Shift and Collide: Drawings from Near and Far presents drawings from Clemson alumni, John Allen, Bethany Flagg Pipkin and Jackson Zorn and their former professor, Heidi Jensen.

The Center for Visual Arts – Lee Gallery is pleased to announce currently on exhibit until September 5, Shift and Collide: Drawings from Near and Far. The exhibit showcases drawings inspired by the natural environment by alumni from the Department of Art and former drawing faculty, Heidi Jensen.

“We are pleased to have the work of these artists back to the area and to witness their growth as professionals in the field. The exhibition is also an opportunity for our alumni to inspire artists in our Bachelor of Fine Arts program about the possibilities a career in the arts can provide serious practitioners,” states Lee Gallery Director, Denise Woodward-Detrich.

The drawings in this exhibition demonstrate a deep awareness and relation to nature and a biological world. The works display drawing approaches that veer from highly sensitized systems of recording to open aggression. Transmitted are explorations of distance and proximity, the contemporary landscape, formation of matter, and systems of belief. All four artists employ drawing to investigate and recompose their subjects.

All alumni studied under Jensen and received Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Visual Art with concentrations in Drawing from Clemson University. Recently, each earned Master of Fine Arts degrees from programs located in Florida, North Carolina and Indiana. Their former professor, Jensen, now teaches at Ball State University in Indiana. Jensen was invited by Riverworks Gallery to put together an exhibition of work by her former students for Greenville Technical College’s Riverworks Gallery. Shift and Collide: Drawings from Near and Far draws together a group of artists who are now dispersed geographically as careers develop and expand.

“While each artist has pursued a singular direction of thought, and have not worked in close proximity to each other for many years, there are relationships to be found in this work,” states Jenson. Woodward-Detrich adds, “It is a pleasure to witness the creative and professional development these artists are bringing to their field and we are please to welcome the work of these artists back to the Lee Gallery.

The exhibit runs through September 5. Lee Gallery hours are Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

View Exhibit Photos

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About Clemson University Galleries and Exhibit

There are several galleries on and off campus maintained by the Center for Visual Arts through the Lee Gallery and Center for Visual Arts – Greenville. Exhibitions on and off campus provide the University and surrounding community with access to regional, national and international visual arts and artists. The Lee Gallery and CVA-Greenville also provides programmatic offerings such as artist presentations, guest speakers, walking tours, and special events designed to introduce audiences to creative research, influences and ideas being explored by artists showcased in the galleries.

At the end of each semester the Lee Gallery showcases artwork of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the Department of Art academic program. Students are required to present a final thesis of their creative research in a professional exhibition format as part of their degree fulfillment. Artists included in exhibitions are asked to deliver a public presentation about the content, inspiration and historical context of their work to the general public. Artists’ presentations serve to provide the community with an access point for understanding artistic research practice and individual motivations for creating visual art.

Galleries, special exhibits, artwork and/or showcases can be found on the main Clemson campus in our flagship Lee Gallery located in Lee Hall I as well as the Acorn Gallery in Lee Hall II. Throughout campus visitors can also enjoy exhibits showcased at the College of Architecture Arts and Humanities Dean’s Gallery in Strode Tower, Sikes Hall Exhibit Showcase in Sikes, and the Brooks Center for Performing Arts. Gallery showcases off-campus can be found at the Center for Visual Arts – Greenville in the Village of West Greenville, the International Center for Automotive Research (ICAR) in Greenville, the Charles K. Cheezem OLLI Education Center in Patrick Square, and The Madren Center at the Conference Center and Inn both in Clemson.

CLEMSON – MFA (Master of Fine Arts) at Clemson University ranks 12th among public institutions as one of the nation’s leading “Top Art Schools” according to GraduatePrograms.com.

Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings are based on student ratings and cover a variety of student topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid, and quality of network. The program ranking covers a period from September 1, 2012 to April 15, 2014.

This ranking comes on the heels of recent published findings shedding light on the impact of arts education on the nation’s economy. The March 2014 article released by the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled, “Who knew? The arts education fuels the economy” states that in December 2013, the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released preliminary estimates from the nation’s first Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account. The account is meant to trace the relationship of arts and cultural industries, goods, and services to the nation’s ultimate measure of economic growth, its gross domestic product. The findings showcase the total economic output (gross revenue and expenses) for arts education. In 2011, the most recent year for which data are available was $104-billion.

The article goes on to mention arts education added $7.6-billion to the nation’s GDP. For every dollar consumers spent on arts education, an additional 56 cents was generated elsewhere in the U.S. economy.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a coalition of business and education leaders and policy makers, found, for example, that education in the arts helps instill the curiosity, creativity, imagination, and capacity for evaluation that are perceived as vital to a productive U.S. work force. Additionally, the Chronicle of Higher Education highlights the 2010 IBM report based on face-to-face interviews with more than 1,500 CEO’s worldwide, concluded that “creativity trumps other leadership characteristics” needed in a CEO.

“The Department of Art and the Center for Visual Arts at Clemson University is seen as one of the leading collaborators on campus because our students intersect with all five colleges and will be working in the future with the athletic department through our public art program,” remarks Department of Art Chair, Greg Shelnutt. “This cross disciplinary interaction allows students to experience a well-rounded real world approach to learning through interfacing with other disciplines outside of fine arts such as technology, science, math and business.”

MFA candidates experience rigorous studio activity and strong conceptual development is the main ingredients for success in the program.  The course of study focuses on production or artwork in the studio, exposure to contemporary art history issues, professional practice, and the development of a body of artwork.  The program culminates in an exhibition with a written thesis defended in an oral examination.  This method provides graduates with a deeper understanding of historical as well as contemporary art which prepares for life as a working artist in a 21st century culture.

Because artists require highly specialized work space and equipment the fine Arts graduate students are given a studio area with 24 hours a day, seven day a week access.  In addition, candidates have access to well-equipped studios in the discipline areas: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.

The importance for the arts began with the institutions founder, Thomas Green Clemson. As an accomplished painter as well as an art advocate, Clemson’s vision of having a university where the arts are integrated into the fabric of the university is evident through historical records. In 1859, he addressed the Washington Art Association where he said that “The beautiful arts – the magic bonds which unites all ages and nations.”

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About the Center for Visual Arts

The Center for Visual Arts (CVA) at Clemson University is where students, visitors and scholars explore contemporary perspectives in art and culture through research, outreach programming and studio practice. With a mission to engage and render visible the creative process, the CVA is a dynamic intellectual and physical environment where art is created, exhibited and interpreted. It educates through academic research and practice with art at its core, drawing upon varied disciplines to examine critically cultural issues and artistic concerns.

Though there is not a physical building for this center, the majority of the activities for the Center of Visual Arts are generated out of Lee Hall on the Clemson University campus. For more information, visit www.clemson.edu/cva.

CLEMSON – One of Artisphere 2014’s largest exhibits will show how Clemson University is bringing together technology and art to create cars, movie special effects and 3D computer programs, while inspiring the next generation of engineers, scientists and artists.

The College of Engineering and Science will have a major exhibit at Artisphere for the first time in the festival’s 10-year history.

The tent measures 40-by-120 feet and will be at the corner of Broad and Main streets in downtown Greenville.

This year’s festival goes from May 9-11.

Anand Gramopadhye, the college’s dean, said Clemson’s exhibit will offer a unique presence that allows visitors to explore how technology and art can lead to playful innovation.

“We often find the most unusual and inspiring creativity at the intersection of different disciplines,” he said. “We’re excited to give people hands-on experience that will leave them inspired.”

The exhibit is called the “Clemson University STEAM Tent: Exploring Technology and Art.” STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art and math.

“I am really excited about the addition of Clemson’s STEAM Exhibit to this year’s festival programming,” said Kerry Murphy, Artisphere’s executive director.

“We are always looking for ways to enhance the patron experience, and this exhibit offers something that’s both innovative and unique.”

The college’s exhibit won’t be the only Clemson presence at Artisphere this year. Art students and alumni representing the Clemson University Center for Visual Arts and the Department of Art will also be featured at the festival under the tent as well as under a separate tent located on Art Demonstration Row. These students and alumni will be giving demonstrations in ceramics, printmaking and creating art using technology.

“At Clemson, we believe that creative collaboration between different areas of the University is crucial to our success,” said Richard Goodstein, dean of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities and member of the Artisphere Board of Directors. “We are thrilled to see art and science working together so beautifully and with such imagination.”

Highlights under the STEAM Tent include:

CU-ICAR: Deep Orange

Visitors will have a chance to see a concept car created by students.

Graduate students seeking degrees in automotive engineering build a new prototype vehicle each year at the Clemson University-International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).

What may come as a surprise, though, is that the engineering challenge begins with students from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif.

The art-center students create the initial design and work closely with engineers to refine it.

Digital Production Arts

Students will show animated works throughout the weekend and share their experiences with the Clemson program Digital Production Arts (DPA).

The program combines artistic skill and technical expertise to create dramatic visual effects for film, television and games. Alumni have worked on several hit movies, including “Frozen.”

Students in the program explore digital animation and 3D graphics.

DPA schedule: Friday 2-4 p.m., 7-8 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., 3-5 p.m., 7-8 p.m.; Sunday 1-3 p.m.

Creative Movement

Visitors will learn a sequence of steps in real life and then program a computer character to do the same as part of what researchers call VENVI, or “virtual environment interactions.” The activity involves a full-size dance floor.

Research suggests that moving the body can help students learn, a concept known as “embodied cognition.”

A Clemson team has begun a research project that seeks to answer some of the questions that surround the concept, while inspiring fifth- and sixth-grade girls to study computer science and other technological fields in which women are underrepresented.

VENVI Creative movement sessions: Friday 4:30-6:30pm; Saturday 1 -3 p.m., 5-7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., 3-5 p.m.

Immersion

Viewers will step into a dark room with a glowing box of water containing moving silhouettes.

When the viewer touches the water, their actions will be recorded until they remove their hands.

The silhouette of each participant will then be played over top of the rest of the silhouettes and the viewer will become part of the piece. It was designed by Nate Newsome, a Clemson Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate and Ph.D. student.

Emagine

Clemson’s outreach program, Emagine, will be hosting workshops for K-12 students throughout the weekend, providing hands-on projects that combine design and engineering in an applied context.

Emagine Workshops: Friday 3-7 p.m., Saturday 11a.m.-3 p.m., 4-8 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m.

Highlights under the Center for Visual Arts located on Art Demonstration Row:

Demonstrations

A group of selected Clemson Master of Fine Arts graduate candidate students will be demonstrating several ceramic and printmaking techniques throughout the weekend.

Participants will have an opportunity to learn about the basic techniques of printmaking and the many techniques, tools and materials used to create art work using a printing press.

The demonstrations in ceramics are designed to show observers how an artist uses clay to create functional art as well as sculptural pieces, using a variety of techniques.

Artisphere attendees are encouraged to use the hashtag #CUArtisphere to share photos displaying hands on interaction with the Clemson University tents.

Clemson University Center for Visual Arts-Greenville is pleased to present Red Balloons, an exhibition of multi-media works by Molly C. Morin and Stephen Wolochowicz. Morin uses digital methods, including computer coding, 3D modeling, and digital photo-editing to produce work that explores the difficult relationship between information and meaning. Morin’s projects visualize data sets generated from a wide range of sources, from poetry to text messages, and reflect on the impact of communication technology on daily life. Wolochowicz’s current work utilizes abstract industrial shapes with organic features. Through the use of vivid color and texture, he adds a playful aesthetic to his underlying concepts. They deal with the human invention, environment and progress through networks of industrial themes.This exhibit will also feature interactive collaborative works by Morin and Wolochowicz that are programmed to visually respond to human activity in a way that encourages users to engage their bodies and voices.

www.stephenwolochowicz.com

Clemson University Center for Visual Arts – Greenville

1278 Pendleton Street, Greenville, SC

Open Hours: Tues – Sat, 1pm – 6pm

First Fridays, 1pm – 9pm

www.clemson.edu/cva

blogs.clemson.edu/cvagreenville

Special Thanks to Richard and Gwen Heusel

Significant financial support and vision by The Community Foundation of Greenville

“The World’s Her Oyster: 70 Years of Making Art” exhibit by Jeanet Dreskin is currently on display at the Lee and Acorn Gallery at Clemson University until February 13.

Dreskin is the first master fine arts graduate from the Department of Art at Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. The master’s program recently celebrated its 40 anniversary in 2013. Dreskin also earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, L.A. and a medical art certificate from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, M.D. She also studied at the NY Art Students League.

Included in this exhibition are paintings from the artist’s private collection as well as from the collections of the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina State Museum, South Carolina State Art, Pickens County Art Museum, Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research, Spartanburg Art Museum, Palmetto Bank, Hampton III Gallery, and private collectors.

Dreskin’s work is in the collections of The Smithsonian National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; Imperial Chemicals in Manchester, England; Strobel in West Sohne, Munich, Germany; Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y.; Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, G.A.; Asheville Museum in Asheville, N.C.; Columbia South Carolina Museum of Art in Columbia, S.C.; Gibbes Museum of Art in Columbia, S.C.; Greenville Health System in Greenville, S.C.; Wells Fargo National Bank in Greenville, S.C., and the Federal Reserve Bank in Charlotte, N.C.

The recent honor of one of TALK Magazine’s “Most Beautiful Women” in the Upstate was given to Dreskin.

The exhibition can be viewed until Friday, Jan. 24 in the Acorn Gallery and until Wednesday, Feb. 13 in the Lee Gallery. The Acorn and Lee Gallery at Clemson University hours are Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. There will be a gallery talk with Jeanet Dreskin on Friday, Jan. 24 at 5:30 p.m. followed by a reception at 6 p.m. Admission to the exhibition, gallery talk, and reception is free.

Dreskin is represented in Greenville by Hampton III Gallery. For additional information regarding the exhibits, contact Lee Gallery Director, Denise Wooward-Detrich, 864-656-3883 or woodwaw@clemson.edu.

photo credit: Jana Candler, TALK Magazine

November 2 and 3 marks the weekend of the annual Greenville Open Studios, presented by the Metropolitan Arts Council. This weekend features 124 local visual artists, and opens their studios to the public. We are proud to announce that Clemson’s Center for Visual Arts (CVA) is well represented, with Open Studios highlighting seven alumni, Eric Benjamin, Suzanne Bodson, Alexia Timberlake Boyd, Kim Dick, Jeanet S. Dreskin, Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers, and Blake Smith, and one former CVA board member, Ann Jennings. As you are enjoying the Open Studios, we encourage you to seek out these Clemson alumni and friends with the opportunity to experience their artwork.

Below you will find information on these artists and directions to their studios. For more information about Greenville Open Studios, please visit http://www.greenvillearts.com/art-scene/open-studios/.

Eric Benjamin 

1738 E. North Street,
Greenville, SC 29607(864) 640-7000
fineartsalliance@gmail.com
www.ericbenjaminstudios.com

Directions:

From N. Main St turn right on E. Park Ave. Continue over Stone Ave/Laurens Rd. Park becomes E. North St. #1738 is on the right, just past the elementary school.

Suzanne Bodson

Studio 12B
12B Lois Avenue
Greenville, SC 29611
864-373-5349
sbodson@yahoo.com

Directions:

From S. Main St. take Pendleton St approximately one mile into the Village of West Greenville’s arts district. Turn right onto Lois Ave. Studio will be on the right, a parking lot is located to the left of the building.

Alexia Timberlake Boyd

ArtBomb Studio
1320 Pendleton Street
Greenville, SC 29611
864-220-3131
alexia.timberlake@gmail.com
alexiatimberlakeboyd.com

Directions:

From S. Main St take Pendleton St approximately one mile into the Village of West Greenville’s arts district. ArtBomb is on the right.

Kim Dick

ArtBomb Studio
320 Pendleton Street
Greenville, SC 29611
864-320-0903
contact.kim.dick@gmail.com
www.kimdick.com

Directions:

From S. Main St take Pendleton St approximately one mile into the Village of West Greenville’s arts district. ArtBomb is on the right.

Jeanet Dreskin

60 Lake Forest Drive
Greenville, SC 29609
864-906-8412
jeanet@dreskin.net
www.hamptoniiigallery.com

Directions:

From downtown Greenville, take Wade Hampton to traffic light at Chick Springs intersection. Turn left onto Chick Springs Rd. Keep right, go 1/2 mile to Twin Lake Rd. Turn right, go one block on Twin Lake Rd. Turn right onto Lake Forest Dr. #60 is on the right. Walk down the drive to the patio, which leads to the studio.

Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers

ArtBomb Studio
1320 Pendleton Street
Greenville, SC 29611
(864) 220-3131
jocarol@charter.net
www.jcm-r.com

Directions:

From S. Main St take Pendleton St approximately one mile into the Village of West Greenville’s arts district. ArtBomb is on the right.

Blake Smith

Art Bomb Studio
1320 Pendleton Street
Greenville, SC 29611
864-245-0067
mudhillpottery@gmail.com
www.mudhillpottery.blogspot.com

Directions:

From downtown Greenville, take Wade Hampton (Hwy. 29) north to Fairview Rd/Old Rutherford Rd. Stay left at the fork. At the traffic light turn left onto Locust Hill Rd. Turn left onto Sunrise Dr. #201 is on the right.

Ann Jennings

116 Riverside Drive
Greenville, SC 29605
(864) 242-0988
annjennings@yahoo.com

Directions:

Take Augusta St to Riverside Dr (Blythe Elementary School on right). Turn left on to Riverside Dr. Go through the 4-way stop at Riverside and Byrd. Studio on corner of next block.

CLEMSON – Clemson University’s Center for Visual Arts has expanded its scope regionally as a result of a $100,000 commitment from the Community Foundation of Greenville.

“We are proud that our partnership with Clemson University supports a growing creative community and will increase the economic development for the surrounding neighborhoods,” said Bob Morris, president of the Community Foundation of Greenville, S.C.

This generous gift gives life to Clemson University’s Center for Visual Arts vision to have presence in Greenville. The grant is partnered with a lease for a facility currently located in the Village of West Greenville along Pendleton Street in downtown Greenville. The new Center for Visual Arts – Greenville satellite facility creates a dynamic, hands-on, “real world” space where students, faculty and alumni are directly involved with art historians, artists, critics and curators in developing, curating, installing, exhibiting, documenting and interpreting the best contemporary art happenings of today.

Clemson always has long enjoyed visual arts presence through its students, faculty and alumni throughout the state of South Carolina, but in the past decade, that presence has grown exponentially in Greenville. First graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts at Clemson University, Jeanet Steckler Dreskin, M ‘73 is an influential local Greenville artist. Her art has been collected by major museums including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and can be seen in the Greenville Museum of Art. Throughout the city, former Clemson art department chair and faculty emeritus, John Acorn’s public art is celebrated in downtown Greenville. His public art sculptures are featured in the City of Greenville’s public art tour.

Clemson University’s focus on the arts began with its founder, Thomas Green Clemson.  A known painter and collector of contemporary artwork of his time, he is noted as saying in a speech in 1859 that “art is the magic bond that unites all nations.” Today, this legacy is continued by Clemson President James F. Barker. In dedicating the CVA – Greenville facility, he addressed Clemson’s importance relationship with the arts, “The arts are a very important part, not only of what we see of our history, but also of our future.”

Not long after President James F. Barker took office, he called Greenville Clemson’s “home city,” which has never been more true than today. More than 13,000 alumni, 2,500 current on-campus students and 500 University employees call Greenville home.

The CVA-Greenville is just one example of the ways in which Clemson University strives to partner with the region, and provides visual arts in the area. The presence of this facility provides continued benefit for the citizens of Greenville, and the environs, and allows students and other community members to enjoy, embrace, and grow in the art generated by the area. The grant from the Community Foundation of Greenville supports programming for the CVA – Greenville for the west Greenville and downtown community.

The Center for Visual Arts
The Center for Visual Arts (CVA) in Lee Hall at Clemson University is where students, visitors and scholars explore contemporary perspectives in art and culture through research, outreach programming and studio practice. With a mission to engage and render visible the creative process, the CVA is a dynamic intellectual and physical environment where art is created, exhibited and interpreted. It educates through academic research and practice with art at its core, drawing upon varied disciplines to examine critically cultural issues and artistic concerns.

The Center for Visual Arts – Greenville is a satellite of the Center for Visual Arts at Clemson University, which serves as the umbrella for all visual art activities at the university. Though there is not a physical building for this center, the majority of the activities for the Center of Visual Arts are generated out of Lee Hall on the Clemson University campus.

For more information regarding the Center for Visual Arts, visit

Contacts

Meredith Mims McTigue – Media Contact, 864-656-3883, mmims@clemson.edu

Greg Shelnutt – Center for Visual Arts Contact, 864-656-3880, gshelnu@clemson.edu

GET READY: National Arts in Education Week, September 8-14, 2013!

Todd A. McDonald was invited as an expert to share insight on the upcoming “Arts in the Carolinas” episode of the Carolina Business Review television show.

The episode explores the importance of the arts in education, how the arts are used as a catalyst for business recruitment and how the arts support STEM education. The episode also addresses the state of public funding for the arts.

McDonald is an art department faculty member and represents the department as well as the Center for Visual Arts at Clemson University. He is joined by an esteemed panel of experts: John Boyer, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art; Carlos Evans, Spoleto Festival USA; Todd A. McDonald, Clemson University; Dr. Lawrence J. Wheeler, North Carolina Museum of Art.

The “Arts in the Carolinas” episode can we viewed Thursday, July 11 at 9:30 p.m. on ETV South Carolina Channel, Wednesday, July 17 at 5 p.m. on ETV World, Friday, July 19 at 6 p.m. on ETV World and Sunday, August 4 at 1 p.m. on ETV.

Did you miss the episode on TV? Not to worry. You can watch it online.

For more information about the Center for Visual Arts at Clemson University, please visit: www.clemson.edu/cva.

About the Center for Visual Arts

The Center for Visual Arts (CVA) at Clemson University is where students, visitors and scholars explore contemporary perspectives in art and culture through research, outreach programming and studio practice. With a mission to engage and render visible the creative process, the CVA is a dynamic intellectual and physical environment where art is created, exhibited and interpreted. It educates through academic research and practice with art at its core, drawing upon varied disciplines to examine critically cultural issues and artistic concerns.

The CVA serves as the umbrella for visual arts activities at Clemson University. There is not a physical building for this center as of yet. The majority of activities for the CVA are generated out of Lee Hall.

About Carolina Business Review

For over 20 years, the Carolina Business Review has been a way to initiate dialogue for public policy challenges. Carolina Business Review has become the most widely watched source for business and public policy issues across the Region. Carolina Business Review is made possible by partnerships with UNCTV, ETV and PBS Charlotte and regional Public Broadcasting organizations to produce a weekly, 30-minute dialogue that can been seen on 22 PBS affiliates throughout North and South Carolina.

Photography of Gene Ellenberg, CU Art Department alumus, included in the April issue of One, One Thousand

One, One Thousand is an online publication focusing on photography produced in the American South by emerging and established photographers. Founded in 2010 by photographers Daniel A. Echevarria and Natalie Minik, One, One Thousand features new photographic works both from and about the South. Notable photographers previously featured from past years are Leslie Burns, Lucas Foglia, Tammy Mercure, Kathleen Robbins, Eliot Dudik, etc.

The Sleeping Giant. Gene Ellenberg.

Says Ellenberg (BFA 2012, Art / photography), “The work featured is an ongoing project, ‘In My Father’s House’, that began back in 2010 as a personal investigation about the private introspections of my father and later became an exchange between myself and my family. The process was at times deftly quiet and unnerving but looking back on the images now I see a mutual understanding, a trust. Through straight documentation as well as the constructed image, I am attempting to blur the lines of what I recall, what I want to admit, and perhaps what I want to see.”

http://oneonethousand.org/photography/ellenberg/

Gene Ellenberg is currently a creative consultant for the Center for Visual Arts at Clemson University in South Carolina where he also received his BFA in 2012. He served as the Chair of the Annual Student Invitational at the Click646 Photographic Collective between 2009-2012. Ellenberg has been published in Untitled Cereal and exhibited at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA, the Pickens County Museum, Pickens SC and Lee Gallery, Clemson, SC.

More of my work can be found here: www.geneellenberg.com
One, One Thousand website: www.oneonethousand.org