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ArtFields is a community arts non profit located in Lake City, South Carolina. We were founded in 2013 with a mission to celebrate Southern art and revitalize our small town through the arts. Our flagship event, ArtFields, turns the town into a gallery as local businesses display hundreds of artworks and artists compete for $100,000 in prizes. During the year, our three galleries feature rotating exhibitions to not only provide a place for artists to showcase their work, but also to create access to the arts for an underserved area. A robust public art collection and art education for South Carolina youth finish off our ever-growing art based programs.
Recent ArtFields Winners
Alba Triana
An ensemble of suspended spheres dance in space. Each sphere orbits around a coil driven by an electromagnetic field that attracts or repels it. A probabilistic code controls the strength of each field in real-time. The field's fluctuations and the conditions of each systemódistance between spheres and coilsógenerate a seemingly random choreography characterized by subjacent emerging patterns. A set of displacements, turns, and orbits expressively reveal the alterations of the field, the ethereal ìmaterialî with which the sphere dialogs. Each system is complemented by a resonant rod tuned to slightly different frequencies. Eventually, the spheres contact the rods, generating delicate resonant sounds. The rods' resonances interact as they superimpose, creating subtle alterations in the resulting sonority. Through movements and sounds, the work elicits the inseparable relationship between our physical surroundings and the non-perceptible forces that govern the natural world.
Cecil Norris
I am who I am because of the people that came before me. I exist at the crossroads between the spiritual and physical world. The four moments of the sun (a symbol for the Kongo people) depicts the journey from conception, birth, maturity, and death. Together it shows the interconnection of life, and how we are intertwined with our ancestors. Life requires constant change and perpetual motion. God is Change.
Nancy Jacey
New Beginnings is a portrait of my son using my own reference photographs, imagination, and live luna moths that we raised and studied. The use of the luna moth and rosemary is to symbolize transformation, renewal, regeneration, faith, love, remembrance, and clarity after overcoming the trials and tribulations of the pandemic. To date, this piece has been juried into the CPSA 31st International Exhibition, UKCPS Open International Exhibition, IGOR 2023 Fall Salon, the Allied Artists of America's 110th Exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art, awarded first place graphics in AAPL Inc's 2023 Spring Member's Exhibition, awarded 3rd place professional division in Color Magazine's 24th Annual Member Show, and featured on a Times Square billboard in New York. I used many layers of Prismacolor, Holbein, and Polychromos colored pencils, no solvents, and 600 hours of work from sketch to finish. My goal was to use a vibrant, saturated, and painterly style to create a magical mood.
Daniel Diehl
I love experimenting with perspective in art. One of the most challenging forms is called anamorphosis, which involves creating a distorted image that reveals itself when the image is reflected in a mirrored cylinder. A distortion of Salvador Dali's face made from several stained pieces of finely cut birch plywood, assembled onto a round table top. In the center is positioned a highly reflective column that, when viewed from an approximate 45 degree angle, reveals the un-distorted view of Dali's portrait.