CURRENT EXHIBITIONS | PROJECTS
WORM: DRAWING EXILE, DEFENDING DEMOCRACY
FEATURING EDEL RODRIGUEZ
Before he was "America's Illustrator in Chief," before his TIME covers of a melting Trump became the defining images of a political era, Edel Rodriguez was a nine-year-old boy on a farm outside Havana, labeled a "worm" by the only government he had ever known. That label, "gusano," was Fidel Castro's word for the 125,000 Cubans who fled during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Rodriguez took it back. He made it the title of his acclaimed graphic memoir, WORM: A Cuban American Odyssey, and turned a slur into a testament.
SE CLT is proud to feature the work of Edel Rodriguez as a part of the second annual Fall of Freedom, a national movement using creative work to answer authoritarianism with resistance, memory, and beauty.
SUMMER SHOWCASE
SE CLT Gallery is pleased to present our 2026 Summer Showcase, a digital group exhibition featuring two-dimensional works and sculptures across a variety of mediums by seven of our artist partners
Featuring: Peter Callas, Grant Drumheller, Charles Farrar, Larry Horowitz, William A. Noguera, Levi Robinson, Andreina Ron Pedrique.
CONTINUITY
FEATURING 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.