All Star Gallery
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ALL STAR: Ash Forrest
$345ORIGINAL PAINTING BY ASH FORREST
Created for Wall Ball 2022
Let Them Eat Cake
Acrylic, oil and polymer clay on canvas
30" x 40"
Ash Forrest lives and works as a freelance artist in the St Louis area. She received a BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in printmaking. Her large abstract paintings combine uncontrolled washes of pigment and splatter with conscious application of thicker layers. Her work is largely informed by landscapes and maps with vivid color palettes inspired by nostalgia and memories.
Learn more about Ash here.
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ALL STAR: Myles Keough
$420ORIGINAL PAINTING BY MYLES KEOUGH
Created for Wall Ball 2022
Ash Forrest lives and works as a freelance artist in the St Louis area. She received a BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in printmaking. Her large abstract paintings combine uncontrolled washes of pigment and splatter with conscious application of thicker layers. Her work is largely informed by landscapes and maps with vivid color palettes inspired by nostalgia and memories.
Learn more about Myles here.
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ALL STAR: Sarah Paulsen
$240ORIGINAL PAINTING BY SARAH PAULSEN
Created for Wall Ball 2022
Tower Grove Park Blue Snowfall
Acrylic on canvas
36"x 36"
Sarah Paulsen is an artist and animator from St. Louis, MO. With art projects ranging from social justice animations and community portraits, to parades and murals, she is inspired by the communities she has met living in Missouri and traveling in the U.S. and abroad. She earned a BA in Spanish and BFA in Painting at University of Missouri-Columbia and received an MFA from Washington University in 2007. Since then, she has spent time studying art-making and culture, formally and informally, in Europe, South America, and Mexico. This has included collaborative residencies with her partner Cameron Fuller at the Cite des Arts in Paris, University of Kentucky-Lexington, and Forsyth School. Going into her ninth year as the resident artist at Marian Middle School, she is a devoted educator and teaches with St. Louis Community College, SLAM, and CAM. She is a 2010 CAT fellow, with community projects including: founding the People's Joy Parade and coordinating SGCI Cherokee. She was named the 2010 RFT Best Local Artist. Recently she received grants from the Mid-America Arts Alliance, R.A.C., CALOP, and Critical Mass to fund the production of her film Elegy to Connie. Her animations and artworks have been viewed at locations across the U.S. She was a recipient of the 2014 RAC Artist Fellowship.
Learn more about Sarah here.
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ALL STAR: Sukanya Mani
$240ORIGINAL PAINTING BY SUKANYA MANI
Created for Wall Ball 2022
Sukanya Mani is a St. Louis-based, Indian born interdisciplinary artist. Mani studied science in college and started as a painter but quickly tired of traditional painting. She was determined to establish a new kind of art and a cognitive framework for a new understanding of science. In 2008, she discovered cutting paper which
introduced her to reconfigure the material into additional dimensions. This action allowed her to integrate parameters like space, light, gravity and time within her work. Paper cutting permitted the process of the work to be evident, while the warped, random configurations of the material itself invested it with cosmological connotations. This combination is particularly evident in her installation Micro and Macro 2019 and in her later series The space between and This time it will be different (2021). The relationship between space, light, gravity and time is at the root of Mani's exploration, which is crucial to the development of her art and her search for more expansive categories of knowledge. Her theories fuse physics and philosophy with the visual language of art. Her artwork can be described as imagined abstractions using papercut Tyvek informed by materials, location and the installation process. In 2021, Mani was a TedX STL speaker and she spoke about her art making and journey. Mani also creates large-scale outdoor sculptural pieces. For future works, Mani envisions utilizing the same interplays of negative space, light, and shadow, with a progression away from the figurative, and toward the abstract. Her work can be found nationally and has been given both permanent and transient homes in the City of Poplar Bluff, Florissant, Lee's Summit, Ballwin, Manchester, Chesterfield, Ellisville and Brentwood
Learn more about Sukanya here.