8″ x 8″ collage on panel $1000
available to view in Charlotte
8″ x 8″ collage on panel $1000
available to view in Charlotte
8″ x 8″ collage on panel $1000
available to view in Charlotte
8″ x 8″ collage on panel $1000
available to view in Charlotte
8″ x 8″ collage on panel $1000
available to view in Charlotte
12″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas SOLD
available to view in CHARLESTON
TOM STANLEY BIOGRAPHY
Tom Stanley is a visual artist. After earning an MA in Applied Art History and an MFA in Painting from the University of South Carolina in 1980, he served on the faculties of Arkansas College (now Lyon College) in Batesville, Arkansas and Barry University in Miami, Florida. He was director of the Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, North Carolina, from 1985 until 1990 when he became the first full-time director of Winthrop University Galleries in Rock Hill, South Carolina. For 10 years he served as chair of Winthrop’s Department of Fine Arts until his retirement in 2017.
Stanley works in series with limitations of size, color and imagery. He uses recurring shapes such as triangles and figurative elements of houses and boats. Typical media are acrylic on canvas or on paper. Although using common graphic strategies like mechanical drawing, silhouette, and sgraffito, his painting is reliant on evolving techniques that he has discovered in the process of making.
His 2004 Floating series was exhibited at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. He has exhibited internationally at gallery twenty-four, Berlin; La Galerie du Marché, Lausanne; Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris; and the University of Porto’s Casa-Museu Abel Salazar, Portugal. His exhibition Tom Stanley: Scratching the Surface was featured at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in 2017, Charleston, South Carolina.
Since 2007 he has worked on public art projects including elements for the CATS light rail Tom Hunter Station in Charlotte. Several of the projects including Time Further Out in Mathews and Journey in Raleigh were in collaboration with colleague Shaun Cassidy. Stanley is a recipient of Winthrop University’s Medal of Honor in the Arts, and the Governor’s Award in the Arts (formerly the Verner). In spring 2018 he completed a six-week residency as visiting artist at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, and worked with Casa-Museu Abel Salazar, University of Porto in Portugal, on a temporary site project for their chapel, Layers: On-Site Installation. In April 2019 he completed an 8-month residency at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation where he also served as visiting curator. In February 2020 Stanley was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst.
Current activities include an ASC public art commission for a City of Charlotte Infrastructure Improvement Project along Tom Hunter Road in the Hidden Valley neighborhood, and co-curated with Lia Newman the exhibition True Likeness at Davidson College’s Van Every Smith Galleries which is now traveling in the U.S. In 2021 he exhibited his own work Typical Trees and Other Small Works at The George Gallery.
His most recent exhibition was held at Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, August 2023.
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14.5″ x 17.5″ framed oil pastel on paper $5300 c. July 1990
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WILLIAM HALSEY BIOGRAPHY
William Halsey (1915-1999) broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a boy growing up during the heyday of the Charleston’s early twentieth century artistic renaissance, Halsey’s first art lessons were with one of that movement’s leaders, Elizabeth O’Neill Verner. Following two years at the University of South Carolina, Halsey pursued further artistic training at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. There, he studied traditional line drawing with Alexander Iacovleff and color theory with Karl Zerbe. In 1939, Halsey was awarded the institution’s highest honor, the James William Paige Fellowship, for study abroad. Originally scheduled to travel to Europe with his new wife, fellow artist Corrie McCallum, the onset of World War II necessitated a change of plans. The couple set sail for Mexico instead, an experience that ignited a lifelong passion for travel. In Mexico City, Halsey absorbed the culture, color, and texture of the country. Halsey returned to the American South in 1941 and settled permanently in Charleston in 1945, convinced he “could be vastly more useful in [his] native state than any place else.” He touched countless students as a teacher at the Gibbes Art Gallery, the Charleston School of Art, and as the founder of the Studio Art Department at the College of Charleston. During his more than forty years as an educator and mentor, he was also represented by a gallery in New York City and exhibited his increasingly Abstract Expressionist paintings, collages, and sculpture throughout the country. Although Halsey departed from “the prevailing influence of the Old Charleston picturesque,” he credited his hometown as a source of inspiration: the decaying stucco buildings literally showed up in his work. He painted “furiously” on canvases built up with gesso, sand, marble dust, found objects, and fabric. Though he prized color above all else, he also appreciated the physical act of painting and often laid a picture flat on the ground in order to free his movements. During his lifetime, Halsey’s works were included in exhibitions at such noted institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and National Academy of Design. He is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the High Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibbes Museum of Art, and Greenville County Museum of Art.
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36″ x 36″ oil on canvas $2500
available to view in CHARLESTON
ALAN TAYLOR JEFFRIES BIOGRAPHY
An Ohio native and graduate of Ohio University, Alan Taylor Jeffries currently resides in West Virginia. He is a self-taught abstract/nonrepresentational painter working in both oil and acrylic, and was invited to be one of The George Gallery’s original artists. He is also represented by three additional galleries and his work can be found in private and corporate collections in the US and Europe.
Jeffries says of his work, “Long before I began painting, abstract has always been my favorite style, particularly the work of first-generation Abstract Expressionists like De Kooning and Kline, so it was natural for me to study and emulate their work. A leading critic/art theorist of that time discarded notions that a painting must ‘mean’ something or ‘be’ anything other than gestures and colors on a surface and that has always been a guiding principle for me. My paintings are simply the application of paint on canvas intended to evoke a purely aesthetic response.”
Sept. 2009—”Emerging Artists” group exhibition, Artworks Around Town, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA Jan. 12-Feb. 25 2012—”Collective Conscious: Unified Planes” group exhibition, Gate Gallery, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England May 1-July 2 2013–“Dali Through the Window” group exhibition, Gallery J2, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA June 13-June 30 2014 “CONTRAST” group exhibition, The George Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, USA December 10 2015, group exhibition, Contemporain Bankston/Adams Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
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48″ x 48″ oil on canvas $2500
available to view in CHARLOTTE
ALAN TAYLOR JEFFRIES BIOGRAPHY
An Ohio native and graduate of Ohio University, Alan Taylor Jeffries currently resides in West Virginia. He is a self-taught abstract/nonrepresentational painter working in both oil and acrylic, and was invited to be one of The George Gallery’s original artists. He is also represented by three additional galleries and his work can be found in private and corporate collections in the US and Europe.
Jeffries says of his work, “Long before I began painting, abstract has always been my favorite style, particularly the work of first-generation Abstract Expressionists like De Kooning and Kline, so it was natural for me to study and emulate their work. A leading critic/art theorist of that time discarded notions that a painting must ‘mean’ something or ‘be’ anything other than gestures and colors on a surface and that has always been a guiding principle for me. My paintings are simply the application of paint on canvas intended to evoke a purely aesthetic response.”
Sept. 2009—”Emerging Artists” group exhibition, Artworks Around Town, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA Jan. 12-Feb. 25 2012—”Collective Conscious: Unified Planes” group exhibition, Gate Gallery, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England May 1-July 2 2013–“Dali Through the Window” group exhibition, Gallery J2, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA June 13-June 30 2014 “CONTRAST” group exhibition, The George Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, USA December 10 2015, group exhibition, Contemporain Bankston/Adams Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
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