Park Circle Gallery

The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department announced that concurrent solo exhibitions of paintings by Jeremy Croft (North Charleston) and sculptures by James Johnson (Mt. Pleasant) will be on display at Park Circle Gallery from January 3-27, 2024

Jan 3 - Jan 27

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The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that concurrent solo exhibitions of soft pastel drawings by Emily Wilson (Summerville) and papercut artworks by Jennifer York (Charleston) will be on display at from April 5-29, 2023. A free reception hosted by the artists will be held at the gallery on Friday, April 7, from 5:00-7:00pm. The public is invited to attend.   Stare Awhile – Soft Pastel Drawings by Emily Wilson Drawn from photographs, Emily Wilson’s soft pastel and charcoal works focus on realism, while occasionally crossing the line into surrealism. Intrigued by the emotional expressions of those around her, the pieces featured in her exhibit, Stare Awhile, explore varied states of mind. Through color, proportion, balance, and movement, Wilson invites the viewer to navigate moments portrayed on paper, while pausing and finding those moments in their own perception. “Light is essential to my work and symbolically in my life,” Wilson explains. “I draw the light around people and how it shines on them as a reminder that it is a part of them.” This exhibition is funded in part by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of The Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina, as well as a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Emily Wilson received her BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2018, where she discovered her love for charcoal and soft pastels. While heavily influenced by figurative realism, her style is unique in its focus on contrast. Studying light’s intimate relationship with shadow brings her joy as an artist, a feeling that shines through in her work. Although Stare Awhile is Wilson’s first solo exhibition, she has participated in group shows at Public Works Arts Center, The Gap Gallery, and the Savannah College of Art & Design, and has completed many commissions. She currently works from her studio at Public Works Art Center in downtown Summerville, SC. Learn more about the artist at emilywilsonstudio.com. Aeos Carnival by Jennifer York Homeward – Papercut Artwork by Jennifer York In her exhibit, Homeward, Charleston artist Jennifer York presents a broad and lively collection of her stunningly intricate papercut art. Featured works include “Carousel Books” encasing collapsible multilayered ink illustrations, her “Shadow Houses” architectural models hand cut on the streets of Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece, her “Paradise Garden” large-scale paper snowflake cut from tyvek housewrap, and her “Cocktail Dress” made of hundreds of drink umbrellas, along with an array of framed papercuts and pen illustrations inspired by her adventures. “Exploration leads to inspiration, so I wander and draw from direct observation,” Jen explains. “The imagery I collect is then arranged into evocative, though-provoking new compositions by layering ink illustrations with intricate papercut patterns. I continue to explore and create new histories in this magical world.” Jennifer York (née Swearington) is a lifelong artist and curious explorer. She grew up in rural Indiana, earned a BFA in Sculpture with Art History minor from Pratt Institute, and an MFA in Fibers from Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2003, she founded Jennythreads Studio in Asheville, NC, producing fine handmade apparel for stylish women, crafting an independent, creative living for 19 years. After traveling to a dozen countries for four month-long international art residencies in 2018-19, Jen relocated to Charleston, SC, in 2020. She retired from Jennythreads and shifted her creative focus to fine art full-time shortly thereafter. Since then she has been a Gibbes Museum of Art Visiting Artist and has exhibited at the Gibbes Museum (Charleston, SC), Artfields (Lake City, SC), the Annual National Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition (North Charleston, SC), and the Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum (Myrtle Beach, SC ). Learn more about the artist at jennythreads.com. The is located at 4820 Jenkins Avenue in North Charleston. Admission is free and free street parking is available on Jenkins Avenue in front of the gallery, as well as on the adjacent streets and in parking lots close by. Gallery hours are 11:00am-6:00pm Wednesday-Friday, and Noon-4:00pm on Saturday. For more information about PCG, call 843-637-3565 or email [email protected]. For information on other Cultural Arts programs and artist opportunities, visit the Arts & Culture section of the City’s website at www.northcharleston.org.

Apr 5 - Apr 29

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The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that works by members of the Summerville Artist Guild will be on display at from March 1-25, 2023. A free reception hosted by the artists will be held at the gallery on Friday, March 3rd, from 5 pm to 7 pm. The public is invited to attend.  The Summerville Artist Guild will present its 47th Annual Judged Exhibit featuring two-dimensional works by more than 30 of its members in a variety of subjects and mediums. Comprised of artists from Dorchester, Berkeley, and Charleston counties, guild members from all levels of expertise will present works in oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, mixed media, and more based on this year’s theme, “Simple Pleasures.” Ribbons for Best of Show as well as first place, second place, third place, and honorable mentions in multiple categories will be awarded by guest judge, Mary Villon De Benveniste. Mary Villon de Benveniste has built her reputation as a portraitist on both sides of the Atlantic, painting on her family farm outside of Leesburg, Virginia, as well as at her home in the heart of Paris, France. She earned a Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon and studied life drawing for two years at the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris. Now, with a repertoire of over 300 portraits, she has been commissioned by families associated with Schlumberger, Lazard Frères, the United States Embassy, Dreyfus World Bank, Credit Lyonnais, Citibank, the Wall Street Journal, the Reader’s Digest, EuroDisney, IBM, and other multinational companies. Her work has been shown at the Salon des Independants, Grand Palais, Paris, the American Cathedral in Paris, and one woman shows at the Marymount School, and American School, Paris, in Atlanta, Georgia, the Amsley Golf Country Club and Swann Coach Inn, and the Potomac Gallery in Leesburg, Virginia. She has an extensive clientele in Surry, England, Atlanta, Georgia, Greenwich, Northern Virginia, and Jacksonville, Florida. The mission of the Summerville Artist Guild is to “bring together creative artists of various degrees of artistic development, for individual as well as group betterment, to exhibit their works, and to stimulate broader interest in the Fine Arts in the community.”  For more information, visit. www.summervilleartistguild.org. The is located at 4820 Jenkins Avenue in North Charleston. Admission is free and free street parking is available on Jenkins Avenue in front of the gallery, as well as on the adjacent streets and in parking lots close by. Gallery hours are 11:00am-6:00pm Wednesday-Friday, and Noon-4:00pm on Saturday. For more information about PCG, call 843-637-3565 or email [email protected]. For information on other Cultural Arts programs and artist opportunities, visit the Arts & Culture section of the City’s website at www.northcharleston.org.

Mar 3, 5pm - 7pm

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Concurrent Solo Exhibitions of Photography by Dan Jones (Charleston) and Ceramic Sculpture by Saila Milja-Smyly

Feb 1 - Feb 25

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Paint Just Like Bob Ross in One Day - Take inspiration from everyone's favorite patient art teacher and tune into your creativity. You will learn to use oil paints to make a gorgeous landscape.

Feb 11

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The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that concurrent solo exhibitions of paintings by Columbia-based artist Christopher Murphy and fused glass works by local artist Tanya Craig from July 6-31, 2021. You are invited to a free reception at the gallery on Friday, July 9, from 5 pm – 7 pm. The gallery is open 10:00am-6:00pm Tuesday-Friday, and Noon-4:00pm on Saturday. For more information about PCG, call 843-637-3565 or email [email protected]

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The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that a joint exhibition of art quilts by local artist Torreah “Cookie” Washington and Ghanaian artist Eunice Maku Aiyku-Nartey will be on display at Park Circle Gallery from September 1-30, 2021. A free reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, September 10th, from 5 pm to 7 pm. Cookie and Eunice will have a Zoom conversation about their works and artistic processes at 6pm. The public is invited to attend. Sisters Across the Sea is an exhibition of fiber art celebrating the Motherline through dialogue between African American artist Torreah “Cookie” Washington and Ghanaian artist Eunice Maku Ayiku-Nartey. For the past 15 years Cookie has been curating the Annual African American Fiber Art Exhibition presented at North Charleston City Hall as a component of the North Charleston Arts Fest. This Park Circle Gallery exhibition was originally planned as a solo show of her work, but later became a collaborative effort when she extended an invitation to Eunice to debut her artworks in North Charleston. Introduced by a mutual friend, both artists create work that celebrates common themes of African history and heritage, celebrating community, and stories from their own lives.

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The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that paintings by Charleston based artist Christopher Dotson will be on display at from May 3-26, 2023. Christopher is the winner of the 2023 North Charleston Arts Fest Poster Design Competition and his winning design, Forms in a Landscape, will be featured in the exhibition, which is presented as a component of the annual North Charleston Arts Fest. A free public reception will be held at the gallery from 5 pm to 7 pm on Friday, May 5th. In his solo exhibition, titled Unbound, Christopher Dotson presents a collection of recent paintings in acrylic and oil. Dotson’s canvases are filled with abstract shapes resembling different animals, plants, water, trees, rocks, birds, and fish. These organic forms appear to float in their own space, like hieroglyphs. Raindrops and tears swirl their way through imaginary landscapes that are filled with colorful life. Everything seems unbound from reality, appearing to have been disassembled and reassembled as if chopped up in a blender and poured out onto the painting’s surface. According to Christopher “It is an ecosystem where color and form are arbitrary, spontaneous, and mysterious.” Christopher Dotson earned a BFA from Appalachian State University in 1996. His paintings have been featured in a number of juried and group exhibitions throughout Charleston, SC, and Boston, MA, as well as on the CBS series Reckless and the Netflix series Outer Banks. He is currently represented by Mary Martin Gallery in Charleston, SC. His winning design, Forms in a Landscape, was one of 62 entries from 33 artists working in 12 cities across South Carolina that were submitted for consideration for the 2023 North Charleston Arts Fest Poster Design Competition. The piece is now part of the City of North Charleston’s Public Art Collection.  Learn more about the artist at dotsonart.com. The is located at 4820 Jenkins Avenue in North Charleston. Admission is free and free street parking is available on Jenkins Avenue in front of the gallery, as well as on the adjacent streets and in parking lots close by. Gallery hours are 11:00am-6:00pm Wednesday-Friday, and Noon-4:00pm on Saturday. For more information about PCG, call 843-637-3565 or email [email protected]. For information on other Cultural Arts programs and artist opportunities, visit the Arts & Culture section of the City’s website at www.northcharleston.org. For full details on the North Charleston Arts Fest, visit www.northcharlestonartsfest.com.

May 3 - May 26

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Learn to paint a complete oil painting with step-by-step guidance from Certified Ross Instructor, Barbie Sawyer. Adult participants will learn the Bob Ross wet-on-wet technique as seen on more than 300 PBS stations throughout the US.

Apr 8, 8:30am - 12pm