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| "Accomplice" Oil and Acrylic on Canvas |
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| "Trajectory" oil, acrylic. collage, gold leaf and graphite on canvas |
Coker College presents an exhibition of paintings by Shaun Richards titled, “Safety in Numbers.” A reception, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. and light refreshments will be served. Richards' show will continue through Oct. 17, 2014.
Richards lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a painting and mixed media artist. Since 2007, his work has been focused on social dynamics, incentives, and identity, along with notions of beauty, and artifice.
“Through the combination of typography, image and the use of non-traditional subjects taken from magazines and newspaper clippings, Richards make us question what is right and wrong," said Ashley Gillespie, exhibition director for the gallery. "He brings to light the questions we ask ourselves on a daily basis - how our society functions and how we function in society.”
Richards is especially interested in topics ranging from welfare states to colonialism to institutional bias that surround current people and the phantoms of America’s past.
Shaun Richards was born in 1977, in Brunswick, Georgia, but grew up in rural Southeast Virginia. He attended UNC-Wilmington, where he earned a BA in Art in 1999. In 2003, he enrolled in SUNY Empire State College as a non-matriculated graduate student. Richards left NYC in the spring of 2006, returning to North Carolina to pursue art full time.
The Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery is open 10 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday, while classes are in session, and is located in the Gladys C. Fort Art Building on the campus of Coker College, Hartsville, S.C. Parking entrance, for the art building, is directly across from 306 E. Home Ave.
Shaun Richards was born in 1977, in Brunswick, Georgia, but grew up in rural Southeast Virginia. He attended UNC-Wilmington, where he earned a BA in Art in 1999. In 2003, he enrolled in SUNY Empire State College as a non-matriculated graduate student. Richards left NYC in the spring of 2006, returning to North Carolina to pursue art full time.
The Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery is open 10 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday, while classes are in session, and is located in the Gladys C. Fort Art Building on the campus of Coker College, Hartsville, S.C. Parking entrance, for the art building, is directly across from 306 E. Home Ave.
For more information, contact exhibition director Ashley Gillespie at 843-383-8156 or ashley.gillespie@coker.edu. For more information on the gallery, go to: www.ceceliacokerbellgallery.com
To learn more about Shaun Richards, go to: http://shaunrichardsart.com/
Coker College upholds and defends the intellectual and artistic freedom of its faculty and students as they study and create art through which they explore the full spectrum of human experience. The college considers such pursuits central to the spirit of inquiry and thoughtful discussion, which are at the heart of a liberal arts education.
Coker College upholds and defends the intellectual and artistic freedom of its faculty and students as they study and create art through which they explore the full spectrum of human experience. The college considers such pursuits central to the spirit of inquiry and thoughtful discussion, which are at the heart of a liberal arts education.
Release written by exhibition director Ashley Gillespie.
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