The Walter Art Gallery is pleased to present “Subway Rush,” a solo show by Charles Giglia aka SAR opening on May 20 with a reception from 6:30 to 9:30pm.

Charles Giglia was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in south Queens. He adopted the graffiti name SAR in 1977 and began writing in true graffiti form on the inside and outside of New York City trains. His raw subway style is currently transformed onto canvas, paper, and metal in works capturing the color, energy, and style of art that roared through the subway system of New York City from the late 70s to the 1990s.

As a writer (the preferred term for graffiti artists), SAR was in the famous crews “The Master Blasters” and “Rolling Thunder Writers.” Many consider him a historian of Brooklyn Mass Transit graffiti from his Queens neighborhood. His work has been published in numerous magazines and books including: Under the Bridge, From the Platform, NYC Subway Graffiti, Freight Train Graffiti, Taking the Train, Fuzz One a Bronx Childhood, and magazines, Elemental, Move Back, and Hip Hop Connection, to name a few.

In 1991, SAR was featured in a Rap video by The Lords of Brooklyn titled Bombing the System. In the 1990s, SAR was also featured in the graffiti documentaries, Video Graff 2 and Video Graff 3. He also worked on set graffiti for the movie Sleepers.

SAR’s most recent works have been sold at the prestigious Art Curial and Tajan Auctions in Paris. His work was also featured in New York City this year at the Queens Graffiti Legends show at the Village Works Gallery. His artwork can be found in the private collection of the Groninger Museum in Holland and Galerie Salvador in France. The Galerie Salvador collection was presented at the Halle Saint Pierre Museum in Paris, France, February 2022.

This solo show of Charles Giglia, SAR’s, artwork will run from May 20 to July 15, 2022, with receptions on the opening and closing dates from 6:30 to 9pm. Join us to see this vibrant, dynamic art and meet the artist! The Walter Art Gallery is located at 6425 E. Thomas Road. The show can also be seen by appointment. Contact us at gallery@thewalterhive.org

The Walter Art Gallery is pleased to present “A Veil of Two Entities,” a show by local artist Cherie Buck-Hutchison opening on March 18 with a reception from 6:30 to 9:30pm. In a loose parallel with Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” Buck-Hutchison presents a cautionary tale about unquestioned submission to authority.

In this solo show, Buck-Hutchison deliberately deploys magical thinking to repair and reinvent an authoritarian narrative within the walls of a religious commune. Her work makes real the veiled psychological behavior within the administration of power while revisiting her family’s personal history as founding members. Buck-Hutchison explores the uncomfortable agreement between authority, intervention, and memory in the gossamer layers of her images.

You will see enchanted gifts layered onto buildings and rooms in communal housing at Mary’s City of David in Benton Harbor, Michigan: a deer rests on a bed, a closet is transformed into a kitchen, and extra housing materializes along a wooden staircase. She investigates the role of threat along with political sanctuary in her seemingly serene silk photographs. The lift of an organza veil reveals depictions of welcoming hands, statuary and a sound bowl at uneasy odds with threat-related imagery including carnivorous flora, swastikas, regulated clothing, potential disasters, and tactical text.

Cherie Buck-Hutchison has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Intermedia from Arizona State University. She is an All-American Scholarship recipient and was named one of the Top 100 Creatives in Phoenix, Arizona in 2016 by The New Times. She is also a recipient of the inaugural Carmody Foundation Community Grant as well as a Research and Development Grant from Arizona Commission for the Arts. Her work has been shown locally as well as nationally.

A Veil of Two Entities will run from March 18 to April 22nd, 2022. There will be receptions on the opening and the closing dates from 6:30 to 9:30pm. Guests are asked to wear masks to help protect the most vulnerable in our community. The show can also be seen by appointment by emailing gallery@thewalterhive.org. The Walter Art Gallery is located at 6425 E. Thomas Road, Scottsdale, AZ.