walker, Mike Williams, David Yaghjian, Paul Yanko and Don Zurlo.

Works of Art: Jerry Harris

Enter The Screaming Room, 2003
Collage with acrylics
12 x 27 in.
$ 950

Works of art by Jerry Harris are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.

Biography: Jerry Harris

The African American sculptor Jerry Harris was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. His date of birth doesn't interest him. He lived in Stockholm, Sweden for many years until the death of his wife, the Swede, Britt-Marie Olofsson-Harris.

He studied under Professor James Lee Hansen, a leading Pacific Northwest sculptor who taught at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon until his retirement. Harris was later accepted in the international sculptor's program at St. Martins School of Art, London, England.

His teachers at St. Martins were the internationally known sculptors, Sir Anthony Caro (on sabbatical at the time), and Philip King. Tim Scott and David Anneseley were also teaching, and Frank Martin was department head. "Are you happy here Mr. Harris ? "Frank asked me. I said yes," but I was absolutely unhappy there, mainly because I was into bronze, and they were into direct metal sculpture, so there was a clash.

The school made arrangements for me to do special studies in bronze casting at the Central School of Art and Design (unclassified student), London, under Henry Abercrombie, Lecturer in bronze casting, and a leading authority in this field." 

Jerry Harris is primarily a constructivist sculptor, but all materials and ways of creating sculpture present a challenge for him. "I believe that a sculptor must be grounded on the planet earth," is a favorite quote from Harris's mentor, Henry Moore.

George Murphy, painter, New York-Stockholm

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International Exhibitions

Select one-person shows:

Galeri St. Paul, Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish Sculptor's Gallery (skulptorforbundet galeri), Stockholm, Sweden

Select Group Shows:

Lilivalchs Konst Hall, Stockholm, Sweden (invandrarkonst )

Goteborgs Konst Museet (invandrarkonst)

Eskilstuna Konst Museet, Eskilstuna, Sweden

Borlange Konst Museet, Borlange, Sweden (skulptorforbundet)

Huset, Copenhagen, Denmark

Fishon Private Gallery, London, England

USA Exhibitions

2008 shows

Jerry Harris New Sculptures

Chico Municipal Building Art Gallery, Chico, California,

January 17-February 29

Invited Guest: Eugene Martin, Painter(d. 2005)

Lecture/Slide Show,

1078 Gallery, Chico, California, January 21 in combination with Chico Municipal Building Art Gallery show

Jerry Harris and David Gentry: Two Sculptors-Two Visions

Chico Art Center, Chico, California ,

March 15-April 15

iF Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina.

Select one person shows:

2005. Albina Community Bank, Pearl District branch, Portland, Oregon

2004. Hult Center For The Performing Arts, Jacobs Gallery, Eugene, Oregon


Select group shows:

2007. iF Gallery(International Fine Art Gallery), Columbia, South Carolina

2006. Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, Oregon.

2003. New Zone Artists Collective(collages)

2001. Lecturer, University Of Oregon, Morse Law School. "The African American Artists In Europe: Past and Present."

2001. Robert Canaga Gallery, Eugene, Oregon

2000. University of Oregon, McMillen Gallery, Three Sculptors: Jerry Harris, Richard Chavez, and Harold Hoy, "Diversity In An Indifferent Art World."

1999. Carnegie library, Hill District, Pittsburgh, Pa. "The homecoming show."

1999. Viaduct studios and gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa.

1998. Artist and Resident, Spinning Plate Artists Lofts, Pittsburgh, Pa.

1998. American Institute Of Architects, Pittsburgh, Pa.

1998. Associated Artists Of Pittsburgh Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Select Public and Private Collections:

Swedish National Art Collection(statenskonstrad), Stockholm, sculpture "Homage to Jan Arp"

Vaxjo Court House(tingsratten) Vaxjo, Sweden

Eugene Public Library, Eugene, Oregon(collage)

Carnegie Library, Hill District branch, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Sculptor Thad Mosley, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Ms. Audrey Robinson, London, England

Prof. Wim Roefs, Columbia, South, Carolina

Attorney John Putnam Pries, Eugene, Oregon

Mrs. Tammy Speaks, Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Lewis Jackson/Pamela Jackson-Harris, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Dr. Suzanne Fredericq, Lafayette, La.

Jerry Harris is also a prolific writer. His articles have appeared in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's national daily newspaper, Sweden Now magazine, Stockholm, The Scandinavian Minority Review(invandrar och Minoriet); Philadelphia City Paper; In Pittsburgh News Weekly(now Pittsburgh City Paper), Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon; International Herald Tribune, Paris, France, and until his return to California, Harris was a contributing writer to Eugene Weekly, Eugene, Oregon

Excerpt from Harris's unpublished novel, "Mad Swedes and Black Men" has been published by Ishmael Reed's Konch Magazine, Oakland, California(short fiction archives)

The Inventory: February 15-26, 2008

if ART

presents at

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady St., Columbia, S.C.

THE INVENTORY:

A Group Show of if ART artists

Feb. 15 – 26, 2008

Artists’ Reception: Friday, Feb. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sundays, 1 – 5 p.m.

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. and by appointment

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

For its February exhibition, if ART presents The Inventory, a group exhibition of artists from if ART Gallery. The show will consist of many new works by if ART artists as well as older pieces from the gallery’s inventory.

Included in the show will be work by Columbia artists Jeff Donovan, Mary Gilkerson, Marcelo Novo, Anna Redwine and David Yaghjian. Other South Carolina artists include Carl Blair, Jeri Burdick, Phil Garrett, Bill Jackson, Peter Lenzo, Dorothy Netherland, Matt Overend, Edward Rice, Tom Stanley, Christine Tedesco, H. Brown Thornton, Leo Twiggs, Katie Walker and Paul Yanko. Furthermore, the show will present work by former South Carolina residents Tonya Gregg, Eric Miller and Andy Moon. Also included are California collage artist Jerry Harris, Dutch painter Kees Salentijn and German artists Roland Albert, Klaus Hartmann and Silvia Rudolf.

if ART Gallery Opening: November 2006

OPEN NOW: 

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln St.

Columbia, S.C.

Gallery Hours:

Most days, except Sunday, from 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

& by appointment (call 803-238-2351)

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART

(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

On Nov. 10, 2006, if ART, International Fine Art Services, opened if ART Gallery. The gallery is at 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C., in the Vista district, across from the Blue Marlin restaurant. For more information, contact if ART’s Wim Roefs at (803) 238-2351 or wroefs@sc.rr.com.

If ART Gallery carries the work of South Carolina artists Leo Twiggs, Mike Williams, Carl Blair, Tom Stanley, Virginia Scotchie, Tonya Gregg, Peter Lenzo, Jeff Donovan, David Yaghjian, Anna Redwine, John Monteith, Christine Tedesco, Brown Thornton, Paul Yanko, Laura Spong, Steven Chapp, Katie Walker, Edward Rice, Aaron Baldwin, Bill Jackson, Herb Parker, Dorothy Netherland, Eric Miller, Mary Gilkerson, Matt Overend, Kim Keats and Phil Garrett. The gallery also carries work by Dutch artist Kees Salentijn, German artists Reiner Mahrlein, Roland Albert and Klaus Hartmann, and Washington Color Field painter Paul Reed.

The gallery also carries a wide selection of unframed and lithographs, silkscreens, etchings and other limited edition prints by such nationally and even internationally prominent artists such as Karel Appel, Richard Hunt, Bram van Velde, John Hultberg, Sam Middleton, Benny Andrews, Hannes Postma, Corneille, Lucebert and Alvin Hollingsworth.

Since March 2005, if ART, International Fine Art Services, has organized commercial gallery exhibitions in Columbia, mostly at Vista Studios/Gallery 80808. In addition to presenting gallery artists and special exhibitions at if ART Gallery, if ART will continue to organize exhibitions at Vista Studios/Gallery 80808. The company also provides curatorial and exhibition design services. 

Most recently, in September, if ART was hired by the Technical College of the Lowcountry to install dozens of art works at the college’s new building in Bluffton, S.C. Earlier this year, if ART installed two exhibitions of work from the South Carolina state art collection at the Sumter (S.C.) Gallery of Art. The if ART production “South Carolina Birds: A Fine Art Exhibition,” curated by company owner Wim Roefs, is at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History until Nov. 11, 2006. The exhibition opened in 2004 at the Sumter Gallery of Art and traveled to the Burroughs & Chapin Museum in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, S.C. Roefs wrote the essay for the exhibition catalogue, which he also edited.

In 2005, Roefs curated exhibitions of work by Leo Twiggs and Carl Blair for the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County in Camden, S.C. He also curated an exhibition of paintings by Marcelo Novo for HoFP Gallery in Columbia, S.C., and wrote the essay for the exhibition catalogue. Earlier this year, Roefs curated an exhibition with work by Dutch artist Kees Salentijn for the Center of the Arts in Rock Hill, S.C. In May, he curated an indoors/outdoors sculpture exhibition for the city of Dillon, S.C. 

Roefs contributed an essay to the catalogue for the exhibition “A Collection for Margaret: The Personal and Private Art of Carl Blair.” The exhibition is on view at Hampton III Gallery in Greenville until Nov. 11. Roefs teaches a course in African-American art at the University of South Carolina.

Since March 2005, if ART has published eight small exhibition catalogues. The catalogues featured short essays by Roefs about Aaron Baldwin, Mike Williams, Anna Redwine, Tom Stanley, Carl Blair, Janet Orselli, Matt Overend, Laura Spong, Leo Twiggs, Jeff Donovan, John Monteith, Dorothy Netherland, Herb Parker and Phil Garrett and Mary Gilkerson and the process of making monotypes.

Works of Art: Jerry Harris

Works of art by Jerry Harris are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.

The First Kiss: Homage To Britt-Marie, 2009

Bronze, edition of 10, 4 x 5 x 5 in., $ 1,200

(For more images of this work, click here.)

Primal Scream,2009

Bronze, edition of 10, 5 x 7 x 5 in., $ 1,200

(For more images of this work, click here.)

The Cosmological Eye, 2003

Collage and ink, 12 1/2 x 28 in., $ 950

Enter The Screaming Room, 2003

Collage with acrylics, 12 x 27 in., $ 950

La Revolution Surrealiste de Obama, 2009

Collage, 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in., $450

Works of art by Jerry Harris are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.