Corrigan Gallery

Richard (Duke) Hagerty is the 2008 Piccolo Spoleto poster artist! Commissioned by Ellen Dressler Moryl of the City of Charleston's Office of Cultural Affairs to create the 30th anniversary poster for the festival, Hagerty's already planned May/June show becomes the Piccolo Spoleto Invitational show! The show opens May 15.

July 11 will bring the third Palette to Palate of Charleston Fine Art Dealers' Association. We are privileged to be paired with Cypress Restaurant again! We will feature a group show of gallery artists' works.

A solo show for Carol Ezell in October will bring the Return of Japanisme to Charleston. This native Charlestonian is creating paintings inspired by the postcards sent to her by a Japanese friend.

November's Charleston Fine Art Dealers' Association Fine Art Weekend brings a show of new works by Lese Corrigan in a series entitled "Mid-River."

In December Jennie Summerall returns for a month long show of new works.

April 2008 brought the first ever drawing show by visiting artist John Hull, the new College of Charleston Studio Art Department head paired with new works by Manning Williams. This show entitled "Storytellers" presents gifted weavers of tales in 2D. People passing by stopped in their tracks to see the works. They are equally intrigued by the two approaches to a story.

"Southern Remains," works by Gordon Nicholson and Kevin Parent opened March 7.

The Corrigan Gallery has been included in The South Carolina Arts Commission's 40 Lists Project. "The Arts Commission is marking its 40th anniversary and the 40 Lists Project celebrates the people, accomplishments, ideas and milestones that have contributed to the arts during the past 40 years." Read what wonderful supporters have said about us! 40 Lists Project.

February 7 we celebrated the mounting the first show of works by Paul Mardikian. The show entitled "Totems and Icons" was filled with mysterious works on wood. This talented conservator of marine archeological finds including the Hunley is finally allowing the world to see his own creations. Please see the great review in Charleston City Paper dated February 21.

February 1 is the unveiling of the works at the new Ashley River Tower, MUSC. Our BIG NEWS was and is: Eight artists represented by the gallery have had their work chosen and purchased by the Medical University of South Carolina for the new Contemporary Carolina Collection to hang in the new Ashley River Tower! Visit the great website here. Works by Kristi Ryba, Mary Walker, Gordon Nicholson, Manning Williams, Karin Olah, Sue Simons Wallace, Lese Corrigan and Paul Mardikian are part of the collection. See the story The State ran.

January - Birds Bugs and Fish. Works by Mary Walker, Manning Williams, Richard Hagerty, Sue Simons Wallace, Richard Hartnett and Candice Flewharty brighten the spirit!

2008 has arrived. Thank you to the almost 25,000 visitors and supporters who have visited the website in November 2007 (and to all for previous visits!).

Nick Smith at Charleston CityPaper wrote a great article about Karin Olah's show "Incantations in Thread." Read it here.

The gallery was been invited to join the 2008 Southeastern Winter Art Show at The Sanctuary. Please click here for more information.

November brings the gallery's participation in the Charleston Fine Art Dealers' Association Fine Art Weekend the first weekend in November with an opening reception Friday evening celebrating Karin Olah's new work. Saturday morning Lese Corrigan will be painting in Washington Park and the painting will be part of the auction produced by the Charleston Art Auction that evening with the plein air painting proceeds supporting Charleston County Schools' Art programs.

JD Cummings has just launched a website with a grand number of images on it and has reduced his prices to a mere pittance to make the work very accessible and to help support his battle against cancer. Please look and order many photographs. JDCummingsPhotographs.

December brings the show ML2CP - John Moore and Sandy Logan (visiting artist) with color photography.

BIG NEWS: Eight artists represented by the gallery have had their work chosen and purchased by the Medical University of South Carolina for the new Contemporary Carolina Collection to hang in the new Ashley River Tower! Works by Kristi Ryba, Mary Walker, Gordon Nicholson, Manning Williams, Karin Olah, Sue Simons Wallace, Lese Corrigan and Paul Mardikian are part of the collection.

New artists have joined the gallery. Richard (Duke) Hagerty, the local plastic surgeon/artist has work hanging in the current group show. His surrealistic works are reminscent of Kandinsky and Klee's work. Paul Mardikian, the highly trained conservator/archeologist working on the Hunley, is now showing his paintings which have been in process for twenty years. Look for pieces on the website soon and shows in the new year.

October brought the fall artwalk with special works showing and four of our artists participating in a group show with other galleries at the Robert Lange Studios Upstairs on East Bay. Manning Williams had a large piece that is too big for us to hang here! See the work at this link.

Guest artist Lynne Riding's show entitled Paying Attention to What Happens Between the Obvious - An Inquiry Concerning Transparency during September was spectacular - a beautiful and successful show for the space. See her work at her site.

October brought the fall artwalk with special works showing and four of our artists participating in a group show with other galleries at the Robert Lange Studios Upstairs on East Bay. Manning Williams had a large piece that is too big for us to hang here! See the work at this link.

July 13 brought an evening of tasty delights for the eye and tastebuds with CFADA's Second Annual Palette and Palate. The Charleston Fine Art Dealers' Association member galleries were paired with restaurants providing tastes of their specialties. Corrigan Gallery was pleased to have been paired with Cypress Restaurant. for this, the gallery's first official event as a member!

Mary Walker has joined the gallery - her show at Footlight Players, the "Mary Walker Invitational Exhibition: Variations on a Theme" as part of Piccolo Spoleto was a success. Her bird collage was used on the Piccolo Spoleto Spotlight Series poster. See more work at www.marywalkerart.com.

Gene Speer's abstract monotypes and lithographs can now be seen at the gallery. Speer is the Master printmaker who ran the University of South Carolina Print Atelier.

Kristi Ryba's show entitled “Keeping House" has gained good attention. There was a lovely mention in the May 9 edition of Charleston City Paper, the May issue of Carolina Arts and the April 26 issue of the Charleston Mercury for a description of the show. Visit www.kristiryba.com to see many of the pieces. Ryba also exhibited in the Women's Caucus show at the Charleston County Library.

June, July and August were group show of gallery artists. New working is coming in all the time through the summer. Fall brings shows by guest artist Lynne Riding (September), Kevin Parent (October), Karin Olah (November) and John Moore and Sandy Logan (December) exploring their personal voices.

Jennie Summerall's show entitled "The Uses of Enchantment" opened April 19 for a week's showing and was a great hit with new homes found for many paintings. Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has purchased her portrait of biologist E. O. Wilson.

JD Cummings, one of our favorite photographers and gallery artists, is fighting a dreadful cancer and needs our prayers and financial support. Please purchase one or more of his grand photographs as full sales price will go to his medical fund. See his sand series here at the gallery JD Cummings or other works at Alterman Studios' Center for Photography.

A new artist has joined the gallery: Gordon Nicholson has delivered wonderful sepiatone watercolor "drawings" documenting architectural sites around South Carolina in various states of decay. The drawings are overlaid with stream of conscious words in longhand. These very modern pieces tie old to new looking like old letters with drawing notes presented as a new way to document the passage of time.

New works by Candice Flewharty and Daryl Knox were presented for the Friday, March 2 French Quarter Artwalk.

Manning Williams was featured in a frontpage article in the Charleston Mercury February 1 isssue. His show "Fragmenting Arrogance" opened Thursday, February 8 with a huge crowd present. He was also featured in City Paper, Preview of the Post and Courier as well as the Sunday arts' column, Charleston Business Journal Weekend Events and the Easel publication of the Charleston Artist Guild. His work is reminscent of that of Roy Lichtenstein but takes the abstraction much further. View the show at the MOMA called "Comic Abstraction" www.MOMA.org to understand where his work fits in today's art world.

The gallery is pleased to announce it has been invited to join the Charleston Fine Art Dealers' Association (CFADA). It's inclusion in the association is quite exciting!

Upcoming shows are "The Uses of Enchantment" works by Jennie Summerall as she returns home for a week in April and Karin Olah in November of 2007!

Candice Flewharty had work from January 2-27 in the the National Juried Exhibition juried by painter Philip Pearlstein at Prince Street Gallery on 530 West 25th New York City. See her work at www.candiceflewharty.com.

See JD Cummings' photograph featured in Charleston Magazine's January and April 2007 issues on "The Last Page."

Kristi Ryba had work in a New York show entitled "Adam's Rib, Eve's Air in her Hair" at SOHO20 in Chelsea. Look for her work at www.kristiryba.com.

Karin Olah has been selected for the second year in a row as the Charleston Farmers' Market Poster Artist!

December artwalk featured gyotaku fish prints by Sue Simons Wallace. A huge crowd came to see the "Fresh Fish" and were amazed by the technique!

JD Cummings' abstract photographs of beach sand are now available.

Manning Williams, Charleston artist, retired art professor and recent focus of a show at the Gibbes Museum of Art, has joined the Corrigan Gallery artists' stable. New works come in every week. Both his pre- 1995 representational work and his abstractions can be acquired.

"Resonance," a show of new works based on the Fibonnaci sequence by Lese Corrigan opened October 6 with a reception during the French Quarter Art Gallery Association Artwalk and was a lovely success.

Candice Flewharty, a Texas artist, New York trained and now living in Charleston, has joined the gallery with her small slices of life oils painted in a contemporary, photographic manner. View her work at http://www.candiceflewharty.com.

Five Corrigan Gallery artists were featured in the Southern Living Idea House 2006 at Daniel Island courtesy of Margaret Donaldson Interiors.

The May 2006 edition of the Robb Report ran an article on Charleston including the Corrigan Gallery.

June 2 was the date for the first solo show for Karin Olah! "The Meandering Thread" was a grand celebration of her work and accomplishments and very little of her last 20 months of work is available. The press coverage was stupendous, City Paper, Post and Courier Preview and Charleston Mercury all provided well deserved attention.

See the cover art by Lese Corrigan on the new book of poetry by Susan Meyers at http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2006/3670.html.
Please purchase this great book of poetry.

May 5 a wonderfully attended opening reception was held for the show "Light Writing, Fine Art Photography" with works by John Moore, Kevin Bruce Parent and Lolly Koon.

Karin Olah was selected for "Under The Radar," City Gallery on the Waterfront. Sponsored by Charleston Magazine and Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, this exhibition features ten emerging Charleston artists. Olah was also juried into the national show at Redux entitled "the unlikely target."

New York Times article: Real Estate|March 10, 2006 Escapes - Havens|Historic District, Charleston, S.C.: Charming and Venerable, With Kayaking Nearby By Anne Berryman mentions the gallery!

Kristi Ryba was mentioned in the New York Times "Art in Review" January 27 for her work in the show "Hibernation"at Silo gallery in New York.

Karin Olah was the chosen poster artist for the Farmers' Market, Charleston for 2006.

The Queen City Classic Horse Show (Charlotte, North Carolina) 2006 poster image was by Lese Corrigan.

The official "Grand Opening" and first solo show for
Beverly Derrick in her native city was held January 27, 2006 and was a smashing success with over 500 guests, collectors and artists present! The opening was mentioned in "Fine Art Connoisseur" magazine as well as the local papers and magazines. The "Charleston Mercury" did a front page article profile on Derrick.