Current
Show at Elder Art Gallery
“New Paintings”
by Carl Blair
 On
Friday, October 3rd, Elder Art Gallery will present its first
one-man show for nationally recognized artist Carl Blair.
“In My Time” is an exhibition of twenty-four recent
works celebrating the intertwining of Blair’s love of
life and the Appalachian landscape. The exhibition will include
work on paper as well as on canvas.
A native of Kansas, Blair has spent the majority of his adult
painting career in the upstate area of South Carolina. He
retired from the faculty of Bob Jones University in 1998 after
forty-one years. He has served on the Greenville County Museum
of Art faculty for twenty-five years and was appointed to
the South Carolina Arts Commission in 1987 by Governor Carroll
Campbell and reappointed by Governor David Beasley in 1993.
He served as chairman from 1994 until 1996.
 In
September of 2001 Blair was given the distinction of the first
living South Carolina artist to be honored with a one-man
show at the Columbia Museum of Art. In addition, he has shown
in more than one hundred museums, galleries and universities
in group exhibitions. His work hangs in some 2500 permanent
private, corporate and public collections to include IBM,
Spaulding Corporation, BASF Corporation, National Gypsum Company,
McDonalds International, Hyatt Hotels, Price Waterhouse Coopers
and Tuskeegee Institute.
 Blair’s
work has been published in many national publications to include
The Fine Art Index, A compendium of Contemporary Art and Artists
1993, American Artists, New York Art Review, The Art Gallery
Magazine 1974 and La Revue Moderne, Paris France 1963, 1968.
Many of Blair’s paintings are completely abstract and
lack identifiable subject matter, yet the viewer recognizes
their atmospheric qualities as landscapes. Greenville County
Museum of Art’s curator says of his work “…..color
is clearly a significant component in Blair’s work.
At times his paintings mirror the work of Paul Klee, at others
that of Arshile Gorky.”
 “The
hand of our creator is evident in all the seasons with their
unique changes and with the multitudes of variations on the
earth”, says Blair. “What a great privilege and
responsibility we all have to live, love and work in America
the beautiful!”
Carl Blair will present a Gallery talk on Friday, October
3rd, beginning at 6:30 p.m. A Champagne reception for the
artist will continue through the evening.
“In My Time” will be on exhibition at Elder Art
Gallery through November 1, 2003.
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