The Gibbes Museum of Art announces Fall 2024 Special Exhibitions

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Gibbes Museum of Art has announced its exciting lineup of special exhibitions for the fall of 2024. These exhibitions will explore a wide range of topics, allowing visitors to discover new art forms and genres while reinforcing the museum’s core themes of health and wellness, social justice, innovation, and environmental conservation.

“Connecting the Charleston community with diverse art forms and fostering creativity are at the heart of the Gibbes’ mission,” says Angela Mack, president and CEO of the Gibbes Museum of Art. “We look forward to the upcoming fall season filled with captivating exhibitions featuring the works of extraordinary artists for guests to experience.”

The fall exhibitions include the Artist Spotlight Series: David Driskell and Edward Middleton Manigault (August 23 – December 1, 2024), featuring in-depth profiles of artists from the Gibbes’ permanent collection. This rotating series will highlight early 20th-century painter Edward Middleton Manigault, known for his visionary modernist styles, and David Driskell, a celebrated artist, curator, and scholar whose work honors ancestry, faith, community, and the tranquility of nature.

Another highlight is Celebrating the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art (October 11, 2024 – January 12, 2025). Since 2008, the Gibbes Museum has awarded this prestigious prize to 15 artists whose work contributes to a new understanding of art in the South. Supported by Society 1858, the museum’s young professionals’ auxiliary group, this exhibition will celebrate the winners and finalists of what has become one of the South’s most esteemed art prizes.

In collaboration with Beeple Studios, the museum will also feature BEEPLE (December 13, 2024 – May 2025), showcasing the latest kinetic sculptures by Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple. A trailblazer in digital art, Beeple gained worldwide recognition after his NFT artwork “EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS” sold for a record-breaking price at Christie’s in 2021. His generative sculpture “HUMAN ONE” has been exhibited in several prestigious museums, including the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas. This will be the first time Beeple’s kinetic sculptures are displayed together in Charleston.

As one of the oldest arts organizations in the United States, the Gibbes Museum of Art, home to the Carolina Art Association established in 1858, houses one of the foremost collections of American Art from the 18th century to the present. The museum’s mission is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality, providing opportunities to learn, discover, enjoy, and be inspired by the creative process.

For more information about upcoming exhibitions at the Gibbes Museum of Art, visit www.gibbesmuseum.org.