Local curator Rebekah Jacob has just recently opened her own gallery at 169-B King Street on Upper King, called Rebekah Jacob Gallery.
Jacob says this is the only gallery in Charleston to run a contemporary program, photography program, a folk art program and an African-American program.
The gallery plans on maintaining an accelerated, non-media specific exhibition schedule displaying both one-person and group shows.
The gallery is a venue for acclaimed contemporary artists and photographers whose work is inspired by the South, the first of which is "Something New," on display now.
This exhibit features selected works by a progressive group of Southern artists and photographers who have powerful visions of their native land.
Works include landscape painter Eric Abrecht and Charleston's own William McCullough, as well as abstract figure painters Jere Allen, and Cynthia Knapp. Also on display are works by regional photographers Michael West, Jerry Siegel, Jack Spencer, Melissa Springer and Charlestonian Julia Cart, all of whom use Southern landscapes, historical buildings, and portraits a subject matter.