Michaela Pilar Brown....February 15th - April 13th

The only good thing about taking down a great show is when you immediately get to begin putting up another great show.

FAB Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Michaela Pilar Brown. The show will open on February 15th and run through April 13th. On Thursday February 16th Brown will be on site for a conversation about her work with noted historian Frank Martin. This event will start at 4pm in the Fine Arts Center, in the Department of Visual and Performing arts at South Carolina State University. There will be a reception to follow. This event free and open to the public so please join us.

Brown’s photographs focus on cultural hierarchies relating to beauty, and how race and history play into these caste systems. Using a combination of performance and staged photography, Brown explores issues of identity and notions of otherness as defined by American standards of beauty. Through her work, Brown challenges accepted ideas such as the politics of the body with respect to race and gender.

Michaela Pilar Brown was born in Bangor, Maine and raised in Denver, Colorado, she cut her teeth in the halls of a museum where her mother worked as a security guard, and has been immersed in the culture of objects, their making, and interpretation ever since. She studied sculpture and art history at Howard University. In 2001 Brown moved to South Carolina and took on the role of full time caretaker of her ailing father. She then took a job as a curator of the Fairfield County Museum of Art in Winnsboro, SC., though at her core she was and still is an image and object maker. In 2010 she returned to full time studio practice.

In 2011 Brown was named Emerging Artist of the Year by Undefined Magazine. Last fall she was a Harvey B. Gannt Artist in Residence at the McColl Center in Charlotte, NC. She is also featured in the current issue of the Jasper magazine. In March, Brown will be an Artist in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center in Burlington, VT.

To learn more about Michaela Pilar Brown, please visit www.michaelapilarbrown.com

Frank McCauley Show Closes with Gallery Talk and Demo

The very prolific and talented Frank McCauley joined us this past Tuesday for a discussion of his work and a demonstration of his mixed media painting and printmaking techniques. Those that missed his show and appearance, well I am sorry you missed a good one, but you can check out the great diversity of his work on line at www.frankmccauley.com. Frank has also recently curated an excellent international show of video and new media work called Faster Forward at 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, SC. Faster Forward will be up through March 4. For more information go to www.701cca.org.

Frank McCauley
Capellas 1, 2, and 3
Mixed Media on Paper
38" x 50"

FAB is Back.

We're back! After a short hiatus FAB Gallery is back on-line with a new curator, a new paint job, and some great shows. Check out the current exhibit by Frank McCauley that will be up through February 3rd. More images and information on upcoming events and shows will be posted soon. Thank you for stopping by.


Frank McCauley
Capella 3
Mixed Media on Paper
38" x 50"

The Grid Comes Full Circle

Orangeburg, SC -The Grid Comes Full Circle is a collection of works by students of Dr. Terry K. Hunter that span over thirty years of creative activity. Exhibited at two sites on the campus of South Carolina State University, this presentation accompanies Hunter’s mid career retrospective The Grid Turns The Corner, which is currently on display in the galleries of the I. P. Stanback Museum at S.C. State. The earliest works included in The Grid Comes Full Circle date back to 1978 and features examples from Hunter’s students at Felton Laboratory School as well as works by Hunter’s students from both S.C. State and Claflin Universities. Also included are works from students Dr. Hunter taught at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts. The most recent works will be displayed at the Fine Arts Building FAB Gallery on campus. This version of the exhibition includes mixed media works by participants in the summer studio institutes conducted by Dr. Hunter during the past three years.

The presentation of these exhibitions is the culmination of a two-year, three-state, seven-city tour and provides a clear view of Hunter’s growth as an artist and teacher. An opening reception for the exhibitions is scheduled Friday, February 18, at 5:30 in the Barbara Vaughn Auditorium at the Fine Arts Building on the S.C. State campus. This event will feature a visual narrative of Dr. Hunter’s career as well as a book signing which will follow immediately at the I.P. Stanback Museum. The exhibitions will be on display beginning January 31st and continue through March 31^st.

These events are free and open to the public.

Lauren Frances Adams/ Sumptuary Series

FAB Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition by artist Lauren Frances Adams. The exhibition will be on view November 1^st – November 30^th. Please join us for this exciting event!

The Sumptuary Series on display in FAB Gallery explores the relationships between costume and power through a dynamic display of images installed throughout the gallery. Lauren’s work “pictures” the social and political structures we live with, revealing unexpected associations and schemes that are a legacy of our colonial past. “One of the haunting reminders of this colonial period,” Lauren states, “is the loss of first nation peoples and their culture, due to the reality of colonial hegemony and expansion of European settlers in the following centuries.
Lauren Frances Adams was born in Snow Hill, North Carolina. She graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. Adams has exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; an ex-Turkish bathhouse in Belgrade, Serbia; and CUE Art Foundation in Chelsea, New York. She was in residence at the Cite in Paris, France, this summer, and has participated in other artist residencies such as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Upcoming shows include SWEET JESUS at Lemp Brewery in St. Louis, Missouri, and *gogo projects at Conner Contemporary in Washington, DC.

Adams is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, and teaches painting at Washington University in St. Louis. She also directs a storefront project space, Cosign Projects, in St. Louis, Missouri.

To learn more about Lauren Frances Adams, please visit http://www.lfadams.com.

Karen Ann Myers/ Posing Beauty

FAB Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition by artist Karen Ann Myers. The exhibition will be on view September 22nd – October 22nd. Please join us for this exciting event!

Posing Beauty is an exhibition of large-scale oil paintings exploring the experiences of women in a media saturated world. Lush colors and textures surround figures ripped from contemporary culture and personal experience. Karen says she is, “inspired by the cult of beauty in contemporary mass media, and exploring how this world affects my central female figures. By highlighting the dualities of confident but confused women and flat but somewhat three-dimensional compositions, I strive to present a personal yet universal depiction of the world of women.”
Karen Ann Myers is an artist, educator and curator. She received her MFA in Painting from Boston University and her BFA in Painting, Graphic Design and Art Education from Michigan State University. She is currently serving as the Executive Director at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC. She was instrumental in coordinating the Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition, which has continued to be an annual exhibition at the 808 Gallery in Boston, MA.
Myers has exhibited extensively throughout the country. Her paintings and prints exist nationally in private collections and have most recently been exhibited at LUIS DE JESUS gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Robert Steele Gallery in NY, NY, at the Commonwealth Gallery in Boston, MA, and the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC . Upcoming solo exhibitions include SCOOP Studios in Charleston, SC. Karen is currently represented by SCOOP Studios in Charleston, SC.
To learn more about Karen Ann Myers, please visit www.karenannmyers.com.