Title: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW

Artist: Page Burch

Medium: Cast Iron, Yellowheart

Size: 24" x 5" x 3"

About the Artist:

Page Burch is a Lecturer of Sculpture and runs the Master Craftsman Program at Kennesaw State University. He received his BFA in Studio Art - Sculpture from Georgia Southern University in 2007, an MA in Sculpture from SCAD-Atlanta in 2009, and an MFA in Sculpture from SCAD-Atlanta in 2014, because everyone needs three degrees and crushing debt. He is trained in foundry, fine woodworking, and metal fabrication. He prefers wooden patterns, cupolettes, botting with a stick, and believes that folks who make IPAs are too lazy to make good beer. He does not have a lot of time to make artwork, but when he does, it is usually pretty asinine. His spirit tool is a ¾" Stanley Sweetheart 750 socket chisel.

Artist: Don Cooper

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 16" x 20" x .25"

About the Artist:

Don Cooper was born in Texas, grew up in Georgia and has lived primarily in Atlanta since 1976. He received his MFA from the University of Georgia and is the recipient of a Fulbright Artist Grant, a MOCA GA Working Artist Project Grant and the Judith Alexander Artadia Award. He has had thirty-two solo exhibitions and 70 group exhibitions. His work is in the collection of the Albright Knox Gallery, the High Museum of Art, the Atlanta International Airport, MOCAGA, Coca-Cola, USA , and the Morris Museum of Southern Art. His meditative, ritualistic paintings and digital images are inspired by universal symbols such as the bindu, a Sanskrit term for a central dot which represents consciousness, being and the sacred point of origin and return.

Artist: Sabre Esler

Medium: Oil & Chalk on Canvas

Size: 18" x 18" x 1.5 "

About the Artist:

Sabre Esler is an Atlanta based multidisciplined artist. She creates works and environments exploring the connections between emotions, thoughts and reality. Her latest body of work is inspired by the book "The Jazz of Physics" which explores the relationship between physics and creativity, particularly improvisation, to find elegant
solutions. Esler, an Ohio native, graduated from Miami University, Oxford, OH with a
BFA in graphic design/illustration and a minor in biology. She continued her art career,
first in advertising and design and began a fine art career after leaving the corporate
world. Esler received her MFA in painting from Savannah College of Art and Design
(SCAD) in 2015. She taught Foundation Studies at SCAD, (Atlanta Campus) 2018. In
2020 she began teaching at Georgia Perimeter/GSU (Dunwoody Campus). She has hadsolo shows in Boston, Charleston, Knoxville, and Atlanta. Her work has been exhibited
at Art Basel the last three years. Twice she has been a Hambidge Fellow. Most recently,
she is a recipient of the Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Award in 2020. Esler has
completed four installations in the Atlanta area, taking her sculptures to room size
works. Her work can be found in the public collections of Miami University, Tufts
University, Georgia State University, The Federal Reserve Bank, Fulton County Arts
Council, City of Atlanta, and corporate collections of Ritz Carlton, Cognia, Acoustic,
Trammel Crow, SunTrust Bank, Hyatt Hotels, Oglethorpe Bank, Preferred Office,
Georgian Bank, Atlantic Capital Bank, Waycross Bank & Trust, Boardwalk Inn at Wild
Dunes, Hilton Hotels, Schell, Bray, Aycock, Abel & Livingston, Crowell & Moring,
AdvantEdge Executive Offices, Reaction 35, The Lofts at Capitol Quarters, Hilton
Hotels, as well as over 500 private collections.

Artist: Steven Assael

Medium: Graphite and crayon on clay coated paper

Size: 10 5/8" x 14" (unframed)

About the Artist:

Steven Assael, born in New York City in 1957, is recognized nationally as one of the leading representational figurative artists of this generation. His portrayal of the human image is empathetic, ennobling and psychologically penetrating. Assael's figure compositions reflect a love of painting and drawing that synthesize the characteristics of the past masters with a selective eye for the present. His compositions suffuse elements of naturalism and romanticism that blend the contemporary with the techniques of the old masters. Assael works from life and not photography, Arlene Raven has said of him, "Assael wants the greater possibilities of duration. More variety, and a broader range of values and colors, a chronicle of the transformations of changing light, spent over real minutes and hours with his model."

Assael's work is included in public and private collections around the world. Some are, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design (Kansas, Mo.); Naples Museum, Naples FL;Yale University (Hartford, Conn.) Chicago Institute of Fine Arts (Chicago, Ill.); Solo and group exhibitions have included the Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY: Forum Gallery, New York, NY; Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.; NY; Yale University Hartford, Conn.; San Francisco Museum of fine Art, San.Fran. Ca.; Arkansas Art Center; Kennesaw State University,Kennesaw, GA ; Stephen F Austin State College , TX: North Carolina University, Chapel Hill, NC; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; and the National Museum, Gdansk, Poland: Naples Museum, Naples FL.

In 1999, His work was exhibited in a ten-year retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington and CBS Sunday Morning ran a feature on the artist and the show. Publications include .. Steven Assael Drawings, Linden Hill ArtBooks 2000; Steven Assael Paintings and Drawings, 2009, Naples Museum;

Born and raised in New York, NY, Assael showed an enthusiasm for art at a young age, taking art classes at the Museum of Modern Art at the age of four. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and currently teaches at The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, and at The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. Assael is currently represented by Forum Gallery, New York, NY and currently resides in New York City.

Artist: Alexi Torres

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 50" x 40"

About the Artist:

Alexi Torres discusses the relationship between nature and man in a contemporary context emphasizing the interconnectedness of all living things. He creates a distinctive signature, intricately weaving together organic and symbolic elements to create monumental works which challenge the viewer to see beneath the surface into the archetypal qualities of his subjects. He seeks to initiate an urgent dialogue on the effects of human thought and behavior on the ever-changing environment.

Torres taps into universal collective memory and stimulates the imagination with playful themes and ironic juxtapositions relevant to the contemporary experience. His series range from portraits of ordinary people, cultural, military, and political themes to a diverse sampling of symbols from popular culture. These images are then reimagined and reconstructed employing a multi-layer painting technique. Inspired by the agrarian lifestyle of his friends and family, Torres plants an idea for each new work and harvests it at completion according to the lunar patterns followed by his ancestors in his native Cuba. To record this ritual, each painting is begun and finished on a waning moon and recorded with his signature on the canvas.

Artist: Melissa Basham

Medium: Oil on panel

Size: 5" x 5"

About the Artist:

Melissa Basham was born in Alabama but has made Atlanta her home for over 20 years. She works in oil paint or graphite, and the subjects of nature, antique dolls, and various oddities are frequently represented in her work. She received her BA in Art from Athens State University in Athens, Alabama.

Artist: Alexi Torres

Medium: Thread on fabric; 1.4 million stitches

Size: 31" x 26"

About the Artist:

Alexi Torres discusses the relationship between nature and man in a contemporary context emphasizing the interconnectedness of all living things. He creates a distinctive signature, intricately weaving together organic and symbolic elements to create monumental works which challenge the viewer to see beneath the surface into the archetypal qualities of his subjects. He seeks to initiate an urgent dialogue on the effects of human thought and behavior on the ever-changing environment.

Torres taps into universal collective memory and stimulates the imagination with playful themes and ironic juxtapositions relevant to the contemporary experience. His series range from portraits of ordinary people, cultural, military, and political themes to a diverse sampling of symbols from popular culture. These images are then reimagined and reconstructed employing a multi-layer painting technique. Inspired by the agrarian lifestyle of his friends and family, Torres plants an idea for each new work and harvests it at completion according to the lunar patterns followed by his ancestors in his native Cuba. To record this ritual, each painting is begun and finished on a waning moon and recorded with his signature on the canvas.

Artist: Alexi Torres

Medium: Thread on canvas; 1.3 Million stitches

Size: 30" x 23"

About the Artist:

Alexi Torres discusses the relationship between nature and man in a contemporary context emphasizing the interconnectedness of all living things. He creates a distinctive signature, intricately weaving together organic and symbolic elements to create monumental works which challenge the viewer to see beneath the surface into the archetypal qualities of his subjects. He seeks to initiate an urgent dialogue on the effects of human thought and behavior on the ever-changing environment.

Torres taps into universal collective memory and stimulates the imagination with playful themes and ironic juxtapositions relevant to the contemporary experience. His series range from portraits of ordinary people, cultural, military, and political themes to a diverse sampling of symbols from popular culture. These images are then reimagined and reconstructed employing a multi-layer painting technique. Inspired by the agrarian lifestyle of his friends and family, Torres plants an idea for each new work and harvests it at completion according to the lunar patterns followed by his ancestors in his native Cuba. To record this ritual, each painting is begun and finished on a waning moon and recorded with his signature on the canvas.

Artist: Jeff Campana

Medium: Ceramic

Size: 12" x 6" X6"

About the Artist:

Jeff Campana is a nationally exhibiting ceramic artist working primarily in functional pottery and sculptural vessel form. Prior to his appointment at Kennesaw State University in 2013, he was a long-term artist in resident and Windgate Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art in Helena, Montana. He has taught at the University of Louisville, Indiana University Southeast, and Bennington College in Vermont.

As an active exhibitor, Jeff Campana has had work in more than 100 exhibitions of national or regional scope and has been featured in numerous magazines and books on the topic of ceramic art. In the summer of 2016, He returned to Helena, Montana as a resident artist at Studio 740 where he completely reinvented his studio practice. The new work, a product of a deconstructed mold system, debuted in the Fall of 2017 in the international exhibition Breaking the Mold at Eutectic Gallery in Portland Oregon.

A master of wheel throwing and mold making, Jeff Campana's major research interests are now based in computer aided design and the transformation of digital file to ceramic production via a variety of additive and subtractive tools such as SLA 3D printing and CNC milling.

Artist: Robert Sherer

Medium: Pyrography/woodstains/panel

Size: 15.5" x 19.5"

About the Artist:

Robert Sherer is an internationally exhibiting multimedia artist whose work explores race, gender, sexuality and Southern identity. He is best known for his use of unconventional media and for four incidents of art censorship. His work is the subject of an art book titled "Blood Works: the Sanguineous Art of Robert Sherer" published by the KSU Press. He is currently represented by Kunstbehandlung Galerie, Munich, Germany; Sidetracks Gallery, New Hope, PA., and 378 Gallery, Atlanta, GA. He is a professor of art at Kennesaw State University.

Artist: Donald Robson

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 28" x 17" x 1.5"

About the Artist:

Donald Robson began his career the 1980's after studying in Pennsylvania and in Italy. He relocated to Atlanta in 1992 and has been exhibiting his paintings, drawings, and mixed media constructions at various venues around the city. His work is represented in collections in Pennsylvania, Georgia, California, Rhode Island as well as Vienna, Austria and Izmit, Turkey. He also has designed and created unique work for locations throughout the country and places as far away as Aruba and the United Arab Emirates. Donald Robson is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Kennesaw State University and is currently represented by Gibson Gallery in Los Angeles, California, and Gallery 378 of Atlanta Georgia.

Artist: Thornton Dial (1928 - 2016)

Medium: Hand-signed limited edition photolithograph

Size: 34" x 39"

About the Artist:

Thornton Dial (1928-2016), a self-taught artist born in Emelle, Alabama, began painting after his retirement. I didn't have no real job, so I made a job making art. After his family laughed at his paintings, he buried them and created many of his works in secrecy.

Dial's work is more complex and sophisticated than the naive style so often associated with outsider art. Some of his works often incorporate materials such as rugs matted with paint, furniture and sculptural objects. Dial first came into the spotlight after being discovered and promoted by folk art collector Bill Arnett. Now Dial's work is stretching the borders of both folk art and modern art.

Graciously donated by Skot Foreman Fine Art https://skotforeman.com/about

Artist: Julie Torres

Medium: Woven screenprint, gold leaf

Size; 30" x 28.5"

About the Artist:

Julie Torres, born in Boise, Idaho, and raised in Tallahassee, Florida, specializes in the medium of printmaking. Torres graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida in 2002 and 2005 respectively, a Master of Law from the University of Miami in 2008, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design ("SCAD") in 2016.

Torres practiced law for seven years prior to attending SCAD. Her interest in constitutional law and issues of social justice, freedom and equality is reflected in the subject matter of her work. She frequently incorporates text from legal documents into her art, counterbalanced by an aesthetic of delicacy to create an interplay between content and form. Her distinct style sits at the intersection of fine art and craft, combining traditional methods of printmaking with paper weaving.

Torres has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is in numerous private collections including those of Sara Blakely and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, and her screenprint "Super Diva!" was recently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

www.julietorresart.com | julie@julietorresart.com

Artist: Chris Dziejowski

Medium: Wood, Plastic & Metal

Size: 10" x 10" x 8'

About the Artist:

Currently employed @ Kennesaw State University as Studio Coordinator and Facilities for the School of Art and Design

Received my BFA in Sculpture from Georgia State University May 2004

I am a part-time artist that has participated in several Group Shows around the Atlanta Metro area

I am a sculptor that works with a variety of material but mainly in Wood and Metal.

3357 Spinnaker Way, Acworth, GA 30102

jcdx@bellsouth.net

404-348-6232

Title: Yellow curtains & chair, Selma, AL. 2017

Artist: Jerry Siegel

Medium: Photograph, archive inkjet print

Size: 11.33" x 17"

About the Artist:

Born is Selma, AL, Jerry Siegel is a photographer living in Atlanta, GA, and working throughout the Southeast. Siegel focuses his work in the traditions of documentary and portrait photography. His work in the Black Belt region of Alabama was published in 2017 by the Georgia Museum of Art. This monograph, Black Belt Color, focuses on the unique, cultural landscape of the Black Belt region. His first monograph, Facing South, Portraits of Southern Artists, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2011, and features portraits of 100 Southern artists.

Siegel's work is in many public, private and corporate collections including the High Museum of Art, GA Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, MOCA GA, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Do Good Fund, The Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, GA, The Morris Museum in Augusta, GA and many other Southeastern US Museums.

Artist: Kim Chesney

Medium: Mixed

Size; 22" x 62"

About the Artist:

Chesney's work is heavily influenced by her years of travel to inspiring world cities such as Tokyo, Nairobi, Athens, Rome and Mexico City. Her work embodies a modern day connection to processes that have been practiced for thousands of years.

Encaustic, meaning "to burn in," was developed in the first century by the Egyptians, Romans and the Greeks. Chesney's pieces use organic beeswax, oil pastels developed by Picaso, and exquisite parchments collected from around the world. The parchments are made using techniques that have been handed down through the millennia.

The joy that comes from creating and sharing her art feeds her mental, physical, and emotional well-being to euphoric proportions. The historical quality of Chesney's medium connects her to her Italian heritage and connects her heart through the beauty of art.

"Art is a universal language that unites us both spiritually and historically. Encaustic literally lights my fire!"

Artist: Jenny Henley

Medium: Archival Ink Pigment and Acrylic on Paper with Varnish

Size: 48" x 48"

About the Artist:

Jenny Henley is an Atlanta based interdisciplinary artist working with a methodology that embraces sculptural practices in a two-dimensional mixed-media framework. Typically, Henley uses socially recognizable imagery, appropriate for an audience familiar with contemporary notions of art; yet fused to a slightly nostalgic sensibility.

Henley has won prestigious awards including Women in Design at ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been a part of Atlanta's art community organizations being one of the original founders of i45 and is the founder of the First Friday Art Walk Marietta Square.

Artist: Amy Durant

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 30" x 40'

About the Artist:

Growing up on a farm in rural Georgia, the balance of life and death within the overarching beauty of nature was part of my daily life. As I embraced self-expression through art, those early impressions have informed my art, bringing me to a place of healing. As a teacher, I try to bring that same sense of creative self-awareness to my students, encouraging them to explore art in their own uniqueways. Currently, I reside in the metro Atlanta area with my husband, kids, and a family of crows.

Artist: Richard Russell

Medium: Collage on Leather & Paper

Size: 16" x 20"

About the Artist:

b. 1965, Pensacola, FL Lives in Atlanta, GA. Richard Russell began making collages in elementary school. Following two years at Florida School of the Arts in Palatka, Florida, and with his eyes set on a future in Graphic Design, he migrated to the Atlanta College of Art. Upon being advised by a faculty member that the fine arts had no place in design, he abandoned his ad agency goals to find passion in other mediums and finally graduated with a BFA in Photography. (Ironically, he has been a graphic designer and art director for the past 2 decades.) Throughout his career as an artist, he has continued to work in various combinations of collage, photography, and artists' book formats. As a maker of books, he is fascinated by the rapid decline of this object as both a vehicle of communication and an art form. He has exhibited in solo and group shows across the U.S. and Europe (and possibly Japan, but this can't be verified.) His work is part of major venues including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Virginia Commonwealth University, the New York Public Library, and the Sackner Collection of Visual and Concrete Poetry in Miami, as well as many private collections around the world. In 2008, he was honored to be selected one of the Top Five Finalists for the Forward Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist of the Year Award and in 2009 as a Fellow at the Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences.

Artist: Terri Dilling

Medium: Acrylic & Mixed media on Panel

Size: 40" x 40" x 2"

About the Artist:

Terri Dilling is an abstract painter inspired by the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Through gestural marks and organic forms, she makes reference to the landscape around her, and also the emotional landscape within. Her art balances tranquil openness with energetic marks.

Terri has been working as a professional artist for more than 20 years. She has a BA from Indiana University, a BFA from Georgia State University, and has also studied visual arts in England, Spain, and Italy. She has received numerous grants and awards, and her work is in public and private collections around the world. Terri has been featured in several professional publications, including Studio Visit Magazine and New American Paintings. She works with galleries and art consultants around the country. Based in Atlanta, she lives with her husband Jon and her two dogs.

Artist: William Cash

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60" x 48"

About the Artist:

William Cash is a Georgia-based painter. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree with a concentration in drawing and painting from Kennesaw State University in 2006.

Artist: William Cash

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 24" x 30"

About the Artist:

William Cash is a Georgia-based painter. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree with a concentration in drawing and painting from Kennesaw State University in 2006.

Artist: Gregor Turk

Medium: Ceramic

Size: 5" x 7" x 7"

About the Artist:

Known for his public art installations, sculpture, photography, and mixed-media constructions, Gregor Turk often incorporates mapping imagery, signage, and cultural markings into his artwork. He has permanent public art installations at the Atlanta and Jacksonville airports and his work is in the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, High Museum, MOCA-GA, and numerous other public and private collections. On occasion he creates smaller works including this Bambino Bowl with its layered clay referencing contour lines from topographic maps. Turk grew up in Atlanta, received his B.A. from Rhodes College in Memphis and his M.F.A. from Boston University. Between degrees he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia. His studio is located in Blandtown on Atlanta's Westside and his work can be seen at: www.gregorturk.com

Employment: supply, pattern, return

Artist: Chris Boyko

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 36" x 48"

About the Artist: Chris Boyko is an Atlanta based artist, known for his surrealistic style. In the
fall of 2014, he graduated from Kennesaw State University, receiving his Bachelor
of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in Visual Art. He participates in local and international
exhibitions along with charity art events in the community.

Artist: Kevin Cole

Medium: Wood cut

Size: 43" x 36"

About the Artist:

Kevin Cole received his B.S. from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, an M.A. in art education from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and an M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University. Within the last 32 years, he has received 28 grants and fellowships, 66 awards in art, 51 teaching awards. and over 45 public art commissions. On July 7, 2021 he received the Working Artist Project Fellowship from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta GA. In April Mr. Cole received the ArtSpiration Award by the National Society Incorporation for his dedication to students' achievements. Earlier in December Mr. Cole received the 2020 Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities in the State of Georgia. Earlier in February he received the 2020 Brenda and Larry Thompson from the Georgia Museum in Athens, GA, The 2020 Trail Blazer Award from Salem Bible Church, in Atlanta, GA and the 2019 Nexus Award from the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. His artwork has been featured in more than 475 exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. Cole's artwork is included in more than 4000 public, private and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad. Public collections include the new National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, The Georgia Museum, Athens, GA, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.; William Jefferson Clinton Library, Little Rock, Ark.; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Ark.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CN.; The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, La.; The David C Driskell Center University of Maryland at College Park; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, Pa.; Museum of Contemporary Art of GA , Atlanta, GA, The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL. Also former NBA players Michael Jordan, Darrell Walker, Elliott Perry and Bernard King to name a few.

His artwork has been featured in more than 125 publications.

Artist: Julianne Trew

Medium: Oil

Size: 10" x 8"

About the Artist:

Julianne Trew is a painter, working out of her home studio in Smyrna, Georgia. Trew creates monocromatic imagery that alludes to both the microscopic and the cosmic, creating new emotional worlds. She trained at the Douglasville School of Art and later graduated from Kennesaw State University with a BFA in Drawing and Painting.

Artist: Kim Anno

Medium: Photography

Size: 21.25" x 31.5"

About the Artist:

Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and film/video ar4st whose work has been collected and exhibited by museums na4onally and interna4onally. Born in Los Angeles, Anno has had exhibi4ons and screenings at the University of Suffolk, England, 14th Annual New Media Fes4val, Seoul, Korea, Bejing, Chengdu, Shanghai, China, Yamanba projects, Tokyo, Japan,Kala Art Ins4tute, Berkeley, Goethe Ins4tute in Johannesburg, the Durban Municipal Gallery, South Africa in the "Don't Panic Exhibi4on", Flux Projects, Atlanta, Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, Sky Dive Gallery, Houtson, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Wave Form Gallery, Cincinna4, Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, Seeline Gallery, LA, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, Sue ScoX Gallery, NY, Site Santa Fe Biennale: One Night Stand in New Mexico, the King's Art Center, California Retrospec4ve, the Varnosi Museum in Hungary, DC Dusseldorf Interna4onal Expo (Germany), Pulse, Miami, and the Berkeley Art Museum, the Denison University Museum, and Noel Art Museum. Anno's work was recently acquired by the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Crocker Art Museum. Recipient of the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Founda4on Purchase Award and the Eureka Founda4on's Fleishhaker Fellowship, Anno has been a professor at the California College of the Arts since 1996. She was awarded fellowships: by the Zellerbach Founda4on and the Open Circle Founda4on, NY Docs, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, James L Knight Founda4on, Center for Cultural Innova4on, 2020, SF Airport public art commission 2021: "Long Arc of Day". Anno was a recipient of a Berkeley Film Founda4on Award and published her second ar4sts' book with the poet Anne Carson. Currently, she is publishing an ar4sts book with "PacificAfuture" collec4ve. In 2022 she hopes to release her first feature film; "¡Quba!"

Artist: Kim Anno

Medium: Photography

Size: 21.25" x 31.5"

About the Artist:

Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and film/video ar4st whose work has been collected and exhibited by museums na4onally and interna4onally. Born in Los Angeles, Anno has had exhibi4ons and screenings at the University of Suffolk, England, 14th Annual New Media Fes4val, Seoul, Korea, Bejing, Chengdu, Shanghai, China, Yamanba projects, Tokyo, Japan,Kala Art Ins4tute, Berkeley, Goethe Ins4tute in Johannesburg, the Durban Municipal Gallery, South Africa in the "Don't Panic Exhibi4on", Flux Projects, Atlanta, Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, Sky Dive Gallery, Houtson, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Wave Form Gallery, Cincinna4, Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, Seeline Gallery, LA, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, Sue ScoX Gallery, NY, Site Santa Fe Biennale: One Night Stand in New Mexico, the King's Art Center, California Retrospec4ve, the Varnosi Museum in Hungary, DC Dusseldorf Interna4onal Expo (Germany), Pulse, Miami, and the Berkeley Art Museum, the Denison University Museum, and Noel Art Museum. Anno's work was recently acquired by the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Crocker Art Museum. Recipient of the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Founda4on Purchase Award and the Eureka Founda4on's Fleishhaker Fellowship, Anno has been a professor at the California College of the Arts since 1996. She was awarded fellowships: by the Zellerbach Founda4on and the Open Circle Founda4on, NY Docs, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, James L Knight Founda4on, Center for Cultural Innova4on, 2020, SF Airport public art commission 2021: "Long Arc of Day". Anno was a recipient of a Berkeley Film Founda4on Award and published her second ar4sts' book with the poet Anne Carson. Currently, she is publishing an ar4sts book with "PacificAfuture" collec4ve. In 2022 she hopes to release her first feature film; "¡Quba!"

Artist: Nate Nardi (Decatur Glassblowing)

Medium: Glass-blown and hot sculptured with reticello technique

Size: 21: h X 7.5 w X 5" deep

About the Artist:

Atlanta native, Nathan Nardi always found himself drawn to creative expression through making. He discovered his passion for glassblowing in 2001 and realized that glass art was the discipline he wanted to specialize in. Throughout the years, he has trained under many different glass artists. His primary artistic expression is the abstraction of natural form which can be seen in all his work, whether sculptural, decorative, or functional. In 2011, Nate Nardi moved back to his hometown to pursue his dream of making unique hand-blown glass art. Nate and his wife own and operate Decatur Glassblowing on the East side of Atlanta together. At his shop, Nate creates glass objects, many of which are custom ordered, as well as offers glassblowing classes to the public.

Artist: Philip Carpenter

Medium: Color pencils on paper

Size: 19" x 16" x 1 "

About the Artist:

PHILIP CARPENTER has made art and exhibited in Atlanta since 1978 while teaching painting at Chastain Arts Center. He received a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts grant in1989 and was a Hambidge Fellow in 2001. Notable exhibitions include: The 1994 Atlanta Biennial at Nexus Contemporary Art Center; "Revival of the Figure" at City Gallery East in 1995; "Personal Circumstances" at Spruill Gallery in 2000; "Transitions" at MOCA GA in 2002; "Work and Play" at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in 2005; "Primary Color" at Marcia Wood Gallery in 2005; "Manipulating the Commonplace" at Swan Coach House Gallery in 2007; 17th Color Pencil Society of America Exhibition in 2009 and 2015; "Play" at Spruill in 2009; "The Painted Photograph" at Southwest Arts Center; "40 over 40" at EBD4 in 2017. His work was exhibited in "Georgia Artists choose Georgia Artists" at MOCA GA and "Drawing Inside the Perimeter" at the High Museum of Art and in UNCA's "Drawing Discourse" 2019, 2020 and 2021. His work was included in the 2004 edition of "New American Paintings". His work is in private and public collections including the High Museum, MOCA GA, The Lagrange Museum, The Lamar Dodd Art Center at Lagrange College and Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.

Artist: Ryan Benefield

Medium: Acrylic, Oil & Ink on Wood Panel

Size: 14" x 11" x 1.5"

About the Artist:

RYAN BENEFIELD IS AN AMERICAN MULTIMEDIA ARTIST WHO EXPLORES THE HUMAN FIGURE AND REPRESENTATION OF OBJECTS. HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK OF MURALS, TWO-DIMENSIONAL PAINTINGS, AND INK DRAWINGS.

A GEORGIA NATIVE, RYAN WAS RAISED IN THE METRO ATLANTA AREA WITH INFLUENCES FROM LOCAL MUSEUMS AND A RICH ARTISTIC CULTURE OF THE CITY. ALTHOUGH ART WAS ALWAYS A PASSION OF HIS, HE DID NOT REALIZE HIS POTENTIAL UNTIL HE WAS AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL. WITH ARCHITECTURE BEING HIS FIRST INTENT, THE LEVEL OF CRAFTSMANSHIP, ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND DRAFTING ABILITY TRANSLATES INTO ALL OF HIS WORK.

Artist Karl Kroeppler

Media: Mixed Media on Paper

Size: 5" x 18.1 " x 1.5"

About the Artist:

Born in Highland Park, Illinois and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Kroeppler works in mixed media, contemporary portraiture and still life. He received his MFA in Drawing and Painting and BA in Studio Art from the Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Art at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

Kroeppler has received several awards for his work including two First Place Awards from The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art.

He continues to exhibit and lecture in local and national venues including City Gallery at Chastain Arts Center (Group Exhibition), Atlanta, Joan Derryberry Gallery, Tennessee Tech University (Solo Exhibition), Swan Coach House Gallery (Group Exhibition), Atlanta, Spiva Gallery, Missouri Southern State University Gallery (Solo exhibition), Spruill Gallery (Group Exhibition), Atlanta, The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (Group Exhibitions), Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University (Group Exhibition), Dayton, Ohio, Phoenix Art Museum (Group Exhibition), Morehead State University (Group Exhibition), Morehead, Kentucky, The Cancer Institute, St. Joseph Medical Center (Group Exhibition), Baltimore, Maryland, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Group Exhibition), Santa Ana, California, Burton Barr Library (Group Exhibition), Phoenix, Arizona, and Harry Wood Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Arizona State University, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition.

In addition to numerous private collections, Kroeppler's work has been included in the collections at Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, Missouri, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Bloomington, Indiana and Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.

Karl Kroeppler is the Visiting Lecturer (2020-2022) at Georgia State University's, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design.

Artist; Carl Linstrum

Medium: Acrylic, Sponged Resin and Oil on Panel

Size: 13" x 13" x 2"

About the Artist:

Carl Linstrum's professional experience spans a broad range, including his work as an internationally exhibiting painter, through nearly twenty years as a gallery owner and art consultant, and into his current position as a professor in the School of Foundation Studies at SCAD Atlanta. He received his BA in Printmaking from The University of South Florida in 1992 and his MFA in Drawing and Painting from Georgia State University in 2002.

In his role as a professional artist, Carl has accumulated an extensive exhibition record, participating in solo and group exhibitions regionally, nationally and internationally in galleries, museums and universities. His drawings and paintings have been collected into numerous private, corporate and public collections throughout his career. As owner of Aliya Linstrum Gallery from 1992 until 2009, Mr. Linstrum represented a highly respected stable of artists working in all media. He worked closely with these artists, securing commissions and curating exhibitions with the intent of aggressively developing their careers as professionals in their field. During these years, Carl also served on the board of the Atlanta Gallery Association, whose goal was to promote the active visual arts community in Atlanta and highlight the city's role as the cultural capital of the South. Since joining SCAD Atlanta in 2009, he has taught a full range of drawing and design courses in the School of Foundation Studies and the School of Fine Arts.

Carl Linstrum lives and works in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters.

Artist: Kristin Thorsen

Medium: Acrylic on Panel

Size: 24" x 18"

About the Artist:

In 1999, Kristin accepted a grant from Georgia Perimeter College to study painting in Imatra, Finland. Guided by Russian and Finnish masters, she explored printmaking, painting, photography and independent studies. Heavily influenced by contemporary European artists, her work is imbued with both the spirit of her journey abroad and a connection with her Scandinavian heritage.

In 2002, she was accepted by the Atlanta College of Art receiving her BFA, magna cum laude, in 2004.

Her work has appeared in galleries all over the Atlanta area, including a yearlong exhibit at the Chrysalis gallery. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the US; as well as in collections in Finland, Russia, Norway, Ireland and Vietnam.

Artist: Michael Brennan

Size: 48" x 60"

Artist: Michael Brennan

Size: 48" x 60"

Artist: Unknown

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 20.5" x 16.5"

Artist: Athlone Clarke

Medium: Oil with polymer

Size: 32" x 24"

About the Artist:

My name is Athlone Clarke and I was born in Jamaica in 1956. I immigrated to the United States in 1985 and have since been involved in the local art movement on various levels. During the mid 80's I made my living as a published free-lance writer. I also painted during this period and took part in several south eastern shows. In the years that followed my writing established a relationship with my visual work and eventually gave birth to a colorful, mixed media off-spring. My work is commonly described as conversational, documental, interactive and even confrontational. The latter description comes from the fact that I have never backed away from the interpreting lightening rod issues such as race, gender, civil rights, politics and even religion. Nonetheless, I strive to make my work truthful, relevant, inclusive, educational, and uplifting. I'm a strong believer that great art should not be accessible to just the powerful, the rich, and the intellectual elite, but also to the ordinary blue collar person who may crave the enrichment that art is known to provide. The language of art does not always have to be cloaked in professorial codes that are cleverly hidden in intimidating abstractions, nor does it always have to be safe and comfortable. I thrive on experimentation and am a firm believer that there is no "have to" in art. I believe that my work should be capable of provoking emotions, positive or not, and that cold indifference is poison. My mixed media journey allows for a rich amalgam of found objects that seem to have chosen me to interpret their stories, in as much as I have chosen them. Hopefully, my work will stand on it's own, and consequently, more eloquent than anything else I could say about myself. Thank you for your interest in the work. One Love

Artist: Athlone Clarke

Medium: Oil with Polymer

Size: 30" x 24"

About the Artist:

My name is Athlone Clarke and I was born in Jamaica in 1956. I immigrated to the United States in 1985 and have since been involved in the local art movement on various levels. During the mid 80's I made my living as a published free-lance writer. I also painted during this period and took part in several south eastern shows. In the years that followed my writing established a relationship with my visual work and eventually gave birth to a colorful, mixed media off-spring. My work is commonly described as conversational, documental, interactive and even confrontational. The latter description comes from the fact that I have never backed away from the interpreting lightening rod issues such as race, gender, civil rights, politics and even religion. Nonetheless, I strive to make my work truthful, relevant, inclusive, educational, and uplifting. I'm a strong believer that great art should not be accessible to just the powerful, the rich, and the intellectual elite, but also to the ordinary blue collar person who may crave the enrichment that art is known to provide. The language of art does not always have to be cloaked in professorial codes that are cleverly hidden in intimidating abstractions, nor does it always have to be safe and comfortable. I thrive on experimentation and am a firm believer that there is no "have to" in art. I believe that my work should be capable of provoking emotions, positive or not, and that cold indifference is poison. My mixed media journey allows for a rich amalgam of found objects that seem to have chosen me to interpret their stories, in as much as I have chosen them. Hopefully, my work will stand on it's own, and consequently, more eloquent than anything else I could say about myself. Thank you for your interest in the work. One Love

Artist: Tom Chambers

Medium: 3D Mixed

Size: 40" x 40" x 2"

About the Artist:

Branch art is not unique. Many people use branches as rustic or natural touches in their environments. What is unique is Tom Chambers' ability to join branches in a manner that looks completely natural. A combination of wood and acrylic, the pieces give the illusion of naturally flowing branches. First, the bark is stripped and the branches are sanded. Then Tom arranges the branches in an artistic pattern. The joints are created using a combination of glue, wood filler and epoxy. A base coat, acrylic paint and a sealer coat are then applied, all by brush. Each distinctive piece of art is one-of-a-kind.

Tom's interest in art began in high school where his first art classes were taught by the man who was his football and track team coach. What started as an easy elective developed into life-long creativity. His passion was ignited while attending the University of Tampa on a football scholarship. There, he studied Sculpture, Drawing and Painting. His art was put on hold after he married, began a family and entered the business world.

In 2007, after 34 years in retail, Tom took an early retirement to pursue his love of art full-time. He and his wife Brenda moved from Florida to the mountains of north Georgia. The landscape and terrain provided the ideal setting to expand upon the original branch art idea, conceived from a magazine photo and his imagination, 15 years prior.

Tom is a member of the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association in Blue Ridge, GA, has served on their Board of Directors in the past and began another term in January 2019. He is also a Signature Member of the Southern Appalachian Artists Guild, an organization under the umbrella of BRMAA. In January 2012, he was one of five member artists to participate in the Regional Art Exhibition at The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts in Highlands, NC where his piece "Midnight Blooms" was sold. Also, in 2012, he became a member of the High Country Artisans, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the local arts, located in Blairsville, GA.

In 2018, Orlando's Fall Fiesta in the Park honored Tom with an inaugural Award of Excellence. He took Third Place in 3D in the 2017 Southern Appalachian Artists Guild National Juried Show in Blue Ridge, GA where the year before he received an Award of Merit for two of the three pieces that were juried into the show. Tom has artwork in many public locations, including two commissioned pieces in the Union County Community Center, which also houses the Chamber of Commerce, located in his chosen home town of Blairsville, GA. There is a nine-piece collection in the Orlando Public Library's permanent gallery, one piece residing in the Citizen's Art Gallery at the Tifton City Hall and one piece in the capitol office of Georgia Speaker of the House, David Ralston. In February 2010, he was asked to create a centerpiece sculpture, with the theme of "Lady in Red", for the Southeastern Horticulture Show in Atlanta, GA. The incredible result was a 5' tall red ball gown made entirely of tree branches.

Email Tom at: tchambers1000@yahoo.com

Or visit his website: www.branchingoutart.weebly.com

Artist: Niall Mathieson

Medium: Wood:

Size: 28" x 12" (at base)

About the Artist:

I am 79 years old. I started woodturning 11 years ago, when i sold my furniture business, and became immediately addicted.. My passion became turning & carving very large (7') pieces, where you have to forget all conventional turning methods and create your own methods & tools.

Artist: Luce & Domimicus Van Asten

Medium: Clay & Wood

Size: 19" x 12" x 12"

About the Artist:

Marie-Luce Van Asten was born in Belgium and lived there for 40 years. In High School, she decided to take Arts Classes as her main focus and then graduated as an Art teacher in 1983 in Belgium. When Luce arrived in the US in 2001, she found Chastain Arts Center in Atlanta where she took wheel classes for 2 years, then switched to hand building. About that period, Luce got a full-time job at the Atlanta International School, where she taught the French language in kindergarten and elementary for 15 years. During recent summers, Luce has been attending workshops with many different Artists where she has been developing and fine tuning her style. Luce took classes to improve her figurative sculpture techniques and discovered different surface decorations. Furthermore, with the help of her husband, Dominicus, she is integrating some of her ceramic pieces with wood to tell a story.

Luce is currently the President of the Southern Appalachian Artist Guild in Blue Ridge, GA, and became in 2021 the treasurer at the Georgia Clay Council. She has been recognized as a member of Excellence under SAAG. Luce teaches clay hand building and the pottery wheel classes throughout the year at the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association and Art Center in Blue Ridge, GA where she is also the studio coordinator.

www.clayinwood.com

Artist: Michael Brennan

Medium: Charcoal and acrylic over paper mounted to plywood and finished with polyurethane

Size: 20" x 16"

Artist: Michael Brennan

Medium: Charcoal and acrylic over paper mounted to plywood and finished with polyurethane

Size: 9" x 11"

Artist: Elizabeth Lang

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 28" x 22" x 1.5"

About the Artist:

Elizabeth Lang is a landscape painter from Atlanta, GA. She uses acrylic paint to create simple colors and shapes to convey the essence of the natural world around us. Colors are emphasized and shapes are overindulged and simplified. Elizabeth finds inspiration through travel and hiking and uses photographs she takes on her trips to inspire her artwork. Most enlivened by trips to the Redwood Forest and Portugal, Elizabeth continues to paint works of art inspired by these places. Her work is not meant to serve a reality but rather a truth of what beauty is. Elizabeth uses mainly acrylic paint for her works on canvas but likes to play also with watercolor and acrylic on paper and wood. Her thick application of paint is a notable feature of her work. Textures and shapes stand out among the curves of color and form. Through her work, Elizabeth hopes to share the inspiration and peace of nature.

Elizabeth Lang
Owner / Artist
www.betweentheevergreens.com

Artist: Niall Mathieson

Medium: Wood

Size: 30" x 26"

About the Artist:

I started woodturning 11 years ago, when i sold my furniture business, and became immediately addicted.. My passion became turning & carving very large (7') pieces, where you have to forget all conventional turning methods and create your own methods & tools.

Artist: Nate Nardi

Medium: Glass - blown and hot sculptured

Size: All pumpkins fit in a 11" x 24" x 18" area

About the Artist:

Atlanta native, Nathan Nardi always found himself drawn to creative expression through making. He discovered his passion for glassblowing in 2001 and realized that glass art was the discipline he wanted to specialize in. Throughout the years, he has trained under many different glass artists. His primary artistic expression is the abstraction of natural form which can be seen in all his work, whether sculptural, decorative, or functional. In 2011, Nate Nardi moved back to his hometown to pursue his dream of making unique hand-blown glass art. Nate and his wife own and operate Decatur Glassblowing on the East side of Atlanta together. At his shop, Nate creates glass objects, many of which are custom ordered, as well as offers glassblowing classes to the public.

Artist: Kathy Rennell Forbes

Medium: Varnished watercolor

Size: 13.25" x 11.25" x .75"

About the Artist:

Kathy Rennell Forbes is an accomplished artist and instructor. Her impressionistic paintings are in private and corporate collections around the world, including the French Olympic Committee in Paris, the Hotel Intercontinental in Buckhead-Atlanta, Telstra in Melbourne Australia, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Atlanta, Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta and Universal Studios in Los Angeles.

The artist was a 2017 Olmsted Plein Air Invitational "Master Artist." She is an invited artist to the Olmsted Georgia Color in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Kathy is a Signature Member and past President of the Georgia Watercolor Society. She has participated in many solo art shows, and has won awards in local, regional and national exhibits. Forbes earned her BFA in Art and Art Education at the University of Georgia in Athens.

Kathy has exhibited and conducted watercolor demonstrations at the High Museum of Art, Booth Western Art Museum and Oglethorpe University Museum of Art. She conducts watercolor workshops around the U.S. and Internationally (Cuba, France, Italy, Spain) and teaches art classes in the Atlanta area and online. Forbes creates her artwork at 'Studio Z' in Atlanta's historic Westside Arts District.

www.RennellForbes.com

https://www.instagram.com/artbykrf/

https://www.facebook.com/KathyRennellForbesArtist

Artist Statement

I work in watercolor, acrylic and oil; my favorite is watercolor. I love the freedom this medium provides and how the paints react to the way I apply my brush. It is also very transportable. It allows me to travel with a minimum of supplies across the globe or to a local park to paint outdoors. Working in nature, heightens all my senses that then take hold in my paintings. In addition to the beautiful landscape in front of me; I like to capture the sound of the birds and insects chirping, the soft breeze on the back of my neck, the smell of the sea water and the taste of local foods into my paintings. Although some of my outdoor paintings are finished works many also are studies. I always take the information I gathered onsite and incorporate them into my studio paintings.

Artist: Eila Kenny

Medium: Photography

Size: 19" x 23.5"

Artist: Duccio Nacci Film No 30

Medium: Photography

Size: 19" x25"

Size: 18" x 20"

Artist: Todd Hanes

Medium: Photography 1/500

Size: 19.5" x 25.5"

Artist: Derek Fell

Medium: Giclee Print on textured canvas

Size: 20" x 24"

Artist: Shelley

Size: 20" x 16"

Medium: Watercolor

Size: 18.5" x 22.5"

Artist: Melissa Ewing

Medium: Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Size: 24" x 30"

About the Artist:

Melissa Ewing is an Atlanta area lawyer who enjoys abstract painting as an outlet for creative expression and experimentation. Since first experimenting with painting during law school,
Melissa's style has evolved over the years along with the artist. Most recently, her style has focused on fluid art with an emphasis on bold colors and abstract patterns inspired by water,
sunsets, and flowers. Her recent works incorporate multilayered bloom and swipe techniques and the use of various palette knives.

Artist: Temme Barkin-Leeds

Medium: Graphite, oil and mixed media on canvas

Size: 36" x 48" x 2"

About the Artist:

Temme Barkin-Leeds received the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Georgia State University

and a Master of Fine Arts degree from American University in Washington, DC. Her socially conscious work has been the subject of four solo exhibitions and has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States. She was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH and a Resident Fellow at the Hambidge Center. In addition, Barkin-Leeds received the Elizabeth Baaart Biddle Award conferred by the full faculty in the MFA program at American University, Washington DC. She also received the International Education Foundation Scholarship from Georgia State University to study at the Santa Reparata International School in Florence, Italy. She was nominated by the faculty in the Art Department at Georgia State University for the school-wide Andrew West Award. In the past several years, she has been juried into New York exhibitions by critics Jerry Saltz, John Yau, and Nancy Princenthal. She has received numerous exhibition awards including purchase awards and awards of merit. She was selected by the Georgia Women's History Month Committee and the Georgia Commission on Women to be honored at a reception highlighting Georgia women in the arts. She was the State of Georgia's representative on the Millennium "Gift to the Nation" Committee of the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies in Washington, DC. Most recently, she was adjunct professor at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. Her work was featured in several publications including the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Burnaway, Arts Atl, Atlanta Jewish Times, Amlit, Paintpresent catalogue published by Loudon House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky and Bound catalogue published by Women's Caucus for Art.

Artist: Jane Erwin

Medium: Ceramic Stoneware

Size: 8" x 7" x 3"

About the Artist:

Jane creates art in clay, metal and wood. Her major body of work is the vessel form in stoneware. Her art is inspired by the landscape. One observes these geographical references to the Southwest, the Mid-West and the Atlantic coast in color and surface of her glazes. One also observes her fine illustration of rural landscape with some whimsical critters referencing her earlier studies in technical illustration at the Peabody Museum. A 2020 BFA graduate in Ceramics at Kennesaw State University, Jane continues to exhibit in Atlanta and the Southeast. A current fellowship at the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences is supporting new exploration and research in structure and form.

Artist: Rainey Rawles

Medium: Graphite on paper

Size: 13" x 13" (framed)

About the Artist:

Rainey Rawles is an Atlanta based artist who explores stigma associated with sexual deviance and its impact on traditional binary gender roles within her work. She is currently the Preparator of Fabrications at the High Museum of Art, serving as both the museum's carpenter and art handler. Her role as the museum's first female carpenter has shaped her artistic practice and conceptual exploration. Prior to her work at the High, she was the woodshop technician at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. Rainey received a BFA in drawing and painting from Kennesaw State University where she also studied woodworking and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Mason Fine Art, Kibbee Gallery, and OZ Magazine, and is featured in private collections throughout Georgia. She currently serves on the grant writing committee for the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art.

Artist: PaperFrank

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Painted as a part of a live exhibition during Art Basel Miami.

Size 36" x 35.5"

Artist: April Borchelt

Medium: Oil

Size' 8" x 10" (unframed)

About the Artist:

April Borchelt is a fantasy illustrator based in Atlanta, Georgia. Trained with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Drawing and Painting from Kennesaw State University, her work has been featured in animation, video games, book covers and board game illustrations such as Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants background paintings, Hi-Rez Studio's Paladins' Splash Art, and Starling Game's "Flourish" to name a few.

April proceeded to utilize her training in the fine arts to a digital form and mold it into her current artistic passions and projects. Her faith and love for whimsical fantasy found in nature and everyday life are some of the biggest inspirations that find their way into her work. You can find April's traditional work exhibited in galleries around the Atlanta area as well as published in multiple art collections.

Artist: Chase King

Medium: Oil and oil stick

Size: 40" x 48"

About the Artist:

Born in 1990, Chase King grew up with a mother and his maternal grandparents. Two generations of discipline left him with a favorable creative perspective on life. However, Chase didn't pick up a brush until losing his mother to a malignant brain tumor in 2006. Through a fantastic high school mentorship under Robert Putnam, Chase persevered through the confusion that loss bestowed upon him. Painting became an outlet that allowed him to explore the physical and spiritual realms of life. To be more specific, Chase has dedicated his life to the pursuit of painting; A quest towards fulfillment with analog materials while living in a new wave of digitization. Chase received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Kennesaw State University in 2017. Chase has been exhibiting his work regionally and nationally going on a decade now. Chase works in Woodstock, Georgia where he also resides with his wife Madeline and two chiweenies Lando and Yoda.

To contact Chase, visit www.chasekingart.com , IG & FB @chasekingart

Artist: Victoria Jackson

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 16" x 16" x 3"

Artist: Aziz Kadmiri

Medium: Oil

Size: 36" x 60"

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villaneuva

Medium: 2D Mixed Media

Size: 36" x 36"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villanueva

Medium: 2D Mixed-Media

Size: 20" x 20"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villanueva

Medium: 2D Mixed-Media

Size: 10" x 48"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villanueva

Medium: 2D Mixed-Media

Size: 40" x 32"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villanueva

Medium: 2D Mixed-Media

Size: 36" x 18"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villanueva

Medium: 2D Mixed-Media

Size: 36" x 18"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villanueva

Medium: 2D Mixed-Media

Size: 36" x 18"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villanueva

Medium: 2D Mixed-Media

Size: 40" x 16"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villanueva

Medium: 2D Mixed-Media

Size: 40" x 16"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Marc James "MJ" Villanueva

Medium: 2D Mixed-Media

Size: 48" x 36"

About the Artist:

MJ Villanueva, Pearl City, Hawai'i

Marc James Villanueva, "MJ" is a painter of contemporary mixed-media and representational abstract works on canvas and wood panel. His compositions are a fusion of color, texture and movement achieved through the application of oil/acrylic paints, crushed Pau'a seashell, recycled glass, marble dust, copper, paper & Lauhala, indigenous Hawaiian fiber.

The colorful, soothing images reveal themselves through the artist's exploration of media and technique. Ice & Heat-fusion methods are used to create highly textured, luminescent & multi-dimensional masterpieces.

The Aquatic world & Stellar universe are his inspiration encompassing his native Hawai'i!

**Current Master-works:

Wai'honua (Water World) & Ilikai (Horizons) Series

Artist: Alexandra Fotos

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 36" x 36"

About the Artist:

Ever since I can remember what I liked and disliked, I knew with certainty I wanted to create. I wanted to make things with my two hands. So, away from the world, wrapped in solitude too sublimely satisfying, alone with my thoughts and the universe, the place where I was free to create was my happy place.

Today, my work is an amalgamation of the very essence of what represents me: stories that are part fables, part aphorisms told through popular culture references with a sprinkle of world history all entwined on paper with glue, acrylic, and watercolor paints, as well as the occasional 3D objects (like rice or gravel or whatever else).

Every single art piece tells a story, a puzzle planted with clues and hidden meaning that the viewers are invited to dive in and discover on their own terms. What drive these stories to be told is finding purpose in life which has been "the eternal gauntlet of the artist in every country, culture, and civilization since the human hunger for truth and beauty first collided with the craving for power." But also, my intent is to challenge perceptions, reveal a different side of the same coin, or simply entertain the viewer visually and intellectually.

I'm especially intrigued by obscure personalities in the world scene that have not gotten the exposure they potentially deserve. I want to bring them back to the light; I want them to be re-discovered, their stories told once more, and along the way, I am hoping a certain richness will be added to the observers' own existence and perhaps facilitate a self-discovery of sorts.

Most of the figures appearing in my art are world-famous personalities from science, politics, arts, sports, and entertainment. Still, you may also encounter less known yet equally brilliant human specimens such as Shirley Chisholm, Vivien Leigh, Benjamin Disraeli, Alekos Panagoulis, Oriana Fallaci, Jacqui Oatley, Konstantinos Kavafis, Marchesa Luisa Casati, Viktor Frankl, and Marlene Dietrich. All of them supreme global figures brought about political, cultural, and socioeconomic changes that forever shaped the reality we all today experience.

I hope you will all find the experience as enjoyable as it was for me to create it.

Title: Everyone dies, but not everyone lives, and other secrets

Artist: Alexandra Fotos

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 46" x 55.5"

About the Artist:

Every single art piece tells a story, a puzzle planted with clues and hidden meaning that the viewers are invited to dive in and discover on their own terms. What drive these stories to be told is finding purpose in life which has been "the eternal gauntlet of the artist in every country, culture, and civilization since the human hunger for truth and beauty first collided with the craving for power." But also, my intent is to challenge perceptions, reveal a different side of the same coin, or simply entertain the viewer visually and intellectually.

I'm especially intrigued by obscure personalities in the world scene that have not gotten the exposure they potentially deserve. I want to bring them back to the light; I want them to be re-discovered, their stories told once more, and along the way, I am hoping a certain richness will be added to the observers' own existence and perhaps facilitate a self-discovery of sorts.

Most of the figures appearing in my art are world-famous personalities from science, politics, arts, sports, and entertainment. Still, you may also encounter less known yet equally brilliant human specimens such as Shirley Chisholm, Vivien Leigh, Benjamin Disraeli, Alekos Panagoulis, Oriana Fallaci, Jacqui Oatley, Konstantinos Kavafis, Marchesa Luisa Casati, Viktor Frankl, and Marlene Dietrich. All of them supreme global figures brought about political, cultural, and socioeconomic changes that forever shaped the reality we all today experience.

I hope you will all find the experience as enjoyable as it was for me to create it.

Artist: Shaun Krisher

Medium: Photography on dye sublimation metal

Size: 20" x 40"

About the Artist:

Shaun Krisher is the creative force behind Epic Photography of Atlanta. He studied documentary photography at Columbus State University, Harvard University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Shaun has been shooting for 23 years, developing his unique style. Cutting his teeth at underground punk and hardcore shows, Shaun learned photography in basement mosh pits and underground shows. Shaun has taken that punk rock energy and aesthetic and applied it to his fine art, turning familiar subjects on their heads and creating images that demand attention.

He recently won Best in Show at the Heineken Cities Showcase, has been featured in Creative Loafing magazine and on WSB-TV. He lives in Marietta, GA with his wife, Gretchen and his son Ronan. When he's not working or playing guitar in Butcher the Baker, he's chasing his son around the house or out showing him the world.

...or watching Harry Potter for the millionth time with his wife. :)

Artist: Adam Sanford

Medium: Ink pen

Size: 8.5" x 11"

About the Artist:

Adam Sanford is an illustrator, author, and art educator based in North Georgia. He earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of Art and Design at Kennesaw State University. As an illustrator he has worked with acrobats, conventions, photographers and media companies across the country and internationally.

Adam's work has been shown and sold in Atlanta including the Swan Coach House Gallery, the Georgia Lawyers for the Arts' Annual Gala, and DragonCon. His work has been published in children's books, The Sketchbook Project World Tour, and featured on Disney's BoardWalk.

Adam is a husband and father of four boys. His sons are his favorite source of inspiration for his work. Find out more about Adam and his work at adamsanford.com.

Artist: Anthony Sarti

Medium: Acrylic Caulking

Size: 48" x 48"

About the Artist:

Anthony Sarti / Italian
Self taught
Artist's perspective of life
Empathic
Dreamer
Can do NY attitude
Spontaneous
Four beautiful kids

Artist: Anthony Sarti

Medium: Acrylic Caulking

Size: 49" x 49"

About the Artist:

Anthony Sarti / Italian
Self taught
Artist's perspective of life
Empathic
Dreamer
Can do NY attitude
Spontaneous
Four beautiful kids

Artist: Anthony Sarti

Medium: Acrylic Caulking

Size: 50.5" x 50.5"

About the Artist:

Anthony Sarti / Italian
Self taught
Artist's perspective of life
Empathic
Dreamer
Can do NY attitude
Spontaneous
Four beautiful kids

Artist: Anthony Sarti

Medium: Acrylic Caulking

Size: 24" x 48" (each x 3)

About the Artist:

Anthony Sarti / Italian
Self taught
Artist's perspective of life
Empathic
Dreamer
Can do NY attitude
Spontaneous
Four beautiful kids

Title: The Blizzard in the Bronx when Cousin Joey was Born

Artist: Anthony Sarti

Medium: Acrylic Paint & Caulking

Size: 37" x 49"

About the Artist:

Anthony Sarti / Italian
Self taught
Artist's perspective of life
Empathic
Dreamer
Can do NY attitude
Spontaneous
Four beautiful kids

Artist: Anthony Sarti

Medium: Acrylic Paint and Caulking

Size: 37" x 49"

About the Artist:

Anthony Sarti / Italian
Self taught
Artist's perspective of life
Empathic
Dreamer
Can do NY attitude
Spontaneous
Four beautiful kids

Artist: Anthony Sarti

Medium: Acrylic Caulking

Size: 48" x 48"

About the Artist:

Anthony Sarti / Italian
Self taught
Artist's perspective of life
Empathic
Dreamer
Can do NY attitude
Spontaneous
Four beautiful kids

Artist: Anthony Sarti

Medium: Acrylic Caulking

Size: 49.25" x 49.25"

About the Artist:

Anthony Sarti / Italian
Self taught
Artist's perspective of life
Empathic
Dreamer
Can do NY attitude
Spontaneous
Four beautiful kids

Artist: Russ Colegrove

Medium: Photography

Size: 30" x 30"

About the Artist:

Russ Colegrove is an award winning landscape photographer with a creative eye that leads to other areas of photography. This includes other parts of the natural world from animals to plants to sunlit clouds and abstracts of the earth from above. His Urbanscape work is not street photography but rather urban landscapes that lean into architectural photography. He describes his urbanscapes as images of "the places we live in and the things we have made." Russ uses a full range of photographic techniques to capture the light; combining film, digital, color, B&W, monochromatic with the goal "to invoke for the viewer the same feelings I had from each instance and place."

Russ' work is sold through the internet, commission work, and exhibits at fine arts festivals. He has been recognized with multiple awards at these festivals, and numerous corporate art collections in Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Washington DC have invested in his work.

www.russcolegrove.com

Artist: Rachel Grant

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 24" x 24"

About the Artist:

Artist Rachel Grant explores the natural world and our atmosphere through studying and depicting clouds. Rachel is known for her sweeping paintings that depict the natural environment, free from human presence. Her painting style is influenced by the post-impressionist landscape painters who were inspired by the south of France. Rachel adapts these ideals to contemporary painting in the Southeastern United States. Clouds over landscapes are a recurring theme in her work. Rachel's painting style is expressionistic with bold brush strokes and emphasis on the artist's present hand.

An Atlanta native, Rachel is a former studio resident at the Goat Farm Arts Center and currently works from her home studio. She received a Bachelor's degree in Art with a Psychology minor from Auburn University and is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design [SCAD] earning an M.F.A. in Painting and M.A. in Arts Administration. Rachel has exhibited throughout the United States, in Hong Kong, France, and completed a residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City. She has served as a volunteer art instructor with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite and has taught art workshops with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. She was selected as an Art on the Atlanta BeltLine artist and her artwork is included in private and corporate collections including Hotels by Hilton and Sotherly hotels.

When she is not creating or teaching art, she enjoys spending time with her husband, baby girl and their rescue dog.

Artist: Aaron Adams

Medium: Acrylic/pastels on Canvas

Size: 30" x 30"

About the Artist:

Aaron Adams is an abstract painter and mixed-media artist born and raised in rural Michigan before relocating to Atlanta, Ga in 1994. His artwork is known to incorporate both traditional and more experimental artistic techniques. He creates deeply moving and emotive works by suspending powdered pigments, colorful alcohol inks, acrylic paints and textures in epoxy resin.

The artist has always had an appreciation for the arts and photography but it wasn't until he was recovering from meningitis over a decade ago that he discovered his interest and passion in creating abstract art.

Aaron's work explores how the emotional impact of color can be juxtaposed with texture to engage the viewer and make them an active participant in determining the image's meaning.

Although he chooses the color pallet, materials, and overall feeling he wants to convey in each work, he has learned to appreciate what the final product will evolve into. Images evoke impressions of many different places and things for the viewer ranging from earthly landscapes, to microscopic cellular anatomy and even magnificent galaxies or swirling cosmic storms.

Artist: Aaron Adams

Medium: Acrylics on canvas

Size: 20" x 20"

About the Artist:

Aaron Adams is an abstract painter and mixed-media artist born and raised in rural Michigan before relocating to Atlanta, Ga in 1994. His artwork is known to incorporate both traditional and more experimental artistic techniques. He creates deeply moving and emotive works by suspending powdered pigments, colorful alcohol inks, acrylic paints and textures in epoxy resin.

The artist has always had an appreciation for the arts and photography but it wasn't until he was recovering from meningitis over a decade ago that he discovered his interest and passion in creating abstract art.

Aaron's work explores how the emotional impact of color can be juxtaposed with texture to engage the viewer and make them an active participant in determining the image's meaning.

Although he chooses the color pallet, materials, and overall feeling he wants to convey in each work, he has learned to appreciate what the final product will evolve into. Images evoke impressions of many different places and things for the viewer ranging from earthly landscapes, to microscopic cellular anatomy and even magnificent galaxies or swirling cosmic storms.

Artist: Aaron Adams

Medium: Acrylics on canvas

Size: 30" x 30"

About the Artist:

Aaron Adams is an abstract painter and mixed-media artist born and raised in rural Michigan before relocating to Atlanta, Ga in 1994. His artwork is known to incorporate both traditional and more experimental artistic techniques. He creates deeply moving and emotive works by suspending powdered pigments, colorful alcohol inks, acrylic paints and textures in epoxy resin.

The artist has always had an appreciation for the arts and photography but it wasn't until he was recovering from meningitis over a decade ago that he discovered his interest and passion in creating abstract art.

Aaron's work explores how the emotional impact of color can be juxtaposed with texture to engage the viewer and make them an active participant in determining the image's meaning.

Although he chooses the color pallet, materials, and overall feeling he wants to convey in each work, he has learned to appreciate what the final product will evolve into. Images evoke impressions of many different places and things for the viewer ranging from earthly landscapes, to microscopic cellular anatomy and even magnificent galaxies or swirling cosmic storms.

Artist: Schuler Rideout

Medium: Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper

Size: 17" x 14"

About the Artist:

After twenty years of working in the corporate world, Schuyler decided it was necessary to live creatively. She then left her career and moved to New York City to study illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

When finished at F.I.T., Schuyler returned to Atlanta and currently operates out of her studio in Buckhead. She specializes in watercolor, ink and graphite on paper capturing the beauty that intertwines fashion, figures and flowers.

Fashion offers a unique opportunity to channel one's true self and her paintings visually revel in the joy of this individual expression.

Please visit Schuyler's website at www.Fashionflowerart.com

Title: Freedom Dance - The Cuban Uprising 2021

Artist: Gregory W. Blount

Medium: Acrylic and stain on wood panel

Size: 40" x 30"

About the Artist:

Gregory (Greg) W. Blount

Painter working in oil, acrylic, encaustic, and other media.

Education and Background

Gregory Blount is a native of Athens, Georgia and began painting in Atlanta over 20 years ago as a pastime from his practice as an environmental lawyer and partner at a major Atlanta law firm. His art education began with evening classes associated with the Woodruff Arts Center and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), among other clinics. He enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at SCAD in 2016. After completing his first quarter of work he was compelled to withdraw from the program for professional reasons.

His work has been collected and sold at many nonprofit galas including The Atlanta Opera Ball, The Atlanta Ballet Ball, Weekend for Wildlife at Sea Island, the Georgia Conservancy's ecoBenefete and Georgia Lawyers for the Arts. Most recently, he has joined a collaboration of artists at the Chatt Hills Gallery at Serenbe, where his work is shown and sold.

Artistic Approach

Compelling art asks open-ended questions of the viewer. Art should be a negotiation with the viewer, just as the artist must negotiate with paint and canvas in making art.

Much of his early work was inspired by wildlife and natural subjects. In recent years his art has been influenced by movement and dance, based on associations with the Atlanta Ballet and Terminus Modern Ballet Theater. His work incorporates political and social themes as well.

Greg is also a member of the Arts Club of Washington, DC and the Atlanta Artists Center.

The Artist is shown at the Chatt Hills Gallery in Serenbe.

Artist: Gregory W. Blount

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 18" x 36"

About the Artist:

Gregory (Greg) W. Blount

Painter working in oil, acrylic, encaustic, and other media.

Education and Background

Gregory Blount is a native of Athens, Georgia and began painting in Atlanta over 20 years ago as a pastime from his practice as an environmental lawyer and partner at a major Atlanta law firm. His art education began with evening classes associated with the Woodruff Arts Center and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), among other clinics. He enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at SCAD in 2016. After completing his first quarter of work he was compelled to withdraw from the program for professional reasons.

His work has been collected and sold at many nonprofit galas including The Atlanta Opera Ball, The Atlanta Ballet Ball, Weekend for Wildlife at Sea Island, the Georgia Conservancy's ecoBenefete and Georgia Lawyers for the Arts. Most recently, he has joined a collaboration of artists at the Chatt Hills Gallery at Serenbe, where his work is shown and sold.

Artistic Approach

Compelling art asks open-ended questions of the viewer. Art should be a negotiation with the viewer, just as the artist must negotiate with paint and canvas in making art.

Much of his early work was inspired by wildlife and natural subjects. In recent years his art has been influenced by movement and dance, based on associations with the Atlanta Ballet and Terminus Modern Ballet Theater. His work incorporates political and social themes as well.

Greg is also a member of the Arts Club of Washington, DC and the Atlanta Artists Center.

The Artist is shown at the Chatt Hills Gallery in Serenbe.

Artist: Robin Skolsky

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 30" x 24"

About the Artist:

Robin Skolsky grew up in NY - but is practically a native Atlantan now, being here over 20 years!

Her mother taught art classes out of her basement, when she was a child. Her sisters and father are also artistic. It's no surprise she finds artsy ways to do things! Robin has been told her paintings bring a sense of calm and peace.

Aside from art, Robin helps give people back mobility and independence as a physical therapist in a wheelchair clinic. She loves the combination of her work with people and with paint.

Custom sizes, colors, and designs are available upon request.

You can reach Robin at:

404.944.9562

rskolskydesigns.com

rskolsky@gmail.com

Artist: JC Pino

Medium: Acrylics

Size: 48" x 24"

About the Artist:

JC, born in Venezuela, where he was exposed to a unique blend of cultures, races and flavors of the Caribbean, under a powerful influence from his parents. His father, a top executive of the oil industry and a nature lover with a military orientation, gave him the best education. His mother, a lady dedicated to her family and a passionate interior designer, gave him the knowledge about history of arts and styles. Both of them, supported an extensive traveling and an admiration for nature, and most important inspired him to be unique, and strive for the best.

Artist; Chris Noosh!

Medium: Woodcut Print & Enamel on Wood

Size: 24.5" x 32"

Artist: Michael Taylor

Medium: Mixed Media (Metallics & Acrylic) on Wood

Size: 48" x 36"

About the Artist:

My name is Michael Taylor and I'm a self taught abstract artist. My goal is to create expressive abstract art. My version of expressionism art has three components in capturing attention; color, motion and texture. I use metallic paint in all my paintings and the application of light will change the tone and color of the work. I build wood canvases because allows me to use various materials and manipulate my work in ways that cotton canvas will not allow. Rarely do I create a work that is static and there is always movement in the colors and materials.

Artist: Michael Taylor

Medium: Mixed Media (Acrylic, Tin, Burlap, copper & Tin) on Wood

Size: 48" x 24"

About the Artist:

My name is Michael Taylor and I'm a self taught abstract artist. My goal is to create expressive abstract art. My version of expressionism art has three components in capturing attention; color, motion and texture. I use metallic paint in all my paintings and the application of light will change the tone and color of the work. I build wood canvases because allows me to use various materials and manipulate my work in ways that cotton canvas will not allow. Rarely do I create a work that is static and there is always movement in the colors and materials.

Artist: Michael Taylor

Medium: Acrylic on Gallery Canvas

Size: 36" x 24"

About the Artist:

My name is Michael Taylor and I'm a self taught abstract artist. My goal is to create expressive abstract art. My version of expressionism art has three components in capturing attention; color, motion and texture. I use metallic paint in all my paintings and the application of light will change the tone and color of the work. I build wood canvases because allows me to use various materials and manipulate my work in ways that cotton canvas will not allow. Rarely do I create a work that is static and there is always movement in the colors and materials.

Artist: Craig Farquharson

Medium: Limited Edition Bronze 7/20

Size: 9.5" x 10.5" x 7"

Artist: Lauren Auld

Medium: Acrylic Paint

Size: 24" x 48"

About the Artist:

Lauren is an Australian living in Atlanta. Her artistic focus in Australia was working on set designs and managing theatrical productions. One set design involved painting a large canvas over 15 feet long and 12 feet high. From this experience Lauren began to explore acrylic pouring.

Lauren began to paint and experiment with the different techniques involved in creating acrylic pours. The more she painted the more she discovered her love for color. The way color 'plays' together is part of the technique of fluid art paintings. We all know that red and blue makes purple. But what does purple, orange and magenta do together on a canvas?

The use of pouring medium allows the paints to flow across the canvas as Lauren manipulates the paint using a variety of tools from breath, gravity, high pressured air, paper towels and cups to name a few tools. A paint brush is not used. Each piece is unique.

She hopes you enjoy looking at her artwork. Anyone interested in specific sizes and colors for their home or office should contact Lauren at ltacreations@outlook.com

Artist: Janine Monroe

Medium: Sawdust, acrylic polymer and paints on canvas

Size: 12" x 12" x 3"

About the Artist:

Janine was born in Kingston, Jamaica from parents who are classical musicians, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 10. Her unique perspective as a story-teller colored her work which captures modern day images for future generations, and explores socio-political and environmental issues. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Georgia Southern University.

As an artist and an inventor, her current body of work features a new and innovative use of recycled wood combined with an acrylic polymer and pigments to create dimension (Process Patent-Pending). These pieces are called Sculpted Paintings. Her work that engages the audience as well as incorporates recycling. They elicit spontaneous reactions that are grounded in the building blocks of time and space. She continues to explore questions concerning resources, "masks", and the value/necessity of both. Together, the medium and subject matter form and inform a dialogue about the importance of preserving all organic resources.

Her older work is in the collections of many notables, including Luci Baines Johnson, the daughter of the 36th U.S. President, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

To learn more about her and her work please visit www.jmonroegallery.com.

Artist: Andy Weeks

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 20" x 64"

About the Artist:

Andy Weeks is a local artist with a national exhibition record. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Atlanta College of Art and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Pratt Institute. Andy now lives in the Lake Claire neighborhood of Atlanta with his wife, two children, dog, and cat. In addition to working as an artist, Andy spent 10 years teaching art and art history and now practices trademark law.

Artist: Sierra Kazin

Medium: Mixed Media - Marker, Acrylic & Collage

Size" 40" x 30"

About the Artist:

Sierra Kazin is an American mixed media artist whose passion is combining figural work with photo collage. Her work ties the visual elements of various cultures, symbols, and art historical references together around highly detailed figure drawings using primarily marker and inks. Her work balances grayscale with color and integrates articles of collage in a complementary yet unstructured way. The intention of her art is to be appreciated for its own brand of intuitive flair, quirky detail and thoughtful composition. She is currently studying painting and drawing within the School of Art and Design at Kennesaw State University.

Artist: Brian J. Xu

Medium: Acrylic, heavy medium gel

Size: 16 x 20"

About the Artist:

Brian (self) Xu is a multi-disciplinary artist currently pursuing a BFA at the University of Southern California. Born in Texas and raised in the Silicon Valley, he spent his formative years surrounded by the creative innovativity of the Bay Area and the logicality of computer programming. While ultimately pursuing the arts, his perspective on creative expression is influenced by the object-oriented practicum of his upbringing. Working in primarily physical and quasi-digital mediums, his works question the postmodern Self's relation to a world increasingly invested in virtuality, utilizing evocative gestures of paint, sculpture, garment, and performance to do so. Xu has been the recipient of many awards, including a 2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Gold and Silver Key, and has been featured in exhibitions such as the annual 2019 and 2020 Fisher Museum of Art Exhibition. He splits his time between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, and invites those interested in connecting to reach out via his website: selfxu.com

Artist: Brian J. Xu

Medium: Acrylic, heavy medium gel

Size: 16" x 20"

About the Artist:

Brian (self) Xu is a multi-disciplinary artist currently pursuing a BFA at the University of Southern California. Born in Texas and raised in the Silicon Valley, he spent his formative years surrounded by the creative innovativity of the Bay Area and the logicality of computer programming. While ultimately pursuing the arts, his perspective on creative expression is influenced by the object-oriented practicum of his upbringing. Working in primarily physical and quasi-digital mediums, his works question the postmodern Self's relation to a world increasingly invested in virtuality, utilizing evocative gestures of paint, sculpture, garment, and performance to do so. Xu has been the recipient of many awards, including a 2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Gold and Silver Key, and has been featured in exhibitions such as the annual 2019 and 2020 Fisher Museum of Art Exhibition. He splits his time between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, and invites those interested in connecting to reach out via his website: selfxu.com

Artist: Brian J. Xu

Medium: Acrylic, screenprints, ink

Size: 16" x 20"

About the Artist:

Brian (self) Xu is a multi-disciplinary artist currently pursuing a BFA at the University of Southern California. Born in Texas and raised in the Silicon Valley, he spent his formative years surrounded by the creative innovativity of the Bay Area and the logicality of computer programming. While ultimately pursuing the arts, his perspective on creative expression is influenced by the object-oriented practicum of his upbringing. Working in primarily physical and quasi-digital mediums, his works question the postmodern Self's relation to a world increasingly invested in virtuality, utilizing evocative gestures of paint, sculpture, garment, and performance to do so. Xu has been the recipient of many awards, including a 2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Gold and Silver Key, and has been featured in exhibitions such as the annual 2019 and 2020 Fisher Museum of Art Exhibition. He splits his time between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, and invites those interested in connecting to reach out via his website: selfxu.com

Artist: Kimberly Klock

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 30" x 30"

Artist: Adrienne Anbinder

Medium: Fine art photography on archival paper & deckled edge

Size: 30" x 30" x 2"

About the Artist:

Adrienne, a Brooklyn native, is inspired by the natural world and the secrets that nature holds.

With every mixed-media image that Adrienne creates, her goal is to tell an evocative story. Every flower, every object, has a message hidden within. Anbinder believes that unearthing its secrets is key to creating unique, provocative imagery.

Her fine art hangs in homes across the country, from Atlanta to New York to Palm Beach. Her photographs have been featured in New York at Gallery 104, 1stdibs Design Showroom, and on websites such as New York Arts and Artography Limited. She has a permanent presence in Georgia at the Chatt Hills Gallery in Serenbe, and at Laguna Art in Laguna Beach, California.

Last summer, Anbinder created a fine art collector's limited-edition book of flowers called FlowerStory. Her silk-wrapped collection features ten personal floral stories accompanied by over fifty one-of-a-kind flower portraits.

For more information, please visit Adrienne's website: www.adrienneanbinder.com

The artist is shown at the Chatt Hills Gallery at Serenbe.

Artist: Jonathan Ware

Medium: Inkjet Print on Aluminum, Limited Edition 1/3

Size: 20" x 20"

About the Artist:

Jonathan Ware is an Atlanta-based corporate attorney and self-taught digital artist. Ware drew his inspiration for the work Ascension from what he believes is one of humanity's greatest challenges - moving past the differences and distinctions which divide society (the polarities) into a unified world of harmonious mutual respect and understanding.

In his image, two serpents, representing opposing perspectives, embrace one another in a spark of Cosmic Illumination and ascend against a starry backdrop, representing a state of universal awareness. The serpent, an ancient symbol of healing and wisdom, is both venomous - having the ability to kill - and transformative - having the ability to shed its skin and be born anew, presenting obvious parallels to our current human condition.

Ware said, "The awakened heart has the capacity to hold the polarities of life in a matrix of love, and when we act from a consciousness of love, we naturally live in harmony with one another and the divinity that is inherent in all of creation. Our task is the life-long endeavor of cultivating the human heart such that its radiant light shines forth to illuminate our path. As our relationship with our inner world changes, so does our relationship with our outer world. As within, so without. The harmony within us is reflected back to us in our harmony with others, and we come to see that we are one human family - on the same journey of life - a journey that has its ultimate end in our return to the One Light from which we all originated."

Artist: Kathy McCullen

Medium: Collage & Mixed Media

Size: 36" x 24"

Artist: Jenny Henley

Medium: Archival Pigment and Acrylic on Panel with Varnish

Size: 8" x 8"

About the Artist:

Jenny Henley is an Atlanta based interdisciplinary artist working with a methodology that embraces sculptural practices in a two-dimensional mixed-media framework. Typically, Henley uses socially recognizable imagery, appropriate for an audience familiar with contemporary notions of art; yet fused to a slightly nostalgic sensibility.

Henley has won prestigious awards including Women in Design at ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been a part of Atlanta's art community organizations being one of the original founders of i45 and is the founder of the First Friday Art Walk Marietta Square.

Artist: Brandon Murphy

Medium: Multimedia wood canvas with sculpture

Size: 40" x 30" x 6"

About the Artist:

Brandon is a 25-year advertising agency veteran who believes that cultural tension makes the best art. He combines this belief with his love for Sci-Fi, Vintage objects from the 50's and 60's, and graffiti to create his pieces. ChattHills Gallery at Serenbe is his home gallery where he lives among other artists who value the intersection of creativity, wellness, nature, and art. You can see his art on Instagram @botbuilds, where he's been showcasing his work since 2016.

His most recent piece called Analog, is a commentary on a society where instant gratification is fueled by a digital revolution that prioritizes fast action hits of dopamine over thoughtful living and seratonin. Each element of his work has history and a story. For instance, the chalk line feet of the analog robot are from a 1960's era brick layer from Michigan.

Brandon is shown at the Chatt Hills Gallery in Serenbe.

Artist: Jim Greenwoood

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30" x 40"

About the Artist:

Jim Greenwood paints as if there is no tomorrow. Because he has to. Jim suffers from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a disease of the eye that has no treatment and no cure. As he says, "It's a slow decline into darkness." He is legally blind, losing more than 95% of his visual field and left with 20/600 distance vision. He is also color blind. But he paints in earnest. Because he has to.

After a tour in the Marine Corps, he studied art at Florida State. "I wanted to be a painter, but abstraction was all the rave at the time, and I just didn't get it." He switched his major in the fine art department to graphic design and enjoyed a thirty-year career as an advertising agency art director, corporate graphic design manager with The Coca-Cola Company and years with his own design firm. He has now been painting full time for twelve years.

Jim has been in various art galleries in the Atlanta area and won numerous awards in juried shows throughout the country.

Artist: Jenny Henley

Medium: Archival Pigment and Acrylic on Panel with Varnish

Size: 24" x 24" x 3"

About the Artist:

Jenny Henley is an Atlanta based interdisciplinary artist working with a methodology that embraces sculptural practices in a two-dimensional mixed-media framework. Typically, Henley uses socially recognizable imagery, appropriate for an audience familiar with contemporary notions of art; yet fused to a slightly nostalgic sensibility.

Henley has won prestigious awards including Women in Design at ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been a part of Atlanta's art community organizations being one of the original founders of i45 and is the founder of the First Friday Art Walk Marietta Square.

Artist: Jenny Henley

Medium: Archival Ink Pigment and Acrylic on Panel with Varnish

Size: 24" x 24"

About the Artist:

Jenny Henley is an Atlanta based interdisciplinary artist working with a methodology that embraces sculptural practices in a two-dimensional mixed-media framework. Typically, Henley uses socially recognizable imagery, appropriate for an audience familiar with contemporary notions of art; yet fused to a slightly nostalgic sensibility.

Henley has won prestigious awards including Women in Design at ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been a part of Atlanta's art community organizations being one of the original founders of i45 and is the founder of the First Friday Art Walk Marietta Square.

Artists: Melanie Rolfes and Michael Zavison

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30" x 60"

Artist: Judy Walker

Medium: Watercolor on Yupo paper with metalics

Size: 31.5" x 31.5" x 2 "

About the Artist:

Zen painting is free, effortless, natural painting. There is no planning, thought, or struggle. When engaged with Zen painting, the painter and the painted are one. Zen painting runs counter to the usual academic and conceptual methods for creation of artwork. In Zen-fashion, the consciousness goes deep beneath the surface, uncovering patterns that change and flow moment by moment.

Her paintings are done with watercolor, and metallic watercolor, on Yupo paper, then sealed with an archival sealer.

Judy Walker began painting in her home of Colorado Springs, CO, studying with Herman Raymond. She then went to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, majoring in illustration. She stayed in Southern California, and in addition to painting and illustration, she became a graphic designer, photographer, and journalist.

Then, in 2016, she and her husband moved to Serenbe, where she paints, designs books and publications, is the Director of the Chatt Hills Artist Co-op, and on the Board of the South Fulton Institute for Art, Culture and the Environment.

The Artist is shown at the Chatt Hills Gallery in Serenbe.

Artist: James Haverty Smith

Medium: Pastels & Acrylic on Linen

Size: 17.5" x 21.5"

About the Artist:

James ("Jimmy") Haverty Smith is an Atlanta-based artist and architect. He received the "Member's Choice" Award at the 2021 Beaux Arts Festival for his painting "A Midsummer Night". He has recently completed a course of study in oil painting and pastels with renowned artist Albert Handell.

Jimmy's life as a visual artist spans more than four decades. He received his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He studied at the Hambidge Center and received a fellowship at the Genesis Project on Ossabaw Island.

Jimmy received a Masters in Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, graduating with highest honors and earning the top design award. He spent the majority of his architectural career as Design Principal in the Atlanta office of Perkins and Will, one of the largest architectural design firms in the world. Jimmy won numerous design awards while at Perkins and Will, and recently served as Design Director in the Dubai, UAE and Amman, Jordan offices. He moved back to Atlanta in 2019 and retired in 2020 to focus more fully on his passion for painting and watercolor.

James is married to Mary Anne Walser, a lawyer and Realtor, and has three children and five grandchildren. His three children have each also pursued careers in the arts, following in the footsteps of their father.

Artist: James Haverty Smith

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 15" x 19"

About the Artist:

James ("Jimmy") Haverty Smith is an Atlanta-based artist and architect. He received the "Member's Choice" Award at the 2021 Beaux Arts Festival for his painting "A Midsummer Night". He has recently completed a course of study in oil painting and pastels with renowned artist Albert Handell.

Jimmy's life as a visual artist spans more than four decades. He received his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He studied at the Hambidge Center and received a fellowship at the Genesis Project on Ossabaw Island.

Jimmy received a Masters in Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, graduating with highest honors and earning the top design award. He spent the majority of his architectural career as Design Principal in the Atlanta office of Perkins and Will, one of the largest architectural design firms in the world. Jimmy won numerous design awards while at Perkins and Will, and recently served as Design Director in the Dubai, UAE and Amman, Jordan offices. He moved back to Atlanta in 2019 and retired in 2020 to focus more fully on his passion for painting and watercolor.

James is married to Mary Anne Walser, a lawyer and Realtor, and has three children and five grandchildren. His three children have each also pursued careers in the arts, following in the footsteps of their father.

Artist: Sandra Vermillion

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 11" x 14" x .75"

About the Artist:

Sandra Vermillion is a self-taught artist specializing in abstract art. After 30 years as a Gwinnett County teacher, she is spending her retirement years dabbling in different media and techniques. Sandra is a native Georgian and was raised on a farm in Greene County. Her rural upbringing exposed her to a variety of primitive artistic influences. As an avid traveler, her art brings out the natural beauty of the environment

Artist: Sandra Vermillion

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 11"x 14" x .75"

About the Artist:

Sandra Vermillion is a self-taught artist specializing in abstract art. After 30 years as a Gwinnett County teacher, she is spending her retirement years dabbling in different media and techniques. Sandra is a native Georgian and was raised on a farm in Greene County. Her rural upbringing exposed her to a variety of primitive artistic influences. As an avid traveler, her art brings out the natural beauty of the environment

Artist: Sandra Vermillion

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 11" x 14" x .75"

About the Artist:

Sandra Vermillion is a self-taught artist specializing in abstract art. After 30 years as a Gwinnett County teacher, she is spending her retirement years dabbling in different media and techniques. Sandra is a native Georgian and was raised on a farm in Greene County. Her rural upbringing exposed her to a variety of primitive artistic influences. As an avid traveler, her art brings out the natural beauty of the environment

Artist: Abby Smith

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 24" x 36"

About the Artist:

Abby Smith is an artist from the greater Atlanta area who paints various types of birds against dreamlike backdrops.

Artist: Tracy Sharp

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas

Size: 24" x 12" x 2"

Artist: Sandra Vermillion

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 16" x 20" x .75"

About the Artist:

Sandra Vermillion is a self-taught artist specializing in abstract art. After 30 years as a Gwinnett County teacher, she is spending her retirement years dabbling in different media and techniques. Sandra is a native Georgian and was raised on a farm in Greene County. Her rural upbringing exposed her to a variety of primitive artistic influences. As an avid traveler, her art brings out the natural beauty of the environment

Artist: Sandra Vermillion

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 16" x20 " x .75"

About the Artist:

Sandra Vermillion is a self-taught artist specializing in abstract art. After 30 years as a Gwinnett County teacher, she is spending her retirement years dabbling in different media and techniques. Sandra is a native Georgian and was raised on a farm in Greene County. Her rural upbringing exposed her to a variety of primitive artistic influences. As an avid traveler, her art brings out the natural beauty of the environment

Artist: Jenny Henley

Medium: Archival Ink Pigment and Acrylic on Paper with Varnish

Size: 24" x 24" x 2"

About the Artist:

Jenny Henley is an Atlanta based interdisciplinary artist working with a methodology that embraces sculptural practices in a two-dimensional mixed-media framework. Typically, Henley uses socially recognizable imagery, appropriate for an audience familiar with contemporary notions of art; yet fused to a slightly nostalgic sensibility.

Henley has won prestigious awards including Women in Design at ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been a part of Atlanta's art community organizations being one of the original founders of i45 and is the founder of the First Friday Art Walk Marietta Square.

Artist: Jenny Henley

Medium: Archival Ink Pigment and Acrylic on Panel with Varnish

Size: 24" x 24" x 3"

About the Artist:

Jenny Henley is an Atlanta based interdisciplinary artist working with a methodology that embraces sculptural practices in a two-dimensional mixed-media framework. Typically, Henley uses socially recognizable imagery, appropriate for an audience familiar with contemporary notions of art; yet fused to a slightly nostalgic sensibility.

Henley has won prestigious awards including Women in Design at ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been a part of Atlanta's art community organizations being one of the original founders of i45 and is the founder of the First Friday Art Walk Marietta Square.

Artist: Jenny Henley

Medium: Archival Ink Pigment and Acrylic on Panel with Varnish

Size: 18" x 24"

About the Artist:

Jenny Henley is an Atlanta based interdisciplinary artist working with a methodology that embraces sculptural practices in a two-dimensional mixed-media framework. Typically, Henley uses socially recognizable imagery, appropriate for an audience familiar with contemporary notions of art; yet fused to a slightly nostalgic sensibility.

Henley has won prestigious awards including Women in Design at ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been a part of Atlanta's art community organizations being one of the original founders of i45 and is the founder of the First Friday Art Walk Marietta Square.

Artist: KC Nugent

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 27" x 36"

About the Artist:

KC Nugent is an abstract and conceptual artist whose work focuses on the emotional reaction of color and shape, and how that relationship determines the outcome for the piece by the viewer. Through a use of various mediums, the goal of her art is to attempt to reflect the subconscious idea of emotion in a universally understood language.

Artist: Lorenzo Scott

Size: 34.5" x 43.5" (framed, frame hand made by artist)

About the Artist:

Lorenzo Scott was born in 1934 in West Point, Georgia. He is a contemporary American artist whose work gained prominence in the late 1980s.

Artist: Jenny Henley

Medium: Archival Ink Pigment and Acrylic on Panel with Varnish

Size: 18" x 42"

About the Artist:

Jenny Henley is an Atlanta based interdisciplinary artist working with a methodology that embraces sculptural practices in a two-dimensional mixed-media framework. Typically, Henley uses socially recognizable imagery, appropriate for an audience familiar with contemporary notions of art; yet fused to a slightly nostalgic sensibility.

Henley has won prestigious awards including Women in Design at ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been a part of Atlanta's art community organizations being one of the original founders of i45 and is the founder of the First Friday Art Walk Marietta Square.

Artist: Kent Jordan

Medium: Photography

Size: 25" x 25"

About the Artist:

Kent Jordan has studied and practiced photography since 1980 when he was given a Polaroid One Step camera for his 13th birthday. In the intervening 41 years, his fascination with images has endured and grown. The technology may have changed, but the goal remains the same - to capture an image that makes you pause, if only for a moment. Today, Kent is a practicing attorney in Atlanta whose camera is never far away.

Artist: Michelle Fontaine

Medium: Oil on Panel

Size: 12" x 12"

About the Artist:

MICHELLE FONTAINE (b. 1987, Atlanta, Georgia) constructs paintings that embody mid-century American popular culture, concentrating on the dualities of the human condition. Her usually larger scale expressive and colorful collaged figurative narratives have initiated a small presence in Athens and Atlanta, Georgia where she currently lives. After attending schools in Chicago, Atlanta, New York City, Michelle has completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with concentration in Painting at the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art.

Artist: Celeste McCollough

Medium: Oil

Size: 9" x 12" x 1"

About the Artist:

Celeste McCollough works primarily in oils to bring locations, people and things into life and color. She has studied extensively with Marc Chatov, serving as his apprentice for a decade. She has also studied with Ben Smith, Chris Groves, Quang Ho, and Albert Handel.

Celeste regularly teaches workshops and classes at The Quinlan Visual Arts Center and Booth Art Academy, as well as private classes in the Atlanta area. Contact us for more information.

Celeste McCollough
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Artist: Sam Leonard Beck

Medium: Stained Glass

Size: 14" x 17.25"

About the Artist:

Sam Leonard Beck has been working in stained glass for 10 years since training at the Sawtooth School for Visual Art in Winston-Salem, NC. She recently retired from a long career as a university educator in the area of career and professional development, most recently at Wake Forest University.

She looks forward to even more hours in her glass studio cutting, grinding, foiling, and soldering to create the large and small glass pieces she loves and hopes others will enjoy.

Artist: Logynn B Ferrall

Medium: Photography & pencil

Size: 38" x 28" x 1.5"

About the Artist:

Local Georgia Artist

"Logynn captures images of trees and structures where she lives and where she travels. Finding inspiration in the cultures and the landscapes. Often simple and haunting, always powerful.

Forests, busy streets of Paris, hidden corners of Morocco, and sky, so many beautiful skies. She captures the spiritual glint, the inspiration of nature, the spin of a dervish."

"As an artist and friend, Logynn invites each of us to look straight at Life and the end of this Life without blinking. Her collectors treasure the moments she captures in her work."

After the image, I tailor and adjust my prints with painting/sketching in a way that highlights and amplifies unique elements and message of each one..

Logynn B Ferrall
logynnbferrall@mac.com
281 658 5036

The Artist is shown at Chatt Hills Gallery in Serenbe

Artist: Logynn B Ferrall

Medium: Black & White Photography on Archival Paper

Size: 28" x 27" x 1.5"

About the Artist:

Local Georgia Artist

"Logynn captures images of trees and structures where she lives and where she travels. Finding inspiration in the cultures and the landscapes. Often simple and haunting, always powerful.

Forests, busy streets of Paris, hidden corners of Morocco, and sky, so many beautiful skies. She captures the spiritual glint, the inspiration of nature, the spin of a dervish."

"As an artist and friend, Logynn invites each of us to look straight at Life and the end of this Life without blinking. Her collectors treasure the moments she captures in her work."

After the image, I tailor and adjust my prints with painting/sketching in a way that highlights and amplifies unique elements and message of each one..

Logynn B Ferrall
logynnbferrall@mac.com
281 658 5036

The Artist is shown at the Chatt Hills Gallery at Serenbe

Artist: Judy Walker

Medium: Watercolor and metaliic watercolor on Yupo paper

Size: 28.5" x 35" x 1.5 (framed)

About the Artist:

Zen painting is free, effortless, natural painting. There is no planning, thought, or struggle. When engaged with Zen painting, the painter and the painted are one. Zen painting runs counter to the usual academic and conceptual methods for creation of artwork. In Zen-fashion, the consciousness goes deep beneath the surface, uncovering patterns that change and flow moment by moment.

Her paintings are done with watercolor, and metallic watercolor, on Yupo paper, then sealed with an archival sealer.

Judy Walker began painting in her home of Colorado Springs, CO, studying with Herman Raymond. She then went to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, majoring in illustration. She stayed in Southern California, and in addition to painting and illustration, she became a graphic designer, photographer, and journalist.

Then, in 2016, she and her husband moved to Serenbe, where she paints, designs books and publications, is the Director of the Chatt Hills Artist Co-op, and on the Board of the South Fulton Institute for Art, Culture and the Environment.

Artist is shown at the Chatt Hills Gallery in Serenbe.

Artist: Logynn B. Ferrall

Medium: Photography with Watercolor and Pencil

Size: 38" x 28"

About the Artist:

Local Georgia Artist

"Logynn captures images of trees and structures where she lives and where she travels. Finding inspiration in the cultures and the landscapes. Often simple and haunting, always powerful.

Forests, busy streets of Paris, hidden corners of Morocco, and sky, so many beautiful skies. She captures the spiritual glint, the inspiration of nature, the spin of a dervish."

"As an artist and friend, Logynn invites each of us to look straight at Life and the end of this Life without blinking. Her collectors treasure the moments she captures in her work."

After the image, I tailor and adjust my prints with painting/sketching in a way that highlights and amplifies unique elements and message of each one..

Logynn B Ferrall
logynnbferrall@mac.com
281 658 5036

The Artist is shown at the Chatt Hills Gallery at Serenbe

Title: Early Color (Dry Plate Photography)

Artist: SPOON

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 30" x 48"

About the Artist:

"What is the minimal amount of information needed to perceive form?"

- "Can structure convey fluidity and movement?"

These were the original questions behind SPOON's graphic experimentation that ultimately led to the development of her uniquely recognizable style.
Removing content until the subject is unrecognizable, she slowly reintroduces data and color in search of the threshold where visual and mental perceptions are balanced.

What began as an idea she was testing for fun quickly turned into something distinctive that can now be seen at Fortune 500 Companies, sport stadiums, luxury hotels, museums and private residences around the world.

Every painting is composed and painted by hand, one dot at a time. In redacting a subject to the edge of recognition, she challenges viewers to recompose only the information that is absolutely necessary.

Distance, viewing angle, and even a camera lens changes the way SPOON's artwork resolves. As a result, everyone will experience it differently depending on their perspective, mentally and physically. This moving target of data assemblage constantly challenges her to rethink each painting in a new way.

Her background in Urban Design and study of Architecture + Engineering have undoubtedly shaped the way SPOON approached art and what led to her initial concept. She also maintains a sense of environmental and social responsibility. By using the techniques she learned as a LEED Green Professional (buying locally sourced, non-toxic materials) and donating a portion of the proceeds from every painting sale to charity, she tries to ensure that her success benefits the greater good.

See a listing of her upcoming events or contact SPOON for more information.

Artist: Melanie Rolfes

Size: 48" x 72"

Artist: Susan Grill Joss

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30" x 40"

About the Artist:

Having attended Carnegie-Mellon University, Philadelphia College of Art, and Portfolio
Center I have spent my life working as a painter, graphic designer, illustrator, interior
designer, and teacher. Along the way I have continued my studies with numerous
painters, with an emphasis on figurative painting and portraiture.
My goal is to translate the social context of narratives into emotional imagery.
Photographic reference is pivotal to my work. I am drawn to the immediacy and
informality of snapshots. When photographing my subjects, I am entering their world,
both external and internal. We talk. We share stories. We build trust. Poses emerge
naturally during our time together, allowing for the opportunity to capture an
unguarded moment.
Sifting through the photos gives me the chance to see them anew. I make drawings from
a number of the photos to see where the narrative starts to emerge. This forms the
basis for the portrait. My intention is my connection with my subject, not the painting.

Artist: Vando Davis

Medium: Acrylic & Oil Pastel & China Marker

Size: 20" x 15 x 1.5"

About the Artist:

Vando Davis is a self-taught artist who works primarily with acrylic and oil sticks. Vando began his art career in 2017 after years in the hospitality field. The impetus for his painting was his youngest son, Dione Davis, who was having trouble relaxing during intense day trading sessions. Vando saw painting as a way to help his son, but little did he know how much it would impact his own life.

Rooted in Neo-Expressionism and Abstract, Vando's style of painting uses vibrant, uncharacteristic, sometimes clashing colors, along with phrasing and vowel-free words. Vando's fun loving nature is seen in every colorful stroke.

After becoming a full-time artist, Vando was accepted in Spectrum Miami 2018, where he was selected to the Director's List. In 2019, he was selected as a "Featured Artist" for Hot Works Estero Fine Art Show.

Vando lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife Sheri and pup Pepper.

Artist: Vando Davis

Medium: Acrylic & Money

Size" 21" x 30" x 2.5"

About the Artist:

Vando Davis is a self-taught artist who works primarily with acrylic and oil sticks. Vando began his art career in 2017 after years in the hospitality field. The impetus for his painting was his youngest son, Dione Davis, who was having trouble relaxing during intense day trading sessions. Vando saw painting as a way to help his son, but little did he know how much it would impact his own life.

Rooted in Neo-Expressionism and Abstract, Vando's style of painting uses vibrant, uncharacteristic, sometimes clashing colors, along with phrasing and vowel-free words. Vando's fun loving nature is seen in every colorful stroke.

After becoming a full-time artist, Vando was accepted in Spectrum Miami 2018, where he was selected to the Director's List. In 2019, he was selected as a "Featured Artist" for Hot Works Estero Fine Art Show.

Vando lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife Sheri and pup Pepper.

Artist: Shanae' Wiggins

Medium: Acrylic, mixed media

Size: 48" x 48"

About the Artist:

Shanaé Ambryel (b.1991) is a Black-American artist. She was born in Atlanta and currently spends her time between Atlanta and Miami. The textured memories of childhood, where she spent most of her time outdoors shape her adult imagination, and they are reflected in her paintings' rich textures and vibrant tones. Her pieces are often inspired by the feelings that come both from the natural and shadow self. The private experiences of suffering and celebration-are evoked by her canvases. Explorations of color, which range from bursts of brightness to contemplative reflections on darkness. Inspired by her creative grandmothers, Shanaé expresses herself through painting, sculpting and horticulture as methods of personal discovery.

Artist: Lisa Tuttle

Medium: Archival Inkjet Print

Size: 6" x 6"

Artist: Marc James Villaneuva

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 9" x 12"

Artist: Sheron Davis

Medium: Mixed Media (painting/stain glass/resin)

Size: 9" x 12"

Artist: Helen Durant

Medium: Collage on Canvas

Size: 9" x 12"

Artist: Marc James Villaneuva

Medium: Mixed media

Size: 12" x 16"