Michael Tole

Sea Gods

2022

Framed Dimensions: 17h x 13w x 1.25d inches JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relati...

Framed Dimensions: 17h x 13w x 1.25d inches JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relati...

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...

ALEXANDER STOLIN, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic), where he received intensive training and a master of fine arts degree in his homeland’s traditional art academies. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1992, met his future wife in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, then married and settled in New Orleans. He maintains a home and studio in Madisonville, Louisiana, and is a significant but understated figure in the New Orleans art community. As art critic D. Eric Bookhardt suggested in 2002, “Stolin is more accomplished than he is famous.” His art, often exhibited in thematic series that incorporate a variety of media, ranges from intimate portraits to large-scale murals (one measuring twelve feet by seventy-two feet). He has worked on a progressively larger scale, most recently designing and painting projects for the Louisiana film industry. Stolin’s technically proficient and complexly layered art reflects a unique fusion of the academic training he received in Kiev and his evolving response to the very different culture, lifestyle, and subject matter he has discovered in New Orleans, Madisonville, and the Gulf South.   Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans artists including Douglas Bourgeois...

This piece was from a series that began in Olympic National park during my residency there. Foxglove 4 was the fourth iteration of the study that...

This painting was part of a series of foxglove studies that I created while hiking in the Olympic peninsula in Washington in July of 2021. The Foxglove were growing wild...

In my most current forest wanderings, I am consistently fascinated by the entanglements of species and how they tend to create their own ecosystem. Although the desolation of defores...

This piece is about the allegory of being “lost in the woods” and the many different things that can mean right now. I always come by a site for my paintings by wandering into the wo...