1952) grew up in a large family on Sullivan's Island riding ponies and donkeys on the beach and watching her father repair television sets. He holds an MFA in printmaking and drawing from Clemson University and a BFA from Appalachian State University. Chapp has retired as a teacher for the Greenville County School District. He worked on two projects with artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, in Kansas City in 1978 and Key Biscayne, Fla., in 1983.
Best known as a expert printmaker, Chapp has shown in galleries, art centers and museums throughout the region, including the Greenville County (S.C.) Museum of Art, the Burroughs and Chapin Museum in Myrtle Beach, S.C., the Spartanburg (S.C.) Art Museum and the Pickens County (S.C.) Museum of Art and History. For more than three decades, he has been a steady presence on the South Carolina art scene, especially in the Upstate. 1952), owner of Black Dog Press, is a native of Kansas City, Mo. State Museum and McKissick Museum in Columbia and the Spruill Center Gallery in Atlanta.Ĭhapp (b. the Florence (S.C.) Museum of Art the S.C. Yaghjian has shown extensively throughout the Southeast, including at South Carolina’s Greenville County Museum of Art Blue Spiral I in Asheville, N.C. Another exhibition, 2015’s Scenesat if ART Gallery, also came with a catalogue, with a long, poetic artist statement by Yaghjian. The exhibition catalogue David Yaghjian: Everyman Turns Sixaccompanied a major 2011 solo exhibition at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia, organized by if ART Gallery. Yaghjian was featured in the 2012 book 100 Southern Artists. He was selected for the 701 Center for Contemporary Art South Carolina Biennial 2013, 2015and 2017. 1948) is a mainstay on the city’s art scene and among the most original contemporary painters in the Carolinas. Postma as a young artist in the 1960s instantly made a name for himself with his etchings and lithographs, and his work was acquired by museums all over, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art.Ĭolumbia native Yaghjian (b. While her ceramics and sculptures also are available at if ART, the current exhibition focuses on her pastel-and ink works on paper, which are as spectacularly fantastical as her sculptures. Zed has a huge following nationwide as a ceramic artist and mixed-media sculptor. In the past year, he has taken old prints and recycled parts of them in fresh, new collages. Chapp has for decades been one of the most prominent printmakers on the South Carolina art scene.
Aside from incorporating bulls as part of his scenes, Yaghjian recently has created several paintings exclusively focused on the animal. Yaghjian’s exhibition, Walking With Bulls, presents an overview of his use of the bull motif in his paintings over the past decade. All exhibitions will run through September 18. Postma’s prints are exhibited in the Print Room if ART. For a new set of four solo exhibitions, if ART Gallery in Columbia, SC, presents paintings by Columbia artist David Yaghjian collages made from cut-up prints by Easley, SC, artist Steven Chapp works on paper by Sullivan’s Island native and Virginia resident Aggie Zed and etchings and lithographs from the 1960 by the late Dutch artist Hannes Postma, who died last year at age 87. Try doing some photography other than selfies on your phone, with a dedicated camera. Once you’ve done this and learnt all about low noise ISO, IBIS, dynamic range, fast focus, burst mode shooting, f-stops, zoom etc etc (and realise the pretty picture on your camera phone doesn’t look quite so good at anything bigger than 7 or 8” in size), then you can come back and tell me why your comment was so stupid. As I have said to other posters on here, how about buying yourself a cheap RX100 MKI for around £100 and go out for the day (and night) shooting a variety of subjects, then print out the results to, say, A4 size. I’m not even going to bother wasting my time explaining how a £1,000 camera with a 1” sensor is superior to a piddly smart phone offering.
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