September 28, 2021

Jen Bradford | Featured Artist

"Several themes recur as a private narrative while I work, but aren’t always explicit. They include ideas about isolation and connection, compulsiveness, the desire for a clean slate, and a sense of expectation or foreboding, among others. My impulse is to transform these preoccupations into a visual structure as a way of making sense of the world and finding beauty in it. Feeling mostly bewilderment with moments of clarity can be a drag, but in paintings I like it."

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Image of Featured Artist | Jen Bradford
August 24, 2021

Marlies Hoevers | Featured Artist

Marlies Hoevers is the founder of 'HoeversID', an art studio where she explores unconventional materials like concrete, cement, textile, sawdust, and cardboard. What fascinates her is the process of revealing the hidden beauty in ordinary materials. Her artwork is characterized by a combination of smooth, cracked, mottled, scratched and different textures, rather than perfect smoothness. Marlies adds delicate materials such as wire or sawdust to create a more fragile or softer appearance to the concrete.

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Image of Artist Spotlight XXXV | Marlies Hoevers
August 17, 2021

Kellie Lawler | Artist Feature

"I am inspired by structured design, patterns and textiles and mixing that with the freedom of a Picasso style continuous line technique to create a graphic perspective on human figures, nature and other subjects. This process offers me both the recklessness in creating a subject in one continuous line with no worry over proportion or perfection and then the controlled hard edge painting. In the end, with its imperfect form one of my paintings may be seen differently in the viewer’s eyes than it did in mine when I created it."

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Image of Artist Spotlight XXXIV | Kellie Lawler
May 25, 2021

Lisa Weiss | Featured Artist

Lisa has exhibited her work nationally in solo and group shows for the past fifteen years. She is included in numerous public and private collections throughout America, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Holland. She has the honor of being in the Hunter Museum permanent collection. In the last seven years, Lisa has attended four artist residencies: Dorland Colony in California, Millay Colony in New York, Wurlitzer Foundation in New Mexico and the Nantucket School of Art on Nantucket Island.

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Image of Artist Spotlight XXII | Lisa Weiss
October 1, 2020

Michelle Y Williams | Featured Artist

Imperfections, flaws, rust, asymmetry, texture, peeling paint and the principles of wabi-sabi all enliven and excite Michelle Y Williams. She approaches her blank canvas with just a beginning and no preconceived end result. Williams seeks to find balance within the work; experimenting and exploring ways to refine her craft without self-constraint. “If I am able to engage the observer, make a connection which couldn’t be conveyed verbally and ultimately elicit a visceral reaction - my work is done.”

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Image of Vol. 09.29.2020 | Artist Spotlight Michelle Y Williams + Objects
September 11, 2020

Aaron Whisner | Featured Artist

Aaron Whisner, is a multidisciplinary artist best known for his large-scale murals and installations. A native of Oklahoma, Aaron is co-founder of Clean Hands Inc., a Tulsa based design and mural crew. Aaron has been actively painting since the mid 90’s. With roots in graffiti and street art scenes, inspiration is drawn from hand painted signage, street textures and type. Bold use of imagery and technique is used to capture public attention while maintaining balance with surrounding environments. With each installation progression is the goal.

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