- 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 Arts
She does robots
November 13, 2007 – 4:14 pm
Jessie Bower is one of the profiles in our cover story for this week, on the subject of giving in recognition of National Philanthropy Week. The idea here is there are many people — often very young people — who have the ability to go into the private sector, to become lawyers and accountants and [...]
Modernisme to close
November 10, 2007 – 2:43 pm
Modernisme announced today that it will close after Nov. 21.
The announcement was made via email in a message to patrons of the gallery, which has since 2006 built a reputation as a forum for local contemporary artists who have had difficulty gaining entrée to commercial space in downtown galleries.
The reason for the closure was financial, [...]
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 [...]
Center for Photography
September 12, 2007 – 11:08 am
Jack Alterman’s Second Monday series is one of those things that I’ve always wanted to go to. Other stuff has constantly got in the way (deadlines, meetings, cable reruns… you know the kind of thing).
Every second Monday of the month at 7 p.m., Alterman invites a guest photographer (or two, or three) to his studio on [...]
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 [...]
After the Deluge
September 6, 2007 – 11:03 pm
After spending all day staring at a computer screen, it takes a lot to drag me in front of one again. My tired eyes aren’t used to reading books or comic strips on a monitor.
Sometimes, though, a story comes along that makes it worth switching my computer back on after supper. Brooklyn comic artist Josh [...]
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 [...]
