2024 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
2024 PICCOLO SPOLETO JURIED ART EXHIBITION
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents the 2024 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition, on view May 24-June 9, 2024. This annual juried art exhibition highlights the recent work of artists across South Carolina featuring painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Artworks receiving prizes are presented alongside a limited selection of pieces identified by the juror as meriting display. This year’s juror is Richard “Duke” Hagerty.
City Gallery will be open every day of the festival, May 24th through June 9th, from noon until 5pm.
Invited artists for this year’s exhibition include:
Brittany Alston
Jacqueline Anderson
Robert Ariail
Lynn Austin
Donald Bennett
Pascale Bilgis
Chris Bilton
Kristy Bishop
Debbie Black
Christine Blyth
Christy Boaman
Diane Wager Bowers
Kimberly Bryant
Glen Caines
Karen Camburn
Jean Capalbo
Andres Carrillo
James Cawley
Stephen Cefalo
Rose Cofield
Alice Colin
John Derhammer
Blaine Dixon
Sonny Dugal
Nathan Durfee
William Felder
Renee Fleuranges-Valdes
Alfred Frohman
Rosemary Giusti Dillon
Susanna Glattly
Janice Haynes
Jan Herda
Rebecca Horne
Hale Horstman
Karen Jayne
Carolyn Jebaily
Cynthia Jesup
Bob Jolly
Dana Jones
Renee Kahn
Allison Kary
Jan Kelley
JJ Keyser
Riivo Kruuk
Megan Aline
Annie Rhodes Lee
Jean Lomasto
Flavia Lovatelli
Richard Lund
Austin Manchester
Hirona Matsuda
Randolph Middleton
Sarah Mitchell
Rod Morris
Stefanie Neuner
Arthur Newman
Jenifer Padilla
Jenifer Padilla
Scott Penegar
Lauren Preller
Ilka Rasch
Max Regenold
Taylor & Connor Robinson
Janice Rossmann
Cindy Saadeh
Cyndi Schick
Sophia Shelton
Deborah I Smith
Donovan Snype
Dalvin Spann
Andrea Stubbs
Jen York
Janet Swigler
Stuart Tessler
K. Kim Thomas
Beth Tockey Williams
Kenny Vaden
Dianne Vincent
Rebecca Waechter
Sarah Wannamaker
Martha Watson
Andy Wessels
Maria Wexler
ABOUT THE JUROR
Richard Hagerty was born in 1950 in Durham, NC, at Duke University Hospital, the place for which he is nicknamed “Duke.” Raised in Charleston, Hagerty’s first serious exposure to art came in his youth, when he attended the salons of the museum and education pioneer, Laura Bragg, in her Charleston home. Bragg introduced Hagerty to the work of the famous Flemish artist, Hieronymous Bosch, and the self-taught genius, Henri Rousseau, whom he deeply admired.
Hagerty grew up with his future wife and “muse” Barbara, who joined him at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his undergraduate degree in 1973. The couple married that year, moved to Durham, and he started Duke University Medical School. They began a family and lived in Atlanta during his residency training in plastic surgery at Emory University from 1977 to 1984. He returned to Charleston that summer and entered his father’s practice, which evolved into his own.
Hagerty has also been the focus of numerous solo and group exhibitions at such museums as The Gibbes, Albany, Burroughs-Chapin, and Bascom, and in numerous galleries in Charleston, Atlanta, New York City, Nantucket and elsewhere.
He has a special interest in cleft lip-and-palate surgery and has traveled overseas regularly as a volunteer to train local surgeons in Haiti, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Peru, and China. An ardent environmentalist, he is involved in land conservation in several capacities. Hagerty has been actively engaged in civic service, having served as a City Councilman from 1996 to 1999.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
HIRONA MATSUDA
Hirona Matsuda is an Irish-Japanese artist living and working in Charleston, SC. Her work focuses on our relationship to the environment in which we exist. Her found object miniatures capture a visual experience while her kinetic work and installations aim to recall a felt moment by enhancing the space using sound, light, and movement.
RIKI MATSUDA
Riki Matsuda is a Japanese-Irish artist based in Sample-Studios, Cork. Her work plays with miscommunication and utilizes minimal linework and text to create visual poetry. Matsuda has built an approachable language based on the limitations she experienced being raised in a culturally mixed environment. Her work is a recording of these observations and her newfound awareness of the nuance and humor found in misunderstanding.
ABOUT CITY GALLERY:
City Gallery, located at Joe Riley Waterfront Park, is owned by the City of Charleston and operated by the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs, presenting an annual program of exhibitions and events featuring the finest contemporary art from local, regional, national and international artists, with a focus on the Lowcountry. City Gallery is located at 34 Prioleau St. in downtown Charleston, and gallery hours of operation are noon until 5pm, Wednesday through Sunday. For more information and holiday closures, visit www.charleston-sc.gov/citygallery or call 843-958-6484.
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