Please join us Friday, February 14th for Valentine’s at the Bungalow! We are excited to have local vendors on the porch and in the Bungalow, including Pizza Baby, Poole Shop, and more.
We look forward to see you there!
Please join us for the opening of Keiran Brennan Hinton’s ‘Lonesome Whistle’ and Lien Truong’s ‘A Migratory Memory of Flora and Fauna’ next Thursday, January 16th, 5-7PM.
Lil’ Stitches Needleworks will be chain stitching names on Arloom bandanas in SOCO Shop during the reception.
Please join us this Saturday, November 16th from 11am-3pm for ‘Too Hot to Handle’, a mug show curated by Grace Stott.
50 individual artist’s mugs will be in our bookshop, where a portion of the profits will be going to Western North Carolina disaster relief funds to Arts North Carolina. We are excited to see you all there!
Please join on the porch Saturday, October 19th from 9am-10:30am. Team Rose Bread will be selling their Classic Sourdough Brioche Cinny Rolls, and Pumpkin Coffee Brioche Cinny Rolls. 4-pack Cinny Roll is available for preorder is available via the link in our bio @socoshop. See you there!
Please join us for Bungalow Social on Saturday, September 21st from 11am-4pm. We are excited to have ceramics by artist Eleanor Foy available in our bookshop, and signed copies of Clare Rojas’s catalogue from the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Clare Rojas: Past the Present while supplies last.
There will be music, refreshments from Free Range Brew, and food from Sweet Lew’s BBQ. See you there!
Please join us Saturday, September 7th from 11am-2pm, for a pop-up with artist Eleanor Foy.
Eleanor Foy is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Athens, Georgia. Raised in the south San Francisco Bay Area, the landscape and mythology of California and the American West continue to inform her work. Foy has received numerous awards, including the Regina Brown Undergraduate Student Fellowship through the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and the Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award through the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Notable exhibitions include the 2022 NCECA Annual, Belonging, at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, and Trick Pony, a two-person exhibition with Grace Kennison at the Valley in Taos, New Mexico in 2023. Foy is an MFA candidate at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens.
Please join us Tuesday, April 9th at 11AM, for a book signing with artist Summer Wheat.
Wheat will be singing copies of her new monograph Summer Wheat: Forager from 11AM-12PM
Please join us for Bungalow Social on Saturday, October 22nd from 10-6pm. We are excited to have Leatherology, a luxury leather brand that believes in elevating the everyday by introducing beautifully designed accessories that are timeless, complete and lasting, at the Bungalow.
There will be music, refreshments from Free Range Brew, and food from Bossy Beulahs. We will also be selling signed copies of Scott Avett’s new book ‘Purpose At Random’ while supplies last. See you there!
Please join us for the release and signing of Liz Nielsen’s new monograph Apparitions. This is the artists’ first monograph, and it includes more than 40 works that were created in the period between 2014-2021. The monograph includes contributions by Sarah Allen, Martin Barnes, and Annabel Osberg. Liz Nielsen’s innovative practice upends the traditional method of analog photography.
Please join us in celebrating Maria Brito’s new book ‘How Creativity Rules the World’ with a book signing on March 30th from 11 AM - 12:30 PM at SOCO Gallery.
Call the gallery at 980.498.2881 to reserve your copy.
Please join us Friday, February 11th from 10AM - 4PM for a Pop-Up trunk show and bangle bar at SOCO Gallery hosted by Surya and the Moon.
Please join us Saturday, December 11th for our annual ‘Holidays at the Bungalow’ event. There will be seasonal cocktails, music, gift shopping, and an artist talk with Damian Stamer.
Please join us for our second annual Potters on the Porch event on November 20, 2021. This year we will be featuring the work of 15 local and national potters.
Please join us Saturday, October 23rd for Bungalow Social and the release of Jen Ray’s limited edition print.
Clare Rojas, Woman In Chair Reading With Fly, 2021, oil on linen, 50 x 40 inches
SOCO Gallery will present a solo booth of large and intimately scaled paintings and works on paper by artist Clare Rojas at Booth 418 at the Armory Show from September 9-12, 2021.
Rojas is a multiracial (half Peruvian), multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted deeply in ecofeminism.
The artist explores the sacred feminine through intuitive connections between animals, nature, the spiritual, and political forces that connect and disconnect. Her work strives to articulate the nuance of emotions within narratives and the universality of forms found within our environments.
Detailed intricacies such as subtle hue changes, gracefully drawn boundaries and heavy, saturated blocks of color can either be read from a distance or up close. Rojas' immediately recognizable female figures, animals, flora and fauna, reveal her promise to observe and record the details that surround her.
Metaphorically, her creative practice is the center of a carousel. The characters that revolve around her are her multimedia arms; painting, drawing, narrative, abstraction, figuration, music, film, installation, and writing. She balances all of the mediums within a self-defined construct that embraces the inherent nature of art and the art making process.
Rojas was named one of the “5 Artists on Our Radar This January” (2021) by Artsy.
Created specifically for the Armory Show 2021, the booth presentation will include a balance of figuration, landscape, abstract and narrative.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Clare Rojas (b. 1976, OH) has received numerous accolades for her work, including grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Eureka Fellowship Award, and the Artadia Award. Her work is in the following public collections: Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA; UCSF Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA; Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
Rojas’ work has been reviewed in such publications as the Huffington Post, Artforum International Magazine, Art in America, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, and Art Review. She was named one of the “5 Artists on Our Radar This January” (2021) by Artsy. Recent projects include a site-specific commission for Facebook headquarters in San Francisco, CA (2020) and the Art in Embassies Program in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico (2018), and solo exhibitions at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA (2021), SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2019), Kavi Gupta (2018), and the Alice Gallery in Brussels, Belgium (2016). The artist received her MFA in Painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2002 and her BFA in Printmaking, from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1998. Rojas lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Kick off the holiday season Saturday, December 5th at the 421 Bungalow.
Enjoy Potters on the Porch - an outdoor market of handmade pottery, trunk shows with Norse Projects and SnowPeak, exclusive prints by Summer Wheat, vessels by Cody Hoyt, seasonal beverages by Not Just coffee, and so much more. Shop small this gift giving season.
Congratulations to Summer Wheat on the installation of “Foragers” at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina. The monumental public artwork spans four stories, 3,720 square feet, filling 96 windows. It creates an illusion of stained glass and casts vibrant color across the museum’s atrium space.
“In so many ways, Foragers is a monumental tribute to all those anonymous female makers and laborers who have made North Carolina the place that it is today: the Catawba clay workers, the Cherokee basket makers, the enslaved and freed African-American fishers and farmers, the countless woodworkers, weavers, and quilters,” says Jen Sudul Edwards, PhD, the Mint’s chief curator and curator of contemporary art. We invite you to absorb the light, be transported by the color and contemplate the stories behind “Foragers,” on view until September 2022.
Watch ‘The Great Escape’ Narrated by Karine Laval here
SOCO Gallery presented works by Damian Stamer in not cancelled, a week-long online art exhibition on view from May 23 to May 30, 2020. not cancelled has held digital art events in Dubai, The Netherlands, Chicago, East and Southern Europe and, now, in the Southern U.S.
SOCO Gallery is pleased to participate in FAIR by New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) — a new art fair initiative designed to be entirely online, function cooperatively, and act as a benefit for NADA’s community of galleries, nonprofits and artists. Taking place May 20th at 10 AM through June 21, 2020, FAIR will directly support 119 NADA Gallery Members and 81 other galleries that have been financially impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, totaling nearly 200 galleries around the world.
Join us in supporting our artists as we present one new art work each week through FAIR.
Week one (May 20): Douglas Melini
Week two (May 27): Jen Ray
Week three (June 8): Halsey Hathaway
Week four (June 15): Jackie Gendel
Explore more at thisisfair.org
Our gallery space is currently closed due to COVID-19. Please contact the gallery directly for any inquiries as we are currently taking appointments. We continue to work remotely and by appointment for our artists, collectors, and community. Let’s stay connected.
SOCO Gallery is pleased to announce an artist talk on Thursday, March 12 to celebrate the upcoming exhibition ‘Into the Woods‘ by New York-based artist, Douglas Melini. The talk with the artist and Maria Brito, independent curator and art advisor, will begin at 11AM.
SOCO Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition of new works by artist Douglas Melini. The gallery will host a public opening reception on Wednesday, March 11 from 6 – 8PM and an artist talk with Maria Brito, independent curator and art advisor, on Thursday, March 12 from 11AM – 12PM. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with SOCO Gallery.
Douglas Melini, Untitled (Tree Painting/Spectrum-Blue), 2020
SOCO Gallery is pleased to present In The Light Of Unlearning, artist and musician Scott Avett’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery. A public opening reception will be held at the gallery on Wednesday, January 22 from 6 – 8PM.
Scott Avett, Journal Page #6, 2018
SOCO Shop is thrilled to welcome Jim Moore and Ivan Shaw for a conversation and book signing of Moore’s Hunks & Heroes: Four Decades of Fashion at GQ on Saturday, December 7 at 2PM. A book signing will follow at 3PM.
Image courtesy of Rizzoli
SOCO Gallery is pleased to present acclaimed artist/design duo, The Haas Brothers, in their first US Southeast-region exhibition, I Saw Design, and Art Opened Up My Eyes, I Saw Design. The exhibition will present 20 new and never-before-seen works of The Haas Brothers created specifically for SOCO Gallery. The show marks SOCO Gallery's first design exhibition, featuring the pair's iconic Accretions, Fairy Berries and Micro Beasts. The exhibition will open on November 13, 2019 and will run through January 17, 2020.
The Haas Brothers, Whip Van Winkle, 2019
Image by Tim Hans, courtesy of The Haas Brothers and SOCO Gallery
SOCO Shop is thrilled to announce an artist talk and book signing with Alan Huck on Saturday, October 26th. Alan Huck and local novelist Jeff Jackson will discuss Huck’s newly released photobook, I walk toward the sun which is always going down, beginning at 11AM with a book signing to follow. The talk will be held in conjunction with the bungalow’s annual Bungalow Social which will continue throughout the day.
SOCO Gallery is pleased to welcome Carlos Mota for a book signing of his new publication, Beige Is Not A Color. Mota’s book is a delightful celebration of beauty and color, featuring a discerning collection of photography, interiors, architecture, and quotes from notable designers. The event will be held on Wednesday, October 2nd from 6–8PM.
