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SUMMARY:SIRENS
DESCRIPTION:SIRENS \nTiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) is excited to announce our next exhibition\, SIRENS. This exhibition features work by artists and new Tiger Strikes Asteroid members Michaela Pilar Brown\, Zen Cohen\, Rebecca Forstater\, Hani Le\, and Dana Potter. Through installation and digital transformation\, the exhibition investigates virtual landscapes and the ways environments\, both physical and digital\, are constructed. The artists use the gallery as a site to examine the reciprocal relationship between the digital world and the individual: how digital experiences shape us\, and how we\, in turn\, shape them. The exhibition will run December 5th to January 9th at our gallery located in The Lofts of Greenville and Monaghan Mill. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday\, December 5th from 6-10 pm. \nMichaela Pilar Brown Michaela Pilar Brown’s installation Dancing Time is focused on grief and its relationship to the landscape. It’s an exploration of Black American burial rituals and ancestor reverence. She has chosen material gathered from land occupied by her family for more than two centuries\, where her ancestors lived\, loved and toiled. The primary element uses cedar trees historically planted at grave sites as a symbol of everlasting life\, and includes bones\, reflective material\, sound and moving images to punctuate the deep and abiding connection to the life cycles of the land and the human tendency toward the collection of momentos. \nZen Cohen’s Southern Oracle is an interactive video installation made in response to the acceleration of machine learning\, the magnitude of digital images rendered daily using this technology\, and the role of the human collaborator in this hyper production. The installation utilizes a monitor lying flat on a pedestal underneath a suspended endoscope to perform video feedback. The viewer/participant is invited to infiltrate the video signal by moving their hands under the camera to generate additional feedback currents across the screen. Video feedback requires subtle camera movements for the image to continuously replicate itself and generate complex patterns\, textures\, and color variations. When users interact with their hands\, skin tones generate dynamic variations in color and patterns. This interactivity is further mediated using TouchDesigner\, a visual programming software designed for the installation to mix pre-recorded video clips of different water bodies (oceans\, waterfalls\, and floods). These video clips combined with the live camera\, simulate additional currents or visual occurrences across the screen. Throughout the exhibit\, interactions with the installation will be recorded to produce media files for extracting still frames for printmaking. In total\, the installation and its iterative process of echoing digital images\, functions as a generative machine. \nRebecca Forstater’s {Training_camp} examines the creation of public memory in the current AI-fueled rat race through the lens of pop-culture history. The works from Version 2.0 displayed in this exhibition focus on photographed moments of crisis involving female celebrities in the early 2000s that circulated widely as entertainment through early digital media. Forstater utilizes the materiality of emerging AI software to create these works\, asking the training models to contextualize the past given the algorithm’s present pool of data. The results\, imagery deeply rooted in social and cultural narratives surrounding gender\, serve as a case study of biased ideologies embedded in our digital social consciousness. The objects and videos visualize peculiar amalgamations\, attempting to reverse the uncomfortable\, revealing fleeting instances of progress entangled with societal mistakes\, and shapeshifting into new iterations. \nHani Le’s Ode to the Perfect Unicorn in My DM’s — She is the perfect friend\, she is the comforting big sister\, digital confidant\, the secret you keep in your pocket\, the one to spill all your heartfelt fears to; She is the elusive\, ideal unicorn you are looking for. A virtual stranger that becomes a friend that becomes a confidant then turns into a flattened digital deity whose messages comfort your every woes. This unicorn is an avatar of netizens who fold themselves into the role of the therapist friend\, the always-there friend\, the instant notification bubble of comfort for someone spilling their sorrows. A feedback loop spawns of the sacrificial slivers one shows the internet of themselves—echoed back by the internet denizens who know only that persona—ritualizes these beings into an iconistic form. This unicorn lives a self-condemned existence trapped in an idyllic virtual landscape\, cursed to forever play confidant to all they come across. \nDana Potter’s Am I the Only One Freaking Out Right Now is a video installation presented on a cellphone and TV display. A sequence of screen recordings from TikTok\, focusing on a single\, seemingly mundane product: tubing mascara. Potter collected hundreds of videos of people applying\, removing\, discussing\, and promoting the mascara. The product’s popularity online is tied to its visual appeal in video: the act of removing the mascara with hot water\, produces a black pigment that streaks down the cheeks. Watching someone do this is visually engaging and the action is reproducible. To emphasize this repetition and spectacle\, Potter collages the original screen recordings in repeated and mirrored patterns which mimic kaleidoscopes or fun-house mirror \nAbout TSA GVL\nTiger Strikes Asteroid is a 501(c)(3) non-profit network of independently programmed\, artist-run exhibition spaces with locations in Philadelphia\, New York\, Los Angeles\, Chicago\, and Greenville\, SC. Our goal is to collectively bring people together\, expand connections\, and create community through artist-initiated exhibitions\, projects\, and curatorial opportunities.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/sirens/
LOCATION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville\, 201 Smythe St.\, Greenville\, SC\, 29611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Everything Belongs: Josh Jensen Solo Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Art & Light Gallery is happy to present “Everything Belongs”\, an exhibition of work by Josh Jensen (Charlotte\, N.C.) launching on the Art & Light website and in the gallery at 10:00 AM (EST) on Tuesday\, January 6 with an opening reception on Friday\, January 9 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. \nJosh Jensen is an abstract painter whose work has evolved from figurative oil to mixed media painting focused on color and movement\, informed by his career as a marriage and family therapist. Jensen finds that his work as a psychotherapist influences his artistic process by making him focus on a balance between chaos and order\, spontaneity and intention. His painting involves a balance of intuitive exploration and intentional application as he aims to create pieces that are both aesthetically pleasing and meaningful. In his current painting practice Josh favors work with acrylics for their vibrant colors and versatile flow. \nIn “Everything Belongs”\, Jensen invites viewers to see beauty in the process of accepting imperfection. He states\, “Drawing on both jazz improvisation and biblical imagery\, my work suggests that our mistakes are raw material for grace. My creative goal is to embrace the inevitability of error and transform it\, trusting that what is most human in art is often what is most flawed and also most alive. Each piece captures the quiet revelation that nothing\, no color\, no moment\, no story\, is ever truly wasted.” \nOnce the predominant color relationships and overall composition of a painting begin to emerge\, Jensen interacts with the medium more intentionally and with more control while trying to remain faithful to the spontaneous beginning stages of the work. As a painter\, Josh seeks to strike a balance between open ended exploration\, allowing accidents to emerge\, while using formal technique and design elements to find command in the process. The end result combines harmonious color that expresses a sense of form and place with the improvisational nature of the painting medium.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/everything-belongs-josh-jensen-solo-exhibition/
LOCATION:Art & Light
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Art & Light | Anchorage Exhibition Series: Gretta McCall
DESCRIPTION:Art & Light Gallery and The Anchorage Restaurant are pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition in their 2026 partnership series. A solo exhibition featuring work by local Greenville\, S.C. artist Gretta McCall will be on view at The Anchorage in the Village of West Greenville from January 6 to April 7\, 2026. The Anchorage Exhibition Series brings art beyond the walls of Art & Light Gallery to offer an immersive experience that fuses culinary and visual arts at The Anchorage Restaurant. \nGretta McCall’s paintings explore the complex interplay between ourselves and the natural world\, moving fluidly between abstraction and recognizable subject matter. Her process begins with an immersive “drawing expedition” into nature. These explorations result in quick\, expressive studies of compelling landscapes and forms\, which then serve as the source material for her paintings. Her work is driven by the desire to express emotion with the medium\, utilizing a love of color to explore endless possibilities and relationships. McCall states\, “The landscape has become the subject for exploration because nature has been my refuge\, solace and companion since I was a child. Each painting must have a distinct voice. Through the painting process I become aware of the deep places within me that are becoming a part of the painting. Life demands that we embody joy and sorrow simultaneously. Therefore\, I seek to reflect this in my work”. \nJoin Gretta McCall for an intimate artist talk on Thursday\, February 12 from 5:00-6:30 PM. Enjoy a signature cocktail by mixologist Mills Higgins along with Chef Zurkey curated small bites inspired by Gretta’s paintings. Ticket sales are limited with 25 spaces available. Visit The Anchorage to purchase tickets for the event. While Gretta McCall’s exhibition is on view at The Anchorage restaurant\, work included in the show is available for purchase through Art & Light Gallery. \nEXHIBITION DETAILS\nGretta McCall Solo Exhibition January 6 – April 7\, 2026\nArtist Talk: Thursday\, February 12 | 5 – 6:30pm The Anchorage Restaurant\, 586 Perry Ave.\, Greenville\, SC 29611
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/art-light-anchorage-exhibition-series-gretta-mccall/
LOCATION:The Anchorage Restaurant\, 586 Perry Ave.\, Greenville\, 29611
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Tina Steenerson- Abstractions: acrylic paintings At the nARThex Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Tina Steenerson’s acrylic paintings will be on view in the Greenville Unitarian Universalist nARThex gallery for January and February. Open Sundays from 9:30 12:30. An artist reception will be held Thursday\, Jan. 8th from 5-7pm. Entrance is from the back parking lot.\nThe public is welcome.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/tina-steenerson-abstractions-acrylic-paintings-at-the-narthex-gallery/
LOCATION:nARThex Gallery\, 1135 State Park Road\, Greenville\, 29609
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Ascension
DESCRIPTION:Tryon Arts & Crafts School announces the exhibition Ascension by Jennifer Bueno\, Kit Paulson\, and Kimberly Thomas\, which will run from January 13 through February 15\, 2026. The exhibit coincides with the school’s annual fused glass symposium\, FuseFest (February 13 to 15)\, and culminates in a closing reception and artist panel on Friday\, February 13\, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm.\nThe exhibition explores the essential thresholds between the seen and the unseen\, with each artist using glass to articulate the theme of ascension. Through their distinct practices\, the artists propose that true ascension is not only flight or physical escape from a fragile planet\, but fundamentally a transformation of consciousness—a radical shift toward heightened perception\, empathy\, and possibility.\nFor Jennifer Bueno\, this ascension begins with the physical environment and stretches outward into space. Her luminous glass and painted forms translate the felt\, intimate bond between the body and its environment into ethereal\, suspended spaces. Through the synthesis of glass and evocative media\, Bueno makes visible the invisible energies that sustain life\, urging viewers toward an elevation of awareness rather than an abandonment of Earth. Her surfaces suggest an ecology of spirit\, where the boundary between self and atmosphere dissolves.\nKimberly Thomas propels that ascent inward and psychologically. Through kinetic flameworked and mixed-media sculptures that merge realism with dark fantasy\, she examines the human desire to transcend corruption\, fear\, and societal constraint. Her works visually capture the chaotic\, fierce struggle required for deep personal change. In her universe\, ascension is rebellion—a necessary\, creative act of shedding imposed forms. She asks what it means to evolve beyond the corrupting weight of human constraint.\nWith Kit Paulson\, ascension takes on an intellectual and spiritual precision. Her intricate glass constructions recall instruments of measurement\, flight\, and ritual\, merging scientific curiosity with mythic longing. Her works operate like precise\, visual diagrams of transcendence—the fragile\, complex systems of knowledge and inner life. Through meticulous craftsmanship\, Paulson makes visible the delicate balance between containment and release\, the body and the infinite.\nTogether\, these three artists imagine what it means to rise—emotionally\, philosophically\, and cosmically—from a planet in crisis. In Ascension\, escape is not avoidance but an evolution.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/ascension/
LOCATION:Tryon Arts & Crafts School\, 373 Harmon Field Road\, Tryon\, NC\, 28782\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:All About Water - Gallery Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:“Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo Da Vinci \nCall for Entries for “All About Water” – a small gallery exhibition at Blue Ridge Arts Center in Seneca\, SC. This is an open show – all submitted works will be displayed and awards will be presented ($750 – 1st\, $500 – 2nd\, $250 – 3rd\, $100 – Merit x5). Artists may submit 1-2 original works created in the last 2 years\, which have not previously been exhibited at Blue Ridge Arts Center. All 2D and 3D media will be accepted. Pre-register artwork online by 9pm on Thursday\, January 8. \nFor full details\, visit: http://www.blueridgeartscenter.com/show-all-about-water
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/all-about-water-gallery-exhibition/
LOCATION:Blue Ridge Arts Center\, 111 E. South 2nd Street\, Seneca\, SC\, 29678\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Opportunities,Calls for Art,Calls For Artists,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260119T080000
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SUMMARY:Call For Entries: National Photography Show
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition is open to all artists residing in the United States. There is no specific theme. All photographic processes will be accepted\, including non-traditional materials\, mixed media\, or digital photography. All artwork should be original\, created by the submitting artist within the last three years and not previously shown at Blue Ridge Arts Center. Juror for this show is Alan Ethridge\, Executive Director Metropolitan Arts Council. \nDeadline for submissions: Saturday\, February 21\, 2026. \nShow on display: March 20 – April 24 \nAwards will be presented. 1st Place: $750. 2nd Place: $500. 3rd Place: $250. Merit Awards: $100
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/call-for-entries-national-photography-show/
LOCATION:Blue Ridge Arts Center\, 111 E. South 2nd Street\, Seneca\, SC\, 29678\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calls for Art,Calls For Artists,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:MIRROR: Visual Arts as Social Commentary
DESCRIPTION:The Warehouse Theatre\, located at 37 Augusta Street\, is proud to present its first juried exhibition as part of the SeasonArt Series. Timed to coincide with the production of The Mountaintop by Pulitzer-Prize-winning and Tony-nominated playwright Katori Hall (running April 3–26)\, the exhibition will explore the theme MIRROR: Visual Arts as Social Commentary.\nArtists are invited to submit works that challenge\, reflect\, and inspire dialogue around contemporary social issues. Prizes totaling $1\,600 will be awarded: $800 for first place\, $500 for second\, and $300 for third. The exhibition will be juried by Professor Valerie Zimany\, Chair of the Department of Art at Clemson University’s College of Architecture\, Art and Construction.\nSubmission Details\n• Deadline: March 6\, 2026\n• Entry Fee: None\n• Limit: One entry per artist\n• Submission: Online at warehousetheatre.com/education/seasonart-series\n• Notification of Selection: March 16\, 2026\n• Selected Artwork Delivery: In-person drop-off at The Warehouse Theatre on Thursday\, March 19\, 5-7 pm\, and Friday\, March 20\, 12-3 pm. (No shipments will be accepted.)\n• Opening Reception and Awards: Wednesday April 1st\, 2026\, 6-8pm \nSeasonArt Series
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/mirror-visual-arts-as-social-commentary/
LOCATION:Warehouse Theatre\, 37 Augusta Street\, Greenville\, 29601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Opportunities,Calls For Artists
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SUMMARY:Grand Opening with Laurie Buck
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating the grand opening of our new in-house art gallery\, “the art gallery @ NCC” at the Neighborhood Cancer Connection. We are fortunate to have painter Laurie Buck as our inaugural artist. In addition\, Laurie is generously donating a portion of every sale to the Neighborhood Cancer Connection. You will not want to miss this gorgeous event! \n“My paintings are a reflection of my journey to push beyond long-held self limitations\, to live with less condemnation for myself and others\, and to reflect the beauty of creation that moves me so deeply.” – Laurie Buck\, Greenville\, SC \nNeighborhood Cancer Connection: Who We Are\nWe’re a cancer support community for patients and their families. We believe everyone should have someone to turn to after a cancer diagnosis. Since 1965\, Neighborhood Cancer Connection – an independent\, non-profit formerly known as the Cancer Society of Greenville County – has committed its resources to providing holistic support for cancer patients and their families: financial\, physical\, and emotional. From prescriptions and counseling to nutrition and medical equipment\, NCC supports dignity from all angles\, while also ensuring every cancer fighter is connected to a vibrant\, supportive community – perhaps the most important factor in contributing to a positive outcome.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/grand-opening-with-laurie-buck/
LOCATION:Neighborhood Cancer Connection\, 113 Mills Ave\, Greenville\, 29605
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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