[Scmusenet] "Dabney Mahanes: A Journey with the Figure" Painting exhibition to open September 19 at the Pickens County Museum

[Allen Coleman]

DABNEY MAHANES: A Journey with the Figure

Painting exhibition opens September 19 at the Pickens County Museum

 

 

 

    The Pickens County Cultural Commission is pleased to announce the
opening of a very special painting exhibition at the Pickens County
Museum of Art & History. Please join us from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. on
September 19, 2009 as we host a reception to open "Dabney Mahanes: A
Journey with the Figure".  

 

   Now living in Greenville, SC, Dabney Mahanes was born in Virginia.
She received her B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1959
and then worked in the field of advertising as an illustrator for
McGraw-Hill. She has three children, two grandchildren and five cats,
all whom she loves dearly.

 

   It was later in life that Dabney decided to pursue her passion as a
serious painter. She has studied art under Jeanne Dobie, Alex Powers,
Henri Casselli, Cecile Martin, Meinrad Craighead and has enjoyed
tremendous guidance from Julia Peters, Henry Fagan, Glen Miller and
Michael Brodeur. Dabney works daily out of her Pendleton Street Art
District studio in West Greenville.

 

    When referring to her work, Dabney says, "As far back as I can
remember I have loved drawing figures. That attraction has stayed with
me. Now I am committed to creating art through painting."

 

   She continues, "The human figure allows me to explore the full range
of my creative process. I can find rhythmic line in the movement of body
gesture, shapes in human contours, composition with figures in
relationship to one another and their environment, and content in the
human story. I suppose that much of my work would define me as a
portrait artist. I find inspiration in a pose, an expression, an
attitude, a situation and I am moved to capture that 'up close' and
personal moment through my own emotional expression. I love working the
paint, using vivid color, and as Jeanne Dobie would say, "making color
sing"." 

 

    This exceptional collection of paintings representing a decade of
Mahanes' figurative exploration will remain on display in the museum's
new wing Focus Gallery through November 19, 2009.

 

   The Pickens County Museum of Art & History is funded in part by
Pickens County, members and friends of the museum and a grant from the
South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National
Endowment for the Arts.

 

    Located at the corner of Hwy. 178 at 307 Johnson Street in Pickens
SC, the museum is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m.
until 5:00 p.m., Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays
from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free but donations are
welcomed.

 

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