Alumni
We are very proud of our alumni artists, who worked hard while at Redux and set off to expand on their artistic experiences. Because of the access to facilities and community that are provided at Redux, our alumni have moved on to pursue many amazing artistic opportunities!
After graduating Cum Laude from the College of Charleston in 2001, Bob Snead helped to build and was founding director of Redux until 2005, when he left his hometown to pursue graduate studies in Painting/Printmaking at Yale University School of Art. After his northern exposure in 2007 he helped form the artist collective Transit Antenna, and spent the next two years on the roads of North America in a vegetable oil powered bus producing various community based art projects along the way. Bob currently resides in New Orleans where he utilizes a wide range of media to express his deep commitment to humor, with such projects as his telling autobiographical paintings, a stand up comedian ATM Machine, and most recently with a project called The Is Not Broke Recession Proof Wallet Company.
Conrad Guevara received his BA from the College of Charleston. At the College he focused mainly in printmaking with special focus in intaglio etching. His recent work focuses on colorful and playful collages that explore the freedom and energy of Abstract Expressionists. Recent exhibitions include Reorientation IV at Redux, The Debutante Show at Eye Level Art and the Found Object Show at the now defunct Outerspace.
George Davis received his BA from the College of Charleston. His work embraces the awe and power of the Natural world presented by the Romantic and Luminist painters and the struggle to embrace that world by the Abstract Expressionists. Whether the subjects of his paintings are mills and factory lights, cell phone towers and marshes, he portrays the physical reality and consequences of today’s landscape. George recently joined the Michael Mitchell gallery in Charleston, SC.
Grace Davis received her BFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Working in print and fibers, her work is born from an experimental process- guided by the materials’ inherent visual, textural, and idiosyncratic characteristics. She has exhibited at the Betty Rymer Gallery and Sullivan Gallery in Chicago, IL as well as the Halsey Institute in Charleston, SC.
Jonathan Brilliant was born in 1976 in Charleston, SC. Brilliant holds a BA in studio art from the College of Charleston and an MFA in Spatial Arts from San Jose State University. He has received numerous fellowships to artist residencies and communities and exhibited his work in several group and solo exhibitions domestically and abroad. From May 2009-December 2010 he conducted his “Have Sticks Will Travel world Tour”. The tour was a marathon series of site-specific installations that took place in thirteen galleries in eighteen months, in three countries, on two continents.
Julie Henson received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BA from the College of Charleston. Her work uses sculptural materials and images to explore the influence of visual information on contemporary ideology. She had a studio at Redux from 2005 through 2009 and served on the Board of Directors, helping to build the Membership and Education Programs. Her work has been shown nationally, including NOMA Gallery, San Francisco, and Scion Installation Space, Los Angeles. She serves as the Managing Editor for DailyServing.com and writes for Huffington Post and Beautiful/Decay Magazine.
Using fabric, Karin works in a manner that mimics the flow of paint from a brush. Intricately cut, placed, and pasted textiles are combined with gouache, acrylic, and graphite to create Collage Paintings that are deep in color and texture. From a small-town upbringing in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, her interest in Amish quilts and textile traditions led her to study Fiber Art at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Following art school, Karin managed a textile studio in New York City, developing colors and patterns for fashion designers. Now applying her fabric know-how to the realm of painting, Karin exhibits her collage art in solo and group shows throughout the Southeast.
Kimberly Kraft, a native of Rochester, New York, found her way to Charleston by way of a Masters of Architecture from Clemson University. Now a practicing architect, she has recently reconnected with her artistic tendencies as an alternate perspective from which to explore her ruminations on the profession.
After high school Luke Vehorn moved from South Africa to Charleston where he attended, and received his BA degree in Studio Art from, the College of Charleston. He divides his time between painting and printmaking, and focuses mainly on the portrait in both disciplines. His current body of work is somewhat incoherent and is a great example of an artist in search of himself and a personal style.
Mary Walker, a painter and printmaker who exhibits regularly in the Southeast as well as nationally and internationally, lives on Johns Island outside of Charleston SC. Walker rented time in the print studio at Redux during 2006-2008. She enjoyed the energy and interaction with the artists and musicians that were involved with Redux. She has taught and taken a few workshops and been involved in some of the fun art events like the Portrait Marathon. Walker is represented by several galleries including the Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC, and the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
Matthew Zaccari is currently a student at the College of Charleston studying studio art with a focus in printmaking. Working on images that display his current narrative of the elegy, Matthew uses iconography with ethereal tones to create two realms that occur simultaneously as a nostalgic event begins. His images range from using one plate for a project to four or five plates. Although not limited to etching, his work also includes lithographs, woodblocks and monoprints. You can view his work in a solo show in the lobby of the Simmons Center located on St. Phillip street. The show will be installed until late August.
Nate Phelps received his BFA in Graphic Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Nate has a strong interest in form, line-work, typography and street culture. Growing up in the upstate NY graffiti scene helped develop his love for lines and shapes. Since 1999, he has become a skillful and well respected street artist who recently transitioned into studio painting. Drawing on his past graffiti career, he developed his love for “the line” into an abstract style. His detailed line-work, organic structure and earth-toned palette develop into geometric shapes that build upon each other.
Seth Curcio is an artist and publisher based in San Francisco, CA. After receiving a BA from the College of Charleston, he served as the director of Redux Contemporary Art Center (2006-2008). In 2006, he co-founded the international online publication, DailyServing.com, and since has acted as the publisher and editor-in-chief. Curcio works as the Programs Manager for the Pilara Foundation’s Pier 24 Photography, the largest exhibition venue in the U.S. dedicated to the presentation of photography and video. He is a currently a resident artist at Queens Nails Projects in SF’s Mission District.
Timothy Pakron, a Mississippi native, received his BA from the College of Charleston where he concentrated in film photography and oil painting. From his darkroom practice to traditional oil on canvas, Pakron often combines both mediums, developing a technique that is constantly evolving. Originally working strictly with black and white photography, he has begun the study of combining color photography with painting. He is fascinated by the aspects of contemporary art that lie between the non-representational and the representational, which he is constantly exploring. Predominately a portrait artist, Pakron often uses his close friends and family as his subjects.
Tina Hirsig is an interdisciplinary artist in medium and discipline. Pushing the boundaries of drawing, photography, and collage she creates mixed-media sculptures and assemblages in dialogue with her personal surroundings. In 2003 Tina moved to Charleston, South Carolina and has since completed her Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, actively maintains a singular and collaborative studio practice, regularly exhibits artwork locally and regionally, and teaches at the College of Charleston. She rented a studio and taught classes at Redux for the Outreach Program from 2006-2008.
Davidson’s paintings communicate ideas of society and nature. Of spirituality and the interplay within. Employing simple elements of composition and definitive space and scale, Davidson’s work suggests the irony of familiar things. Placed within the context of unseen ways, the paintings are humorous intersections between the natural and the staged. The work may be viewed as a forum for the theatrical, a magic realism of sorts. Yet at their center, the paintings concern the dialectics of daily life, revealing the local as universal.
Trever Webster grew up in Madison, WI where he studied painting and studio art. His art has been described as atmospheric. The process plays a tremendous role in the aesthetic of each piece. He laboriously prepares the surface with carefully placed numbers that resemble typeface. Then, sometimes literally, he “pours” on the emotion and uninhibited chaos. Desolate landscapes with abandoned carnivals, bats and spiders are a recurring settings. He works hard at Artist & Craftsman Supply in downtown Charleston.
