Privacy Conundrums Greenville Chamber of Commerce Greenville, SC

Date: 9/7/2012 TO 10/21/2012
Time: 1:00 PM TO 6:00 PM

300 River Street
Gr, SC 29601

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Event Description: Privacy is a legal and personal conundrum. Facebook, HIPPA permissions, even grocery receipts track, collect, and share our daily lives. Friends, organizations, retailers know our birthdates, allergies, and ice cream preferences. Todd McDonald and Elizabeth Snipes make paintings that address our current Privacy Conundrums. Todd paints jewel toned virtual structures. Many of his structures though in a state of stasis illuminate and protect a core. Other structures are captured at the moment of their destruction or at the moment of their creation. Todd remarks, “The resulting images define structures that are synthetic but are rooted in a logic that is informed by actual visual experience.” Elizabeth paints solitary, isolated figures enmeshed in echoes of bright lines that point to and simultaneously camouflage the lone, central figure. According to Elizabeth, “In each painted or drawn image, I present the figure as it fluctuates between being recognizable and confusing, present and absent, familiar and foreign, representational and abstract, static and dynamic, or at times physical and digital.” Both Todd and Elizabeth employ mediums (oil and pastel on canvas or panel) as old as art history to make virtual, digital like images that pose Privacy Conundrums. Todd McDonald is an Associate Professor of Art at Clemson University and Elizabeth Snipes is an Assistant Professor of Art at Lander University. Elizabeth is Todd’s former student.
Directions:
RIVERWORKS Gallery is operated by and for the faculty and students of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Greenville Technical College. The gallery is along the scenic Reedy River at Art Crossing in downtown Greenville, across the river from the Peace Center Look for the red umbrella.

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