Simulation Garden
Anna Huff’s first solo exhibition unfolds through movement, sound, and shared presence. Huff transforms the gallery into a living environment where works shift and respond as audiences engage in her world of techno-spiritualism. This immersive art experience promises to be as synthetic and cold as it is deeply emotionally resonant.
Storytellers
Storytellers is an exhibit featuring work from Traci Wright Martin, Gretta McCall, Brooks Harris Stevens, and Valerie Zimany examine storytelling as a visual practice.
Through material, process, and imagery, these artists reveal how women’s narratives are preserved and shared through contemporary art.
Thornback Gallery Annual Juried Show
Fractures and Repair
Thornback Gallery is pleased to announce our Second Annual Juried Exhibition, celebrating outstanding contemporary artwork across all media. "Fractures and Repair" explores cycles of rupture and renewal—how individuals and communities respond to harm, navigate conflict, and engage in acts of healing and reconstruction. This theme invites work that reflects on personal or collective struggle, transformation, and resilience.
This show offers artists the opportunity for professional exposure and cash awards, with all selections made through a blind jury process to ensure fairness and artistic integrity. A non-refundable fee of $30 enables each artist to enter up to two works. Please submit one digital image per work to be juried.
Kent Ambler Unknown
Dana Jones Dot Matrix Floral
On view from 11.07 - 12.05.25
Artist Talk 11.20 from 5-7pm
Closing Reception 12.05 from 6-8pm
Unknown
Kent Ambler’s layered woodcuts and mixed media works draw from the natural world, finding pattern and quiet movement in birds, branches, and landscapes. His compositions strike a balance between spontaneity and structure, offering a grounded sense of observation and presence.
Dot Matrix Floral
With a phone full of random gardens snapped on walks, a book of crayon sketches, and the clatter of printers from a former life informing his choices, Dana Jones turned to the 9-dot grid as a simple, accommodating structure for this project. Its symmetry and modular flexibility lent an organizing structure for further color exploration.
Jeffrey Leder Intuitive Groove
Thirty Years of Geometric Painting
on view from 9.27.25 - 11.01.25
Join us for a landmark exhibition celebrating the work of Jeffrey Leder, whose career has been defined by bold, rhythmic explorations of geometry, color, and structure. Intuitive Groove traces three decades of Leder’s practice, revealing the evolution of his signature style—where precision meets play, and form becomes a language of movement and energy.
Closing Reception: Saturday, November 1 | 6–9pm
Six Perspectives: Women Artists of the Southeast
August 28- September 23
This vibrant group exhibition features the work of six acclaimed artists—Traci Wright Martin, Annie Koelle, Libby Baxter, Eva Magill Oliver, Heather Deyling, and Keiko Kamata—each offering a unique visual language shaped by personal narrative, regional influence, and mastery of their medium. From ethereal abstraction to meticulous realism, their works create a rich dialogue that honors the depth and diversity of contemporary Southern art.
Pink Noise by Maggie Genoble and Jessica Swank
July 11, 2025 - August 17, 2025
Pink Noise explores the evolving relationship between the human body, digital technology, and societal norms, examining how identity is shaped—and often distorted—in the digital age. The exhibition draws its name from the ambient, calming sound of pink noise, suggesting how technology subtly masks, soothes, and reshapes our perceptions of self.
Featuring the work of Upstate South Carolina artists Jessica Swank and Maggie Genoble, Pink Noise brings together sculptural installations, digital works, photography, and mixed media pieces that interrogate the emotional and physical impact of digital environments.
Halcyon by Adam du Shole & Fragile by Claire Boyd Daniels
May 5, 2025-June 28, 2025
Join us for the opening of two poignant and deeply personal exhibitions at Thornback Gallery.
Adam du Shole’s Halcyon reflects on the nature of memory, movement, and the quiet grief of nostalgia. Each piece stands like a carefully arranged curio on a fireplace mantle—self-made tchotchkes drawn from a childhood of constant relocation. These works honor important places and fleeting moments, playing in the margins between celebration and sorrow. They ask: what becomes of our former lives as we move into the next? When we can pack so little, what do we bring?
Claire Boyd Daniels’ Fragile is a raw and luminous exploration of vulnerability. Created in moments of emotional reaching—like a prayer, or a cry in the dark—her works emerge from a place of deep personal reckoning. They are manifestations of grief and rage, love and shame, made visible in pigment and charcoal. For Daniels, art is both question and answer, a space to peel back layers of self and allow the inner world to expand. What was once whispered in the dark is now here, in the light—inviting you to witness, and perhaps to feel fragile too.
Alice Scott
Amy Evans
Angie Carrier
Brad Silk
Caroline Calder
Chris Nitsche
Christina Covington
Donna Weathers
Gretta McCall
Heather Deyling
Jay Owens
Featured Artists
Joe Craighead
Katherine Irvin
Libby Mitchell
Lisa Shimko
Marty McGihon
Phil Garrett
Randall C Smith
Red Dumonde
Talin Keyfer
Tiffany Ownbey
Valerie Zimany
Saturated
“Saturated” is a group exhibition featuring work from 11 Contemporary Artists working in the Southeast. “Saturated” was inspired by the abundance of artistic talent in the southeastern United States as well as Thornback Gallery’s century- old leaky roof (replaced after a summer of torrential rain storms).
The permanent gallery is back open, and the full exhibtion will be on view until November 7th.
Artist Reception | November 7, 2024 | 5-8pm
Steven L. Anderson
Arden Cone
Joe Craighead
Heather Deyling
Adam Du Shole
Phil Garrett
Gia Miminoshvili
Chris Nitsche
Brad Silk
Christine Swann
Inaugural Group Show
Opening Reception | April 11, 2024 | 5-7pm
On view from April 11- June 7
Todd Anderson
Hannah Erlich
Kym Day
William Downs
Ummarid Eitharong
Marcus Kenney
Kenneth Kudulis
Gretta McCall
Traci Wright Martin
Tiffany Ownbey