Dorothy Netherland

DOROTHY NETHERLAND: D DAYS, Sept. 24 – Sept. 5, 2010

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if ART Gallery presents at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC:

DOROTHY NETHERLAND: D DAYS
Sept. 24 – Oct. 5, 2010
Artists' Reception: Fri., Sept. 24, 5 – 9 pm.

For a PREVIEW of works by Dorothy Netherland, CLICK HERE.

Dorothy Netherland, D Days
@ Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC
Sept. 24 – Oct. 5, 2010

Opening on September 24, if ART Gallery presents at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia, SC, two simultaneous solo exhibitions by Deanna Leamon and Dorothy Netherland, respectively called Heads and D Days. The exhibition will run through October 5. The artists’ reception is September 24, 2010, 5 – 9 pm.

Dorothy Netherland (b. 1962) will present a new body of work using her unique technique of painting, silk screening and transferring ink onto the back of glass. From memory and personal history, Netherland creates narrative, often symbolic tableaus using imagery mainly drawn from 1950s women’s magazines. Most of Netherland’s paintings consist of two or three panes of glass on top of each other, each layer “carrying” part of the image. The approach provides literal and conceptual depth.

Netherland, a native of Alexandria, Va., began studying art in her thirties. In 2000 she received a BFA from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, where she lives. Netherland’s work was included in the 2004 S.C. Triennial at the S.C. State Museum in Columbia. She also was included in the 2004 Piccolo Spoleto Festival Contemporary Charleston exhibition at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park.

DOROTHY NETHERLANDS – New Paintings on Glass

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To see new paintings by Dorothy Netherland now available at if ART Gallery, CLICK HERE

To WATCH a documentary of Dorothy Netherland painting on glass, CLICK HERE.

Dorothy Netherland's paintings are painted and silkscreened on the back of glass. The new paintings consist of three layered sheets of glass.

Salon III: January 15- February 4, 2009

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For installation images, click here.

For printmaking demonstration schedule, click here.

if ART Gallery

presents

SALON III: The Print Exhibition

January 15 – February 4, 2009

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. 29205

Reception: Thursday, Jan. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

& by appointment

Printmaking Demonstrations:

Sunday, Jan. 18, 3 – 5 p.m., Marcelo Novo, Print Gocco

Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 – 5 p.m., Phil Garrett, Monotype

Saturday, Jan. 31, 3 – 5 p.m., H. Brown Thornton, Photo Transfer

Sunday, Feb. 1, 3 – 5 p.m., Steven Chapp, Linocut & Photopolymer Prints

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

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

For its January 2009 exhibition, if ART Gallery presents Salon III, an exhibition of prints by gallery artists at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. The opening reception will be Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5 – 10 p.m. The exhibition will be installed salon-style at the gallery’s first floor and continues if ART’s salon-style exhibitions; in December 2008, Salon I & II took place simultaneously at the gallery and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia.

Among the printmaking techniques represented in the exhibition are etchings, dry points, lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts, photopolymer prints, embossings, monotypes, silkscreens and photo transfers.

During the exhibition, gallery artists Steven Chapp of Easley, S.C., Phil Garrett of Greenville, S.C., Brown Thornton of Aiken, S.C., and Marcelo Novo of Columbia will give demonstrations of various printmaking techniques. For times and demonstrated techniques, see above.

Artists in the exhibition include Karel Appel, Jeri Burdick, Carl Blair, Lynn Chadwick, Steven Chapp, Corneille, Jeff Donovan, Jacques Doucet, Phil Garrett, Herbert Gentry, Tonya Gregg, John Hultberg, Richard Hunt, Sjaak Korsten, Lucebert, Reiner Mährlein, Sam Middleton, Eric Miller, Joan Mitchell, Dorothy Netherland, Marcelo Novo, Hannes Postma, Edward Rice, Anton Rooskens, Kees Salentijn, Laura Spong, Brown Thornton, Bram van Velde, Katie Walker, David Yaghjian and Paul Yanko.

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.

Biography: Dorothy Netherland

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Dorothy Netherland (b. 1962)

Dorothy Netherland, a native of Alexandria, Va., began studying art in her thirties. In 2000 she received a BFA from the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C, where she lives. Netherland mainly paints on glass, and her work was included in the 2004 S.C. Triennial at the S.C. State Museum in Columbia. She also was included in the 2004 Piccolo Spoleto Festival Contemporary Charleston exhibition at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park.

To view paintings by Dorothy Netherland, CLICK HERE.

Essay: Dorothy Netherland

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Matching Vacuums, 2008

Ink, acrylic, screenprint on glass

18 x 24 in.

SOLD

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Dorothy Netherland

by Wim Roefs

Dorothy Netherland paints narrative paintings full of imagery drawn mainly from 1950s women’s magazines, not in the least their ads. Her “cast of characters,” as Netherland calls them, includes an elegant woman, her fingers near her lipstick-red mouth, looking surprised, perhaps even frightened. Another woman with a scary grin embraces a faceless man.

A large iron descending like a spacecraft blows steam on two women, one in a bathing suit, the other in underwear. The silkscreened, coy glamour girl looking over her shoulder just so pops up many times. There’s a stroller, a Chinese takeout box and a little girl in a winter coat holding a doll. And stern looking older men observe, perhaps preside over, much of the proceedings.

Yet Netherland likes to say she’s not trying to be ironic in her work. When pressed, she’s good about it, though. “I am using these images of people posing to sell the idea of the perfect house, family, life, the false idea of attainable perfection. But the narratives I put them in are anything but idyllic. So I do use irony. I just meant that I’m not intentionally trying to make ironic observations. Social commentary isn’t my goal.

“But I am addressing domesticity and family drama and the expectations we have of motherhood. Our first relationships are with family. Family, especially our mother, shapes us. The paintings, including the predominance of women in them, try to reflect this and impart a sense of longing, hopefully. I also am humanizing the women in the images by subverting the original context, which presents a false, surface view of femininity.

“That the people populating my paintings come from an obvious past facilitates my intentions. They become part of someone’s personal, barely understood history. I am turning the women from stereotypes into regular people who represent a piece of memory.”

Memory, especially of personal history, is crucial to Netherland’s work. As a child, she scarcely noticed the paintings her grandfather created on the glass of clocks he made. Nor did she think that she had been affected by finding his dead body slumped over a desk as a child. But now she paints on glass. “Things about ourselves that are internalized but not acknowledged stay with us. Very soon after I started painting on glass, I realized the connection to my grandfather. “Did finding my grandfather contribute to my fear of death? Or did it just become something I would think about later to feel special? Do we all just love to mythologize ourselves?

“I am, in any case, really freaked out by the idea of a once-cognizant mind no longer existing. I just can’t comprehend my own nonexistence. In my paintings, people who are dead or nearly dead are still alive. But my cast of characters being from the past also reinforces the notion of our own impermanence and the brevity of existence. And it indicates the struggle to remember things and our subjective interpretation of past events.”

The Inventory: February 15-26, 2008

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Sweeter Than You Ever Dreamed, 2006

Acrylic on canvas

48 x 34 1/2 in.

$ 1,600

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.

Humans: October 6-17, 2006

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if ART, International Fine Art Services

presents at

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady St., Columbia, S.C.

JEFF DONOVAN – JOHN MONTEITH

DOROTHY NETHERLAND – HERB PARKER

H u m a n s

Oct. 6 – 17, 2006

Artists’ Reception:

Friday, Oct. 6, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.

Weekdays, noon – 7 p.m. and by appointment

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

For its October exhibition at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, if ART, International Fine Art Services, will present “Humans,” an exhibition with work by Jeff Donovan, John Monteith, Dorothy Netherland and Herb Parker. The opening reception for the exhibition is Oct. 6, 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. Opening hours are Saturdays, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Sundays, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.; and weekdays 12:00 – 7:00 p.m. or by appointment. For more information or to make an appointment, contact if ART’s Wim Roefs at (803) 238-2351 or wroefs@sc.rr.com.

Donovan and Monteith are both from Columbia; Netherland and Parker are from Charleston. All the art in the exhibition will have a human presence in the form of figurative elements.

“That doesn’t mean it’s a figurative show,” if ART owner Wim Roefs said. “It’s just that in different ways, the human factor shows up in this work. Monteith’s work consists of portraits but with a twist. Donovan’s pieces all have the human figure in them some way or another. Netherland paints symbolic compilations in which portrait and figures, often inspired by 1950s magazines, play an important role. And Parker’s sculptures are about humanity and typically include heads and the human body or part thereof.”

Donovan will be showing paintings and ceramic works. Monteith’s oil paintings are on thin but solid plastic sheets. Netherland’s paintings are on glass. Parker’s pieces will be mixed-media works.

Works of Art: Dorothy Netherland

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Twin Set, 2010
Ink, acrylic, and screen print on glass
14 x 11 in., $ 525

Pop Tart, 2010
Ink, acrylic, ink transfer on glass
16 x17 in., $ 600

Poser 1, 2010, ink, acrylic, ink transfer

on glass, 9 x 12 in., $400

The Little Island, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screen print on glass

18 x 24 in., $ 900

The Conversation, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screen print on glass

18 x 24 in., $ 900

Full Disclosure, 2010
Ink, acrylic, screen print on glass
16 x 12 in., $ 600

No I Love You More 1, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screen print on glass

12 x 16 in., $ 550

The Sweet Life, 2010
Ink, acrylic, and screen print on glass
14 x 11 in., $ 525

Paper Doll, 2010, ink, acrylic, screen print,

ink transfer on glass, 6 x 6 in., $ 275

She Made It After All 4, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screen print on glass

7.5 x 7.5 in., $ 250

She Made It After All 1, 2008
Ink, acrylic, screenprint on glass
7.5x7.5 in., $ 250

The Slick and The Dead, 2010, ink, acrylic,

screenprint on glass, 14 x 14 in., $ 600

Happyland Inside II, 2004

Ink and acrylic on glass

14 x 11 in., $ 450

She Made It After All 2, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screen print on glass

7.5 x 7.5 in., $ 250

That Same Lovely Uniqueness 1, 2009