Artists
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In the past few years, travels in Europe and Ireland have had a profound visual effect on my work. Upon returning from that first trip, I began a series... read more |
Statement for 2010 work New Chemistry & Migration of the Disruptors: For several years, the building public controversy over the commercial use... read more |
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Artist Statement Children know what they like and dislike before they develop the cognitive skills to explain their personal preferences. Through this... read more |
Tom Baril was born in Connecticut in 1952. After graduating from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1980 with a BA in photography, he served as Robert... read more |
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For approximately the last ten years Dominic Besner has dedicated the entirety of his time to his art in an effort to aesthetically represent his view... read more |
BIOGRAPHY Michael Brown was born to a truck driving nurse lover in rural upstate New York where he discovered his desire to create other worlds through... read more |
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Roy W Butler is an internationally published, award winning sculptor and artist that redefines the art of life. His work has been introduced on Oprah,... read more |
BIOGRAPHY Gordon Chandler has been living and working in Carrollton, Georgia for over thirty years. Originally from Massachusetts, Chandler moved south... read more |
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BIOGRAPHY Growing up in rural Maine, Charland spent much of his childhood helping his father remodel their family homes. These experiences instilled an... read more |
Antoine Claes has had a passion for photography since his college days. Claes has used this discipline as reference in his painting. The sources of inspiration... read more |
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RESUME Education 2009 MFA Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA 2004 BFA Painting, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro,... read more |
ARTIST STATEMENT Primarily, my work involves the idea of chaos from order and order from chaos through historical and personal context. As a post-modernist... read more |
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SURFACE EXCAVATION: New metal reliefs by Kristina Colucci “The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.” It doesn’t... read more |
Seth has worked as a professional artist since 1998. His work, primarily oil, is a somewhat whimsical interpretation of the human condition. Inspired... read more |
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I like the irony of something which appears limitless to our eyes, which we experience on an infinite scale, being in a space that is only a few inches;... read more |
ARTIST STATEMENT My work combines the classic forms and construction of the electric guitar with materials, textures, and visual themes reclaimed from... read more |
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ARTIST STATEMENT Explosive energy, inner light, organic patterns and bodily orbs: my latest series continues to explore the physical and intangible connections... read more |
BIOGRAPHY Jonathan Ferrara is a New Orleans artist, gallery owner, community activist and arts entrepreneur. His gallery exhibits cutting edge works of... read more |
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BIOGRAPHY Catherine Forster is a filmmaker, artist, curator and educator based in the Chicago area. She received an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute... read more |
BIOGRAPHY Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1964, Andrew (Drew) Galloway describes his work as an “Oriental esthetic in the Southern vernacular.”... read more |
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ARTIST STATEMENT My desire to make objects is fueled by encounters with Nature and playful experimentation with synthetic materials. Reflecting on my... read more |
Greg Gustafson’s landscapes are imbued with a sense of sweeping romance. Small physical details and nuances are reduced to an abstract overview of... read more |
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ARTIST STATEMENT This recent body of work of wire exoskeletons allows me to examine and explore objects in a different way. With the surfaces transparent... read more |
Symbolism is a school of art that allows ideas to disguise themselves as objects. The point seems to be to figure out which ideas are hiding in the guns,... read more |
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EDUCATION 1989 MFA, School of the Art Institute,... read more |
I believe the act of observational painting is an act of fiction because the painter is taking many separate moments and combining them into one unified... read more |
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Richard Jolley was born in Kansas in 1952, earned his BFA from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1974 and did graduate studies... read more |
At it’s core, my work has always addressed the issue of the human condition, specifically, the complexities and dramas played out on a psychological... read more |
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Resume Education 1998 BA, Furman University, Greenville, SC, magna cum laude 1995, 1996, 1997 Award for Outstanding Achievement and Service to the... read more |
Susan Maakestad is Associate Professor at Memphis College of Art where she has taught since 1997. She earned a M.F.A. from The University of Iowa in 1987.. read more |
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My creativity was never limited to one media or subject. I love to work simultaneously on figurative, monumental, abstract and miniature sculptures.” ... read more |
Resume Education/Travel Japan Study - 1992 Bilmes School of Art - 1993 - 1995 Medford/Jacksonville, OR European Adventure Study - 1998 Belgium, Germany,... read more |
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I cannot deny my voyeuristic nature. I think the allure of calculating the emotions that lurk just behind the face of an individual is what put me on this... read more |
Born 1959, Warrenton, Virginia Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico Education 1979-82 B.A., University of Minnesota 1977-78 Carleton College,... read more |
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Frank Milo wants people to see his works in depth, with layers upon layers coming to life. Thusly, his vibrant canvases are sealed with layers upon layers... read more |
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BIOGRAPHY In her paintings, Nora Mulheren comments on the unattainable ideals of perfection portrayed in the media. She begins with advertisements... read more |
BIO Adin Murray was born in 1974 in Manchester, Massachusetts. He received his BA in Art/Biology from Tulane University in 1997, and his MFA in painting... read more |
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Phurba Namgay was born in 1963 in the village of Chendipji in Trongsa. When he was a child, as part of his preparation to become a monk, he studied Tibetan... read more |
I am a cross disciplinary visual artist who is interested in perceived experience as interpreted through our senses. I create objects of wonder by accentuating... read more |
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Biography A native of Hokkaido, Japan, Masumi Nyui first came to the U.S. in 2000. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Painting... read more |
ARTIST STATEMENT In my paintings, installations and etchings I invent places that are rendezvous for myself: who I am now and for whom I was in the past.. read more |
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"In all things, I aim to simplify expression to something that is pure. Quite often, my paintings are influenced by childrens art and indigenous... read more |
Allen Peterson’s work spans the disciplines of sculpture, performance, printmaking, and public art, united by themes of the systems and interconnections... read more |
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BIOGRAPHY Nashville, Tennessee-based photographer Thomas Petillo is perhaps best known for his strikingly intimate portraits of great musicians... read more |
ARTIST STATEMENT It's all about dynamism. Two elements never touching but affecting one another simply by existing in a space together. Thesis and antithesis... read more |
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ARTIST STATEMENT In this work I translate my experience, my life encounters as they evolve, into a visual poetry. Belief and re-imagining, loss and tenacity,... read more |
Education 2007-2010 Master of Fine Arts Candidate (Painting) Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA Artistic Honors Full Tuition Fellowship,... read more |
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After Ken Livingstone was recorded asking Evening Standard’s Oliver Feingold if he was a German war criminal, he was forced to publicly apologize... read more |
Artist Statement My work considers the possibility that the intervals of time and space between events contain an experience as compelling as the events... read more |
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Artist Statement My paintings refer to signs along the way, in various sites, connected by air and water. These indices point to a time and place where... read more |
I am a painting grad at MFA at the U of AL. My paintings are about the conflict present in dualities like the beautiful and the grotesque or the... read more |
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The main goal of St. Laurent’s work is to signal and make known the presence of an object in a given place (gallery or in situ space) through the... read more |
Called a Neo-Expressionist, Hunt Slonem inserts realism into his Abstract Expressionism. He combines Abstract Expressionist techniques with mysticism and... read more |
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Roy Tamboli lives in Memphis, Tennessee where he was born in 1951. He is a descendant of the Delta Italians, a migration that began in 1895 from... read more |
WILLIAM R. “DOOBY” TOMKINS, JR. BIO Dooby Tomkins earned his degree as a bachelor of fine arts with a concentration in painting and drawing... read more |
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Frank Webster (Born 1966 in Fort Wayne, Ind.) is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Webster received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute... read more |
The obsession our culture has with fame, fashion, wealth, and rock stars is intriguing to say the least. The changes in our society through the pursuit... read more |
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ARTIST STATEMENT “We need to know the textures, the rhythms and tastes of the bodily world, and to distinguish readily between those tastes and... read more |
Biography Jonathan Yoerger grew up surrounded by cornfields in an Indianapolis suburb with an addiction to daydreaming and a mother that kept him... read more |
