Past Exhibitions
Art + Science Exhibit
2024Art + Science brings together a group of artists working in a variety of media–including photography, sculpture, printmaking, video, and immersive projection–whose creative process intersects with science. Science is often considered an exacting discipline, one that is far removed from artistic expression. But art and science can beautifully converge in many ways. Scientific...
counterfeit 2024
2024The second iteration of our Counterfeit exhibition promises to be bigger and more impressive than the first! The amazing talents of our regional artists are put to the forgery test as they create "counterfeit" copies of famous works of art. Proceeds from the sale of these works benefit both the...
beyond painting
2023When is a painting no longer a painting? Traditional definitions of a painting are challenged and transformed with unconventional and unusual approaches to this very traditional medium. Artists reach for and land at new understandings of paint as a phenomenon, subject, and material.
feast
2023Food has been an integral part of visual art from the very beginning, when vegetable dyes and animal fats were used in cave paintings. Dutch Renaissance painters depicted vanitas still life compositions featuring carcasses, flowers, and silver platters laden with fresh fruits and vegetables. Feast continues this tradition as artists express opinions and render...
woven / unwoven
2023The world of textiles is vast. Every day, we touch dozens of types of fabrics, from our car interiors to our office chairs, our couches, and our own clothing. Through construction, deconstruction, and exaggeration, these artists explore textiles as a departure point to reach new levels of understanding of fabric,...
adrian rhodes: after the ravens
2022Adrian Rhodes, (b. 1983, in Logan, Utah) grew up and resides in Hartsville, South Carolina. She received her BFA in 2005 and MFA in 2011, both from Winthrop University. She is the recipient of the SC Arts Commission’s 2020 Individual Artist’s Fellowship and the 2019 SECAC Artist’s Fellowship. Her work...
femina
2022How much has the female experience changed in the twenty-first century compared to one hundred, fifty, or even five years ago? Through humor, unconventional materials, and everyday objects, these artists illustrate the constant mutability of “femininity” in contemporary culture by observing the past and charging into the future.This exhibition is...
black anatomy
2022This dynamic exhibition features artists who bring intimate and charged bodies of work that represent their present-day voices while simultaneously keeping a toe dipped in the waters of their collective past experiences. Sculptures, installations, paintings, and drawings illustrate their shared understanding of the Black experience in contemporary culture and reveal...
lamentations
2021On loan from the New Orleans Museum of Art. Over the past seven years, Tina Freeman has photographed the wetlands of Louisiana and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctica. In Lamentations, Freeman pairs images from these disparate regions in a series of diptychs that function as stories about climate change,...
formation
2021Pattern. Arrangement. Structure. Formation. The five artists in this exhibition share kindred approaches to these crucial elements of art and design. By employing systems of highly ordered compositions that are simultaneously complex and accessible, their formations of layers, tensions, and balance are created with unabashed palettes, scale, and surprise.This exhibition is...
fiber filled
2021We’re dividing our exhibition space in half for two artists to create two large-scale site-specific installations. Each artist will have approximately 1500 square feet to build immersive installations that incorporate and magnify fragments of reality into worlds of fantasy and fiction.This exhibition is generously sponsored by The Arkwright Foundation, Bagwell...
