Meet the Artist
September 25 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM586 Perry Ave, Greenville, SC 29611
Art & Light | Anchorage Exhibition Series | Christopher Rico Artist Talk
Art & Light Gallery and The Anchorage Restaurant are happy to announce a solo exhibition of work by Greenville, S.C. artist Christopher Rico on view at The Anchorage in the Village of West Greenville through October 7, 2025. The Anchorage Exhibition Series brings art beyond the walls of Art & Light Gallery to offer an immersive experience that fuses culinary and visual arts.
Join Christopher Rico for an intimate artist talk on Thursday, September 25 from 5:00-6:30 PM. Enjoy a signature cocktail by mixologist Mills Higgins along with Chef Zurkey's curated small bites inspired by Rico’s paintings.
Rico uses oversized Asian calligraphy brushes and a gestural, meditative approach to painting. He states, “The image of a falling horse has been with me for some time now. So many associations; political, emotional, symbolic, even mythic. For me, there are myriad interpretations. The horse as symbol for empire, the inversion as a reference to tarot, a nod to surrealism perhaps, an anxiety triggered by the visual situation itself. We live in a time of immense cultural and political uncertainty. The job of the artist is to speak of their time; making the personal universal, and if one is very fortunate, enduring. I think these will mean different things to different people, and I don’t think anyone would be wrong.”