Carolina Galleries, in operation since 1963, is Charleston’s oldest art gallery, specializing in works by contemporary Southern masters and renown artists from the Charleston Renaissance. Profiled in Architectural Digest, National Geographic Explorer, Southern Accents, and Town & Country, Carolina Galleries located at 106-A Church Street, in downtown Charleston within walking distance of all major hotels.
The Charleston Renaissance was a period now defined as the first half of the 20th century and featuring such artists as Alfred Hutty and Alice R.H. Smith. The New Renaissance began in the early 1980s with the emergence of artists in Charleston such as West Fraser and Johnson Hagood and continues into the 21st Centruy.