Don't miss Colleen Critcher's Expansion at the Hyman Gallery on the campus of Francis Marion University. The show will be display January 8th through February 14th.
Francis Marion University's Hyman Gallery is located 4822 E. Palmetto Street in Florence. For more information about this exhibit or the gallery, email Joseph Sallenger at jsallenger@fmarion.edu or call 843.661.1385.
The Hyman Gallery is open weekdays from 8:30am to 5pm.
About the Artist:
Artist Colleen A. Critcher was born in Newton, New Jersey in 1980. She began her childhood in Sussex, New Jersey and later relocated to Florence, South Carolina with her family. She attended college at Francis Marion University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2002. In 2012 Critcher received her Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. She currently lives and works in Florence with her husband Bradford Critcher.
Throughout her career the artist has explored both objective and non-objective imagery. The common thread of Critcher's work is based on personal concerns regarding the significance of images within contemporary life. In one of her recent artistic investigations, The Gnome Project, she employed the image of the humble garden gnome in an attempt to better understand the popular culture's fascination with plastic kitsch objects. In a separate body of work titled Expansion, Critcher has focused on the creation of intuitive abstract works influenced by her immersion in the intense visual language of popular culture. Expansion is an intuitive and non-objective series that seeks to invent space. The artist focuses her concerns on expressing a visceral and universal visual experience explained through the vehicle of color. These works utilize a visual language that is referential of the colors and objectification of popular culture, while at the same time seeking to expose a concealed layer of beauty, contemplation or spirituality.
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