aaron reichert

New Work

2024 pop up

Reichert’s faces and figures are hewn with pallet knife out of passages of black and white. Working without a detailed plan, he paints intuitively, shaping an environment of energy seemingly below the skin of the subject. From a distance, we see a dramatic figure; from close up, we confront a spontaneous orchestration of particles bursting from the canvas. Like many other notable portraitists — Van Gogh, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Richard Avedon — Reichert has created a technique that gets beneath the surface of his subjects and revitalizes the art form.

Woodrow nash

New Work pop up 2024

Woodrow Nash's recent sculptural works present the lure and mystery of our past and present reflections. The cut out eyes of his majestic clay figures gaze deep within the historical context of art history as well as carving out new path ways with Nash's sculptural techniques. The range of colors and textures bring Nash's life-like beings down to earth to be observed and reflected upon. His stylized African portraits evoke the 15th century Benin concepts of graceful slender proportions and undulating lines of 18th century Art Nouveau. In his works Nash achieves his goal of integrating expression, complex symbolism and sophisticated aesthetics to yield striking embodiments of the human soul and sensuality.

Incorporating various styles and techniques Nash utilizes stoneware, earthenware, terracotta and porcelain. The sculptures are then fired electronically using a pit firing technique giving the sculptures a "raku" effect; creating an "African Nouveau" trademark that is solely his own. Each sculptural figure is unique and strikes an individual pose of poetic grace and refined detail — each telling their own story.

Mackenzie thorpe

Artist talk & exhibition

Saturday, april 20th 7PM - 9pm

Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Life for the Thorpe family was no different to that of most of their community – at times a struggle. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation.

Original Pastels

Prints on Paper

Bronze / stainless steel

detail shots

Marcin Owczarek

New Work

Marcin Owczarek is sending us 10 limited edition signed works on paper.

Tony Savoie

New Work

Raymond Douillet

graphite drawings 2023

December 1-31, 2023

Michelle Gagliano

Raphael paintings 2023

November 10 - DECEMBER 11, 2023

Creatives Evolve

NOVEMBER 18

6.00pm

ARTIST SALON

“I am perpetually fascinated by art history; bowing to all those who have come before. Currently, my obsession is Raphael and his working palette and thus, creating work based on the master’s palette. I circle around pigments that he used from ultramarine, lead tin yellow, carmine, vermillion, madder lake, verdi gris, ochres, Brazilian lake, metallic gold, metallic bismuth to more colors from the earth. Exploring Renaissance colors in a way that a musician transposes music, I am choosing to rewrite with the same few notes. A collision of the past and present, directly on the surface, my role as artist becomes director of the actors. Exploring the light reflecting quality of the pigments, they speak of the past transcending time to be re-created on surfaces that echo the Renaissance madonnas, the bright colors on the cathedral ceilings to the transposition of Mother Nature and the awareness of the environment.”

JACOBO  ROA

New Work Releasing

Creatives Evolve

OCTOBER 28

6 pm

ARTIST SALON

Andy Baird

New Work 2023

October 14 - November 14 , 2023

Creatives Evolve

October 14

6.00 pm

ARTIST SALON

TAJAH OLSON

ESSENCE

New WORKS 2023

Artist in attendance

July 1 - 2-4 pm

Clifton Webb

New WORKS 2023

June 1 - 30, 2023

Peter MAX

PATTERSON & BARNES

JazzFest 2023 Exhibition

April 26th - May 12th, 2023

RICHARD CURRIER

“I want to go to work every day not really sure how things will start or finish. Although the subjects may be similar, the method changes often and that leads to new results.” The ocean, says Currier, “allows me to be realistic and abstract at the same time. Nothing is more fundamental to life on earth.”

THE OCEAN,

ONE PAINTING AT A TIME

PAINTINGS

TONY SAVOIE

So far, the ability to dominate and exploit each other

and our planet may be the signature achievement of our species.

I prefer to daydream. A luxury indeed.

T. Savoie

CARTOGRAPHIC MEDITATIONS

ARTIST STATEMENT

Sometimes things seem to make more sense from above. A collection of aerial photos was the starting point for these new pieces.

Some are my own camera phone pictures taken from airplanes.  Some are Google Earth screenshots or historical photos available on-line. Others are ancient ruins, mining operations, housing developments, battle plans, Roman outposts, utopian city plans, bomb debris, shanty towns, oil spills, and weather radar imagery.  What has been disturbed can be transformed. There’s freedom to make notes, change perspectives, or become completely abstract.

It's a hard time for dreamers.  Embracing the chaos of the world and in myself, I'm looking for beauty, and for the light that connects us all.

- T. Savoie

PAINTINGS

RAYMOND DOUILLET

New Work

Marcin Owczarek

In Search of Arcadia

The art of Owczarek is dedicated to the relationship between Man, Animals and Nature. He focuses on animal rights, wildlife conservation, climate change and the condition of our fragile Planet. ​

Owczarek is fascinated with the influence of new technologies on human life, particularly within urban space. Focusing on the issues of mechanization and standardization, he tackles them in an antiutopian style. This is reinforced by Owczarek's interest in shamanism, Gnosticism and alchemy. His work is rooted in his interpretation of the content of the ‘Tibetan Book of the Dead’ as well as his studies in cultural anthropology.

Marcin & Katarzyna Owczarek

Collaborative works

NEVER FORGET THE FOREST

Forest is one of the most important symbols present in myths and legends. Mysterious, whispering, full of twilight and shadows, symbolizing wisdom, reflection, meditation, memory, escapism as well as the source of magical power.

Wandering in the forest is a cognitive process, an attempt to reveal the secrets of the world represented by animals and nature. Confrontation with the dark and light forces of the other worlds that surround us and our senses, fears, excitement and joy. Forest is alive, when we go into the forest trying to embrace and tame its secrets with our eyes and senses, we come back with stories repeated by the fire, sometimes in a whisper, not to summon the creatures that inhabit it. -M. Owczarek

Marlene Rose

New Works 2022

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marlene Rose's sculptures in glass are modern works of art that resonate with references and allusions to other cultures and civilizations. Rose is one of those rare artists who has discovered a profound way to connect the past and the present. Her work has an immediacy that transcends time and space. To be in the presence of her work is to feel connected to a continuum that started thousands of years ago on earth and millions of light years ago in the universe.

SCULPTURE

Big Chief Shaka Zulu

Shaka Zulu is Big Chief of the Golden Feather Hunters in New Orleans, Louisiana. Big Chief Shaka serves also as a lecturer on the rich history and culture of the New Orleans Black Masking Indian tradition and his suits are exhibited world wide. Big Chief Shaka’s Suits are a year long process of hand sewn craftsmanship, using the downtown three-dimensional techniques of masking Indian sewing. The mediums used are turkey quills, chalk beads, seed beads, sequin, stones and satin. Most of Big Chief Shaka’s works generally include an abstract theme, a nature theme, or an African theme sometimes all three combined.

AVAILABLE ARTWORK

A golden colored suit, Chief Shaka Zulu sewed for 2022, utilizing the Egyptian theme.

Red and white colored suit, volume II of the ram and axe theme

Seafoam suit utilizing the Egyptian theme

This coral colored suit features the endangered honey bee. A reminder to save this insect for the future of seed pollination

This white suit was crafted to honor the endangered Toucan Bird. Chief Shaka Zulu brings awareness to the extinction of this beautiful species. This suit was sewn with the assistance of the WaMeru and Maasai youth in Tanzania, Africa

DETAIL SHOTS

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Patterson & Barnes

MUSIC MASTERS

ABOUT THE ARTIST

The paintings capture the powerful and expressive feelings conveyed in the making of jazz and blues.

What makes the paintings even more unique is that each painting is a collaborative effort between Patterson and Barnes. They feel that an individual work is enriched by the infusion of their personal creativity, interests and past experiences.

The two met in the late 80’s while studying in Alabama under Bill Yeager. During this time they painted separately and critiqued one another’s work. They first collaborated in 1990 and soon developed a series of paintings based on jazz and blues musicians. This series was born from their mutual interest in these original American art forms and the emotional power they expressed.

PAINTINGS