“Wood, Paper, Canvas,” an exhibition featuring new work by painters Dan Powell and John Schiro, photographer Easton Selby and sculptor Chris Todd will be displayed from Thursday, May 13 through Friday, June 18 in the Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery at Coastal Carolina University. The public is invited to the opening reception on Thursday, May 13 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Powell's recent oils on linen, watercolors and drawings are inspired by boat landings on the Pee Dee and Waccamaw rivers in Horry County. Powell earned a master’s degree in visual design from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 1997. He has taught art at Chester College of New England, Salve Regina University, Horry Georgetown Technical College and Coastal Carolina University. Powell's work has been exhibited in venues from Rhode Island to South Carolina.

Schiro, a native of Houston, Texas, is influenced by an early training in classical dance. Schiro earned a master’s degree from Rutgers University in 2008. His work is in private collections in New York City, Metz, France, and China. He was a Joan Mitchell MFA Grant nominee and received a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Grant in 2008. He is currently a teaching associate at Coastal Carolina University.

Selby says that his photographic series "Rootwork" is influenced by the “spectrum of religious belief systems, mysticism and magic that seeps through the soil of the South." Selby earned a master’s degree from Clemson University in 2006. He is the recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including a recent one-person exhibition at The Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum in Nashville. He teaches photography at Coastal Carolina University.

Todd says her peripatetic past life in theatre has influenced her work. Todd earned a master’s degree in furniture design at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She recently traveled to Nicaragua to volunteer in trade a school for women called Mujeres Constructoras. She teaches 3D design and sculpture at Coastal Carolina University.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, May 10 through August 6. For directions: www.coastal.edu/bryanartgallery.

The Bryan Gallery is supported in part by the Coastal Educational Foundation, the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Friends of the Bryan Gallery. All Bryan Gallery programs are free and open to the public.

For more information contact Cynthia Farnell, gallery director, at 843-234-3466 or cfarnell@coastal.edu.