Jane Allen Nodine is Professor of Art and Director of the Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery at the University of South Carolina Upstate. Her work has taken many forms over the years including drawing and painting, jewelry-metalsmithing, installation and photography. Jane exhibits widely in the United States and has been included in several exhibitions in Europe. Recognized with numerous awards, Jane received an NEA/SECCA Southeastern Seven IV Fellowship from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem and two South Carolina Arts Commission Artist Fellowships. In 2002 Jane was awarded the Belle W. Baruch Visiting Scholar Fellowship to Hobcaw Barony Plantation in Georgetown, SC where several of her photographs were published in “Plantation Between the Waters, A Brief History of Hobcaw Barony”.
Jane is well known for her contributions to teaching and higher education and in 2008 she was recognized by the University of South Carolina Upstate with the Faculty Award for Scholarly and Creative Pursuits and in 2004 the SECAC Award for Teaching Excellence by the Southeastern College Art Conference. Jane’s career in creating and exhibiting art spans several decades and in 1999 she was selected by the South Carolina State Museum and the South Carolina Arts Commission as one of the one hundred most significant artists in South Carolina during the 20th Century.
In 2006 Jane began research in encaustic painting and a series of those paintings were acquired by MUSC, the Medical University of South Carolina, for the Ashley River Tower Contemporary Carolina Collection, the largest collection of contemporary art in the state. Jane was one of four artists selected by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville for the “Shades of Gray” exhibition in 2008, and in 2009 she was selected for the national ” 225 F Encaustic Encounters Exhibition” at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, NC. In 1998 Jane began the USC Upstate Study Abroad Italy program for which she serves as director.
Artist Statement:
Having worked in a variety of materials and styles during my career I tend to make creative decisions based on the process that will render the best results for my ideas. In recent years my primary research has involved computer manipulation of digital imagery and techniques for merging traditional photography and drawing with new forms of imaging and print technology. In 2006 I introduced encaustic painting into the work.
I am inspired by various sources with a heavy emphasis on nature, but I am also strongly influenced by advertising, popular culture, art history, reading, and by all means living and working in the South. At present, I have image-based works that parallel an abstract nature-inspired series. Both bodies of work have distinct southern influences that draw from nature, religion, and culture.
I often describe my approach to making art as a process of excavation. Visual and conceptual clues reveal ideas and images that emerge in both anticipated and unexpected ways but destination is never the same twice, and there is no map, no definitive ending or preconceived plan of travel; only a sense that something waits to be revealed.
Art in Academia
Gallery 301, University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL
September 11 – November 8, 2009
225° F: Encaustic Encounters
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University
Boone, NC
November 6 – February 6, 2010
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Solo Exhibition
Art Institute of Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
March – April 2010
