Details of current and past events can be found below.
EVENT DETAILS
The ten-year anniversary group show opens October 12 at the George Gallery, Charleston.
September 1, 2023–Charleston, SC: October 2023 marks The George Gallery’s tenth anniversary. In the fall of 2013, the Gallery opened and began to show and sell abstract and non-objective art at its Bogard St. location. Five years ago, The George relocated to 54 Broad St. in Charleston, and last year, it opened a second location in Charlotte, NC.
To commemorate this occasion, the gallery will open a new exhibition featuring works from its renowned stable of artists. In celebration, this group show will be on display from October 13 to November 3: “the exhibit will highlight new works by seventeen of our artists. We are celebrating the artists who helped us reach the milestone of ten years. Without our artists, clients, vendors, friends, and family, we wouldn’t be able to do what we love. This show is a ‘thank you’ to the wonderful community that supports us,” said Anne Siegfried, owner of The George Gallery.
Artists who will be included in the tenth-anniversary show are Magnolia Laurie, Yvonne Robert, Paul Yanko, George Read, Vicki Sher, Kat Klerks, Lori Glavin, Nadia Stieglitz, Erik Neff, Allison Gildersleeve, Frank Phillips, Betsy Brackin, Alan Jackson, Bryce Speed, Jeffery Cortland Jones, Heather Jones, Catherine Erb, Catherine Booker Jones and Isabel Bornstein.
In The Weeds, an exhibition of new works from Magnolia Laurie
Opens September 15 at The George Gallery, Charlotte
Magnolia Laurie solo exhibit opens September 15, at The George Gallery, Charlotte
July 11, 2023–Charlotte, NC: The George Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming debut of In the Weeds, Magnolia Laurie’s premier solo show at the gallery. All are welcome to the reception held on Friday, September 15, from 6-8 pm at 631 S. Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte.
Magnolia Laurie’s latest body of work, In the Weeds, dives into the tenuous and often paradoxical relationship between humanity and the natural world. According to owner, Graham-Fleishman, “the two bodies of work in the show differ in materials and color palette. Through oil on panels and ink on paper, Laurie demonstrates her remarkable patience, restraint, and precision. Each of her artworks exudes the delicate harmony of her makeshift structures, structures that seem to be teetering on the brink of collapse. Despite their fragility, Laurie’s paintings capture the human impulse to create and construct, even amidst environmental turmoil. Laurie’s art encourages the observer to contemplate their connection with the environment and evaluate the impact of their actions.”
“In both the paintings and the drawings,” said Laurie, “I have been thinking about the cycles happening all around us, from tectonic shift and volcanic activity to the devastating forest fires and the slow new growth that follows, or even the humble garden that I excitedly plant and tend all spring only to be overwhelmed by weeds and wayward weather over the summer.”
Magnolia Laurie is an accomplished artist and professor who teaches at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. She currently resides in Baltimore, MD, where she received her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Magnolia has been recognized for her work with numerous residencies, including those from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, and the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. She has also received grants from the Creative Baltimore Fund, the Maryland State Arts Council Grants, the Belle Foundation, and a Mid-Atlantic Creative Fellowship.
All pieces are available for purchase. For more information or to receive the list of the works included in the exhibition, please contact The George Gallery at 704.817.9077 or by email at lucy@georgegalleryart.com.
Rotate, an exhibition of new works from Lori Glavin
Opens June 16 at The George Gallery, Charlotte
April 11, 2023–Charlotte, NC: The George Gallery is pleased to announce Rotate, Lori Glavin’s first solo show in Charlotte. This collection will include paintings on canvas, paper, collage, and monotypes created with the commercial printer 10 Grand Press, Brooklyn, NY. Each piece is connected by an emphasis on vibrant color, defined shapes, and the painterly marks punctuating her compositions. All are welcome to the reception held on Friday, June 16, from 6-8 pm at 631 S. Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC 28211.
“In Rotate, I have literally turned the work every which way, viewing it from a fresh perspective at each turn. In addition, while making the paintings, collages, and prints, I turned from one project to the next – and this influenced the outcome of everything.”
In the Connecticut-based artist’s work, tilted piles are stacked and skewed, and cross-hatched planes imitate threads that weave under the gestural line and nudge up against bulbous shapes. In the paintings, collage-like forms are layered on top of each other. In the monotypes, painterly moments are found in the brush strokes used to apply collaged pieces. Glavin builds up her surfaces through addition, subtraction, scraping, layering, and wiping away, often revealing surprises.
Lori Glavin earned a BFA from Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY. She is the recipient of a 2019 Connecticut Individual Artist Fellowship Grant and a two-time fellowship and grant recipient to Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. In 2007 she co-founded Wilson Avenue Loft Artists, a community of artist studios in Norwalk, CT. Glavin lives and works in Connecticut and Upstate New York.
Join us for the opportunity to encounter Lori Glavin and observe her new body of work. The exhibition will be on view from June 16-July 7. All pieces are available for purchase. For more information or to receive the list of the works included in the exhibition, please contact The George Gallery at 704.817.9077 or by email at lucy@georgegalleryart.com.
aper Prima, a solo exhibit of works on paper from the estate of
William Halsey at The George Gallery opens on May 11 in Charleston
The George Gallery is honored to present a solo exhibition of just-released works from the estate of Charleston native William Halsey (1915-1999). This collection embodies the best of what Halsey created in his career as an abstract expressionist for which he is best known. Bright, strong, and emotive paintings on paper are what a viewer can expect from Paper Prima. Join us to celebrate the opening of this solo show in Charleston on Thursday, May 11, 6-8 pm.
In 1939, William Halsey and his wife, Corrie McCallum, settled in Mexico City, where they would live for the next two years – continually visiting the inspirational city throughout their life. The exhibit’s title, Paper Prima, was born from the intensely bright pigments imbued with Halsey’s love for the colors of Mexico. Ever the individual posed to set himself apart geographically and intellectually, Halsey remarked, “I’m painting directly from my internal feelings and hopefully doing what comes naturally” (c. 1996).
During his lifetime, Halsey’s works were included in exhibitions at such noted institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and National Academy of Design. He is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the High Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibbes Museum of Art, and Greenville County Museum of Art.
The George Gallery is located at 54 Broad St., Charleston, SC. Regular business hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11-5. For more information or to receive a preview of this exhibition, please contact The George Gallery at 843.579.7328 or by email at anne@georgegalleryart.com. The gallery represents contemporary and modern American and European artists inspired by the post-war abstract art movement.
Re-surface – April 20, 2023 – A group exhibition
Re-Surface, a group exhibit from sixteen artists
at The George Gallery opens on April 20 in Charleston
Feb 15, 2023 — Charleston SC: The George Gallery is pleased to present Re-Surface, a group exhibition featuring sixteen George Gallery artists. The show will open on Thursday, April 20, with a reception from 6-8pm. The reception is free and open to the public.
Re-Surface, is inspired by the idea of seeing artwork in person and not on a screen. With the rise and fall of NFTs over the last few years, this exhibit seeks to engage viewers with experiencing two-dimensional art in person. According to Anne Siegfried, The George Gallery Director, “this exhibition hopes to refocus the viewer’s eye on the importance of the surface, the brushstrokes, the edges of paper, raw canvas, and photography by looking at actual not virtual art. We are affected by the unfiltered colors, scale and physicality. The purpose of art is to make us think and feel, that experience is more impactful when we are physically present with it.”
The artists who are participating are: Yvonne Robert, Magnolia Laurie, Paul Yanko, Vicki Sher, Kat Klerks, Tom Stanley, Lori Glavin, Erik Neff, Catherine Booker Jones, Allison Gildersleeve, Amanda Norman, Heather Jones, Catherine Erb, Betsy Brackin, Raishad Glover, and Bryce Speed.
The George Gallery curated this show to celebrate the hand-made aspect of contemporary fine art. “Scale and medium are essential components in a work of art and they can fall by the wayside when only viewing artwork on a screen,” said Siegfried. “I asked each of the participating artists to think about the surface as the subject matter. This collection highlights the relationship between the artist and their materials, which then creates the viewers experience with the final surface.”
The George Gallery is located at 54 Broad St., Charleston, SC. Regular business hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11-5. For more information or to receive a preview of this exhibition, please contact The George Gallery at 843.579.7328 or by email at anne@georgegalleryart.com. The gallery represents contemporary and modern American and European artists inspired by the post-war abstract art movement.
Otto Neumann – March 24, 2023 – A solo exhibition
Solo exhibition from the estate of, Otto Neumann, Century to Century, opens March 24 at The George Gallery in Charlotte
January 18, 2023– Charlotte NC: The George Gallery in Charlotte is honored to open a solo exhibition of works by German artist Otto Neumann (1895-1975). The public is invited to a reception on Friday, March 24 from 6-8pm at 631 S. Sharon Amity Rd.
Century to Century is curated to celebrate the variety of subject matter that Neumann created over his lifetime. While his monotypes from later in his life are widely known, this exhibit contains drawings and watercolors along with monotypes that have not been exhibited before.
“We are excited to open this show in unison with Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds, a special exhibition at the Mint Museum in Charlotte. Visitors will note the through-line of the two contemporaries,” says Lucy Graham-Fleishman, Gallery Director. According to Dr. David M. Sokol:
Pablo Picasso and Otto Neumann were versatile in the mediums in which they worked, painting, drawing, and graphics. Both started out and came to their early maturity as painters of the human form with an expressionistic bent. Though Picasso’s Blue Period was characterized by more exaggerated and elongated forms, Neumann’s portraits and figure studies were more thickly painted, with a more varied palette of colors. Even early on, both had a healthy respect for the picture plane and concentrated far more on the figure than its setting. Both artists explored a variety of subjects as they matured, including landscapes, still-life compositions, and more, but both concentrated on the human figure, exploring, dissecting, and creating it anew. The mature Picasso was more versatile than Neumann, and more restless in the way he changed styles and returned to earlier forms, while Neumann’s progress was consistently more and more toward the total abstraction of the human form. Yet, even there, in their later post-war work, both Picasso’s paintings and Neumann’s monotype prints combined, overlapped, and exaggerated aspects of that human form to present it for our appreciation and understanding.
The exhibition will be on view March 24 through April 14. All works are available for purchase through The George Gallery at 631 S. Sharon Amity Road, Charlotte NC. Regular business hours are
Tuesday-Saturday 11-5. For more information or to receive a preview of the exhibition, please contact us by phone at 704.817.9077 or by email at lucy@georgegalleryart.com. The gallery represents contemporary and modern American and European artists inspired by the post-war oeuvre.
Raishad J. Glover – March 4, 2023 – An Artist Talk
For Immediate Release
Artist talk with Raishad Glover, hosted by
The George Gallery in Charlotte
Saturday March 4, 2023 12-1pm
February 1, 2023– Charlotte NC: The George Gallery is pleased to provide the public an opportunity to hear from conceptual artist Raishad J. Glover at the Charlotte location, 631 S. Sharon Amity Rd on Saturday, March 4 from 12-1pm. This event is free and open to all.
Glover will give insight on his recent and past work. He will highlight his latest works, Retro Cube Series and Geo-Spec Series. The conversation will focus on the meaning and history of his use of mediums such as Graphite Powder, Hemp Fiberboard, Encaustics and Lenticular Printing in his art. Glover will also explore his past work during and after graduate school and how they shaped him in his current practice. Glover’s work is inspired by Community Networking Formats, Ecological Design Services and Visual Systems. “My cube series can be seen as building blocks for community, family and eco-environments,” said Glover.
Glover attended Xavier University and Tufts University, School of Museum for Fine Arts. In 2007, he received his MFA from the Yale School of Art. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Claflin University (HBCU) where he teaches Studio Art and Digital Design.
The George Gallery is located at 631 S. Sharon Amity Road, Charlotte NC. Regular business hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11-5. For more please contact us by phone at 704.817.9077 or by email at lucy@georgegalleryart.com. The gallery represents contemporary and modern American and European artists inspired by the post-war abstract art movement.
Catherine Erb – Jan. 26, 2023 – A solo exhibition of new artworks
For Immediate Release
Solo exhibit from multi-media artist, Catherine Erb Acts of Kindness, opens at The George Gallery on Jan 26 in Charleston
Dec 27, 2022 — Charleston SC: The George Gallery will be opening Catherine Erb’s new solo exhibit, Acts of Kindness, on Thursday, January 26, with a reception from 6-8pm. The reception is free and open to the public. The artist will be in attendance.
Acts of Kindness, an exhibition of encaustic mixed media photographs focused on antique glass marbles. Erb is literally blurring the lines between representation and abstraction in order to get to a point where, as Erb says, “All that’s left is a deeper recognition with knowing.” The origin of the Marble series are the marbles the artist’s children received for kind words actions and deeds when they were growing up. Every time they shared with another child or did a random act of kindness they would get a marble which would then be placed in the jar. One day Erb looked at this huge bowl of marbles now in her house and she was struck by the fact that each one of them represented a kind word action or deed that had taken place. Erb wanted to memorialize and honor them and pass along the acts of kindness. During the making of the Marbles series, Erb began to explore Brene Brown’s “Anatomy of Trust”. Brown compares the trust in a true friendship to a jar full of marbles. This metaphorical marble jar is only given to people in one’s life who have earned one’s trust one kind action at a time. Thus, each of Erb’s Marble pieces represents an individual act, word, or deed of kindness. Each of the Marble works is unique, one of a kind.
Erb’s consistency in her creative approach to her work is elegantly disciplined. Her process begins with a photographic image which she prints on a watercolor paper. The work is then transformed by the addition of multiple layers of pigment and encaustic, a specific combination of resin and wax. Encaustic is one of the earliest mediums used in ancient Greek and Roman paintings dating back to 300 AD. This connection to the origins of art history enriches the viewer’s experience while at the same time, the process connects the work to a thoroughly modern sensibility.
Erb’s work is available at The George Gallery at 54 Broad St. Charleston, SC. Regular business hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11-5. For more information or to receive a preview of her upcoming work, please contact The George Gallery at 843.579.7328 or by email at anne@georgegalleryart.com.
MORE EVENTS
Charlotte, NC Gallery Grand Opening – Saturday, Nov 19
For Immediate Release
Grand Opening of The George Gallery in Charlotte, NC
on Saturday, Nov 19. Monotype demonstration by Paul Yanko from 12-2 pm
November 5, 2022–Charlotte, NC: The George Gallery is excited to announce the grand opening of our Charlotte location. The doors will open to the public on Saturday, November 19 beginning at 11 am. A monotype making demonstration by artist Paul Yanko will take place from 12-2pm. The gallery is located at 631 S. Sharon Amity Rd, in the same shopping plaza as locals’ favorite, Eddie’s Place. The gallery is nestled between Myers Park, South Park, and Cotswold neighborhoods. The regular hours of the gallery are 11-5pm Tuesday – Saturday. This event is free to attend.
Since 2013, The George Gallery in Charleston, SC has represented the esteemed works of contemporary American and European painters and artists’ estates, including William Halsey and Corrie McCallum. The gallery has maintained a focus on non-representational and abstract art. The Charlotte location will feature many artists currently represented by its sister gallery in Charleston, with a few exciting additions, such as George Read and Nadia Stieglitz. Soon announcing solo show dates for artists, Allison Gildersleeve, Otto Neumann, and Lori Glavin.
During the monotype presentation Paul Yanko will demonstrate the process and discuss his method, while fielding questions. A monotype is simply defined as a unique print, a single production made by applying paint or ink to a flat surface then transferring the image to paper using a technique called ‘dark field.’
Since 2004, Youngstown, Ohio native Paul Yanko has been teaching in the Visual Arts Department at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina. He received an M.F.A. in painting from Kent State University in 1995 and a B.F.A in illustration from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1991. While residing in Ohio, Yanko exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and the McDonough Museum of Art. In 2002 he was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.
Paul Yanko demonstrating the art of the monotype – Charleston Oct. 9 2021
Vicki Sher – Nov. 3, 2022 – A solo exhibition of new artworks
For Immediate Release
The George Gallery presents Arrival,
an exhibition of new works from Vicki Sher.
Opening reception: Thursday, November 3, 6-8 pm
at 54 Broad Street, Charleston SC
October 3, 2022–Charleston, SC: The George Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Arrival, a solo exhibit by Vicki Sher. The New York based artist will attend a reception on Thursday, November 3, from 6-8pm at 54 Broad St. in Charleston, SC. The reception is free and open to the public.
Vicki Sher has an impressive background that includes her representation at galleries in Los Angeles, Jackson Hole, New York, and Paris. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, which is a significant historical institution in the history of female artists. In both her paintings on canvas and her oil pastels on drafting film, Sher’s imagery is honest, minimal, and orderly. She never makes marks that are unnecessary. She leans heavily on her deep understanding of color theory, creating a perfect balance through form and structure without complicated techniques. It’s all on the surface for the viewer to see.
“My work sits at the intersection of Form and Joy. Balance and restraint butt heads with an ecstatic appreciation of color. I make paintings and sculptures that I want to exist because I want to make beautiful things. I use color to activate emotion, shapes to reference the natural and anthropomorphic world, then I give space around the activity to invite considerations about place and narrative. My concerns are tactile, and visual, but emerge from intuitive and instinctual impulses. Rather than draw from the discernible physical world, I use shapes that reference plants, landscape, and the body but assert their unnaturalness. In this way I use principles of naturalism, i.e. gravity, growth, posture, harmony but can depart into my own playful territory. The work also references music, in the sense that structure and shifts in color can vibrate and affect us much in the same way that shifts in rhythm and harmony/discordances play on our mood.” -Vicki Sher
Join us to meet Vicki Sher and experience her works at the opening reception on Thursday, November 3, 6-8pm. All works are available for purchase; please contact the gallery for details. The exhibit will be on view November 3-November 30. For more information or to receive a preview of the exhibition, please contact The George Gallery by phone at 843.579.7328 or by email at info@georgegalleryart.com.
Yvonne Robert – Oct. 13, 2022 – A solo exhibition of new artworks
For Immediate Release
The George Gallery presents, Air and Sound,
an exhibition of new works from Yvonne Robert
Opening reception: Thursday, October 13, 6-8 pm
at 54 Broad Street, Charleston SC
August 9, 2022–Charleston, SC: The George Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Air and Sound, a solo exhibit by Yvonne Robert. Born in 1972, Robert grew up in Germany and now lives in Zurich. She has exhibited internationally in New York, Sidney, Vancouver, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris, Berlin, and Zurich. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, October 13, from 6-8pm at 54 Broad St. in Charleston, SC. The artist will be in attendance.
Yvonne Robert is a painter celebrated across the globe for her minimalist paintings that communicate with her edited palette. Robert says she is “happy when the viewer gets through my paintings an energy that they can take with them or carry out.” Following in the footsteps of renowned female artist Helen Frankenthaler with her restrained composition and master of rich pigment, Mark Rothko, Robert utilizes a deliberate brushstroke to activate bold hues. Known for her large-scale canvases that balance pleasant compositions with a vibrant minimal palette Robert’s work derides emotion, it sings a song. She shares an interior space with her gestures that pull you into her canvas.
Of the show’s title Roberts says it “describes the atmosphere. The senses perceive it consciously and unconsciously. It is the non-visible factors that are so important for the emerging, visible work. Air also stands for light, smell, or temperature. Sound also stands for quiet sounds of any kind or thoughts that go through the head.”
Join us for the rare opportunity to meet Yvonne Robert and experience her works. The opening reception on Thursday, October 13, 6-8pm is open to the public. All works are available for purchase, please contact the gallery for details. The exhibit will be on view October 13-November 12. For more information or to receive a preview of the exhibition, please contact The George Gallery by phone at 843.579.7328 or by email at info@georgegalleryart.com.
