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MEET THE ARTISTS
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North Charleston, South Carolina
Mariah Bintliff is a textile artist whose work bridges Korean craft traditions and contemporary storytelling. Her work explores curiosity, creative reuse, and mindfulness. Mariah draws from secondhand and natural fibers to create thoughtful objects and immersive workshops that invite reflection and connection. With a background in community-based arts education, she designs programs that center intergenerational learning, sustainability, and sensory experience—from tea ceremonies to one-off sculptures or articles of clothing. Her practice is a tactile archive of place, memory, and care.
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Charleston SC
Kristy Bishop (b. 1986)is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in weaving, natural dyeing, textiles, and reclaimed materials. Through slow material practice inspired by the natural world, Bishop explores the tactile relationship we have with cloth and how it relates to our modern world.This summer she was an AIR at Texere in Oaxaca, Mexico and in October exhibited in the international textile show Carpet Diem in Paris. Her work has been featured in the Renwick Museum Store in conjunction with the exhibit Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women. In 2024 Kristy had two solo exhibits, one at the Lyndon House Center for the Arts in the Atrium Gallery and at the Park Circle Gallery. Her work was also featured in Material World: A Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibition at the Fayetteville Arts Council as well as From Fiber, presented by Springfield Art Association of Illinois. Kristy has participated in residencies at the Gibbes Museum of Art, 701 Center for Contemporary Art and the North Charleston Cultural Arts Department. Her next exhibition will be a three person show at the Dalton Gallery in Rock Hill, SC in 2026.
Artist Statement
Kristy Bishop is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is grounded in weaving, color relationships, and textile traditions. Her work embraces the slowness and intimacy of intuitive material processes in contrast to the rapid pace of change in our screen focused, convenience driven world. She creates pieces that are very bright and colorful, often with neon colors like safety orange (thank you ratchet straps) and slime green (thank you bankrupted Joann Fabrics).
Using the ratchet straps that are discarded at the Port of Charleston, Kristy manipulates the straps into continuous teardrop shapes that are hand sewn into place using contrasting yarns. This process is very intuitive and she makes decisions on the color and composition along the way. Each piece is modular and can be added onto, expanding, changing and growing. By repurposing these straps, Kristy highlights the nature of consumption, where even infrastructural resources are used, discarded, replaced and often overlooked. This work comments on the larger issue of unsustainable consumption and the environmental costs. By turning these ratchet straps into repetitive, organic shapes similar to fractals in leaves and coral, she is linking the material of nylon straps to the natural environment which it will eventually infiltrate and integrate with.Item description -
Brooklyn, New York
Jennifer Blaine is an artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is drawn to the notion of the obsolete, the mass produced and the ephemeral; how our possessions influence our perception of past experiences. She is most interested in what we accumulate and how our act to preserve and archive reflects on notions of sentimentality and the desire to remember. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2024. She has also studied extensively in the UK, completing the Drawing Intensive at the Royal Drawing School in London, England in the autumn of 2021 and attending the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland in the autumn of 2023. In 2023 she held a solo exhibition at the New Glasgow Society Gallery in Scotland, and has exhibited widely throughout the U.S.and Europe. She is the founder and sole director of DIY publishing outfit Dog Ear Press which specializes in limited runs of artists books, prints and ephemera.
Website - jenniferleighblaine.com
Instagram - @jenniferleighblaine
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Charleston, SC
Jonathan Campo (b. 1981, New Orleans) is a painter examining how we engineer experience out of existence. His paintings document our impulse to strip the world of texture and map the reduction of everything—animals, landscapes, leisure, natural phenomena, even other planets—into efficiently consumable units. Through flattened perspective and relentless repetition, his paintings mirror this quiet violence: comfort mistaken for order, control disguised as care. In trying to perfect and optimize our surroundings, we render them hollow.
Campo was raised in New Orleans by a Cuban refugee father and a mother whose British family was displaced after World War II. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis' School of Art in 2003. Since then, he has balanced a career as a creative director with a dedicated studio practice, working across film, animation, branding, and national campaigns while maintaining painting as his primary form of cultural inquiry.
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Charleston, South Carolina
Anna Chen is a watercolor collage artist whose work aims to explore how meaningful but everyday places and objects can evoke universal emotions within us.
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Richmond, Va
Mary Fleming is a multidisciplinary artist based in Richmond, Virginia. She transforms discarded materials into sculptural works that spark curiosity and delight. Plastic packaging, prescription bottles, toilet paper rolls, and other single-use throwaways become her building blocks-like puzzle pieces in an open-ended game of reinvention.
Remnants from past works often reappear in new assemblages, creating layered narratives that blur the line between recycling and imagination. Guided by intuition and a sense of discovery, Fleming reclaims what's overlooked and disposable, inviting viewers to find wonder and possibility in the unexpected. -
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Brooklyn, NY
Britt Harrison is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator originally from North Carolina. Her work considers transitions, temporal shifts, and water's transformative power. Through custom-designed wood panels, ceramics, and oil paint, Harrison explores the symbolic and spiritual roles of water—its power to purify, conceal, and reveal.
Water contains space for transformation—the giver of life, a container for ecosystems, a moment of relief. It exists in both the everyday and the sacred: the same element that cools the body can also cleanse the soul. Harrison layers soft gradients and repeating patterns that shift with changing light, drawn to the shimmer across water's surface and the moment of clarity it brings. Her work offers a pause from constant thought, creating space for quiet recognition of the beauty and immensity that surround us.
Dimensionality is central to her process. Most panels are cut using a CNC machine, allowing her to create fluid, organic shapes that mirror the movement of water. Their unique forms invite the environment into dialogue—the wall becomes negative space, and shadows extend the work’s sense of presence and form. Her practice embraces abstraction and minimalism, allowing simplicity to open into depth.
Britt Harrison is a Brooklyn-based painter, sculptor, and curator from North Carolina. She gained her BFA in Painting and BS in Psychology from UNC Wilmington in 2011 and has continued her artistic education through courses at Art Center (Pasadena, CA), Pratt Institute, (Brooklyn, NY), and the University of California at Los Angeles. She holds a MPS in The Business of Art and Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the director of under the pale blue, a contemporary art gallery based in Queens, NY and the Residency Director for Hidden Hills, an art residency in Asheville, NC. -
Greenville, South Carolina
Thomas Hicks is from Greenville, South Carolina, and a multimedia artist. He focuses on his personal narrative through the reclamation and appropriation of his collected archive. His attempt at repair drives deep within his work, as he uses the portal as a means of construction and escapism. Hicks finds inspiration in the archive's speculative nature by creating patterns through history, introspection, and interconnectedness. Hicks oscillates between ideas of birth and expiration, degradation and construction, the corporeal and the indiscernible, and identity versus the collective.
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Greenville, South Carolina
Fine artist Haley Hughes explores thoughtful color palettes and sentimental motifs in her paintings, ascribing a deeper meaning to everyday objects rooted in her experience of femininity and interest in still life imagery. She introduces memory and nostalgia as key players in her narrative works, inviting the viewer to reflect on their own feminine mythology.
Haley received a BA in Studio Art from Furman University in 2017. Based in Greenville, South Carolina, her work is shared under the creative brand Grown Wild Studio. -
Los Angeles CA
Katie Kimmel is a California based artist who works mainly in ceramic sculpture. After receiving her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 Katie relocated to a small town in the Mojave Desert and acquired several dogs. After adopting her first dog Pony in 2016, dogs became an all-encompassing obsession. She is delighted by their personalities and fantasize about what their jobs might be, dreams, conversations… and use these ideas to inform her work. Through Kimmel’s artwork she hope to incite the same dumb joy that dogs experience all day every day. As a solution to her remote studio location Katie has gained a strong interest in e-commerce as a way to show work. Katie has been working as a full time artist selling home-goods, apparel and artwork through her website katiekimmel.com since 2017.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Chloe is a quilter focused on functional pieces made by hand. She is from South Carolina but currently located in the North East.
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Charleston, SC
Susan Klein is an artist living in Charleston, SC. Recent exhibitions include I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws at the Wassaic Project (NY), A Window Scrubbed for the Moon at Asya Geisberg Gallery (NYC) and Volcano Lovers at Frontviews (Berlin). Klein is a 2020-2021 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Other awards include an Artist-in-Residence at the Dunedin School of Art in New Zealand, a Hambidge Center Residency, Watershed Center for Ceramics Art Residency, Wassaic Project Residency, residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, an Ox-bow Artist-in-Residence Summer Fellowship, an Otis College of Art and Design Summer Residency, and residency at Arteles Creative Research Center in Finland. Klein received her MFA in 2004 from the University of Oregon, a BFA in 2001 from the University of New Hampshire, and studied art at NYU from 1997-99. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department at the College of Charleston.
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Climax, NY
Gracelee Lawrence (they/she) makes work testing the intersections of food, the body, and technology, occupying the transfigurative space between physical and digital realities. Manipulating their body by merging it with edible plants through 3D scanning and software manipulation, their sculptures investigate the gendered and fragmented nature of bodies while navigating the ecological and ethical complexities of bioplastics, particularly those derived from GMO corn. Their work questions sustainability narratives, industrial agriculture, and the compartmentalization of digital and physical spaces, all while staying grounded in materiality.
Lawrence has attended more than 20 residencies worldwide and debuted their second solo show in New York at Postmasters in June 2022, earning a glowing review by Roberta Smith in The New York Times. They are the Head of Sculpture at the University at Albany, SUNY, with recent exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Wasserman Projects, and CHART. Their large-scale outdoor sculptures have been installed at Wave Hill, Franconia Sculpture Park, and other venues. A member of the MATERIAL GIRLS collective, they are a recipient of the 2024 Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave, a 2019 Jerome Fellowship, and a 2016–17 Luce Scholarship. Press highlights include The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Creative Independent, and MAAKE Magazine. Outside of their work, they are an enthusiastic dancer, lifelong horse person, and avid gardener. -
Charleston, SC
Hirona Matsuda is an Irish-Japanese multidisciplinary artist living and working in Charleston, SC. Her work focuses on creating using found materials. Her kinetic work and installations aim to create a shared experience by enhancing the space using sound, light, and movement.
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Cork, Ireland
Riki Matsuda is a Japanese-Irish artist based in Cork, Ireland. Her multidisciplinary practice centers around communication and the limitations of language.
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Tampa, FL
Initially drawn to the immediate surroundings of his Tampa home, Walter’s paintings drift into an epic of magical realism. Subjects seem to awaken with sentience, embarking on illusory journeys that intertwine hallucinatory pleasure and conspiracy. Through this transformation the ordinary dissolves into a realm where desire and paranoia bleed freely.
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Johns Island, SC
Bio: Brian Rego received his BFA in Painting at the University of South Carolina after being selected for the Ed Yaghjian Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Work in 2004. By 2007, he received his MFA in Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he encountered painters who shared his interest in observational painting. Rego soon co-founded a painting collective appropriately named “Perceptual Painters” to continue working, exhibiting, and teaching with this community of painters. Over the past 18 years, Rego has been devoted to teaching art through multiple institutions such as the University of South Carolina, the College of Charleston, the University of Mississippi, the Jerusalem Studio School, Art New England at Bennington College, and Mt. Gretna School of Art. He also co-founded and ran the Midlands School of Art, which offered exploration of materials and visual perception.
Statement: For material to exist, space is its prerequisite. I am a painter whose interest lies in the relationship between the appearance of a thing, its action, the specific effect it has on other things, and the cumulative effect many things have on one another in composite fields of space. I reference the landscape and the figure to serve as the modalities for this interest. If my paintings are imbued with narratives, they are as a natural consequence, and develop as spontaneously as the paintings they imbue. The meaning of the paintings depend upon what each viewer brings to them. -
Queens, New York
I am an artist based in New York. I received my BFA from the University of Michigan in 2016 and MFA from Goldsmiths University of London in 2020. I have exhibited work in London, New York, Mexico City, Michigan, Florida, and California. My work highlights vignettes of surprising, off-center, and intimate moments. I’m interested in the experience of mutual finding, of stumbling upon the strange and weird; a fish on the ground in Chinatown, leaking a mysterious fluid beneath prospective buyers’ feet; a funhouse mirror of nude woman reflected in the bathtub drain. These moments become the material of a collective inside joke, oddities and absurdities captured in painting. The painted imagery is derived from photographs I take, as well as images sourced from advertisements. These found moments, captured in a treasure hunt, are encased in bespoke, handmade sculptural frames in cast plaster, ceramic, mosaic, and resin. Like the odd moments, these sculptures frame the peripheral moment to both underline the event and accessorize the joke.
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Pittsburgh, PA
Nick Sardo’s practice centers around a uniquely satirical take on the idea of the divine, drawing parallels between deeply personal intimacy and universal truths. His work shows singular figures that inhabit the roles of idol and worshipper, created from accidental selfies, blurred memory, and imagined objects. Though these figures are always alone, some loom over the viewer, powerful and smirking, while others shrivel and whimper. They are simultaneously uncomfortable and demanding of your attention, evoking themes of both isolation and redemption. At the core, there is always a “self” to his figures, a mysterious past you can’t put your finger on but know is there. Sardo holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA.
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St. Paul, MN
Lila is a printmaker based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Working in printmaking, painting, and quilting her practice pays particular attention to the shift between objects and patterns related to memory. This work wrestles with the problems (and possibilities) that arise from unreliable personal narratives.
Shull holds her MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and a BFA from Winthrop University in Rock Hill SC. She has been awarded residencies at In Cahoots, Arrowmont School of Crafts, and Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland. Her work has been shown nationally at the Foley and Unix Galleries in New York City, Coagula Curatorial in Los Angeles, CA, Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, and the Devos Art Museum in Marquette, MI.
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