Cochran Gallery

CLOSING Reception for IMPERFECTIONISM
Art by RC Hagans
Friday, August 21, 2026
6 til 9 PM
COCHRAN GALLERY
4 East LaFayette Square
LaGrange, GA

Please join us Thursday, June 18, 2026 for the opening of "IMPERFECTIONISM"
Works by RC Hagans

Opening Reception
Thursday, June 18
6 to 9 PM, EST
COCHRAN GALLERY
4 East LaFayette Square
LaGrange, GA

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ARTIST STATEMENT:
My name is RC and I make things.
That is what I was created to do.

It is my job, and my hobby, and my religious calling.

If I get an idea, I’m not allowed to not make it.
A knock on the doors of perception.

Like the parable of the sewer and the seed, the ground that shows itself to be fertile is revisited again and again.

The more ideas you bring from the spirit world to the physical world, the more you are entrusted with.

Inspiration is a commandment to the creator.

I have to make things.
I don’t have to make them perfect.

Imperfectionism
I am an imperfectionist

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SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, June 18, 2026

IMPERFECTIONISM

A collection of things made by RC Hagans

More to follow!

⚜️Promises to be bigger and better than ever!
Come downtown tonight and join in the fun!!⚜️

Interesting Times
Sculpture and Paintings by Duane Paxson
Comes to the Cochran Gallery
Opening Reception Friday, January 23, 2026
6 til 9 PM, EST
4 East LaFayette Square
LaGrange, GA

Interesting Times
Growing up in the rural south, I was surrounded by nature, whose steady rhythms lend stability to daily life. I collected turtles, frogs, lizards, bugs, and even alligators. My siblings and I dug up arrow heads. Everyone on our road had a fig tree. Some had pear and plum trees as well. This seemingly idyllic existence is now, however, a mere memory, distant from contemporary reality. It goes without saying that the Biblical prophecy of “wars and rumors of wars” has now materialized. Stability has given way to uncertainty. The predictable social backdrop we took for granted a few decades ago seems to be tottering toward desolation.
The dread-both conscious and subliminal--engendered by these uncertain times has become the inspiration for my sculpture. I think of my works as “ghost marks,” mere glimpses of a once more stable existence. Surfaces covered in soot suggest the aftermath of war. Burlap and twine encircling some pieces infer restriction, indeed duress. Fragmentary figures bespeak violent dismemberment. Splintered forms indicate structures now decimated. At the root of this devastation, furthermore, is the destructive guile of pride-- what the Greeks termed hubris or overweening pride in defiance of the gods.
The exhibition might, furthermore, be seen as analogous to an opera, in which individual sculptures could stand alone as discrete works – like distinctive arias--but at the same time they work together as a whole.
Duane Paxson

Closing Reception for “That Thing Out in the Desert” SATURDAY, January 10, 2026!
💥4 til 7💥Artist talk 6 PM💥

COCHRAN GALLERY
The place to be Saturday Night!
Opening 6-9 pm

🔥🔥SATURDAY 🔥🔥
Cochran Gallery Opening
6-9 pm, EST
“That Thing Out in the Desert”

That Thing Out in the Desert
(...The Burning Man Project)

Burning Man Project - Documentary Team Member Mark Mennie - will be featuring some unique moments from his multiple years of capturing the event held in the Black Rock Desert. His artistic collaboration with Carrollton artist Gordon Chandler will also be on display. Please join our special guests, Mark Mennie, Gordon Chandler, and his fellow "Burners" the Trehal family during the opening reception.

**Burning Man attire encouraged!**

Opening Reception for "That Thing Out in the Desert"
Saturday, November 8, 2025
6 to 9 PM, EST
COCHRAN GALLERY
4 East LaFayette Square
LaGrange, GA

"That Thing Out in the Desert" will be on exhibit through January 10, 2026. Gallery hours are Wednesday thru Saturday, 1 to 5. See you downtown!

That Thing Out in the Desert
(...The Burning Man Project)

Burning Man Project - Documentary Team Member Mark Mennie - will be featuring some unique moments from his multiple years of capturing the event held in the Black Rock Desert. His artistic collaboration with Carrollton artist Gordon Chandler will also be on display. Lata Fields, local chalk artist, will be creating a chalk art piece on site. Please join our special guests, Mark Mennie, Gordon Chandler, Lata Fields, and his fellow "Burners" the Trehal family during the opening reception.

Opening Reception for
"That Thing Out in the Desert"
Saturday, November 8, 2025
6 to 9 PM, EST
COCHRAN GALLERY
4 East LaFayette Square
LaGrange, GA