Winter just as hot as summer for art exhibits
Walking through the Myrtle Beach art museum this winter will bring many footsteps for insight on the artistic mind of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Various places that always shine the spotlight on art – including Brookgreen Gardens, Coastal Carolina University’s Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, and several local galleries – have new exhibits to warm up any chilly day.
“Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture of the Interior” – with 28 framed works, of 20 reproduction drawings and eight photographs – continues through April 7 at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum. Read some of the text panels and see why Wright (1867-1959) saw his art of design as “organic whole,” how he believed that “structure, interior, finishing and ornament should be as one.”
A photo looking downward into the dining area of the Susan Lawrence Dana House in Springfield, Ill., shows four large stained glass lamps over the table, appearing like they’re floating in air, yet these hanging chandeliers, with only four sides each, look more complex thanks to a repeated use of oblique shapes.
Some free-standing table and floor lamps command a grand architectural presence and connection with nature in a picture from the Henry J. Allen House in Wichita, Kan.. They serve dual purposes: lamps with box shades and as stands for plants.
The Edward E. Boynton House in Rochester, N.Y., as seen in 1908, illustrates what Wright saw as “crystallized air,” proving the potential of glass, which allows natural light to filter through and brighten previously dark interior spaces.
Detailed sketches by Wright sprinkled throughout the exhibit include two from the C. Thaxter Shaw House in Montreal, one for the dining hall, the other for the living area, the latter which boasts tall, narrow casement windows that make up a wall in their own right.
Liz Miller, museum curator, on a break last week from helping set up “Kirkland Smith: Assemblages,” opening this weekend for a run through April 21, stopped by some furniture pieces reflecting Wright’s designs for the Heritage Henredon line. A mahogany taliesin coffee table from 1905 caught her eye, for its edge all the way around, which she called “interlocking hands” in a geometric and abstract way.
Also last week, several people hovered in a corner where a PBS-produced DVD from 2001, “Frank Lloyd Wright: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick,” plays on a continuous loop.
Seeing this exhibit – and thinking about past visits to homes he designed or making a wish list to go through sites open for tours – such as the Darwin Martin House complex in Buffalo, N.Y., or the Graycliffe estate in a western suburb, along Lake Erie – will detail in some ways how Wright, for 70 of his 91 years on Earth, treated architecture as a key in creating an environment to enhance one’s everyday quality of living.
Elsewhere in the museum, in a room with views of the Atlantic, dive into “Joe Quinn: Underwater” and share in the Myrtle Beach-based, scuba-diving marine life photographer’s perspective of 32 denizens of the sea, such as a sand tiger shark, with its rows of teeth, and “Crown of Thorns,” showing the belly of a sea star.
A Coastal Carolina University art professor, Charles Clary’s “Infect[ious] Installations” opens this weekend as well, going through April 21 along with Quinn’s exhibit, and Kirkland’s “Assemblages,” which uses all recyclables – such as bottle caps, buttons, figurines and plastic forks –to portray various images including the late Iron Eyes Cody, perhaps best known from the 1970s as the American Indian shedding a tear in the TV public service announcement to “Keep America Beautiful.”
As Miller remarked in front of Kirkland’s works showing faces for the late Marilyn Monroe and Bob Marley each, “The farther back you stand, the better you see the picture.”
Contact STEVE PALISIN at 843-444-1764.
If you go
Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
WHERE: 3100 S. Ocean Blvd., Myrtle Beach, across from Midway Par 3 Golf and Springmaid Beach Resort.
WHAT AND WHEN:
▪ “Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture of the Interior” – with 28 framed works, of 20 reproduction drawings and eight photographs – through April 7.
▪ “Joe Quinn: Underwater,” with 32 black-and-white photos, through April 21.
▪ “Charles Clary’s Infect[ious] Installations” and “Kirkland Smith: Assemblages,” Thursday-April 21.
▪ “Horry-Georgetown County High Schools 15th annual Juried Art Exhibition,” April 17-May 22.
▪ “Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild 19th Annual Juried Exhibition,” April 28-May 26, with opening reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 28.
▪ “Winyah River Keepers Foundation Photo Contest Winners,” May 6-26, with opening reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m. May 6.
OPEN: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays.
HOW MUCH: Free.
ALSO:
▪ Vivian Jacobson lecture: “The Triumph of Sound and Music in the Artwork of Marc Chagall,” 10:30 a.m.-noon Jan. 26. Reservations required, $10▪ Opening reception with artists Clary, Quinn and Smith, 1-3 p.m. Sunday. Free for members, otherwise $10.
▪ Fifth annual Collectors’ Event museum fundraiser, 5-7 p.m. Feb. 21 at Collector’s Cafe & Gallery, 7740 N. Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach, for $100, with 100 tickets available.
INFORMATION: 843-238-2510 or www.myrtlebeachartmuseum.org
Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery
WHERE: Coastal Carolina University Edwards College building, accessed from U.S. 501 and S.C. 544 in Conway.
WHAT AND WHEN:
▪ “Nick DeFord: Old Haunts,” including cartography and occult imagery, through Feb. 18 – with closing reception 4:30-6:30 p.m. that day.
▪ “Denise Stewart-Sanabria: Quantum Continuum,” Feb. 29-April 1, with opening reception 4:30-6:30 p.m. March 3.
▪ Senior exhibitions “Portfolios I,” April 8-19, with opening reception 4:30-6:30 p.m. April 8; and “Portfolios II,” April 25-May 6, with closing reception 4:30-6:30 p.m. May 6.
▪ “Barry R. Jones: Lesson 2,” May 16-June 24
OPEN: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays.
HOW MUCH: Free
INFORMATION: 843-349-6454 (call to arrange up-close parking for anyone with a disability or mobility matter) or www.coastal.edu/bryanartgallery
Brookgreen Gardens
▪ “Gullah Culture … Remembering While Evolving,” by Patricia Sabree, noon-4:30 p.m. daily through March 13.
▪ “Sandy Scott: A Retrospective” of animal artworks – with 45 or more sculptures and 35 etchings and drawings – Saturday-April 24, also with artist lecture 11 a.m. Jan. 30.
▪ “Selected Works by Rainey Master Sculptors, 2014-2016,” May 7-July 24.
▪ 83rd annual National Sculpture Society Awards Exhibition, Aug. 6-Oct. 30.
WHERE: U.S. 17, between Murrells Inlet and Litchfield Beach, across from Huntington Beach State Park.
GARDENS OPEN: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.
HOW MUCH: Free with admission, which lasts seven days: $15 ages 13-64, $13 ages 65 and older, $7 ages 4-12, and free ages 3 and younger.
INFORMATION: 843-235-6000, 800-849-1931 or www.brookgreen.org
Sunset River Marketplace
WHERE: 10283 Beach Drive S.W. (N.C. 179), Calabash, N.C.
WHAT AND WHEN:
▪ “Black & White with a Pop” group show in a range of media, through Feb. 6.
▪ “We Heart Art,” Valentine’s timed collection of gallery owner’s favorite artworks, Feb 10-29.
▪ “Creativity Unleashed,” March 1-April 2, including special day of artists at work on March 10, including music 2-4 p.m. by Rick Strickland and Lesa Hudson in CD release part for Strickland’s “New Beginning.”
▪ Painted abstract acrylics and clay works by Kami Kinnison, April 6-30.
▪ “Home Decor” show of furniture by Jean and Marcus Rossignol, May 4-31.
▪ Photos by Mark Hilliard, June 2-25.
OPEN: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays.
INFORMATION: 910-575-5999 or www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com
Other exhibits across area
▪ Paintings by Estelle McClary of Pawleys Island, and nature photos by Gary W. Baird of Carolina Shores, N.C., through Jan. 31 at Georgetown County Library’s new Waccamaw Neck branch, 41 St. Paul Place, Litchfield Beach, off Willbrook Boulevard – open 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, and 2-5 p.m. Sundays. 843-545-3623 or georgetowncountylibrary.sc.gov.
▪ “Spring Art Show,” March 1-19 at Franklin Square Gallery, 130 E. West St., Southport, N.C.. Reopening March 1 and open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays. 910-264-8580 (for show details), 910-457-5450 or www.franklinsquaregallery.com.
▪ “Remember Everything” by Yvette Cummings, March 3-April 30, and “Passages” by Gaston Locklear, May 5-July 2, at Artspace 506, 506 37th Ave. S., North Myrtle Beach. Reopening March 3 and open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays. 843-273-0399 or www.artspace506.com.
This story was originally published January 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Winter just as hot as summer for art exhibits."