March 2010

: Gallery Crawl

Wondering where to find avant-garde artwork coming out of Greenville? Try leaning a little left of center. Past downtown’s twinkling trees and the sleek West End lies the Pendleton Street Arts District in West Greenville, home to more than thirty local artists. Check out these newcomers to the neighborhood.

Written By:

Heidi Coryell Williams

(1)Doug Young » sculptor
12A Lois Avenue
A thirty-year veteran of sculpting (best known for his West End sculpture of Shoeless Joe Jackson), Young moved his studio from RiverPlace to the Pendleton Street Arts District in June 2008, and he’s taking full advantage. View his sculpting streetside—latest and greatest works in progress are usually on display in the front window, including an eight-foot-tall piece, his largest to date.
(864) 430-3130
www.dougyoungstudios.com

(2) Stella Grove » handmade jewelry
2 Traction Street
A workspace more than a studio, Stella features jewelry ranging from wood and glass to turquoise and emeralds. She specializes in crafting pendants and earrings from cutting and torching metal sheet and precious metal clay (which, when kiln-fired creates pieces that are .999 fine silver—finer than sterling!). Using recycled and self-sustaining materials, her new line is “For the Planet, For the People.”
greengrovestudios@yahoo.com
www.stellagrove.etsy.com

(3) Upstate Visual Arts » nonprofit organization
4 Smith Street, Historic Morgan House
Newly located in the heart of the Pendleton Arts District since September, there’s a new energy at UVA. More than just a community center of creative expression, the organization offers seminars, classes, and promotes and serves the needs of its 350-plus member-artists. There’s always something new and different to view at the UVA space.
(864) 269-8282
upstatevisualarts.org

(4) Kyle Buttram » textile and fabric artist
25 Abney Street
Kyle’s workspace is also her living space—a restored mill home, in the shadow of Brandon Mill’s water tower. Her unique pieces are each begun by using upholstery fabric as their ground, and her artwork ranges from landscape and still life to interior scenes and animals. Every canvas offers a hint of the underlying fabric pattern showing through. Don’t miss her adorable stuffed critters, either. Beginning in March, she’ll create a “critter” a day. Check out her blog for a chance to find and win a cute creature.
(864) 607-8200
www.kylebuttram.com; www.kylepaints.blogspot.com

(5)White Whale Studios & Gallery » professional working artists 
401 Smythe Street 
This studio space, located in a circa-1890 house, is home to seven working artists and their studios. The space’s name is a nod to Melville’s Moby Dick: Just as the white whale outwitted a relentless Captian Ahab, these full-time professional working artists battle the odds to pursue their work and life’s calling.
(864) 386-1812
www.whitewhalestudios.com

(6)The Clay People » contemporary figurative sculpture
1211 Pendleton Street, Unit 1203 (The Flatiron Building)
Sculptors Rhonda Gushee and Angelique Brickner are the newest kids on the block, having recently celebrated the grand opening of their modern gallery and working studio with a kiln. Peruse their expressive contemporary figures, made with Raku clay, multiple glazes, and firings—highly personal, yet universally themed pieces that are psychologically intuitive.
(513) 315-2872
www.TheClayPeople.net

Illustration by Tyler Bishop

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