May 30 – October 18, 2026
Painter Paul Kremer of Houston, TX, and ceramist Stephanie H. Shih of Brooklyn, NY, have joined forces to create a most playful and thought-provoking exhibition inspired by Myrtle Beach’s reputation as “the golf capital of the world” and as a former United States Air Force Base. The exhibition title, Lateral Hazard, which refers to a type of golf water hazard that runs parallel to the direction of the hole, hints at the oblique and distinct strategies both Kremer and Shih employ in approaching golf as a subject matter. Where Kremer considers the game of golf visually through its landscaping and architecture, Shih focuses on the game’s political associations. Alongside one another, both artists’ affinity for Pop-influenced imagery is highlighted reciprocally: the bright palette for Kremer and the commercial iconography and mass-culture critique for Shih.
Kremer (b. 1971, Chicago, IL), known for his unique minimalist abstractions, paints configurations that may imply architecture or images from nature with an exuberant eye for color and form. At the core of the artist’s practice is a three-part journey: inspiration and conception, exploration via digital experimentation, and execution through manual articulation. Kremer’s hard-edged, flat, modernist paintings are achieved with a blend of wet, yet opaque, acrylic paint that drips down the edges of his canvases, striking a balance between controlled mark-making and seemingly-spontaneous motion on all four edges.
Shih (b. 1986, Philadelphia, PA) renders outdated consumer goods as trompe l’oeil sculptures that reveal the tensions within American domestic life. Turning everyday items – a microwave, a self-help book, many pantries’ worth of condiments – into intricately painted ceramic objects transforms each into a permanent artifact. Seen together, the works play with notions of timelessness and obsolescence, memory, and disillusionment.
Kremer and Shih are represented by Alexander Berggruen in New York, NY.
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Myrtle Beach’s Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum strives to be one of the finest visual arts museums in the Carolinas. With 11 galleries that change throughout the year, Myrtle Beach’s only art museum offers exhibitions featuring paintings, textiles, sculpture, photography, video, ceramics, assemblage, collage and more. A visit to the Art Museum’s exhibitions can be enhanced by its lively programming, including artist receptions, tours, lectures, workshops and classes for both adults and children.
