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Southern Breeze Gallery is dedicated to promoting artists living in the south and has one of the largest collections of emerging and established artists in the state. You'll find works in oils, acrylic, watercolor, ink, mixed media as well as ceramics. |
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THE NEW GALLERY IS OPEN!
Our new gallery was designed by Architect, Jeff Barnes of Dale and Associates, built out by Nicholas Acoustics, and our colors were selected by Cindy Brown of the Cupboard in Clinton. I can't even begin to tell you how their vision and skill contributed to the wonderful space we now have. Together they created a space that far surpassed anything I imagined. COME SEE US! The new Southern Breeze Gallery is easy to find. Simply take I-55 to the Old Agency Road exit. The exit will place you onto Old Agency Road going west. Move over one lane to the left and then proceed in what becomes the right lane into the merge lane beside the round-about. You’re now headed north on Highland Colony Parkway. Take the second entrance into the Renaissance Shopping Mall. You’ll see Southern Breeze Gallery on the left in the arched doorway. We are across the street from Ethan Allen and next door to Sweet Peppers. Southern Breeze Gallery is open in Renaissance Monday – Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 1-5. For more information call 601-607-4147. |
Artist Reception: New Works by Charlie Busler Thursday, October 16, 5pm-8pm. On Thursday, October 16, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Southern Breeze Gallery invites you to its new location in Ridgeland’s Renaissance development, to enjoy the most recent paintings of Charlie Busler, a master of color and light whose style is solidly anchored in the traditions of the French neo- and post-impressionists, Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh. Charlie states, “I paint from memories. With color and composition, I try to convey the inner feelings of a place or experience.” His paintings are a mystic force and Charlie experiences them as mystical. He depicts worlds within worlds, constructing them of polar opposites: matter and spirit, soul and body, sky and sea, water and earth, inner and outer, mind and sense, macro and micro, quantum and Newtonian, energy and object. Through color and stroke, in a single painting, he creates a unified vision, juxtaposing these opposites, phasing from one viewpoint into another, evoking that sweet beauty peculiar to transitions and revelations.
In this exhibit you see a field of periwinkle flowers fronting green forest, through which a spot of yellow-reflected-sun lies like a gem on the forest floor; an orange-red orb with yellow-gold corona cradled in a cup of the horizon that sifts fuchsias and olive-greens between earth and sky; a grove of stark-white, naked trees edging azure water and ochre land; a triptych of female figures luminescing from atmospheres of blue, red and darkness-black; a caramel forest pinching lake and sky to omega-point, where a brilliant light sends gold vaporizing to atmosphere and burgundy skimming across lake-surface. You see an olive, golden, mustard sun over sangria-rust stems and coral buds. You see solar flare awash on sea, sky and interstellar space, churning a turbulence of heat and fire, the chemistry of creation. Charlie paints the impermanence of matter and the immanence of soul. On the frame of matter hangs the body and the life you live. On the mists of soul hang your thoughts and feelings, intents and longings, intuitions and knowings. But in Charlie’s paintings, when you view the body you are realize you are viewing the soul; and when you think you have caught sight of the soul you realize it is the body.
Charlie, whose interest in art began as a child, has had six one-man gallery-shows. He has been featured in numerous group, invitational and competitive exhibits, earning awards in many of them over the span of his career. In 2001, the Meridian Council for the Arts honored him with the Artist Achievement Award. In 2004, his “Past and Present Works” exhibit at the Meridian Museum of Art covered the work of a lifetime, including one piece painted at age seventeen and several painted for the event itself.
The public is invited to meet Charlie Busler and view
his works at the gallery in Renaissance on Thursday, October 16, 5:00
pm-8:00 pm. |
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Our Artists Start with the Featured Artists page for Southern Breeze's most popular artists. Then take the time to surf through the Artist Roster for all that Southern Breeze has to offer. New Works - These artists have new work in the gallery although it may not be on their page as yet - Featured Artists - Alice Hammell - Amy Giust - Susan Ingram- Jackie Ellens - Mary Buckley Gallery Artists Lucy Hunnicutt - Susan Godwin - Jean Marie - Don Hickey - Warren Hogue - Toni Spink - Linda Denny - Christy Henderson Directions Renaissance: Take I-55 to the Old Agency Road exit (105C) in Ridgeland (just north of the I55 - I220 split). The exit will put you on to Old Agency going west. You want to move over one lane to the left. That lane will bring you to the “round-about” (a driving experience to be sure!) merge to the right on to Highland Colony Parkway. Go to the second mall entrance and turn in. Drive to the first building on your left and look for the arched doorway. You’ve found the new home of Southern Breeze Gallery. We are across the street from Ethan Allen and next door to Sweet Peppers. We are open Monday – Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 1-5;Here's a map that may help. For more information about Southern Breeze Gallery call (601) 607-4147 or email sbgallery@bellsouth.net Southern Breeze Gallery : Renaissance at Colony Park
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