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SUMMARY:Mending A Broken Heart: One Brushstroke at a Time
DESCRIPTION:The next community exhibition\, Mending a Heart: One Brushstroke at a Time\, demonstrates “painting through tragedy\, tears\, illness\, despair\, regrets\, fear\, forgiveness\, courage\, survival\, joy\, hope\, and healing. It is amazing how creative grief and love can be\,” says artist\, Suzanne Accetta. \nThe Opening Reception will take place on Friday\, September 5 from 6-8pm in the Sturgis Gathering Space. All are welcome to come and see the exhibition and meet the artist! The exhibit will be located on the 1st and 2nd floors of the Galleries at First Pres. \nThis Event Runs From Sep 5\, 2025\, 9:00am to Jan 16\, 2026\, 3:00pm Timezone: EST
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/mending-a-broken-heart-one-brushstroke-at-a-time/
LOCATION:The Galleries at First Pres\, 200 West Washington Street\, Greenville\, SC
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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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:Second Saturday Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Join us the Second Saturday of each month\, 11:00 AM–1:00 PM\, for coffee and donuts at the Center. All are welcome. \nSecond Saturday Coffee is a relaxed chance to meet local photographers\, share work (in-progress or finished)\, and get friendly feedback. You can also just listen and enjoy the conversation. No registration needed — bring yourself\, some prints\, and an open mind. See you there! \nSecond Saturday Coffee is held in the Poinsette Plaza Building\, 104 S Main St\, Greenville\, SC\, 1st Floor opposite the Security Desk
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/second-saturday-coffee/
LOCATION:SE Center for Photography\, 104 S Main St\, Greenville\, 29601
CATEGORIES:Artist Opportunities,Visual Arts
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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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SUMMARY:An Evening with Photographer Peter Essick
DESCRIPTION:Join Blue Ridge Arts Center and the Blue Ridge Photographic Society as we welcome photographer Peter Essick to Seneca. Our “Evening with an Artist” series events bring artists and community together for a casual discussion and/or demonstration in a small group setting where guests are able to view and discuss work directly with the artist. \nPeter Essick is a photographer\, author\, speaker\, instructor\, and drone pilot with 30 years of experience working for National Geographic Magazine. In this intimate\, small group presentation\, Peter will talk about his work\, his inspiration and his passion for photography. Space is limited\, so reserve your spot today. Light refreshments will be served. \n5:30 – 6:00 pm – Meet and Greet\, Refreshments\n6:00 – 7:00 pm – Presentation by Peter Essick\n7:00 – 7:30 pm – Q & A Session
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/an-evening-with-photographer-peter-essick/
LOCATION:Blue Ridge Arts Center\, 111 E. South 2nd Street\, Seneca\, SC\, 29678\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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