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WHITE LIGHT

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12″ x 16″ acrylic on linen $3400

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Linda Fantuzzo spent her childhood in Endicott, NY, where she created images from an early age. In 1968 she went to Philadelphia to study at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1973. She then moved to Charleston, SC, and continues to work full time in her studio near the harbor. The quality of light and the beauty of the architecture first attracted Linda to the region, where she continues to enjoy its vital arts community.

Linda worked non-objectively in various media for over ten years and then chose to return to painting representationally. She has been represented by galleries in the Charleston area since the 1970s, and has enjoyed five solo museum exhibitions in SC and GA. Linda is active in the arts community, having served on panels for the SC State Arts Commission Acquisitions Committee, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Redux, and the Trident Region Arts & Culture Plan. She has served as a juror for several public galleries and was the project director for “Larger Than Life: A Second Story Show”, sponsored by the Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs during the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Linda’s paintings are represented in the collections of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; South Carolina State Arts Commission Collection, Columbia,SC; The Burroughs-Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC; the River Course and Cassique Clubs of Kiawah, SC; the Doonbeg Club of County Clare, Ireland; several other public collections; and numerous private collections throughout the country.

PALMS (Romance)

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24″ x 24″ oil on canvas $3500

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James Durkin

James Durkin (b. 1983) is an Anglo-American painter based in Charleston, SC. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in the United Kingdom, Durkin studied Art History at the University of Nottingham before refining his skills in drawing at the Royal Drawing School in London. His artistic journey has been deeply influenced by his extensive experience in both the art market and the realm of creative expression. After more than a decade as an auctioneer at Sotheby’s in London and New York, Durkin has returned to his roots as a painter, unveiling his first significant body of work in a decade.

Before stepping into the auction house world, Durkin was an active presence in the London art scene, working alongside contemporary artists and exhibiting his work in a range of exhibitions, including the iconic Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Throughout his career, his paintings have drawn on his experiences with both the natural world and the contemporary art dialogue, combining influences from his travels, the landscapes of his youth, and his understanding of art history.
His recent return to painting marks a new chapter in his career, with a fresh series of abstract landscapes that reflect both his personal evolution and his deeper connection to the world around him.

These new works, characterized by bold brushstrokes, layered textures, and a nuanced palette, explore the emotional and psychological resonance of the landscape, focusing less on representational imagery and more on evoking a sense of space, time, and movement. His approach to abstraction is grounded in an intimate relationship with the environment, capturing its raw beauty while exploring the tensions between natural forms and the spaces they occupy.

This new body of work invites viewers to experience a landscape not as a fixed object, but as a dynamic and ever-shifting force, as seen through the artist’s unique lens. With a renewed sense of purpose, he embraces the challenge of creating art that resonates on a deeply emotional level, offering fresh insights into both the external world and the inner landscapes we navigate.

IMMERSING

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24″ x 20″ watercolor on canvas mounted on panel $8000

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Tong Zhang

Tong Zhang is originally from China but has lived in the United States for several years. He now resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his family. Inspired by daily moments, Zhang’s work aims to present occasions in which affective experience can be fully addressed while still leaving the viewer in a state of unknowing. His practice bridges memory and personal experience with today’s life to raise the question, “what those ordinary moments from daily life could mean?”

Tong’s interdisciplinary practice and commitment to creating these unknown atmospheres have taken him to the United Kingdom, China, and across the United States including exhibitions in Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK; Milk Gallery, New York City; Attleboro Arts Museum, Massachusetts; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He is the recipient of many awards including two The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2017 and 2018, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for Art Residency and two George J. Vander Sluis Award 2016 and 2018 among others. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and China Academy of Art and a BFA from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in China.

PALM VIII (The Stone Roses)

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48″ x 36″ oil on canvas $4500.

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James Durkin

James Durkin (b. 1983) is an Anglo-American painter based in Charleston, SC. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in the United Kingdom, Durkin studied Art History at the University of Nottingham before refining his skills in drawing at the Royal Drawing School in London. His artistic journey has been deeply influenced by his extensive experience in both the art market and the realm of creative expression. After more than a decade as an auctioneer at Sotheby’s in London and New York, Durkin has returned to his roots as a painter, unveiling his first significant body of work in a decade.

Before stepping into the auction house world, Durkin was an active presence in the London art scene, working alongside contemporary artists and exhibiting his work in a range of exhibitions, including the iconic Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Throughout his career, his paintings have drawn on his experiences with both the natural world and the contemporary art dialogue, combining influences from his travels, the landscapes of his youth, and his understanding of art history.
His recent return to painting marks a new chapter in his career, with a fresh series of abstract landscapes that reflect both his personal evolution and his deeper connection to the world around him.

These new works, characterized by bold brushstrokes, layered textures, and a nuanced palette, explore the emotional and psychological resonance of the landscape, focusing less on representational imagery and more on evoking a sense of space, time, and movement. His approach to abstraction is grounded in an intimate relationship with the environment, capturing its raw beauty while exploring the tensions between natural forms and the spaces they occupy.

This new body of work invites viewers to experience a landscape not as a fixed object, but as a dynamic and ever-shifting force, as seen through the artist’s unique lens. With a renewed sense of purpose, he embraces the challenge of creating art that resonates on a deeply emotional level, offering fresh insights into both the external world and the inner landscapes we navigate.

MAN WITH GLASSES

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4″ x 4″ egg tempera on wood panel c. 1967 $2000

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Manning Williams (1939–2012)

Manning Williams’s paintings are rooted in the history, traditions, and terrain of the South Carolina Lowcountry. A Charleston native and lifelong resident, he received his B.S. from the College of Charleston before pursuing graduate work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After studying at the Academy, he returned to his hometown of Charleston. His highly personal approach to realist painting emphasized storytelling and was fueled by an interest in portraying subjects found on the periphery of the city and along the barrier islands. Williams embraced the common, the everyday, and the factual rather than picturesque beauty.

Western subjects also commanded Williams’s attention, and during the later years of his career, his concern with narrative was expressed in a more abstract style. Later in his career, Williams stated: “I consider myself a narrative painter. Yet times have changed the way we see the world. TV, movies, and the Internet pour out information faster than we could have imagined only a few years back. My work today is about finding a new way to narrate our times.”

Manning Williams’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo shows in Charleston, New Orleans, Washington, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Art, and the Greenville Museum of Art. Group shows featuring his work included the “Second Story Show” at Piccolo Spoleto in 2002, “100 Years/100 Artists, Views From the 20th Century” at the South Carolina State Museum in 1999–2000, and “Old South, New South” at Winthrop College in 1995. In 2004, Williams and Linda Fantuzzo had a duo show at the Gibbes Museum of Art. In 2008, Williams had a solo show at the Florence Museum. Museum retrospectives were held in 2021 at the Gibbes Museum of Art and the Morris Museum.

Williams was named a 1991 Fellow by the South Carolina Arts Commission in recognition of his contributions to the visual arts in the state. His most well-known commissions were displayed at the Charleston Airport, East Cooper Hospital, and the Gaillard Auditorium. His work is included in public and corporate collections, among them the South Carolina Arts Commission, R.J. Reynolds Corporation, Citizens and Southern National Bank, Post & Courier Publishing Company, Kiawah Resort Association, Greenville County Museum, South Carolina State Museum, the Gibbes Museum of Art, and the Telfair Museum.

Green and Red Truck Trailers

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42″ x 60″ acrylic on canvas c. 1985

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LEARN

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12″ x 12″ watercolor on canvas $2100

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Tong Zhang

Tong Zhang is originally from China but has lived in the United States for several years. He now resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his family. Inspired by daily moments, Zhang’s work aims to present occasions in which affective experience can be fully addressed while still leaving the viewer in a state of unknowing. His practice bridges memory and personal experience with today’s life to raise the question, “what those ordinary moments from daily life could mean?”

Tong’s interdisciplinary practice and commitment to creating these unknown atmospheres have taken him to the United Kingdom, China, and across the United States including exhibitions in Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK; Milk Gallery, New York City; Attleboro Arts Museum, Massachusetts; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He is the recipient of many awards including two The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2017 and 2018, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for Art Residency and two George J. Vander Sluis Award 2016 and 2018 among others. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and China Academy of Art and a BFA from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in China.