John Langford and Jim Sherraden

Cupid (Blue Figure)

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs and inhabits his work. Jim Sherraden has been an active printmaker since 1980, and since 1984 his work has been synonymous with Hatch Show Print...

I am artist and furniture maker working in new Hampshire. I use nails to create intricate patterns on all variety of objects and surfaces The nails are glued into pilot holes, clipped, sanded flush with the surface, then polished. The result is a pattern of shiny dots of various dimeters. I create objects and furniture that is generally modern in form but highly decorated with as many as 11,000 nails. I use this nail inlay technique to make non-functional objects. The first were wall pieces. These pieces are not for a particular customer so I am much more free to express myself. The imagery and patterns are culled from endless web searches. A favorite has been Japanese stencils called katagami. I have hundreds saved and an equal number altered to fit my liking. My current interest is searching images from artist’s sketchbooks. A favorite is a very quick Donald Judd sketch of a simple object to be fabricated with a large “$60,000” written above. I have also used prints and drawings by my father. My current work involves nail patterns on firewood from my Father’s wood pile. He died 20 years ago but his wood pile remains untouched. He was the minimalist’s minimalist - constructing large sculptures from a few strands of yarn. The installation space is transformed with this simple use of this simple material. He was proud that he could build a meaningful sculpture with 50 cents...

I am artist and furniture maker working in new Hampshire. I use nails to create intricate patterns on all variety of objects and surfaces The nails are glued into pilot holes, clip...

I am artist and furniture maker working in new Hampshire. I use nails to create intricate patterns on all variety of objects and surfaces The nails are glued into pilot holes, clip...

This artwork was awarded and Pre-select by Bite , the exhibition, London 2012 , at The Mall Galleries, at the centre of London's famous The Mall, an iconic Avenue, in front of Buckin...

This is an unusual image in the cactus-filled desert of a squirrel reaching towards a human hand that is tenderly holding a small bird. The image is striking because of its strong g...

Woodblock by the American artist John Little. Signed and dated in pencil lower right, 1974. Number 11/15. Inscribed "Merry Christmas to Alfred and Harold" in pencil lower right. Condition: excellent. In thin metal frame 29.25 by 33.25 inches. John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950. In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little’s textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory. In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...