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Art Gallery Series
September 19 - November 6, 2014
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
World Consumerism - Bethany Luhman.8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Bethany Luhman was born in Autumn, 1987 in Red Bank, New Jersey but spent most of her life in South Carolina. She graduated from Francis Marion University in Florence, SC with a Photography degree in December 2010. Bethany went on to Graduate school at Savannah College of Art and Design, which she is expected to graduate with her second Masters in Photography degree this fall. Bethany’s tends to create abstract images that alter the reality and question what the viewer is looking at. Her art subjects tend to be about issues that are happening in the world and the power of story that shapes our relationship with the world.
"Ferenc Máté, author of A Reasonable Life, suggests that we seldom consider how much of our lives we surrender in return for some object we barely want, occasionally need, buy only because it was put before us. This is understandable given the workings of our society where without a job we succumb, where if we don't want a job and are happy getting by we are then labeled irresponsible and non-contributing by society. He also wrote that if we hire a fleet of bulldozers and tear up half the countryside to build some monstrous factory, casino or mall, we are called entrepreneurs, job-creators, and stalwarts of the community. Perhaps we should all be shut away on some planet for the insane. Then again, maybe that is where we are.
"The effect of consumerism starts at an early age. Children while watching their favorite cartoons are also exposed to commercials showing images of toys and sugary cereals to entice children to want. However, those toys and sugary sweets are soon left in the cabinet or in the corner of a room, and then it’s on to the next item. Those children grow up knowing no better, unaware of the trap. Adults are faced with consumerist items every day, all day, with billboards, magazine advertisements, commercials, and even displays in windows as they walk down the street to work.
"Each image is made up of many found photographs sourced from the internet. The found images represent a single, amateur view of the locale. They are presented in color, but lack clarity and focus, a suggestion of the fleeting pleasure and subsequent disillusionment of consumption."
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| Untitled by Holly Benton, cone 10 studios |
Lowcountry Clay Sampler Sponsored by cone 10 studios.
Originally founded by Susan Filley as ClayWorks in 2000, the current owners of cone 10 studios are Fiorenzo Berardozzi, Anne John and Susan Gregory. This is their third and largest space. cone 10 studios moved to the upper peninsula area of Charleston in June of 2010. The concept has always been to house a group of ceramicists sharing in the firing, finances and joy of a large gas-reduction kiln.
cone 10 studios offers memberships for studio space, classes in wheel throwing and ceramic sculpture, as well as exhibition events and a gallery of members' work.
This exhibit is a selection of works from the members of cone 10 studios.
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