Greenville County Museum of Art
Greenville, SC
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Andrew Lenaghan: New Paintings
/ Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years
A painter and a photographer whose work embraces the gritty reality
of their generations will be showcased this spring in separate exhibitions
at the Greenville County Museum of Art.
"Andrew
Lenaghan: New Paintings" is on view through April 30th, 2000. An important
figure in contemporary realism, Lenaghan is a 35-year old native of New
Jersey who graduated from Cornell University and Brooklyn College. The exhibition
is a collection of urban landscapes that focus on what one writer has called
"the tattered edges of urban renewal." Asbury Park, New Jersey
(1999) depicts a dilapidated amusement park, overgrown with weeds and vines,
its painted buildings peeling with decay. Rainbow Room, Asbury Park,
New Jersey (1999) presents what was a high-style 1940s resort, now crumbling
in disuse and inattention. (left: Andrew Lenaghan, Asbury Park,
New Jersey, 1999, oil on panel, 24 x 32 inches, Courtesy of George Adams
Gallery)
Lenaghan's minutely detailed works are all created on site,
with specific attention to the natural elements that have reclaimed man's
cast-off architecture.
Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) focused his
camera on an urban America, his purpose both artistic and documentary. "Lewis
Wickes Hine: The Final Years" is a collection of photographs taken
in the 1930s for the National Research Project of the Farm Security Administration--a
study intended to determine the impact of industrialization on employment
opportunity. In fact, the study concluded that technological advances would
result in unemployment for thousands. Machines take center stage in many
of these photographs, a focus mandated by the study's director, but factory-working
men and women and the conditions they endured are captured in vivid and
touching detail.
The exhibition, organized from the permanent collection
of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, includes a number of photographs focusing
on the textile industry, taken by Hine late in his career at mills in North
Carolina, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. The textile series concentrates
on both working people and machinery, and it conveys striking examples of
ways in which technology improved productivity while vastly shrinking the
number of textile jobs available for American workers.
"Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years" will be
on view from April 5th - June 4th, 2000
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"Andrew
Lenaghan: New Paintings" is on view through April 30th, 2000. An important
figure in contemporary realism, Lenaghan is a 35-year old native of New
Jersey who graduated from Cornell University and Brooklyn College. The exhibition
is a collection of urban landscapes that focus on what one writer has called
"the tattered edges of urban renewal." Asbury Park, New Jersey
(1999) depicts a dilapidated amusement park, overgrown with weeds and vines,
its painted buildings peeling with decay. Rainbow Room, Asbury Park,
New Jersey (1999) presents what was a high-style 1940s resort, now crumbling
in disuse and inattention. (left: Andrew Lenaghan, Asbury Park,
New Jersey, 1999, oil on panel, 24 x 32 inches, Courtesy of George Adams
Gallery)