“Johnson Hagood: Preview” Opens at Carolina Galleries, October 1

Please join Carolina Galleries for the first French Quarter Gallery Association Art Walk of the year on October 1, 2010.  Johnson Hagood, artist and owner of Carolina Galleries will unveil his show Preview, a sneak peek at work that is being created for his 2011 show at the Greenville County Museum of Art (GCMA) in Greenville, SC. The opening of Preview will be on Friday, October 1, 2010 from 5 – 8 pm at Carolina Galleries, located at 106 A Church Street in downtown Charleston.  The artist will be present for this reception, which is free and all are invited.

Hagood, a resident of Charleston since childhood, studied Studio Art at the College of Charleston under renowned artists like Michael Tyzack, John Michel, William Halsey, and Corrie McCallum.  The vanishing landscapes of the South, such as barrier islands, sunsets or the ever-evolving urban settings of downtown Charleston inspire this talented artist.  As a dealer, Hagood specializes in American Southern artwork, particularly work of the Charleston Renaissance (1915-1940) artists like Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Alfred Heber Hutty, Anna Heyward Taylor and Elizabeth O’Neill Verner.

His recent exploration of nocturnal cityscapes drew the attention of Greenville County Museum of Art director Tom Styron.  Hagood’s show is scheduled for 2011; exact dates are still to be determined.  The work will explore the decaying nooks and crannies of Greenville’s urban landscape.

Carolina Galleries is a member of Charleston Fine Art Dealers’ Association.  Hagood is the current President of CFADA.

For more information about the Greenville County Museum of Art, please visit www.greenvillemuseum.org or 420 College Street, Greenville, SC 29601.  For more information or to request images, please contact Carolina Galleries at 843.720.8622 or info@carolinagalleries.com.

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Carolina Galleries Presents “Johnson Hagood: New Landscapes” During Spoleto

On June 5, from 5-8 pm, Carolina Galleries will present new work by artist and owner Johnson Hagood. There will be 10 new works in oil, watercolor and pastel on view for the month of June.

Johnson Hagood is a painter working in Charleston, South Carolina, in the luminist style. His oil and pastel paintings are influenced by the Hudson River School and primarily Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Hagood paints the rapidly disappearing barrier islands and marshes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Some of his canvases are in an elongated horizontal format, a format also favored by Heade, and include sunrises or sunsets, also another fleeting element in his work. Sometimes the only human evidence in his paintings is the occasional light emitting from a far off land bank at dusk – a constant reminder of the eventual development of a vanishing landscape.

Hagood has recently begun to push his artistic talents to include painting street scenes of the beloved city that he grew up in. In the spirit of Charleston Renaissance artists such as Alfred Hutty and Elizabeth O’Neill Verner, who documented Charleston of the early 20th Century in their work, Hagood seeks to present fine art featuring the Charleston we see today. The work has been very well received and most purchased only minutes after the pieces have dried!

His work is included in over two hundred private collections and in the collections of Bank of America, Bellsouth, City of Charleston, Carolina First Bank, Gibbes Museum of Art, Morris Museum of Art, Roper Hospital, Safety Kleen Corporation, & Wild Dunes Corporation.

For more information or images, please contact Carolina Galleries at (843) 720-8622 or info@carolinagalleries.com. Visit the gallery at 106 A Church St, Monday through Saturday 10 am to 5 pm or at http://www.carolinagalleries.com.

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