Soil an exhibition by Jarod Charzewski

Soil
an exhibition by Jarod Charzewski

Exhibition Dates: October 27th – December 8th, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday October 27th, 2016 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm with an artist talk at 5:30pm.

Soil is an exhibition of a site-specific installation that makes reference to the consumer culture of western civilizations and the speed at which we mass-produce, consume and reproduce goods and materials. The plethora of unsold materials used in the immersive landscape are abundant in the region of Columbia, SC and is a minuscule portion of the tons of goods destined for the landfill daily.

Jarod Charzewski creates installations designed to evoke a viewer’s inherent connection to preservation by exploring objects and their ability to be tethered to attachments and the resulting compulsions. His work investigates the value put on objects that we humanistically continue to collect to give us pleasure. That pleasure gives comfort and that comfort lends itself to compulsion. These collections of objects and the attention that is placed on arrangement mirror the installations created in our everyday lives through the inability to throw things away. Charzewski is a professional artist and Associate Professor of Sculpture at the College of Charleston and the most recent recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship in Visual Arts. 

This exhibition and visiting artist is supported by the USC School of Visual Art and Design, the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, and the USC Green Quad.

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McMaster Gallery is located in the University of South Carolina’s School of Visual Art and Design at 1615 Senate Street, Columbia, SC with accessible street parking on Pickens, Senate, and Henderson. The gallery is free and open to the public and the hours are Monday – Friday 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (closed weekends and all university holidays). For more information contact Shannon Rae Lindsey, Gallery Director (email) slindsey@email.sc.edu (phone) 803.777.5752