"Children of the Cotton Threads" Ceramic, Smalti. Best of Show Award Tile Heritage Foundation

One Time Project Grant
Funding for the Exhibition "Small Works" has been provided by the South Carolina State Arts Commission.  Headquartered in Columbia South Carolina, the Arts Commission is funded by the state of South Carolina and by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts.  For more information, visit www.SouthCarolinaArts.Com or call 803 734-8696

    In total there were ninety pieces in this exhibition, making this a very large show of small pieces.

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The Calico Cat

Small painting from the "Small Works" Exhibition

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The Marvelous World in a Snuff Bottle
One of a series of very small painting/monoprint designs featuring ancient Chinese seal script prints on imaginary vessels.  This one is only three by four and a half inches.  My object was to create a largeness of meaning and intent within a very small space - very much in keeping with the Chinese art of creating the decorative art of snuff bottles and the fine art of seal carvings (an art form I learned myself during my graduate work at the Beijing Central Art Academy).

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Southeastern Allegory
The paintings depicted here are a series of tiny works, each only about an inch long, painted on miniature marble dust gesso panels.  The frames are handcrafted ceramic earthenware.  From Top Left to Right:
Cotton Pod, Cotton Flower.  Middle left to right: Joker, Man with the White Hand, Woman with a Green Face.  Bottom row, left to right: Small outhouse, Southern Landscape.

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