Holiday Show: Now on View Through December

Immerse yourself in the warmth and wonder of the season at Reinike Gallery. Our annual Holiday Show is on view throughout December.

Explore paintings by our stable of artists, including w.e. pugh, Randy Akers, Charles H. Reinike III, Henry Callahan, Gretchen Reinike Eppling, Marleen DeWaele DeBock, and Peter J. O’Halloran.

Parking by Reinike Gallery is plentiful and free.

Dove Ornament

The Season for Gifts!

For more than thirty-five years, people have been collecting Charles H. Reinike III’s hand-cast pewter ornaments — heirlooms that have become part of many families’ holiday traditions. With 25 angels and 10 birds, many collectors return each year to add to their own sets or to include new names on their gift lists.

Each ornament is made to order, so we encourage you to order ahead.

Holiday Hours

Our last regular day of the year will be Saturday, December 20, and we will reopen on Saturday, January 3. We look forward to welcoming visitors during this special time—please contact us to schedule an appointment if you would like to visit the gallery between December 21 and January 2.


ARTISTS' NOTES

The Pursuit of Art Never Ends

Painting by W.E. Pugh from his MFA thesis

Come explore the paintings that grew from w.e. pugh’s MFA thesis, formally accepted and archived by Georgia Southern University in October. These works draw you into the world of mark, gesture, and layered surface—places where material, motion, and meaning converge on the canvas. His thesis reveals how this exploration informs his distinctive approach to painting, offering insight into the quiet rigor behind the work.

At age 71, after a lifelong career in both art and music, pugh continues to study, question, and push his understanding of art forward—a reminder that creative growth truly has no age limit.

Painting the Poetry of Place

Vashon Mosaic by Randy Akers

The new paintings by Randy Akers in this year’s Holiday Show trace their origins to two artist residencies—Provence, France in 2024 and Vashon, Washington in 2025.

Each residency offered its own landscape, its own light, and its own sense of place, but what connects the work is Akers’ ongoing interest in “shelter” paintings: old houses and structures that hold stories within their walls. These paintings are shaped by time, weather, memory, and the patina of lives once lived.

Akers transforms these dwellings into contemplative spaces—images where history becomes atmosphere, and where the viewer steps into quiet, resonant worlds shaped by both place and imagination.