SHEPARD FAIREY INTERVIEWED FOR TIM HUSSEY'S DOCUMENTARY

SHEPARD FAIREY IS INTERVIEWED BY ADAM BOOZER, PRODUCER OF TIM HUSSEY'S DOCUMENTARY. CHILDHOOD FRIENDS, SHEPARD SHARES STORIES OF GROWING UP WITH TIM IN CHARLESTON, SC AND RESPONDS TO HIS CURRENT BODY OF PAINTINGS. Shepard Fairey is famed for the HOPE design to bolster Obama's 2008 campaign.

REBEKAH JACOB ON RICHARD SEXTON'S PHOTOS

Sister Cities: Charleston & Savannah are two of the most mythical and charming urban societies in all the South, interchangeable in culinary, tradition, and architecture. I would characterize their natural rural areas to be as dramatic and photogenic: serpentine waterways infinitely changing with the tide and moon, historic fragments, overgrown cemeteries with Confederate and sacred heart markings… Perhaps some of the most incredible and defining things of this region seem to be its trees that appear more like architectural elements and overseers of the land--their greatest wonders often discovered by looking up, as depicted in Sexton’s image of Wormsloe Plantation.

As a gallerist, I am often befuddled at the number of photographers who attempt to capture this region, but whose images translate as casual, sentimental, and sappy. What separates photographers like Richard Sexton from the masses-and certainly the amateurs-is his inherent sense of place, his patience and discernment of light, and his restless search for unique and infinite wonders. However, a Sexton photograh's texture, composition, aesthetic are most fully realized in real life.

VISIT REBEKAH JACOB GALLERY AT 169 KING STREET TO VIEW SEXTON’S NEWSEST BODY OF WORK: CHARLESTON TO SAVANNAH

RICHARD SEXTON: CHARLESTON TO SAVANNAH

WORDS FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER:

Shortly after I moved back to the South from San Francisco in 1991 I began photographing the natural landscape. I was intrigued by the low, flat, moss-draped landscape and landscapes became an important counterpoint to my photographs of the built environment, which focused on the mutated, scarred state of the historic architecture in places like New Orleans, where I live. For fifteen years my landscape focus was the gulf coast from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle. Very recently I expanded that focus to include the Lowcountry of South Carolina and the Sea Islands of Georgia. I grew up in a small town in southwest Georgia and I remembered the Georgia coast vividly from my youth. As I rediscovered this region in contemporary times, I appreciated the fact it hadn't changed quite as much as the gulf coast of Florida, which has seen rampant real estate development in recent years. The new work from South Carolina and Georgia builds on what I started with the gulf coast, and as with my gulf coast work, I'm focusing both on historic sites and buildings, as well as the marshlands and live oaks of the natural landscape.

CYNTHIA KNAPP: OCT 18-NOV 14

This October, Cynthia Knapp will exhibit several recent pieces from a series of paintings and works on paper. These are abstract musings on the relationships of organic structures where fields of color blur, overlap, and interact to create an amalgam of natural shapes. Her intent is not to represent any literal outward appearance, but rather to portray the essence of abstraction as seen in her physical environment. Knapp's nebulous forms float and meander through the canvas - enabling the colors, shapes and depths to gracefully leap and drift from the foreground to the background. Her vivid colors are interspersed with neutral colored auras which emanate out of the depths of the painting.