First Friday at Westobou

Name: First Friday at Westobou
Start: 2025-09-05T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-05T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 1129 Broad St, Augusta, GA

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1129 Broad St, Augusta, GA | Augusta, GA

First Friday - September 5
sponsored by Security Federal
Join us for a artist talk at 5pm and reception from 6-8pm featuring the exhibition The Big Light by Kate Burke in the main gallery plus check out STRIKE THAT MATCH by Kevin Kirkwood in the MICRO gallery. Enjoy some hors d’oeuvres and brews from Savannah River Brewing Co.
Main Gallery
The Big Light by Kate Burke
Sept 5 - Oct 25
The marquee exhibition signals the beginning of Westobou Gallery’s season. Past exhibitions have featured the work of Hannah Ehrlich, Michi Meko, Yuken Teruya, Pamela Wiley, Hiromi Moneyhun and Jowita Wyszomirska.
MICRO gallery
sponsored by Wynn Capitol
STRIKE THAT MATCH by Kevin Kirkwood
Sept 5-27
STRIKE THAT MATCH is an immersive installation that reconstructs the emotional and physical architecture of a once-shared domestic space; a home that, over time, became something more transient, volatile, and ultimately symbolic. In late May, Kirkwood began a personal excavation, translating memory into material. Through this exhibition, he invites viewers into a space shaped by layered intimacy, rupture, and renewal. This installation brings together symbolic objects that reflect both the comfort and chaos of shared living. Handmade elements in the form of painted canvas, stained glass, quilted fabric; evoke familial warmth and intimacy. In contrast, moments of rupture emerge through charred fragments of wood and torn paper, signaling emotional intensity, sexuality, and transformation. This interplay between the tender and the volatile reveals the unstable boundaries of domestic life, where acts of care coexist with moments of upheaval. STRIKE THAT MATCH is not merely a recreation of a place, it is a reckoning. A hybrid of home and terminal, the installation captures the threshold where relationships ignite, unravel, and burn away.