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: Edmund Yaghjian

Woman's Portrait, 1940s, pencil on paper, 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.
$1,800

Untitled, 1945, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in., $4,500

Tugboats, 1930s, pencil on paper, 7 x 8 1/2 in., $800

Untitled, 1960s,
oil on canvas mounted on board,
20 x 16 in.$5,000

Biography: Edmund Yaghjian

Tugboats, 1930s

Pencil on paper

7 x 8 1/2 in

$800

Edmund Yaghjian (1905 – 1997)

Armenian native and long-time Columbia, S.C., resident Edmund Yaghjian is one of the important art figures in South Carolina since World War II. During 27 years at the University of South Carolina art department, which he chaired for two decades, Yaghjian taught many of the state’s prominent artists. He was instrumental in establishing the Columbia Museum of Art and several local and statewide arts organizations. Before coming to Columbia in 1945, Yaghjian had already established himself as an up-and-coming artist on the New York scene with a growing national reputation. Among the institutions that showed or have his work are the Art Students League, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, Kraushaar Gallery, the Whitney Museum, all in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, the Rhode Island School of Design, the High Museum in Atlanta and the Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art. In 2007, the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia organized a Yaghjian retrospective that also traveled to ACA Galleries in New York City.