A Macrocosmic Zero is the title of Tivon Rice‘s second solo exhibition at Lawrimore Project in Seattle, on view through March 27.  Rice is a new media artist whose tactile approach seeks to present video as an object of use, and to integrate the observer as participant.  The current exhibition fills the front room of the gallery, a windowless space with concrete floors.  It is[.....]

When Jeff Zimmermann came to Charleston, South Carolina magnolias were in bloom, so he painted them, picked fresh and also withered up, placed in bottles. He found local faces and, with a lightness of hand, made these characters breathe with realism that’s expressive, showing the subtleties of identity, yet graphic enough to pop from a distance. During his artist’s residency at Redux Contemporary Art Center,[.....]

DailyServing.com has added a new section to the website, DS Studio Visits. This will be an ongoing series where our writers visit private artist studios from around the world, discussing the artwork directly with the artist. The first artist of the series is painter Karen Ann Myers. Karen Ann Myers recently invited DailyServing’s Celie Dailey into her one-bedroom apartment, which she is temporarily using as[.....]

Prop Master, a collaborative one-room exhibition by Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan, recontextualizes portraits from the permanent collection at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC and other local artifacts by displaying them alongside their own works, although within the institution. Living around the many decorative and luxurious antebellum homes of Charleston is a challenging experience. We see the majesty of architecture, but[.....]

Photographs from Christopher Sims and Stacy Pearsall turn the War on Terror: Inside/Out, as if showing us its seams. Sims documents American-made Iraqi and Afghan villages, used to train soldiers in North Carolina and Louisiana, in his series Home Fronts: The Pretend Villages of Talatha and Braggistan. Pearsall, a military combat photographer since age 17, presents the facts of her experience, daily life that is[.....]

Loren Schwerd‘s Mourning Portraits provide humanized descriptions of the blight that persists in the years after Hurricane Katrina. Working from her photographs taken in efforts to digest these remnants of life, she rebuilds crumbling artifacts as scrupulous and loving memorials to her community. Out of human hair extensions, discarded near St. Claude Beauty Supply in New Orleans, she depicts her encounter with absent victims. Inspired[.....]

Mend: love, life, & loss, featuring ten nationally recognized fiber artists, opened at the College of Charleston’s Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art on Friday, October 24. Curator Mark Sloan has brought together works substantiated by a variety of non-traditional materials, such as hair, thread, fabric, paper, and plastic, many of which are marginalized by their use as craft supplies or in historically female trades. The[.....]