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

DOROTHY NETHERLAND

            Charleston, S.C., artist Dorothy Netherland (b. 1962), a native of Alexandria, Va., uses unique techniques to create unique works of art. Since the early 2000s, she has made art by painting, silkscreening and applying photo transfers to the back of glass or Plexiglas, layering up to four panes of glass per work. Most recently, she’s been painting on mylar and attaching the mylar to wood panels, using photos of her teenage daughter and from fashion magazines to create her imagery. She silkscreens and paints flowers to create the borders of her current mixed-media works, sometimes baking the mylar to make the edges curl.  

            Netherland was represented in the 2013 701 CCA South Carolina Biennialat 701 Center for Contemporary Art and the 2004 South Carolina Triennialat the South Carolina State Museum, both in Columbia. She also was included in Studio Visits, a 2007 exhibition at the Greenville County (S.C.) Museum of Art andContemporary Charleston2004 and 2009, each presentations of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. In 2011, the Contemporaries of the Columbia (S.C.) Museum of Art named her Artist of the Year. That same year, she participated in an international residency and exhibition in Neustadt and der Weinstrasse in Germany.

            In 2014, Netherland was in Intersections of Gender and Placeat the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Miss. She had 2012 solo exhibitions at Mercer University in Macon and Georgia College in Milledgeville, both in Georgia. Her previous if ART Gallery solo exhibitions are D Daysin 2010 and Velveteenin 2012, the latter at Columbia’s Gallery 80808/Vista Studios.

            Netherland has exhibited at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, the City Gallery at Waterfront Park and Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston; Barbara Archer Gallery in Atlanta, Ga.; and Artstream Gallery in Rochester, NH. She was included in E. Ashley Rooney’s 2012 book 100 Southern Artistsand Artists’ Homes and Studio, 2014, by the same editor.

To view paintings by Dorothy Netherland, CLICK HERE.

Essay: Dorothy Netherland

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

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

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

They Did 1, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint, ink transfer
glass etching, on three panes of glass, 17 x 21 in., $850

Velveteen 2, 2012, ink, acrylic, watercolor,
watercolor ink, oil, screenprint, ink transfer 
and photo transfer on glass and mylar, 
20 x 16 in., $750

Mouse Trap Whatever, 2013, nk, acrylic, oil, screen print, 

ink transfer, photo transfer, mylar, glitter, paint pens, 

metallic foil on 2 pieces of Plexiglas mounted on a wood frame 

30" x 30", $2,300

Velveteen 3, 2012, ink, acrylic, watercolor,
watercolor ink, oil, screenprint, ink transfer 
and photo transfer on glass and mylar, 
20 x 16 in., $750

They Did 2, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint, ink transfer
glass etching, on three panes of glass, 17 x 21 in., $850

Velveteen 4, 2012, ink, acrylic, watercolor,
watercolor ink, oil, screenprint, ink transfer
and photo transfer on glass and mylar,
20 x 16 in., $750

Violent Femme IV, 2012, acrylic ink, watercolor
ink, watercolor, acrylic, oil and photo transfer
on glass and dura-lar, 16 x 12 in., $550

Look at Me, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint, ink transfer, glass etching
 on three panes of glass, 17 x 21 in., $850

In the Moment, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint, ink transfer, glass etching
 on three panes of glass, 17 x 21 in., $850

Girl, Constructed, 2013, ink, acrylic, watercolor ink, 

oil, paint pens, screen print, mylar, ink transfer, and 

photo transfer on 2 pieces of Plexiglas, 32" x 32", $2,500

Violent Femme III, 2012, acrylic ink, watercolor
ink, watercolor, acrylic, oil and photo transfer
on glass and dura-lar, 16 x 12 in., $550

Violent Femme II, 2012, acrylic ink, watercolor
ink, watercolor, acrylic, oil and photo transfer
on glass and dura-lar, 16 x 12 in., $550

Violent Femme I, 2012, acrylic ink, watercolor
ink, watercolor, acrylic, oil and photo transfer
on glass and dura-lar, 16 x 12 in., $550

Sweeter Than You Ever Dreamed, 2006,
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 34 1/2 in., 
$1,600

Devotion, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint, ink transfer, glass etching
 on three panes of glass, 17 x 21 in., $850

Musical Chairs, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint, ink transfer
 sharpie, paint pen on three panes of glass, 22 x 22 in., $1,100

It Wouldn't Kill You, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint
ink transfer, sharpie, paint pen on three panes of glass
22 x 22 in., $1,100

Good Imitation, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint
 ink transfer, sharpie, paint pen on three panes of glass
22 x 22 in., $1,100

Cry Baby, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint, ink transfer, sharpie
paint pen on three panes of glass, 22 x 22 in., $1,100

Bad  Behavior, 2012, ink, acrylic, screenprint, ink transfer
sharpie, paint pens on three panes of glass, 22 x 22 in.
$1,100

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

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

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

Super Slick, 2013, ink, acrylic, oil, screenprint, ink transfer, 

photo transfer, mylar, glitter, paint pens, metallic foil on 2 pieces 

of Plexiglas mounted on a wood frame, 24" x 24", $1,600

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

That Same Lovely Uniqueness 1, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screenprint on triple glass

24 x 24 in., $ 975

Blissful Oblivion 2, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screenprint on triple glass

14 x 11 in., $ 450

She Made It After All 3, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screen print on glass

7.5 x 7.5 in., $ 250

Freedom Dreamers 1, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screenprint on triple glass

16 x 20 in., $ 750

Dreamliners 1, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screenprint on triple glass

16 x 20 in., $ 750

Cellophane1, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and
screenprint on wood panel, 10 x 8 in., $425

Cellophane2, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and
screenprint on wood panel, 10 x 8 in., $425

Cellophane4, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and
screenprint on wood panel, 10 x 8 in., $425

Cellophane5, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and
screenprint on wood panel, 10 x 8 in., $425

Cellophane7, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and 
screenprint on wood panel, 10 x 8 in., $425

Cellophane8, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and 
screenprint on wood panel, 10 x 8 in., $425

Cellophane9, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and 
screenprint on wood panel, 10 x 8 in., $425

Flower/Shop1, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and 
screenprint on wood panel, 14 x 11 in., $625

Flower/Shop2, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and
screenprint on wood panel, 14 x 11 in., $625

Flower/Shop3, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and 
screenprint on wood panel, 14 x 11 in., $625

Flower/Shop4, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and
screenprint on wood panel, 14 x 11 in., $625

Flower/Shop6, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and 
screenprint on wood panel, 14 x 11 in., $625

Flower/Shop7, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and
screenprint on wood panel, 14 x 11 in., $625

Flower/Shop8, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and 
screenprint on wood panel, 14 x 11 in., $625

WildFlower3, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and
screenprint on wood panel, 24 x 24 in., $1,200

WildFlower1, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and
screenprint on wood panel, 18 x 18 in., $800

WildFlower2, 2015, mylar, oil, acrylic and 
screenprint on wood panel, 18 x 18 in., $800

Alone With You 2, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screenprint on triple glass

14 x 11 in., $ 550

My Generation, 2009
Ink, acrylic, screenprint on glass
14x14 in., $ 600

Blissful Oblivion 1, 2009

Ink, acrylic, screenprint on triple glass

14 x 11 in., $ 450