This exhibition is one of several special events planned in celebration of the 30th anniversary year. Through a special arrangement with ULAE on Long Island, we are able to borrow some of Johns’ most iconic works for this exhibition. These works contain the graphic elements for which Johns’ work has become synonymous – flags, face/vase, targets, stars, and the pottery of George Ohr, to list a few. Beginning with a 1982 print of a Savarin coffee can all the way through a 2012 series called Shrinky Dinks, 1-4. Curator Mark Sloan says “with this selection I hope to demonstrate the process through which Jasper Johns recycles imagery and ideas within his work. This selection will emphasize many of Johns’ recurrent motifs and themes over the past thirty years. Jasper Johns will be represented by a series of sixteen prints made with in collaboration with master printmaker Bill Goldston at Universal Limited Art Editions in New York. It has been a pleasure working with him to present his work in his hometown,” said Mark Sloan. “We are very excited to present the work of this important international artist who happens to be from Charleston. These murals will relate thematically to the “Power & Glory” concept of Fairey’s works in the Halsey. He will also be creating a series of large-scale public murals in locations throughout downtown Charleston to be announced. Fossil fuels and their accompanying oil and gas iconography are explored as symbols of what literally and metaphorically drives America in ways both good and bad.” He will be showing a group of paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and screen prints within the main gallery space at the Halsey Institute. According to Fairey, his new body of work called “Power & Glory” is a celebration and critique of Americana with an emphasis on the meanings of power. this will be Shepard Fairey’s first major exhibition in Charleston. The exhibition is curated by Mark Sloan, senior curator and director of the Halsey Institute.īorn in Charleston, S.C. The Insistent Image: Recurrent Motifs in the Art of Shepard Fairey and Jasper Johns features new work by Shepard Fairey and a survey of prints from 1982 to 2012 by Jasper Johns. Recurrent Motifs in the Art of Shepard Fairey and Jasper JohnsĬHARLESTON, SC – The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art celebrates its 30th Anniversary with an exhibition by Shepard Fairey and Jasper Johns – two world-renowned artists, spanning two generations, both originally from South Carolina.
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