Friends in the Dark: Redux + CCP

 

Redux Artist: Mariah Channing & her film camera collection.

Have you heard the buzz….there is a resurgence in film photography in Charleston! Even though we are living in a fast-paced digital age, more and more people are being lured to the tactile, sensory, and magical experience of film processing.

Recently, The Redux Contemporary Art Center and Charleston Center for Photography (CCP) joined together to meet this desire and growing passion. Together, we will be offering traditional darkroom classes in Redux’s revamped darkroom. Thanks to Douglas Carr Cunningham and Redux Studio Artist/Intern, Mariah Channing for all of their hard work in cleaning, organizing and restoring the dark room into its beautiful new state. It looks absolutely amazing, but don’t just take our word for, come see it yourself! Redux offers the only public access darkroom in Charleston. >>Learn More

New beginner black and white classes with Douglas Carr Cunningham begin this week. There is also an upcoming pinhole camera class with Kevin Parent. These photography classes are filling quickly, so be sure to sign up soon.

Also, the Center for Photography is now exhibiting the Polaroid work of Redux Studio Artist, Jen Ervin. The exhibition will be up through the end of June, and  is part of the CCP’s 2nd Monday Lecture series.  Don’t forget to check the CCP’s website for more details on upcoming lectures.

Announcement for Land & Family by Jen Ervin

Father’s Day Focus: Sculptor Tony Smith

Die Sculpture, by Tony Smith

Did you know that American Sculptor, Tony Smith, was not only pioneer in the development of Minimalistic Sculpture in the modern art world, but he helped shaped the artistic careers of his daughters, Kiki Smith (sculptor, printmaker) and Seton Smith (photography)?  

Starting in his 50s, Tony Smith began to create minimalistic pieces inspired by the abstract artwork of his friends: Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Clifford Still. Living most of his life in New Jersey, his home was his studio. It was here, Tony’s children were encouraged to actively participate in his creative process as he allowed both girls to help him create cardboard/toothpick models for his geometric sculptures.  

 ”My father just raised us to be his assistants,” jokes Kiki. “We were like educational experiments.” -excerpt from Artnet

This formalist study laid the foundation for both girls to assert their own ideas in the visual arts. Kiki Smith (b. 1954) is known for her provocative work, a combination of body/spiritual explorations and story-telling through sculptures, printmaking, drawing. Seton Smith (b.1955) found her way through photography, exploring themes of memory and desire.

Blue Girl, 1998 by Kiki Smith

Seton Smith, 1991

So, perhaps there is truth in the old saying, the apple doesn’t fall from the tree. For Kiki Smith and Seton Smith continue to impact the contemporary art world with their own artistic visions, initiated and nurtured by their father, Tony Smith.  

Cheers to all the great dads out there sharing their passions for life with their children. Happy Father’s Day!

Spoleto + Redux Open Studios

OPEN STUDIOS TONIGHT! Come discover all that Redux has to offer with a tour of our facilities, a chance to view our new exhibition by Andrea Stanislav:Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted, and be amazed by our revamped (traditional) dark room! Visitors will also have the rare opportunity to meet our studio artists and see what they’re working on. Light refreshments will be served.

Redux Studio Artists  Lulie Wallace, Teil Duncan, Kaminer Haislip, Lauren Rackley, Paula McInerny, Kate Long Stevenson, Whitney Kreb, Jen Ervin, Mariah Channing, Taillefer Long, Sally Bennett Baxley, Alizey Khan, Kate Mullin, Charles Williams, Camela Guevara, Kate MacNeil, Todd Anderson, Jane Ann Sweeny, Greg Hart, Luke Vehorn, Austin Grace Smith, Lindsay Windham, Marshall Thomas, Karen Ann Myers, Linnie Trettin

Austin Grace Smith @ The Art MECCA

Whirling Notions by Austin Grace Smith, 10×10″, Wood panel.

The Art MECCA, a new gallery on 427 King Street, will be showcasing the work of  Redux Studio Artist, Austin Grace Smith, on Thursday May 9  from 6-9 pm. Austin, whose slogan is “…the adventure continues”, intuitively paints on wood panels, allowing the wood grain to direct her brushstrokes. Austin will give an artist talk on her process and inspiration at 6:30pm.  For more information please call 843-577-0603.

 

Happy Friday!

Poster by Jean Jullien. Ed of 30. available via Sergeant Paper

Where did all the fun people go? Well, to Redux of Course!

We found this on Pinterest today and thought it was a perfect excuse to wish a Happy Friday to all and send out a reminder that Yulia Pinkusevich’s exhibition, Reversion, ends tomorrow, Saturday, May 4th! 

For more information about the above print, please visit Sergeant Paper.

Record Store Day 2013

The Redux community LOVES music and around here, Record Store Day is an important holiday.  What’s Record Store Day? Well, it’s celebration of music that began in 2007 after a group of independent record stores came together to celebrate the art of music and share their unique culture with the world. There are three stores in Charleston participating in this special event: Loco Record Shop, Monster Music, and Earshot. They’ll be hosting special in-store live performances and other promotions. Call or check each store’s sites for more information. 

To share in the festivities, we thought we’d share what we’re listening to….

Redux Studio Artists 

• Alizey Khan – Oblivion and Be a Body by the Grimes
• Lillian Trettin – Richard Thompson, The Harrows
• Kate Long Stevenson – Philip Glass, and the song Forgot About Dre by Dr. Dre + Eminem 
• Kate Mullin –  Lana Del Ray, Amy Winehouse, Jack Johnson 
• Charles Williams - Good Kid, Mad City by Kendrick Lamar 
• Karen Ann Myers - You Know What I Mean by The Cults, Grisgris by The Grimes, Manifest! by Friends, White Elephant by LadyTron
• Greg Hart - In California by Neko Case, Reckoner by Radiohead, Lost Cause by Beck, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by The Band, Acid Tongue by Jenny Lewis,  If You Could Read My Mind by Johnny Cash
• Jen Ervin – The Dove & the Wolf, Vetiver, Neal Casal, CRB, Sera Cahoone, Patti Smith, Black Crowes, and the Rolling Stones.
• Kate MacNeil – The Lumineers, self-titled album
• Lindsay Windham - Fade by Yo La Tengo, Undersea by The Antlers, Sam Cooke: Box Set 

Redux Board & Staff

• Francis Ervin, Board President - Son Volt, Levon Helm, Waylon Jennings, Ryan Adams, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Grateful Dead, J.J. Cale, Shovels & Rope 
• Ann Trabue Nelson, Board Vice-President - Joanna Newsome’s  Milk-Eyed Mender, Patsy Cline, Cole Porter and Neko Case’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
  
• Stacy Huggins, Exeutive Director – Avett Brothers, Shovels & Rope
• Beckie Biorn Dobbs, Business Manager – Barefoot Movement

Redux Artists to be Shown at ArtFields!

Get ready for the largest arts festival to ever occur in South Carolina! The long anticipated, ArtFields, opens today, April 19th at 12pm. For 10 days, this epic event will not only present live music, workshops, and lectures; but, it will showcase 400 works of art, selected from a pool of 778 entries. The opening ceremony will begin tonight at 5pm on The Green, and will continue until 11pm. Admission is free and open to the public.

Many congratulations to the following artists from the Redux community (listed below) who will be exhibiting their work and competing for $100,000 in prize money. The top prize of $50,000 prize will be chosen by a combination of ArtFields attendees and a jury of visual arts professionals. For more information on scheduling, voting  procedures and more, please visit the ArtFields website. 

Sally Bennett

Austin Grace Smith

Greg Hart

Lese Corrigan

Karen Ann Myers

Jen Ervin

Camela Guevara

Kate MacNeil

Charles Williams

 

Yulia Pinkusevich’s Reversion Opens Tonight!

Please join Redux tonight, from 5:30-8:30pm, as we celebrate the unveiling of our latest exhibition, Reversion by Yulia Pinkusevich. The event will begin with an artist lecture at 5:30pm followed by a festive reception with beer, wine, music provided by DJ R Dot, and delicious treats graciously provided by Cupcake. The opening event will also feature a curated selection of new work by Redux studio artists in our Connelly Gallery.

Be sure to come hungry! One of Charleston’s favorite food trucks, Roti Rolls will be on site, serving a local, fresh menu that fuses Asian, Caribbean, Latin and Southern cuisine into their signature Roti Bread.  See you there!

Yulia Pinkusevich’s Reversion Underway

 

Redux is like it never has been before. It’s walls are painted emerald green and are filled with white chalk drawings and organic bursts of bright red paint. There’s a mystical hum in the air as Artist in Residence, Yulia Pinkusevich transforms Redux’s gallery into a site-specific installation  that examines the urban city as a relic. 

Imagine a world of densely layered urban dwellings. Skyscrapers and labyrinths of tunnels fill this vision. This world is disconnected from nature and unaware of its ambient environment. Humans are stacked in layers, living atop one another in soaring structures. The aggregate map of their psychology is manifested in the form of their city… and then imagine it destroyed.

This is the vision Yulia is exploring as she prepares for her latest exhibition, Reversion which opens this Friday, March 29, from 6-8pm.  Redux Intern, Cameron Bolus, captured these images of her work in progress. Don’t miss your chance to meet this amazing artist and experience her compelling vision.

Redux’s Austin Smith – Vision is Art

Deluge by Austin Grace Smith, Acrylic on Birch panel, 24×24″, 2012

Redux Studio Artist, Austin Grace Smith, will be participating in the group show, Vision is Art with five new paintings. The opening reception will be tonight, Thursday, March 21st from 6-8pm at Carolina Eyecare Physicians, 1101 Clarity Road, Mt. Pleasant. A portion of the sales from this event will benefit Operation Sight, a local non-profit providing free cataract surgery to eligible South Carolina residents. This event is free and open to the public.

Other local artists to be featured in Vision is Art include: Alex Radin, Danita Cole, Jennifer Daly, Serge Skiba, Bobbi McLaughlin, Morgan Lail Rice, Jennifer Koach, and Ronnie Smith.

The exhibition will be on view for six months. After tonight, visitors my view the show from 8:30am – 4:30pm, Monday – Friday. For more information, please call 843-881-3937 or visit the Facebook event page.