"Glory on the Mountain" by Meredith Dukes
The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that concurrent exhibitions of mixed media works by Madeline Dukes (North Charleston, SC) and Connie Rigdon (Charleston, SC) will be on display at Park Circle Gallery from June 4-28, 2025. The artists will host a free public reception at the gallery on Friday, June 6, from 5:00-7:00pm.
Flora, Fauna, Sunshine, Water – Mixed Media Works by Madeline Dukes
North Charleston-based artist Madeline Dukes takes viewers on a visual tour of indoor and outdoor beauty found throughout the southeastern region of the United States in her exhibit Flora, Fauna, Sunshine, Water. Atmospheric nuances in the various terrain, light, and temperature are emphasized to showcase the beauty of the incredible yet subtle differences in our environments. While many of the paintings are based on daily plant life, some are inspired by the vistas and colors of the southern landscape. “This series is an homage to the unhomogenized regions within our environment and an emphatic ode to those differences,” Dukes explains.
Madeline Dukes studied studio art and political science at Winthrop University. Her work has been selected for several juried group and solo shows at museums and cultural centers in North and South Carolina, including the Etherredge Center gallery at University of South Carolina-Aiken, Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Juried Art Exhibition, Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, the Spartanburg Museum of Art, Lincoln County Museum, Sumter Museum of Art, McElvey Center, Mooresville Art Center, Pickens County Museum, the Rauch Gallery at Gaston College, and a traveling show with the South Carolina State Museum. Madeline’s work has also been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur and can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. including the ACE Hotel in New Orleans, LA. Learn more about the artist at madelinedukes.com.
"LaVie" by Connie Rigdon
Pangaea: Unity and Wholeness – Mixed Media Works by Connie Rigdon
In her exhibit, Pangaea: Unity and Wholeness, Charleston-based abstract expressionist Connie Rigdon presents a collection of mixed media works in oil, acrylic, and cold wax to express her attempt to find calm and order within our fragmented artificial world. Connie hopes that the viewer can connect with the natural rhythms of the complexity beneath and the calmness that keeps our world and our psyches in balance. “It is my goal to invoke a feeling for the viewer,” Rigdon states. “When it does, I have succeeded.”
Connie Rigdon was born in Taipei, Taiwan, raised in Hawaii, Southern California, and Taipei, and now lives and works in Charleston. Originally an architect, she has translated her love of the Art of architecture and years of problem-solving skills into her contemporary works, bringing about a perfect union of her two passions. Her evolution from architecture to pure abstraction was inevitable in that the Art of architecture was always her true inspiration. Connie’s work today is that perfect blend of the influence of the manmade and natural environment’s effect on how she expresses her feelings on canvas. Rigdon is currently represented by Hagan Fine Art (Charleston, SC), Presson Art Gallery (Monroe, NC), The Campbell Collective (online gallery based in Greenville, SC), and Saatchi Art (online). Learn more about the artist a connierigdon.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 10:30am-5:30pm Wednesday-Friday, and Noon-4:00pm on Saturday. For more information about PCG, call 843-637-3565 or email culturalarts@northcharleston.