Thursday, March 4, 2010

These days, Nathan Durfee is a household name around the Charleston art scene but that wasn't always the case. Four years ago, Durfee hung 15 paintings around the walls of Theater 99 and only sold one painting in a year. From there his work traveled to the Modernisme Gallery in West Ashley and then over to Robert Lange Studios where he has been the past few years and by whom he is currently represented.

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Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010

"What is your relationship with nature?" That is the question that Lisa Shimko's Web site asks the viewer while browsing through her paintings of birds, fruit and tree canopies.

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Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010

'Artist John Carroll Doyle believes in angels; he had to," says Angela Stump of the John Carroll Doyle Gallery.

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Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010

What do you like about your body? That's the question photographer Diana Deaver recently posed to 12 of her friends -- nine women and three men.

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Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010

Glenna Ellen McKenzie has traveled the world taking photographs. From photographing a wedding in France to taking travel pictures of the River Thames in London, McKenzie is passionate about being creative through the eye of her lens.

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Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010

Last year, painter West Fraser came up with his "Painting in a Tree" project where he would create an oil painting and hide it in a tree for someone to find. "The paintings that hang by string, have strings attached. Fraser writes a personal note on the back of each painting appealing to the finder to give back to their community. Fraser's motivation is to encourage giving back to one's community," explains Marla Loftus, communications director at the Gibbes Museum.

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010

Benjamin Williams takes beautiful photographs. His style includes faded color, organic scenery and natural sunlight; he is inspired by the countryside and simplicity.

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010

Kurt Lamkin is a musician, a poet, a spoken-word artist and much more. He's in touch with his ancestral roots and enjoys picking up African instruments and learning them.

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010

The WALK Gallery is facing a bend in the road. Started in 2009 as a volunteer organization, it saw a way to put empty storefronts to good use.

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010

Black and white: The racial dividing line; classics of timeless elegance; good and evil. The list goes on.

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010

With the arrival of the annual Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, comes a herd of artists out of the woodwork.

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Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010

Phillip Smallwood came to painting later in life. He was initially discouraged from studying art professionally and instead majored in biology with a minor in art. Upon completing college, Smallwood founded Woodtopia, Inc., an artisan furniture company. After many years away from his hometown, in 1993, Smallwood returned to New Jersey and took a watercolor painting class that introduced him to the medium he now works with on a daily basis.

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Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010

Tonight, MUSC's Courtenay Street Art Gallery is hosting a reception honoring the life and works of recently deceased Hungarian artist Olga Fisch, and her life and journey from Hungary to Ecuador.

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Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010

Ron Dixon is a literary "regular" around Charleston. When he's not writing, he spends his time with the writing community: spending every Monday night with the crew at Monday Night Blues, speaking at Trident Technical College and more.

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Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010

What began as a brilliant 12 year run on Broadway, has found new life on smaller stages since its original cast's recent final New York. Through mid- February, the Charleston Music Hall will host the much-beloved "Rent," boasting a new cast and a new director.

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