"Face Value" by Mark Wolfe opens Sept. 26 at UC
When it rains, it pours photos. Read the posts below for three new photography exhibits now open in Charleston. Here comes a fourth. "Face Value: New Works by Artist Mark Wolfe," opens Sept. 26 at the University of Charleston's Frankenberger Gallery. A release on the show describes it this way:"Morbid" could be one word used to describe Wolfe's art. The Charleston artist has long held a fascination with death and related imagery around religious themes. In a new artistic venture, Wolfe tarries off the path of the cemetery photography he is most known for and ventures into the arena of live human beings. A new exhibit at the University of Charleston, called 'Face Value' includes over 40 photographs of local people. From Mayor Danny Jones and artist Charly Hamilton (at right and below) to Howard who sweeps the sidewalk at Taylors, the photos are high contrast black-and-white digital images that are striking in their simplicity and vividness."
Wolfe owns and operates Mark Wolfe Design, a small graphic design business in Charleston. He is a Tamarack artisan and has displayed art there and at Annex Gallery, Taylor Books, Renaissance Gallery in Huntington, the juried exhibit at the West Virginia Cultural Center, Della Brown Gallery at WV State, the Sunrise Art Museum, and Covenant House Art Gallery.Also included in the UC exhibit are his pastels, scratch boards and other related photographic works. Wolfe says: "I wanted to concentrate on a more organic form of expression as opposed to more ornate and architectural objects that I have focused on during the past three years. I wanted to depict the individual personalities that come through even though color, three dimensions and any other form of reference has been erased."
IF YOU GO: "Face Value" opens with a reception from 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Sept. 26, and runs through Oct. 19 at the Frankenberger Art Gallery, University of Charleston, 2300 MacCorckle Avenue, SE.
20 Comments:
I'll go if there's a pic of Danny Jones as the heartthrob in Bye Bye Birdie.
"I wanted to focus on a more organic form of expression . . "?!
Did you photograph some corn you grew in your backyard or what?
You are so full of it.
Love,
cousin
Kim, I picked up on that "organic form of expression' jazz too. I have no idea where Mark got that from. He doesn't even credit me for creating him.
Troy Body
Gone...and forgotten :)
I don't see any artistic accomplishments from the above people. As the saying goes, "If you can't make art, at least you can criticize the people who do."
It is told that the thing Mark Wolfe does best is promote Mark Wolfe.
We will see if "Face Value" translates into any artistic value. If it does it will be first for Wolfe.
I wouldn't bet on it though.
Troy,
They always forget.
And since when did Mayor Jones start looking like Bella Lugosi anyway?
Mark, lighten up. You should never have given up cats. You're just not a pug sort of person and it's got you wound up way to tight.
We love you, you know.
love,
cousin
p.s.
Screw you anonymous. If you're going to bash, put up your name. Otherwise, shut up.
kimmysmitty77, I guess that is YOUR real name! If you can be anonymous so can others.
Kimmysmitty comes from the name Kim Smith. That is the name I was born with. Troy figured it out and I'm sure Mark has - whose work I think very much of since it covers my walls.
I'm just having a little fun with him. You, on the other hand, are vicious.
Without humor and the dig. Mark has created a body of work about us. These are not just faces but a look into the souls of who he knows. This is the portrait as fine art. And yes he is my friend. This is a show well worth seeing and well hung and a simple presentation of how it can be done right.
Mark, control your fan. Kim and I don't have to defend ourselves.
Troy
Troy,
Mark propbably wrote that.
I especially like the "well hung" part.
Kim
p.s.
Troy,
Have you noticed that Mark is ignoring us? He's posted on one of the other blogs on this exhibit.
What a fraidy cat.
Kim
Yes, he got all defensive in one of the five or so blog posts about this exhibit.
I have to admit, it does look like a really cool exhibit. It should be at the Cultural Center though, that is the place for all the cool artists. :)
Kim, go see it. Is any of it for sale?
Mark, why didn't you offer this up to Commissioner Reid-Smith first?
"As far as the Commissioner Reid-Smith, if I remember correctly, Mark has been burned by that crowd and never forgotted it."
Really? There's a story that needs to be told, perhaps Mr. Body knows something about it? :P
Could we -- gazz editor makes the request -- keep the ArtAttack blog on the discussion of art and not an artist's personal tale of encounters with the arts bureaucracy, as told second-hand. The politics of art in this state are certainly game for discussion here, but on the macro, not the micro, private level. I don't even know the tale in question, but it's the artist's business, unless he wishes to talk about it.
Gazz Editor,
I fully agree and was out of line to comment on the notions of the powers that be about what constitutes art.
I request you delete my posts because they have not been taken in the tongue in cheek spirit in which they were intended.
Consider this a public apology for unfortunate comments.
Will do on those deletes, kimmysmitty77. Please keep the discussion of the arts and your participation coming. Your eyeballs on the blog and contributions are welcome.
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