- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Visual Art
Screen Printing 101 and Mr. Nick
December 19, 2007 – 10:37 am
Be sure to check out Nick Smith’s review of an old-school screen printing show at 52.5. The exhibit, set among racks of CDs and punk ‘zines, runs through Dec. 31. And while you’re at it, Mr. Nick has a new novel out called Undead on Arrival. The official launch party was earlier this month at [...]
No Body Home in New Orleans
December 18, 2007 – 11:04 am
This piece in today’s New York Times anticipates a piece City Paper will run Wednesday on a photography exhibit by Donna Hurt. Displayed in the new gallery at the Art Institute of Charleston on Meeting and Market streets, Hurt’s show features a couple of dozen photographs (11 inches by 14 inches) that document the carnage [...]
A Slideshow of The Eyes of War
December 10, 2007 – 2:29 pm
Our brilliant web editor Josh Curry built a fantastic slideshow of photographs by Jeremy Lock, Stacey Pearsall, and Jake Bailey, the three Air Force sergeants currently on display at the Center for Photography through the end of the month. The slideshow has dozens of images from Iraq and Afghanistan, and illustrates their experiences in combat [...]
Journal: Doctor Satan Echo Chamber
November 12, 2007 – 6:35 pm
After writing about the Charleston Ballet Theatre’s Seven Deadly Sins, and in particular Jill Eathorne-Bahr’s drawing inspiration for her choreography from the magical fantastical work of representational painter Paul Cadmus (that’s “Lust” to the left), I came across this song. It’s originally by The Specials on the legendary Trojan Records, home of reggae. Last year, [...]
On The Other Side
October 11, 2007 – 2:40 pm
There’s only one week left to catch The Other Side, the Robert Lange Studios Upstairs show that features some of the best work from several galleries around town. Up till October 18 you can see a great variety of work there, including Nathan Durfee’s figurative paintings, Glenn Friedel’s effervescent abstracts, and a painting of a [...]
Spark Studios Show
September 30, 2007 – 12:52 pm
Danny McSweeney, owner of Spark Studios and Gallery on Hagood, is devoting his space to his old mate Waseem Touma for Ipseity through Oct. 5. The two sculptors met at Kansas City Art Institute and McSweeney’s been looking for an excuse to show his work ever since. Touma’s art is so ambitious and twisted that [...]
Art Meets Orchestra
September 10, 2007 – 3:24 pm
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra looks and sounds fancy, but it isn’t too proud to take a few hand-outs. On Thursday Sep. 13Â from 6 to 9 p.m., Rebekah Jacob Modern on King St. will present a night of art and classical music to raise money for the CSO.
Artists Donna Hurt, Eric Abrecht and Jennifer Shaw will [...]
Remembering Rosalind Franklin
September 8, 2007 – 3:22 pm
Today’s the last day to catch Rosalind Franklin: Discovering DNA’s Structure at Smith Killian Fine Art Gallery on Queen. The short-lived show contains work by two collaborating artists, Clare O’Hagan and Denise Wyllie.
Franklin was a chemist who’s probably best known for her x-ray photographs of DNA. Her genetic research was some of the earliest and most [...]
Campus Media Tour falls together
August 27, 2007 – 10:40 am
Organic Process is an organization founded two years ago by Charleston-based artist/filmmaker Farrah Hoffmire and her husband, BookSurge instigator Mitchell Davis. The Process is dedicated to setting up memorable art and media projects such as 2005’s Pieces of Sanity, a group multimedia show at the Humanities Center on Rutledge Ave.
Recently, Hoffmire and Davis have been highlighting [...]
Furry News
August 22, 2007 – 1:38 pm
The John Ancrum SPCA’s Furry Affair art auction won’t be held until Friday night at 6 p.m. But the art’s on display right now at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park, and the organization is taking bids.
Here’s a chance to see the lots without having to worry about having to negotiate crowds of patrons, autograph hunters chasing [...]
