Transition by Meg Homeier
The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that concurrent exhibitions of mixed media works by Meg Homeier (Johns Island, SC) and Visceral Home (Charleston, SC) will be on display at Park Circle Gallery from October 30-November 30, 2024. The artists will host a free public reception at the gallery on Friday, November 1, from 5:00-7:00pm.
Texture and Light – Mixed Media Works by Meg Homeier
In her exhibit, Texture and Light, Johns Island-based artist Meg Homeier explores ambiguous landscape themes using the mediums of acrylic polymers, alcohol inks, and various other natural materials such as mica flake imbedded into the artwork. “My current direction in my creative process is that of creating translucent layers and dimensional surfaces, letting the inks flow through and around the barricades I set up,” Homeier explains. Ornate and abstract patterning define and connect the fluid surfaces of her works. Viewers are invited to interpret the quiet, textural, and light reflective paintings that suggest land and sea and sky.
Meg Homeier spent 30 years of her life and career as the owner of a decorative painting company in the Chicago area. There, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College in Chicago. Now, she happily calls South Carolina her home. Meg’s desire to create art and stay connected to the fine art world led her to working on her own paintings and entering juried fine art shows. She is currently a member of the Seabrook Island Artist Guild and the Charleston Artist Guild. Learn more about the artist at www.megfinearts.com.
Those Who Walked Before Her by Visceral Home
To All the Lives We’ve Lived – Mixed Media Works by Visceral Home
In To All the Lives We've Lived, artist duo Taylor & Connor Robinson present hand-crafted textured sculptural paintings and reliefs under their trade name Visceral Home. The pair presents a collection of works created using a variety of hard and soft natural elements that explore the cycles of transformation, resilience, and rebirth inherent to the human experience. “Each piece is a visceral glimpse into different periods of our personal evolutions: reflecting the moments that broke us, healed us, and ultimately shaped our identity,” the Robinsons explain. “These sculptural works are more than just manifestations of time; they are vessels of memory carved from nature and spirit’s raw elemental resilience.” Viewers become active participant in this celebration of life. It is an exploration of the art of becoming and an offering of connection—to self, others, and the many versions of yourself you’ll become along the passage of time.
Visceral Home consists of married artists Taylor and Connor Robinson. Charleston, SC, is where the two found sobriety and fought fear together to turn their artistic passions into a career. Their collaborative approach to life and art demonstrates the transformative power of cultivating empathy, breaking down barriers, and restoring trust in romantic, platonic, and familial relationships. Over the past few years, they have refined their collaborative practice: Connor handcrafts wooden sculptures, furnishings, frames, and surfaces upon which Taylor paints, sculpts, and embroiders abstract expressions. Their art embodies a kinship of two distinct processes and personal meditative techniques that ultimately unite to achieve a thoughtfully balanced vision. As a duo their work has been shown in exhibitions in Charleston, Savannah, New York, Los Angeles, Boca Raton, and Madrid, Spain. Learn more about the artists at www.visceralhome.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 11:00am-6:00pm Wednesday-Friday, and Noon-4:00pm on Saturday. The gallery will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 28 and 29, for the Thanksgiving holiday. For more information about PCG, call 843-637-3565 or email culturalarts@northcharleston.
