Staff reports | “Even When It’s Dark” is a solo art show opening Dec. 10 that will highlight the work of artist Doug McAbee at Charleston’s Redux Contemporary Art Center. The show, which will have an opening reception at 5 p.m. on its first day, will run through Jan. 22, 2022.
Staff reports | Groundbreaking American roots musician Keb’ Mo’ and his band will return to the Lowcountry at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 26 with a performance at the Gaillard Center in downtown Charleston. Special guest is the Brother Brothers. Tickets start at $29.
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Staff reports | As scorching summer temps cool and fall creeps in, it’s time for many favorite farmers markets in the area to pack it in until next spring. Luckily, there are still a few more weeks to get your farmers-market fix — and even some markets that say open year-round. We’ve rounded up the closing dates of local farmers markets, organized by month:
Staff reports | The Redux Contemporary Art Center opens two new shows this week with one dedicated to a talented watercolorist and the other featuring works of several studio artists.
Charleston native Becca Hopkins offers a series of poignant watercolors June 4 to June 17 in her first solo show at Redux’s Gallery 1056. Called, “Expressway” and curated by Mia Loa, Hopkins’ art highlights the “immensity and artificiality of the Septima P. Clark Expressway stands in jarring contrast with the soft and settled 19th and early 20th century homes around it. It is an alien and alienating landscape that interrupted the human ebb-and-flow of mid-century Charleston,” according to the gallery.
A generation ago, the highway carved through a tight-knit predominantly Black community, displacing approximately 150 residences and businesses in its path. …
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Staff reports | Next month’s Quiet Edge exhibit at Redux Contemporary Art Center brings together the works of two artists who address rectangular forms that ebb and flow between depiction and abstraction: Suzanne Dittenber of Ashevlle, N.C., with the form of the book and Benny Fountain of Waco, Texas, with the window and room.
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Staff reports | Redux Contemporary Art Center’s18th Annual Art Auction will be held in-person and virtually from Nov. 9 to Nov. 21. The auction is the organization’s primary fundraising method each year.
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