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The Recursive City by Caroline Clark
The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that concurrent exhibitions of mixed media works by Christine Bush Roman (Johns Island) and ceramic works by Caroline Clark (Lugoff, SC) will be on display at Park Circle Gallery from March 4-28, 2026. The artists will host a free public reception at the gallery on Friday, March 6, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
Spectacle – Mixed Media Works by Christine Bush Roman
Spectacle is a series that is both serious and comical, featuring colorful scenes in stacked realities. The work pokes fun at the spectacle of living while also offering glimpses of joy and wonder. With subtle nods to mythology and images like ouroboros and sock puppets, the featured works reference cycles of rebirth, ideas of fate, and the desperation for control.
Christine Bush Roman creates works of visual maximalism. Her mixed media paintings explore themes of neurodiversity, womanhood, and the perception of time. While heavy issues are often at play in her imagery, Roman’s work acknowledges the absurd nature of modern existence. Her art reflects how one’s private perception of time and existence often conflicts with the requirements and expectations of society. Roman maps elaborate inner worlds and pokes fun at being human through drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage. Her pieces straddle the line between whimsical and playful, and dark and disquieting. It is often chaotic and abstract with elements of surrealism. Each painting is unique and contains its own narrative, but the style is unified by a distinctive approach to color and mark-making that combines anthropomorphized creatures, geometry, sprawling organic shapes, and patterns.
All the Fish in the Sea Are Me by Christine Bush Roman
Themes of identity, belonging, and the quest for authenticity permeate the work, inviting viewers to ponder the masks we wear and the realities we construct. With a constant nod to chaos and absurdism, Spectacle acknowledges the wild complexities of our inner worlds. The work invites the viewer to question whether a path to mental peace in modern existence exists. Each piece is a glimpse into worlds that blur boundaries between chaos and order, darkness and light, and perception and reality. Learn more about the artist at www.christinebushroman.com.
Land of Cities – Ceramic Works by Caroline Clark
Land of Cities comprises ten pieces: one for each year ceramicist Caroline Clark lived in New York City. Each City is a world unto itself, a fantastical, imagined metropolis; but pull back the veil ever so gently, and the viewer discovers that every City is indeed New York. The greatest secret of New York is that it is not one place, but many; each borough is its own kingdom, each neighborhood within has its own personality, and each block is further unique still. New York is not a city. New York is a Land of Cities.
Caroline Clark is a functional ceramic sculptor whose work highlights a sense of joy and wonder in everyday items. Exploring themes of community, growth, and movement, she creates her own variations of the hidden symbiotic systems of coral reefs and mycelium networks. Her work draws parallels to our own communities and support systems and invites examination of human interconnectedness and the effect we have on those around us.
Clark earned a B.A. in English and Spanish, an M.A. in Spanish Education, and spent twelve years as a Spanish educator before becoming a ceramicist and sculptor. Primarily self-taught, she has developed her own processes and tools to construct her intricate functional sculptures. Her work has been exhibited by The Jasper Gallery, FemmeX, Gap Gallery, numerous juried fine art fairs throughout the Southeastern United States, and in private collections across the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Clark currently lives and creates in the pine forests of her childhood in rural South Carolina and is actively involved in local arts organizations. Learn more about the artist at www.revisioniststudio.art.
The Park Circle Gallery is located at 4820 Jenkins Avenue in North Charleston. Admission is free, and free street parking is available on Jenkins Avenue in front of the gallery, as well as on the adjacent streets and in parking lots close by. Gallery hours are 10:30 am-5:30 pm Wednesday-Friday, and Noon-4:00 pm on Saturday. For more information about PCG, call 843-637-3565 or email culturalarts@northcharleston.