Exhibitions 2007

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Telling Tales: Works by Nancy Hooten, Jan. 24 - July 8, 2007

Following her mother’s death in the early 1990s, Savannah artist Nancy Hooten came across a box of multicolored glass beads that her mother, a talented seamstress, had collected. Hooten, a retired art teacher and administrator, immediately recognized their creative potential. She began transferring her compositions onto fabric, creating a surface she could lavishly and laboriously encrust with thousands of hand-sewn beads. Many of Hooten’s works take on a sculptural quality as stuffed, beaded elements of the composition protrude from the canvas, further animating the shimmering surface.

This exhibition will juxtapose examples of Hooten’s early work, such as Growing Things of 1992, a miniature patchwork quilt full of vibrant, organic beaded forms (Hooten’s very first beaded piece), with more recent work, such as works from the artist’s Woods of Oneness series, which depicts tranquil forest scenes with lavish beading.

Hooten’s work has been displayed in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including a one-person show at SCAD in 2001, and is included in the permanent collections of the Telfair, SCAD and the Greenville County Museum of Art.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Exhibitions

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2005 / 2006 / 2007