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Richard 'Duke' Hagerty
Olivia Pool
Special to The Post and Courier
Provided/The Corrigan Gallery
The Corrigan Gallery is currently presenting 'Celebration,' a show of works by Richard 'Duke' Hagerty.
Provided/The Corrigan Gallery
The Corrigan Gallery is currently presenting 'Celebration,' a show of works by Richard 'Duke' Hagerty.
The Corrigan Gallery is currently presenting 'Celebration,' a show of works by Richard 'Duke' Hagerty opening today with a reception 5-8 p.m. at 62 Queen St. His work will hang through June 15.
This special show is also the Piccolo Spoleto Invitational show observing Hagerty's status as the commissioned official poster artist for the 30th Piccolo Spoleto Festival.
'Surgeon Richard (Duke) Hagerty began painting before medical school honed his eye and hand coordination. He is a self taught artist who draws his surreal, fantasy based imagery from dreams, mythology, history, science and stories. Painting, he believes, is the language of the unconscious; the act of painting itself is as close as we get to dreaming in the conscious state,' says gallery owner Lese Corrigan about Hagerty.
He works in a variety of media, including pen and ink, watercolor and oil and has been a working artist for 30 years. This former Charleston city councilman is widely acclaimed for his fantasy paintings in which he utilizes free association to craft psychologically potent dreamscapes.
His work recalls that of Dali, Bosch, Brueghel, Kandinsky, Miro, Klee and Chagall. 'The symbolic art movement preceding World War II and the influence of the iconographic mark making of the Latin American and Asian cultures is evident in his work,' continues Corrigan.
Hagerty was the 2007 Piccolo Spoleto Children's Festival Poster Artist with his painting 'Dream Children.'
He was also selected as the Piccolo Spoleto poster artist, in 1984 and 1990, and was the 2003 Piccolo Spoleto Invitational Exhibition artist.
His paintings have appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1979 throughout the southeastern region and in New York. His work is in the collection of the Gibbes Museum of Art. He had a solo show at the Gibbes Art Gallery (now Museum of Art) in 1991. The Tippy Stern Fine Art gallery exhibition entitled 'Paintings' in May 2001 featured works by Richard Hagerty along with two other artists.
Visit the Corrigan Gallery to see more of these fantasy-filled works.
For more information, contact the gallery at 722-9868, or visit www.corrigangallery.com.
‘Bestiary'
Through June, the Nina Liu and Friends is hosting an exhibition entitled 'Bestiary' that features drawings and sculpture by Aggie Zed.
She spent her childhood on Sullivan's Island, graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and sculpture, and now lives in Virginia. Since 1990 Zed's regular exhibitions at Nina Liu and Friends have featured lush drawings and intriguing sculptures.
'Animals — whether they are recognizable domestic creatures or hybrids that recall the myths of antiquity — occur regularly in Zed's work,' says gallery owner Nina Liu. 'Bestiary' includes a number of animal studies on paper and in clay. Images of sharks, cats and horses are prevalent among these works in diverse media. Delicate in their detail and open to multiple interpretations, the drawings and sculptures in 'Bestiary' invite the viewer to linger.
Zed has been the recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Professional Fellowship for sculpture and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for sculpture. She has exhibited her work across the nation in group and solo exhibitions at museums and galleries such as the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va.; The Mint Museum in Charlotte; the Sumter Gallery of Art in Sumter, S.C.; and Riverfront Studios in Schuylerville, N.Y.
View the works in person at Nina Liu and Friends, in the historic Poinsett House, 24 State St.
For more information, call 722-2724.
Award Announcement
On Wednesday, Coleman Fine Art will bestow upon one deserving Charleston area high school teacher the Mary Whyte Art Educator's Award.
The $1,000 merit award will be given to a high school art teacher for excellence in teaching and contribution to the visual arts.
This award has been limited to teachers in the Charleston area school district only. A panel of judges will select the recipient, with the award to be presented by Mary Whyte at a special commemorative event next Wednesday.
Mary Whyte is a nationally recognized artist, author and teacher. She is best known for her watercolor paintings of the African-American women of Johns Island. Whyte's mission for implementing the annual award is to encourage and honor art educators in Charleston's public and private schools.
View some of Whyte's works in person at the gallery at 79 Church St.
Call the Coleman Gallery at 853-7000 or visit www.colemanfineart.com for more information.
‘Edges'
The Charleston Renaissance Gallery will present the exhibition, 'Edges: Paintings by Linda Fantuzzo' Saturday through June 16.
This selection of 22 recent paintings reveals Fantuzzo's continuing mastery of landscape and still-life subjects, rendered with her distinctive approach toward evocative forms, light, color and atmosphere.
'Focusing on the concept of edges, Fantuzzo portrays Lowcountry views and structures seen at edges of places,' says Tom Crowther, gallery director. 'Several of the paintings show the borders of land, sea, and sky in brilliant colors and brushwork. Other landscapes show familiar Charleston landmarks such as the Cooper River Bridge (now demolished), or the imposing ruin of the Rice Mill facade. Paintings of vernacular roadside sites are similarly transformed by luminescent fogs of color and atmosphere. Even the objects featured in Fantuzzo's still lifes — windows or paintings, for example — serve as edges into the environment,'
For Fantuzzo, 'the edge is the border at which a surface terminates. Something is lost and something is gained. The edge can be a portal or threshold to the new.' These contemporary works reveal how freely the artist takes us into the nuanced and reflective world of her paintings.
Born in 1950 and raised in upstate New York, Fantuzzo sketched and painted from youth. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1968-73. There she received formal academic training, as well as an introduction to abstract painting. In 1971 and 1972, Fantuzzo traveled and studied independently in Italy, Spain and Morocco. The following year, she settled in Charleston where she still lives and works.
She has worked prolifically over the past decades, creating paintings, drawings, and prints, and executing major commissions in South Carolina and Ireland. Among notable exhibitions, she has been featured in solo shows at the Gibbes Museum of Art, Greenville County Museum of Art, and Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Museum.
'Edges: Paintings by Linda Fantuzzo' is the inaugural exhibition for the artist at The Charleston Renaissance Gallery.
For more information, contact the gallery at 723-0025.
Arts; Piccolo Spoleto poster artist will show at the Corrigan Gallery
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