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Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art

Award-winning art gallery representing artists addressing contemporary issues. We curate projects that encourage critical thinking and conversation.
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03/11/2026

Roy Strassberg featured on WTVI PBS Charlotte, Carolina Impact | Art With a Purpose

"Someone has to commemorate, memorialize, this event, so that in future generations, people will understand what happened so it's not repeated."
- Roy Strassberg

In a moment when antisemitism is resurging globally and public discourse is increasingly polarized, PBS Charlotte's segment, Carolina Impact, thoughtfully featured the work of gallery artist Roy Strassberg. Strassberg’s sculptures remind viewers that memory is an active practice, and that confronting historical atrocity is a safeguard against its repetition. The work insists, quietly but firmly, that remembrance is not a political provocation, but instead a moral obligation. Highlighting the conceptual and modal workings of Strassberg's sculpture practice, this short film produced by Doug Stacker poignantly showcases the artist's lifelong commemoration of the Holocaust.

Producer: .stacker

To watch the PBS Charlotte short film, click the link in our bio.

To learn more about Roy Strassberg and his work, visit our website (link in bio).

01/27/2026

In the studio with , the 2026 John O. Calmore Creative Activism Resident Artist .

Created in partnership between SE CLT Gallery and McColl Center, this residency is dedicated to supporting artists whose practices confront pressing social justice issues and envision new possibilities for equity and community.

Upcoming opportunities to connect:

During Open Hours:
Fridays | 12-6pm
Saturdays | 10am-6pm

Artist Talk + Tour
Thursday, February 5 from 6- 8pm

12/17/2025

Shop our selection of works under $5,000 this holiday season and give the gift that keeps on giving! 🖼 🎁

Perfect for the art-lover on your shopping list.

Browse available works under 5K via the link in our bio.

DM us or email [email protected] with artwork inquiries.

12/08/2025

Sheryl Oring, Select Monoprints (I Wish to Say), 24 x 18 in.

Featured in Collective Witness, currently viewable on our website (link in bio).

Sheryl Oring’s landmark I Wish to Say project evinces how civic participation becomes art. Since 2004, Oring has set up a traveling public office - complete with a manual typewriter - and invited members of the public to dictate postcards to the U.S. president.

The monoprints presented in this exhibition grow directly from the I Wish to Say performances. Using a Xerox transfer process - a painstaking method in which typewritten texts are manually burnished and layered to transfer toner onto paper - Oring transforms the ephemeral messages collected in public spaces into enduring visual statements.

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12/03/2025

Sherrill Roland, Portrait #508 & Portrait #318 (study), Colored pencil on laser-etched paper, 18 x 18 in, Diptych

Featured in Collective Witness, currently viewable on our website (link in bio).

Sherrill Roland’s interdisciplinary practice examines the complex intersections of identity, justice, and memory through the lens of personal and collective experience. Drawing from his wrongful incarceration, Roland transforms the visual and material language of the American criminal legal system into meditations on truth, personhood, and resilience. His work reconfigures objects, numbers, and materials associated with confinement — from correctional ID codes and cinder blocks to Kool-Aid and commissary goods — into sculptural and conceptual forms that question how systems of power define, contain, and erase the individual.

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11/20/2025

Collective Witness: With the Artists | Friday, November 21, 3 PM on ZOOM.

We invite you to join SE CLT for a virtual panel discussion featuring Collective Witness artists Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland, moderated by Sonya Pfeiffer.

Through works that are both intimate and public, Oring and Roland transform lived experience and individual testimony into works that urge an engaged citizenry to imagine its way toward true freedom. To learn more about the artists and the Collective Witness exhibition, visit our website via the link in our bio.

The panel, presented in solidarity with the national Fall of Freedom movement, will take place via ZOOM, and explore topics of democracy, freedom, and cillective imagination.The ZOOM link is accessible in our bio and also available on the Collective Witness exhibition page of our website.

11/19/2025

Spirit of Independence | Sheryl Oring at McColl Center
Sat, Nov 22 · 3–5 PM

Join SECLT as Sheryl Oring invites the public to answer one powerful question: “What does independence mean to you?” Sheryl will type responses verbatim on a vintage typewriter, creating carbon copies: one for the participant, one for the exhibition, and one for her archive.

This participatory performance turns personal reflections into a collective portrait of how we define freedom today. Oring’s monoprints in the Collective Witness digital exhibition (link in bio) extend this work, transforming typed messages into lasting visual statements.

11/13/2025

Fall of Freedom is now. Art is our response.
Across the country, artists and citizens are rising to confront the erosion of rights and the silencing of voices.
SE CLT Gallery joins the movement with Collective Witness.

Featuring Sheryl Oring and Sherrill Roland, this exhibition refuses passivity. It transforms personal story and collective struggle into a demand for presence, visibility, and truth.

Oring and Roland’s works ask: What does freedom look like when it’s under threat? What does it sound like when spoken aloud?

Be part of the movement:
Nov 21 – Collective Witness With the Artists: conversation, witness, resistance.
Nov 22 – Live Performance at McColl Center: an experience of shared presence and action.

This isn’t just an exhibition. It’s a stand.

Fall of Freedom is a national initiative uniting artists and communities across the country to resist erasure, amplify truth, and reclaim imagination as a form of freedom.

All program information via the link in bio.

11/08/2025

Balam Bartolomé, the inaugural John O. Calmore Creative Activism Resident at McColl Center, made his Toronto debut with a collection of new works during an October 15 showcase and reception in collaboration with Mania Contemporary. These works, created during Balam's residency at McColl, examine historical events and their impact on contemporary society, while exploring the relationship between culture and how history is presently defined within that culture.

For a limited time, a selection of Balam's works are available at SE CLT. To browse available works from this made-in-Charlotte collection, click the link in our bio.

Artwork inquiries can be made on our website (link in bio). Additional information about Balam Bartolomé and the John O. Calmore residency at McColl is also available on our website.

New paintings available from Grant Drumheller!Email info@seclt.com for artwork images and details.Featured: Grant Drumhe...

10/23/2025

New paintings available from Grant Drumheller!

Email [email protected] for artwork images and details.

Featured: Grant Drumheller, Hot Dance, Acrylic and Flash on Linen, 60" x 50"

More interested in light and gesture than in narrative, Grant Drumheller takes an emocratic approach to his figures, constructing them from matrices of small touches and generalizations set in light-infused compositions.

Drumheller's prolific career includes a Fulbright-Hays Grant in Painting (Italy), a Blanche Colman Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

10/10/2025

SE CLT Gallery is proud to announce that artist Susan Brenner will be featured in From Mountains to Sea, a group exhibition curated by Colton Klein at the Cameron Art Museum, which will be on view from November 8, 2025 - May 10, 2026.

Among the included works will be Susan Brenner's monumental mixed media installation, High Water (pictured).

A Member Preview will take place on Friday, November 7.
Members: FREE
Not-Yet Members: $15
Students & Educators: FREE
Member Preview Tours available.

Artwork Photography:

A selection of available works by Susan Brenner can be found on our website (link in bio).
To request more information about works of interest, submit an inquiry (link in bio).

Email [email protected] to request a comprehensive price list.

Welcoming the changing of the seasons!Larry Horowitz, Fall Path, 2021, Oil on canvas, 24" x 38"DM or email info@seclt.co...

10/02/2025

Welcoming the changing of the seasons!

Larry Horowitz, Fall Path, 2021, Oil on canvas, 24" x 38"

DM or email [email protected] to inquire.

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