CURRENT EXHIBITIONS | PROJECTS
CONTINUTY
DEATURING SUSAN BRENNER
Susan Brenner is a Charlotte-based artist who uses a variety of media to make statements about our world today, as well as the human condition. She combines photography and painting to create a series of work dealing with concepts such as fluidity, migration, movement, and societal change. Brenner explores rich textures, abstract forms, and the evolution of movement in her paintings and prints; she is constantly exploring and experimenting, but sometimes revisiting earlier phases, or even coming full circle. Brenner is facile with rendering and expressing an aliveness in her art, as she finds ways to explore the mysteries of the world while fearlessly plunging into unknown territory and experimenting with ways in which to compose and express individuality.
Featuring works across multiple series, this exhibition celebrates and explores the through line of Brenner’s artistic practice and the conceptual, material, and technical connections between bodies of work. Through a variety of ideations and modes of making, Brenner has cultivated a rich studio practice, marrying digital with analog, photography with painting, research with application, world-observing with world-building.
COLLECTIVE WITNESS
A FALL OF FREEDOM EXHIBITION
SE CLT Gallery is proud to present Collective Witness, a two person exhibition featuring internationally recognized artists Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland. In solidarity with the national Fall of Freedom initiative, this exhibition stands as a testament to the power of art to bear witness and to imagine an equitable future.
Through works that are both intimate and public, Oring and Roland transform lived experience and individual testimony into works that urge an engaged citizenry to imagine its way toward true freedom.
In different ways, Oring and Roland make visible the marks that power leaves behind. Oring’s work arises from an ongoing dialogue with the public sphere. Roland’s emerges from the personal experience of confinement. What binds them is a shared insistence on presence, and the belief that to be seen, remembered, and recorded is itself an act of freedom.
VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION | FRIDAY, NOV. 21, 3 PM
Join us for a virtual panel discussion with artists Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland, moderated by SE CLT founder, Sonya Pfeiffer, on Zoom.
SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE | SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 3 - 5 PM
Sheryl Oring will conduct a performance piece, Spirit of Independence at the McColl Center, inviting the public to respond to the question, “What does independence mean to you?” Visitors will share their thoughts while she types them verbatim on a vintage typewriter, creating carbon copies: one for the participant, one for the exhibition, and one for her archive.