Self portrait, 2010
Born: Newport News, VA
Education: BFA, Appalachian State University, 1996
2023 - Winner North Charleston Poster Design Competition, North Charleston, SC
2018 - Mary Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC
2015 – Atelier Gallery, Charleston, SC
2015 – Best in show, and First place, North Charleston Arts Festival juried art competition, N. Charleston SC.
2015 – Kulture Klash 8 at the Memmenger Auditorium in Charleston, SC
2013 –“Reckless” pilot, provided artwork for a new series that will air on CBS, ongoing, Charleston, SC
2013 – Light Space, & Time online gallery, “Nature” competition 4th place winner.
2012 – Portrait Battle, Presented by FR3SH at REDUX contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC
2011 – Portrait Battle, Presented by FR3SH at REDUX contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC
2011 – “Collective Eclectic” Beyond the Gallery Show, Charleston, SC
2010 – “A Painted Reality”, Eye Level Art, Charleston, SC 2002 – Emerging Artists Show, Infinity Gallery Boston, MA
2010 – Aloft Hotel Art + Fashion Show, Charleston, SC
2009 – Kulture Klash 5, Charleston, SC
2009 – Gradual Lean – Music and Live Painting at Eye Level Art, Charleston, SC
2009 – Eye Level Art 24 hour lock-in, Eye Level Art, Charleston, SC
2009 – Fr3sh Art, 12 Hour Lock-in, Fr3sh Art, Charleston, SC
2009 – Ones and Zeros show at Eye Level Art, Charleston, SC
2009 – Portrait Slam at Eye Level Art, Charleston, SC
2008 – 4 Square Art Show at Eye Level Art, Charleston, SC
2006 – 2008 – Ongoing collection at Eye Level Art, Charleston, SC
2001, 2003 – Charlestown Artist Guild Member Charlestown, MA
2002 – Emerging Artists Show, Infinity Gallery Boston, MA
2001, 2002 – Art in the Park, Boston, MA
You may contact the artist directly at nostod@gmail.com
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Remember the past.
Remember when we swam with the fish.
Remember when we felt our place in the natural order of the world.
Creatures lost in their own worlds
Fish in their darkness, cocooning themselves from unseen dangers.
We peer into their worlds, and see them as we may see ourselves – crowded, blind.
The patterns of the universe duplicate themselves in scales and waves.
The fish follow form and relent to silent forces.
Never fully awake, never fully asleep.
C. Dotson
Latest news!!!
Forms in a Landscape was one of 62 entries from 33 artists working in 12 cities across South Carolina that were submitted for consideration for the 2023 North Charleston Arts Fest Poster Design Competition. The “hieroglyphic” painting contains symbols that represent different animals, plants, and forces in nature, creating a world that is organic, spontaneous, and mysterious. “Raindrops, dew drops, and tears swirl their way through a landscape that is filled with colorful life,” Dotson explains. “Everything is unbound, but every form is linked to the other forms around it. Each form has its own identity, but every form is the genesis of the idea for the forms that surround it. It is an ecosystem.” Much like the other works in Dotson’s Natural Instincts series, the painting was made to be experienced, not understood. He states, “Above all else I want to create beauty in a pure form. Nature is the inspiration for that.”