Sunday, November 12, 2006

if ART Gallery Opening: November 2006

Randolph St. #4, 2004
Oil on canvas
11 x 13 1/2 in
$1,200

OPEN NOW: 


if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln St.
Columbia, S.C.

Gallery Hours:
Most days, except Sunday, from 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
& by appointment (call 803-238-2351)


For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART
(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com


On Nov. 10, 2006, if ART, International Fine Art Services, opened if ART Gallery. The gallery is at 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C., in the Vista district, across from the Blue Marlin restaurant. For more information, contact if ART’s Wim Roefs at (803) 238-2351 or wroefs@sc.rr.com.

If ART Gallery carries the work of South Carolina artists Leo Twiggs, Mike Williams, Carl Blair, Tom Stanley, Virginia Scotchie, Tonya Gregg, Peter Lenzo, Jeff Donovan, David Yaghjian, Anna Redwine, John Monteith, Christine Tedesco, Brown Thornton, Paul Yanko, Laura Spong, Steven Chapp, Katie Walker, Edward Rice, Aaron Baldwin, Bill Jackson, Herb Parker, Dorothy Netherland, Eric Miller, Mary Gilkerson, Matt Overend, Kim Keats and Phil Garrett. The gallery also carries work by Dutch artist Kees Salentijn, German artists Reiner Mahrlein, Roland Albert and Klaus Hartmann, and Washington Color Field painter Paul Reed.

The gallery also carries a wide selection of unframed and lithographs, silkscreens, etchings and other limited edition prints by such nationally and even internationally prominent artists such as Karel Appel, Richard Hunt, Bram van Velde, John Hultberg, Sam Middleton, Benny Andrews, Hannes Postma, Corneille, Lucebert and Alvin Hollingsworth.

Since March 2005, if ART, International Fine Art Services, has organized commercial gallery exhibitions in Columbia, mostly at Vista Studios/Gallery 80808. In addition to presenting gallery artists and special exhibitions at if ART Gallery, if ART will continue to organize exhibitions at Vista Studios/Gallery 80808. The company also provides curatorial and exhibition design services. 

Most recently, in September, if ART was hired by the Technical College of the Lowcountry to install dozens of art works at the college’s new building in Bluffton, S.C. Earlier this year, if ART installed two exhibitions of work from the South Carolina state art collection at the Sumter (S.C.) Gallery of Art. The if ART production “South Carolina Birds: A Fine Art Exhibition,” curated by company owner Wim Roefs, is at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History until Nov. 11, 2006. The exhibition opened in 2004 at the Sumter Gallery of Art and traveled to the Burroughs & Chapin Museum in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, S.C. Roefs wrote the essay for the exhibition catalogue, which he also edited.

In 2005, Roefs curated exhibitions of work by Leo Twiggs and Carl Blair for the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County in Camden, S.C. He also curated an exhibition of paintings by Marcelo Novo for HoFP Gallery in Columbia, S.C., and wrote the essay for the exhibition catalogue. Earlier this year, Roefs curated an exhibition with work by Dutch artist Kees Salentijn for the Center of the Arts in Rock Hill, S.C. In May, he curated an indoors/outdoors sculpture exhibition for the city of Dillon, S.C. 

Roefs contributed an essay to the catalogue for the exhibition “A Collection for Margaret: The Personal and Private Art of Carl Blair.” The exhibition is on view at Hampton III Gallery in Greenville until Nov. 11. Roefs teaches a course in African-American art at the University of South Carolina.

Since March 2005, if ART has published eight small exhibition catalogues. The catalogues featured short essays by Roefs about Aaron Baldwin, Mike Williams, Anna Redwine, Tom Stanley, Carl Blair, Janet Orselli, Matt Overend, Laura Spong, Leo Twiggs, Jeff Donovan, John Monteith, Dorothy Netherland, Herb Parker and Phil Garrett and Mary Gilkerson and the process of making monotypes.

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Works of Art: David Yaghjian

All works of art by David Yaghjian are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.
Persephone, 2009
Oil on panel, 14 x 16 in., $ 1,280
Woman/Man/Hoop/Dog, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)
Nude, 2009
Acrylic, chalk, crayon, 9 x 7 in., $ 400
Picnic, 2009
Oil on panel, 10 x 10 in., $ 800
Woman/Trees/Man, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in., $ 760
(unframed $ 680)
Motel Pool, 2007
Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 18 in, $ 1,600
House With Awning, n.d.
Acrylic on canvas, 10 x 14 in., $ 880
High Note, 2007
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 in., $ 3,200
Rudolph St. # 4, 2004
Oil on canvas, 11 x 13 1/2 in., $ 960
Into The River, 2009, oil on panel, 8 x 10 in.
$ 640









Visit, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)






















Woman On Shoulders/Snake, 2007
Monotype
22 x 18 in.
$ 760
(unframed $ 680)


Between Two Chairs, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760
(unframed $ 680)








Trout, 2007, monotype, 8 x 10 in., $ 280


Partners, 2007, monotype, 10 x 8 in., $ 280



Newspaper, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)






























Jump For Joy, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)

Hoopsnake, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)





Food, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)


Flying Woman, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)











































Fiddler, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)
Doorway, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)
Back To Back, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in., $ 760
(unframed $ 680)
Man/Car, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in.
$ 760, (unframed $ 680)


Wood Nymph, 2009
Oil on panel, 11 x 14 in., $ 960

Untitled, 2009
Acrylic, crayon, chalk on paper
21 x 29 in., $ 960

One Hand, 2007
Monotype, 22 x 18 in., $ 760
(unframed $ 680)

The Grove, 2009
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 in., $ 640

Sleep, 2009
Oil on canvas, 42 x 60 in., $ 6,500

Ruben's Croc, 2009
Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in., $ 2,500

Rising, 2009
Oil on panel, 11 x 14 in., $ 960

Ochre Sky II, 2009
Oil on canvas, 9 x 12 in., $ 720

Man, Two Trees, 2009
Oil on panel, 8 x 10 in., $ 640

Man With Blue Pants, 2007
Monotype, 18 x 22 in., $ 760

Laocoon (Man and Snake), 2009
Acyrlic, crayon, chalk on paper
21 x 29 in., $ 960

Job, 2008, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in., $ 4,000

Hill Series, 2009
Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 in., $ 1,600

Green Hill, 2009, oil on panel
8 x 10 in., $ 640

East of Eden III, 2009
Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in., $ 6,000

Dog Through Hoop, 2007
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 in., $ 1,760

Dancing Man, 2007
Oil on canvas, 14 x 16 in., $ 1,280

Considering, 2009
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in., $ 3,200

Bed, 2006, oil on panel, 16 x 14 in., $ 1,280

Back of the Hill, 2009
Oil on canvas, 20 x 20 in., $ 1,760

Back Flip, 2006
Oil on canvas, 14 x 16 in., $ 1,280
After The Fire, 2009
Oil on panel, 12 x 16 in., $ 1,100

Late Winter, 2009
Oil on canvas, 11 x 14 in., $ 960

Step Ladder, 2009
Oil on panel, 9 x 12 in., $ 640
Baptism, 2006-2008
Oil on linen, 34 x 35 in, $ 4,000