Salon III: January 15- February 4, 2009

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For installation images, click here.

For printmaking demonstration schedule, click here.

Untitled, 2008

Monotype, chine colle

17 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.

$700

if ART Gallery

presents

SALON III: The Print Exhibition

January 15 – February 4, 2009

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. 29205

Reception: Thursday, Jan. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

& by appointment

Printmaking Demonstrations:

Sunday, Jan. 18, 3 – 5 p.m., Marcelo Novo, Print Gocco

Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 – 5 p.m., Phil Garrett, Monotype

Saturday, Jan. 31, 3 – 5 p.m., H. Brown Thornton, Photo Transfer

Sunday, Feb. 1, 3 – 5 p.m., Steven Chapp, Linocut & Photopolymer Prints

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 255-0068/ (803) 238-2351 – if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com

For its January 2009 exhibition, if ART Gallery presents Salon III, an exhibition of prints by gallery artists at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln St., Columbia, S.C. The opening reception will be Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5 – 10 p.m. The exhibition will be installed salon-style at the gallery’s first floor and continues if ART’s salon-style exhibitions; in December 2008, Salon I & II took place simultaneously at the gallery and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia.

Among the printmaking techniques represented in the exhibition are etchings, dry points, lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts, photopolymer prints, embossings, monotypes, silkscreens and photo transfers.

During the exhibition, gallery artists Steven Chapp of Easley, S.C., Phil Garrett of Greenville, S.C., Brown Thornton of Aiken, S.C., and Marcelo Novo of Columbia will give demonstrations of various printmaking techniques. For times and demonstrated techniques, see above.

Artists in the exhibition include Karel Appel, Jeri Burdick, Carl Blair, Lynn Chadwick, Steven Chapp, Corneille, Jeff Donovan, Jacques Doucet, Phil Garrett, Herbert Gentry, Tonya Gregg, John Hultberg, Richard Hunt, Sjaak Korsten, Lucebert, Reiner Mährlein, Sam Middleton, Eric Miller, Joan Mitchell, Dorothy Netherland, Marcelo Novo, Hannes Postma, Edward Rice, Anton Rooskens, Kees Salentijn, Laura Spong, Brown Thornton, Bram van Velde, Katie Walker, David Yaghjian and Paul Yanko.

if ARTwalk: Salon I & II: December 11- 24, 2008

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THE SALON I & II

Dec. 11 – 24, 2008

an exhibition at two Columbia, SC, locations:

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady Street

&

if ART Gallery

1223 Lincoln Street

Reception and ifART Walk: Thursday, Dec. 11, 5 – 10 p.m.

at and between both locations

Opening Hours:

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.

& by appointment

Open Christmas Eve until 7 p.m.

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 255-0068/ (803) 238-2351 – if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com

For its December 2008 exhibition, if ART Gallery presents The Salon I & II, an exhibition at two Columbia, SC, locations: if ART Gallery and Gallery 80808/Vista Studios. On Thursday, December 11, 2008, 5 – 10 p.m., if ART will hold opening receptions at both locations. The ifART Walk will be on Lady and Lincoln Streets, between both locations, which are around the corner from each other.

The exhibitions will present art by if ART Gallery artists, installed salon-style at both Gallery 80808 and if ART. Artists in the exhibitions include two new additions to if ART Gallery, Columbia ceramic artist Renee Rouillier and the prominent African-American collage and mixed-media artist Sam Middleton, an 81-year-old expatriate who has lived in the Netherlands since the early 1960s.

Other artists in the exhibition include Karel Appel, Aaron Baldwin, Jeri Burdick, Carl Blair, Lynn Chadwick, Steven Chapp, Stephen Chesley, Corneille, Jeff Donovan, Jacques Doucet, Phil Garrett, Herbert Gentry, Tonya Gregg, Jerry Harris, Bill Jackson, Sjaak Korsten, Peter Lenzo, Sam Middleton, Eric Miller, Dorothy Netherland, Marcelo Novo, Matt Overend, Anna Redwine, Paul Reed, Edward Rice, Silvia Rudolf, Kees Salentijn, Laura Spong, Tom Stanley, Christine Tedesco, Brown Thornton, Leo Twiggs, Bram van Velde, Katie Walker, Mike Williams, David Yaghjian, Paul Yanko and Don Zurlo.

Essay: Paul Yanko

HubAngleRay, 2006

Acrylic on canvas

20 x 20 in.

$ 1,100

PAUL YANKO

By Wim Roefs

Paul Yanko is an earnest and deliberate man, and it shows in his art. Whether his ink-on-paper pieces consisting mostly of line work, or his built-up, constructed canvas paintings of jagged, geometric bits and chunks, the works are intricate, tactile compositions of lines, shapes and colors. “The densely layered compositions reflect my desire to reconcile formal painterly concerns with an interest in process-derived imagery,” Yanko says. 

Yanko builds his canvas paintings like a puzzle. With his oil paintings, he uses cut-up canvasses or thick paint and a palette knife, creating carved-like surfaces. In his acrylic paintings, Yanko builds up the surface by taping off areas and then applying the next layer of paint one small area at a time. Heavily layered shapes protrude from the canvas, while physically, though not always in terms of color, the more modestly worked sections hang back a little. The results are dense, thick patterns with relief qualities. 

“I remain influenced by emblems of geometric abstraction,” Yanko says, “such as the stripe and triangle. As a configuration develops, I register successively smaller shapes over underlying rectilinear and geometric shapes. I set less active passages against heavily layered regions possessing a more tactile surface quality.”

“I extensively use primary and secondary hues arranged in complimentary color schemes to achieve maximum contrast. As a painting approaches completion, I use a tonal palette more to partially obscure large regions containing more intense hues.” The complex compositions show underlying shapes, revealing part of the process, of the search for the final form. “The overlapping shapes allow for a backward reading of the space,” Yanko says.

His extensive use of tape goes back to his days as a sign painter. Yanko likes the workman-like element of using tape, which is used by house and sign painters and in body shops. The intricacy of his work suits his temperament. “I like the longer-term engagement. There’s something reassuring in the sense of connection I get when parts of the painting are registering properly, when shapes interlock and fit into each other.”

Though the line compositions on paper are physically flatter than the paintings, they are as complex and involve much of the same process. “You layer marks, react and respond to decisions, edit, look where you need to embellish.” Yanko moved from the works on paper to the geometric canvases to explore more tactile surfaces.

“As a student, I was exposed to tactile painting, works that were in between painting and sculpture. I was always self-conscious as a student of being too concerned with illusion and not with the physical presence. So I made a pronounced decision to model paint.”

Biography: Paul Yanko

ReallyRed, 2006

Mixed media on panel

24 x 24 in.

$ 1,400

Paul Yanko (b. 1968)

Youngstown, Ohio, native Paul Yanko teaches at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville. He holds an MFA in painting from Kent State University and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He has exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and the McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, Ohio. In 2008, Yanko had a solo exhibition at the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, S.C.

Resume: Paul Yanko

GreenGrowFan, 2007

Acrylic on paper

37 1/2 x 39 in.

$ 1,850

PAUL YANKO
Born 1968 in Youngstown, Ohio
Lives and works in Greenville, SC

EDUCATION

1995 M.F.A. Kent State University, Kent, OH
1991 B.F.A. Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007 Paul Yanko/ Enid Williams, Thrift Gallery, Anderson University, Anderson, SC

2005 Paintings From a Marriage, raw & co., Cleveland, OH

2004 superior (an exhibition space), Cleveland, OH

2003 Gallery 138, Kent, OH

Paul Yanko/ Megan Geckler, superior (an exhibition space), Cleveland, OH

2001 New Building/New View, A.A.P. Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Microstructures, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH

2000 Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH

1998 Kent State University - Stark Campus, Canton, OH

1995 Searching the Grid Millworks Inc., Akron, OH

Breaker, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Kent State University
Kent, OH

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 7'x 7', Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC

Artbomb -13 From Greenville, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC

Group '07, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC

2006 Construction Crew II, if Art, Columbia, SC

Small Monuments, Willard Wankelman Gallery, Fine Arts Center
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

2004 Small Monuments, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

domestic setting - the sequel, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL

2003 Sequel, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA

2002 Cabot Studio Building Gallery, Montserrat College, Beverly, MA

Dancing the Orange, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH

One, superior (an exhibition space), Cleveland, OH

2001 Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA

Tubac Center For The Arts, Tubac, AZ

Photographs by Artists Made for a Variety of Purposes,

Artists Image Resource Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2000 8-Hour Drawings/ Part III, Allegheny College, Meadeville, PA

Reading Visual Text, Brew House Space, Pittsburgh, PA

1999 Cuyahoga Community College - Gallery West, Cleveland, OH

Converge - Collaborative Prints from Kent State University,
Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

1997 Despite the Odds, Spaces, Cleveland, OH

Summer Painting Invitational, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH

1996 Toledo Museum of Art Juried Annual, Toledo, OH

T.A.G. Juried Annual, Trumbull Art Gallery, Warren, OH

1995 Rooms, Millworks Inc., Akron, OH

Home Is Where The Art Is, Millworks Inc., Akron, OH

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006 Greenville News City People, Interview

2005 Marriage of Minds, The Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Review, Amy Bracken Sparks, 8/12

Enid Williams and Paul Yanko: Paintings From A Marriage,
Angle Magazine, Review, Ellen Rudolph, VO. 2 NO. 22
Sep./Oct.

2002 Radio interview with Enid Williams, 90.3 WCPN - Cleveland
Host, Dee Perry, 4/26

2001 Photos Give Insight Into Artistic Process, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Review, Ellen Wilson, 10/1 pp. D-1, D-4

Fluently Speaking Ideas on Canvas, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Review, Dan Tranberg, 5/22

Life Lines, In Pittsburgh Weekly, Review, Sharmila Venkatasubban, 2/14

Two Galleries Offer Vibrant Exhibits, Pittsburgh Post Gazette,

Review, Eve Modzelewski, 1/25

2000 Structured Works in Oil, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Review,
Dan Tranberg, 4/19

1997 Strong Showing of Abstract Art, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Review, Steven Litt, 7/27

Reveling in Paint, The Cleveland Free Times, Review, Dan Tranberg, 7/9

Shooting Stars, The Cleveland Free Times, Review, Laura Putre, 9/9

Reaching In, Crying Out, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Review, Steven Litt, 9/6

1995 Kent Record Courier, Review, 7/5

CATALOGS

2006 Construction Crew II
Catalog essay by Wim Roefs, Construction Crew II exhibition,
iF Art, Columbia, SC

2002 Dancing the Orange
Catalog essay by Douglas Max Utter, Dancing the Orange
exhibition, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
CATALOGS-continued Page Four

1997 Wear Your Helmet: Making Art in the 90's
Catalog essay by Michael Loderstedt, Despite the Odds exhibition, Spaces

AWARDS

2002 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

LECTURES

2006 "Artists Talk", Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

2004 Faculty Lecture Series, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH2001 A.A.P. Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2000 Allegheny College, Meadeville, PA

COLLECTIONS

The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2004 - Present Instructor
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and
Humanities, Greenville, SC

2002 - 2004 Adjunct Instructor
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

1996 - 2004 Term Assistant Professor
Kent State University, Kent, OH

1999 - 2002 Visiting Assistant Professor
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Artist's Statement: Paul Yanko

AnglePlaneSlope, 2006-2008

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 in.

$ 1,400

The densely layered compositions characteristic of my painting are reflective of a desire to reconcile formal painterly concerns with an interest in creating process-derived imagery. I remain equally influenced by emblems of Modernist geometric abstraction in addition to the characteristically intense, saturated hues found in commercial sign painting and toy construction sets.

I develop my paintings systematically through an additive process of layering acrylic paint mixed with acrylic mediums onto masked areas. I initially establish sets of vertical and horizontal bands, applied to either a square or rectangular format, with function as an armature on which subsequent color shapes are layered. As I paint, I allow shapes to shift in registration in order to reveal varying amounts of underlying color.

-Paul Yanko

The Inventory: February 15-26, 2008

Fanned,Veined, Expanded, 2005

Acrylic ink on museum board

10 1/2 x 9 3/4 in

$400

if ART

presents at

Gallery 80808/Vista Studios

808 Lady St., Columbia, S.C.

THE INVENTORY:

A Group Show of if ART artists

Feb. 15 – 26, 2008

Artists’ Reception: Friday, Feb. 15, 5 – 10 p.m.

Opening Hours:

Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sundays, 1 – 5 p.m.

Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. and by appointment

For more information, contact Wim Roefs at if ART:

(803) 238-2351 – wroefs@sc.rr.com

For its February exhibition, if ART presents The Inventory, a group exhibition of artists from if ART Gallery. The show will consist of many new works by if ART artists as well as older pieces from the gallery’s inventory.

Included in the show will be work by Columbia artists Jeff Donovan, Mary Gilkerson, Marcelo Novo, Anna Redwine and David Yaghjian. Other South Carolina artists include Carl Blair, Jeri Burdick, Phil Garrett, Bill Jackson, Peter Lenzo, Dorothy Netherland, Matt Overend, Edward Rice, Tom Stanley, Christine Tedesco, H. Brown Thornton, Leo Twiggs, Katie Walker and Paul Yanko. Furthermore, the show will present work by former South Carolina residents Tonya Gregg, Eric Miller and Andy Moon. Also included are California collage artist Jerry Harris, Dutch painter Kees Salentijn and German artists Roland Albert, Klaus Hartmann and Silvia Rudolf.