CHUCK BARKER
Intersections by Chuck Barker
The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that concurrent exhibitions of photographs by Chuck Barker (North Charleston, SC) and ceramics, pastels, watercolors, and mixed media works by Lindsey Maldonado (Goose Creek, SC) and will be on display at Park Circle Gallery from June 3-27, 2026. The artists will host a free public reception at the gallery on Friday, June 5, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
Lowcountry in Layers – Photographs by Chuck Barker
Charleston is often photographed as a polished relic, but, in his exhibit, Lowcountry in Layers, local photographer Chuck Barker looks beneath the postcard surface. Through three series of black-and-white images, Barker explores the Lowcountry as an accumulation of time, presence, and memory - deep surfaces, fragments of architecture, and natural forms that have endured. By removing color, the work strips familiar places down to line, texture, and atmosphere, allowing the Lowcountry to shift from a place we recognize into one we feel. Together, the highlighted series examine our region hidden in plain sight. The images are not meant to document Charleston as it appears, but to reveal how it lingers: complex, atmospheric, elegant, and alive. This is a portrait of place built in layers: what is seen, what is hidden, and what remains.
Chuck Barker is an award-winning photographic artist based in Charleston, SC. Picking up a camera and exploring is one of Barker’s true great joys in life. For more than 25 years Chuck has explored photography across genres and techniques, from portraiture and events to landscapes, nature, and nightscapes. His practice spans traditional film and darkroom printing to digital and infrared processes, always with the goal of helping himself and others see something new in the familiar. Learn more about the artist at cbarkerphoto.com.
The Garden Keeps Her Secrets by Lindsey Maldonado
Dualities – Ceramics, Pastels, Watercolors, and Mixed Media Works by Lindsey Maldonado
In her exhibit, Dualities, Lindsey Maldonado brings together a wide range of work across ceramics, pastel, watercolor, and mixed media. Rather than focusing on a singular subject or palette, the featured works embrace contrast; functional and sculptural, muted and vibrant, delicate and heavy. The collection reflects the fluid nature of creative practice and the coexistence of opposing ideas within the same body of work.
Lindsey Maldonado is a multidisciplinary artist based in Goose Creek, SC. Her work exists somewhere between fine art and function, where soft pastels meet clay and emotion takes physical form. Over the years, Lindsey’s practice has evolved into something more intuitive, guided less by structure and more by feeling. These days, she spends most of her time creating ceramic pieces that carry a bit of story and soul, or pastel works that explore mood, stillness, and transformation.
For Lindsey, art has always been an emotional compass. Some days it’s calm and luminous; other times, shadowed and searching. “I don’t chase inspiration, it tends to find me in quiet moments, in the rhythm of the wheel, or in the way light hits a finished piece just right” says Lindsey. Through Lindsey Nicole Design Studio, she continues to explore how creativity connects us, to ourselves, to each other, and to the beauty of imperfection. Her workshops are an extension of that belief: spaces built for curiosity, community, and a bit of joyful mess. “Inspiration and ideas change. Knowledge changes. That’s the heartbeat of it all... letting the work grow as I do.” Learn more about the artist at lindseynicoledesignstudio.com.
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.