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REDSKIN - contemporary political painting, pink, red razor wire, native chief
By Omari Booker
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
REDSKIN is one of eight pieces in Nashville based artist Omari Booker's series for his solo show “Red Line” at Channel to Channel.
Booker’s new series of work is centered around the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel, Steel
TEEN ANGST (Cielito Lindo) - Eleanor Aldrich - Contemporary Oil Painting
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Aldrich makes use of paint straight out of the tube, a grouting tool, and combines these techniques with a rendering of a girl gazing down to the ground and a shuttlecock in the top ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
LAWN CHAIR WITH WHITE T-SHIRT - Abstract Figurative, textured, brown, red, green
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Lawn Chair with White T-shirt" is part of the latest on-going series from Eleanor Aldrich. These "behind the lawn chair" vantage points provide Aldrich with the perfect subject matt...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Silicone, Oil, Panel, Magazine Paper
TODDLER TANTRUM - Collage of National Geographic & Vogue Cutouts on Panel
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In TODDLER TANTRUM, Sue Fox tests the meditative limit of her artistic work. Intuitively collaging smaller pieces of bright pinks, purples, and yellows, she expresses the thoroughly ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Panel
PAX (BETWEEN TIMES) - Geometric Sculpture Vintage Salvaged Building Materials
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Brian Russell Jobe (American, b. 1981) is an artist and non-profit director based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Jobe's studio practice is focused on sculptur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Marble
UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 5 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Grey, Green, & Yellow
By Donald Keefe
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Continuing a series of formal investigations that blur the lines between representational, flat, and abstract painting approaches, I created Untitled Construct 3. As with previous wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
TIDAL - contemporary abstract expressionist painting, blue, green, pink
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
TIDAL by Michelle Weddle consists of hard-edged geometric and curvilinear shapes of solid color. Light blues and greens are met by blocks of white tones. A white circle in the upper ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
CINCHES (SPALLED BRICK) - industrial reductive minimalist sculpture, orange
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This piece consists of pieces of spalled brick, which had crumbled from the artist's chimney. The artist has used natural string to tie these brick pieces in a neat package. The brick package is delicately placed on a pile of bright orange chalk powder.
Brian Russell...
Category
2010s Minimalist Sculptures
Materials
Brick, Chalk
ECLIPSE - Contemporary abstract geometric painting, blue, purple, geometric
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
ECLIPSE by Michelle Weddle is an acrylic on canvas neo abstract expressionist painting that combines multiple areas of color into one harmonious palette. The single white dot in the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
GEOTHERMAL - Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Painting, multi-color geometric
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
GEOTHERMAL by Michelle Weddle is an acrylic on canvas painting consisting of hard-edged geometric and curvilinear shapes of solid color. Light blues and greens are met by blocks of c...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
RADIAL - contemporary abstract expressionist painting, blue, green, grey, white
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
RADIAL by Michelle Weddle is an acrylic on canvas abstract expressionist painting. Weddle utilizes a combination of smooth, light, and airy mark making coupled with thick textured pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
ALLUVION - Contemporary Abstract Geometric Painting, Blue, Green, Pink, Purple
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
ALLUVION is an acrylic on canvas neo abstract painting by Michelle Weddle. This piece is broken into many different shapes as curvilinear lines cut in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
ON THE HUSTINGS (PHASES) - Concrete industrial sculpture diptych
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This piece by Brian Jobe consists of two separate stacks of concrete and steel. The stack to the left is a bit taller than the other stack, as the top-most block of corrugated concrete has been turned on its side. Beneath the corrugated concrete blocks on each sculpture is a steel plate that balances the concrete blocks on top of two breeze blocks...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Steel
HOSES IN THE NIGHTTIME - Hanging Sculptural Painting, Surrealist, Blue, Black
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This sculptural piece by Kenzie Wells depicts a surrealist, abstracted landscape of a house. Arches or cloudy blue skies intertwine with dark, geometric shapes. Flashes of steel and aluminum are interwoven by green garden hoses...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Polystyrene, Masonite
CINCHES (Ceramic Octo) - Reductive Minimalist Industrial Sculpture, Terracotta
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In this piece, seven octagonal terra-cotta bricks of cylindrical shape are on the floor in a V shape. Two concrete bricks are placed amongst these cylinders. All of these objects are bound together by a string that is tied around the objects.
Brian Russell...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
SMILING MAN, MARDI GRAS - Portrait Photograph, New Orleans, Signed Limited Ed.
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A Mardi Gras Indian known as Spoons during Super Sunday 2007, in which Mardi Gras Indians parade down from the Bayou St. John in New Orleans.
Photograph Print is 12 x 9 inches, Frame is approximately 19.5 x 15 inches.
Statement: "My mission is to capture the vitality of human experience and to present it on paper in a visually compelling manner. I work with daily life, ritual and celebration within which I look for moments of insight. From Coney Island, to New Orleans, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia and India I use my camera as a tool for understanding and mutual respect between cultures!"
Andy...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
PALOMA - Figurative oil painting on floral fabric, December 2020 Vogue Cover
By Omari Booker
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
PALOMA by Omari Booker was inspired by the December 2020 Vogue cover featuring Paloma Elsesser. The model was styled by Booker's cousin for the shoot, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Oil
REFLECTIVE RIVER - Limited Edition Print on Handmade Archival Paper, Scooters
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This abstract photograph of parked scooters by Carleigh Thomas is contemporary and urban. The photograph was taken while the artist was visiting Taiwan. This specific photo was shot ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Handmade Paper, Photographic Paper
SCIENCE FICTION SNOW NO. 3 - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By Yuri Figueroa
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Yuri Figueroa builds depth by layering in "Science Fiction Snow No. 3." Figueroa combines techniques of blending, dripping and smearing with the use of...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
LAWN CHAIR WITH MARBLES - Oil, enamel painting on canvas with marbles in resin
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A figure reclines in a red and yellow-strapped lawn chair. The figure sitting in the chair is activated by Aldrich’s transformation of paint and resin into oozing swaths of skin between the lawn chair straps. The chair, recalling the grid, works as a pattern trying to hold and contain the body resting inside it.
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Building on her previous show, Main Squeeze, which featured bodies pressing through the grid of lawn chairs, in “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints.
The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Marble, Enamel
PRR - 100
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This framed mixed media painting by Eric Mack combines his grid work created through collaged pieces of paper, nylon mesh, ink, gesso, and acrylic. Imagery i...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Paper, Acrylic, Pigment, Gouache
YNR-0020
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This framed mixed media painting by Eric Mack combines his grid work created through collaged pieces of paper, nylon mesh, ink, gesso, and acrylic. Imagery i...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Gesso, Nylon, Paper, Acrylic, Pigment
MIRROR - Contemporary - Geometric Abstract w/ Repurposed Construction Material
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Mirror" is a site specific installation that was exhibited in the show "Dialects of Place(s) by Land Report Collective at COOP Gallery in Nashville, TN. In this piece, Jobe uses industrial materials such as insulation foam, concrete, window screen, and graphite tracing paper to create a patterned structure that protrudes from the corner and carries the viewer's eye upward. At the bottom of the piece, we see delicately balanced concrete on top of pale blue insulation foam. The patterned concrete and insulation foam carries the viewer's eye upwards towards another pop of blue on top of the aluminum window screen frame. The screen gives the viewer a window in which to look through the piece. On one side, this mesh frames the graphite paper and on the other side the viewer can see the patterned concrete and insulation foam.
Review from "The Rib" about "Mirror"
One of the more surprising works here is Nashville-based Brian Jobe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
FAT BACK WITH TATTOOS - Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Painting, textural
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Fat Back with Tattoos" is part of the latest on-going series from Eleanor Aldrich. These "behind the lawn chair" vantage points provide Aldrich with the perfect subject matter to convey her mixed media approach.
More info below:
Eleanor Aldrich was born in Springerville, Arizona. A participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, she also holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she currently lives. She earned her BFA in Painting & Drawing through the Academie Minerva (Groningen, the Netherlands) and Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. She was a participant in the Drawing Center’s first Open Sessions.
Eleanor has had solo shows in Boston, Nashville, Knoxville, Flagstaff, AZ, and at the University of Alabama. Her work has been shown at Saltworks Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Drawing Center (New York, NY), Grin (Providence, RI) and Ortega y Gasset (New York, NY). Her work was chosen for 1708 Gallery’s ‘FEED 2013’ (Richmond, VA). She has been awarded an Endowment for the Arts through the Whiteman Foundation, and the Herman E. Spivey Fellowship. Her work has been included in New American Paintings and on Artforum.
Aldrich's work is textural and alchemical; she matches materials – often industrial sealants – and techniques to the subject matter they look like, thereby approaching a likeness without realistic rendering. She attributes her appreciation of mystery and the possibility of transformation in her work to her Catholic upbringing, in which materials were transformed and images held power over life.
Her work intersects modernist painting, her own experiences, and the physicality of the body. Sometimes her work is about the application – paint is combed, piped, sprinkled and sprayed, reflecting traditional feminine work and crafts. Often the subject matter acts as a metaphor. The lines of a lawn chair seat serves as a veiled reference to the grid, and its breakdown – presumably by human weight – to an imagined encounter with the human body.
*Make sure to use the "view in a room...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Silicone, Paper, Oil, Panel
EQUIVALENCE 55 - Contemporary sculptural painting, pink, black, cut-out linen
By Linda King Ferguson
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Linda King Ferguson describes her "Equivalence Series" as social bodies; a re-thinking of Modernist figurative abstraction. They are a discursive formal and reductive language. As fi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 4 - Framed Red, Yellow, & Teal Abstract Oil Painting
By Donald Keefe
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"I don’t do enough red paintings. I like red, but somehow it doesn’t end up in my work all that often, or it ends up pretty muted and earthy by the end. When I was lighting the sculpture upon which this painting is based, I knew I wanted to do something with the red lights I had.
As with previous work, this painting explores entanglement as both a compositional structure and as an artistic idea. The representational part of the painting is pushed as close to a photographic rendering as I could at the time. Meanwhile, I’ve contrasted that with flat graphic elements. I also wanted to do something interesting with the cast shadow of the form: whereas in some previous works in the series the main form either had a traditional cast shadow grounding the it to the illusion of a ground plane, or no cast shadow which left it floating within the shallow depth of the image, in Untitled Construct 5 I wanted to do something more specific with the cast shadow. The idea came to me to invert it to be pure white. Technically this was a bit of a challenge because the whitest oil paints take months to dry – so this work had quite a bit of ‘sit and wait time’ between layers.
Personally, I enjoy the composition of this painting because the red attracts the eye towards the bottom left of the painting, but the contrasting movements in black, gray and white pull the eye up and over...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SCAFFOLD (3) - Framed, Linear, Abstract Mixed Media Painting/Drawing on Paper
By Austin Reavis
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This drawing by Austin Reavis is from a series of abstract works that build lines and forms, suggestive of construction elements, as a foreground to chan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
MAYAPPLES IN JUNE HEAT - Oil & Monotype on Yupo Panel - Abstract Floral Painting
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting came about mid summer, while I was beginning my paintings as monotypes and
working through them after. The mayapples were flourishing and their shape became a motif
thr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Monotype, Panel
SCAFFOLD (1) - Framed, Linear, Abstract Mixed Media Painting/Drawing on Paper
By Austin Reavis
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This drawing by Austin Reavis is from a series of abstract works that build lines and forms, suggestive of construction elements, as a foreground to chan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Dye, Watercolor
SCAFFOLD (2) - Framed, Linear, Abstract Mixed Media Painting/Drawing on Paper
By Austin Reavis
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This drawing by Austin Reavis is from a series of abstract works that build lines and forms, suggestive of construction elements, as a foreground to chan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Dye, Watercolor, Gouache
PRAY FOR THEM NOW, THEN COME PRAY FOR ME - Polymer Transfer on Panel
By Lester Merriweather
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This work is a secondary continuation to my "Vanilla Extract" series (2002 - ongoing) which examines the practice of racial positioning in contemporary print media.
This piece depic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Polymer
F••K YOU MEAN AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY?
By Lester Merriweather
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This work is a secondary continuation to my "Vanilla Extract" series (2002 - ongoing) which examines the practice of racial positioning in contemporary print media.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Panel, Polymer
WOODLAND SHRINE - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life in the Forest
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
I tend to come across sites that are uncannily put together in the woods. In the case of this
work, I found a deer skull placed within a bramble of deadwood branches and could feel a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
WILL THIS POISON MY EYES? - Portrait Painting w/ Smooth Gradients
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Commentary portraiture and the vacuous shell that currently holds the human condition and the relationship between internal spirit and external exhaustion.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
INTERGALACTIC BOTTLE SERVICE - Geometric Wall Hanging Sculpture w/ Blue Lines
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
INTERGALACTIC BOTTLE SERVICE is a playful title, it draws the viewer into the work by activating the imagination—that playful part of ourselves that makes artistic creativity possible. I titled this work based on my wife’s reaction, who upon seeing the work exclaimed "It's like drinking champagne on a spaceship!" When viewers look at this piece, I would delight in them having the same reaction, and running away with their imaginations. Now, when I look at this work, I imagine my partner and I propelled five hundred years into the future, where this work is displayed in a very exclusive VIP lounge on a luxury spaceship. Here, in the red velveteen booth beneath this painting the bourgeoisie are wearing white 1920’s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
FOXGLOVE #4 - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life in the Forest
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
SCULPTURE HOLLOWED
By Scott Zieher
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A collector of books, magazines, stamps, comics, and ephemera, Scott Zieher uses elements extracted from these materials to create collages, as well as producing drawings and writing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint
CHEF'S HAT - Intricate Collage Wall Hanging Sculpture w/ Thick Painted Paper
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"I welcome the continual emergence of change, evolution, and the inevitable challenges that
form a large part of a working artist’s life."
With CHEF'S HAT, a recent and evolving work, I am moving into more dimensionality and space.
My intention is to push patterned and embellished surfaces on paper from its naturally flat
surface into a more structural and spatial plane. This involves making sculptural pieces from
paper and experimenting with new construction methods using strips and lengths of paper
over-lapped and fastened together, shaped into objects with physical presence. I feel I am
migrating from the flat surface into the third dimension. I envision the paper constructions
as a landscape to be wandered in and out of, through and around, a space that invites all
and sundry to enter on their own terms. I hold firmly to the belief that my work exhibits a
playfulness that belies a more serious assessment of our social world. I am interested in how
something that is initially perceived as frivolous and celebratory can constitute a reaction
against and resistance to the shadowy world of misfortune, hard luck, and weariness.
Born in 1959, Lanie Gannon was predominantly inspired by the 1970s. Conceptualism is often perceived as a reaction to Minimalism, and the leading art movement of the 1970s, challenging the boundaries of art with its revolutionary features. The movements that succeeded were all representative of a strong desire to evolve and strengthen the art world, in response to the tensions of the previous 1960s. Process art branched...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Foam Board
STELLAR DIASPORA - Light Emitting Sculpture w/ Carved Walnut and LED Tubes
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Andy Harding is a sculptor living and working in Nashville, TN. A range of interests from Eastern philosophy to contemporary science inspire and influence his work, but the practical...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Walnut, LED Light, Acrylic
ARP AMALGAM -Collage, Mixed media painting
By Scott Zieher
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A collector of books, magazines, stamps, comics, and ephemera, Scott Zieher uses elements extracted from these materials to create collages, as well as producing drawings and writing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint
DEGLOVING - Stained Wooden Sculpture of Work Glove
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
DEGLOVING is a sculpture by Ray Padrón created in 2018 from red milled cedar wood. The piece belongs to a series of work centering around clothing items and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cedar, Wood
FEELING CARCOSA - Illustrative surreal cloud with bold colors, cubist, Yellow
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a bright yellow outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible starry landscape. Mountains stretch along the horizon and a cl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SALVO PROTEST SURGE - Illustrative surreal cloud with bold colors, cubist
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a bright blue outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible starry landscape. Images within the cloud include disfigured hands and feet, guns, knives, a noose, sheriff's stars, a raccoon tail, protest signs, police batons...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
VARIATION 1 - Textural Abstract Painting
By James Perrin
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
James Perrin’s abstract oil paintings create a visual language which, though appearing chaotic at first, reveal their meticulous craftsmanship and intuitive-driven intentions. In Pe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
BOUND - Contemporary Abstract Painting, Purple, Green
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
BOUND by Michelle Weddle consists of several curved bright green brushstrokes on a deep purple background. The shadows cast by strokes of dark tones under the green shapes bring dept...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
TRANSIT NEBULA DISCONNECT - Illustrative surreal cloud with bold colors, cubist
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
TROPIC - contemporary abstract expressionist painting, pink, blue, orange, white
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting by Michelle Weddle consists of hard-edged geometric and curvilinear shapes of solid color. Light blues and greens are met by blocks of orange, pinks, and purples, and shapes of white tones break up the bold and bright colors. The painting's name, "Tropic," evokes thoughts of a hot summer day on a tropical beach.
Michelle received a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas, Austin in 2007, with concentrations in Painting, Drawing, Sculpture and Serigraphy. Early exhibit highlights include group shows in Denver and Dallas between 2008 and 2010, a solo show in Boulder, Colorado at the Dairy Center for the Arts in 2011, and additional group shows between 2012 and 2014 in Houston, Texas. The two major bodies of work produced during those years, totaling 30 large scale oil paintings have been purchased by collectors in both Colorado and Texas, while a series of 100 smaller works in acrylic and oil have been sold locally and shipped to locations around the United States.
More recently, in mid 2018, she returned to painting with a fresh perspective, venturing for the first time into abstraction.
In 2020, Michelle showed with Mirus Gallery and 40 West Gallery in Denver winning ‘Best in Show,’ and an ‘Artistic Award of Excellence,’ with 40 West. Michelle’s work was featured in the Spring 17 Edition of ArtMaze Magazine, an international publication produced in the UK, and was included in ‘I Like Your Work Podcast’s summer exhibition titled ‘Congruence,’ curated by Bridgette Mayer with Bridgette Mayer Gallery. Michelle’s work was selected for an online show curated by artist Charlie Roberts...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
WHAT'LL YA HAVE? - Limited Edition Print on Handmade Paper Tainan, Taiwan
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This photograph of a Taiwanese food stand by Carleigh Thomas is a dark and mysterious portal into a foreign land. The photograph was taken while the artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Handmade Paper, Photographic Paper
WIRE MESH - Limited Edition Print on Handmade Archival Paper - Black White, Blue
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This abstract photograph of wire mesh by Carleigh Thomas is contemporary and industrial, mostly black and white with a swatch of light blue at the bottom of the piece. This photograp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Handmade Paper, Photographic Paper
CAST SHADOW (Hammock Swing) - Eleanor Aldrich - Mixed Media on Canvas, 2019
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Eleanor Aldrich’s mixed media painting “Cast Shadow” is a textural rendering of a figure resting in a hammock swing. Made of oil, enamel, silicone, and c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Enamel
THE BLACK CAT - Textural figurative painting, woman reclining with black cat
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A woman reclines in a disheveled bedroom, the folds in her sweatshirt are delicately rendered by the texture of the paint. She stares at the window, where a black cat stands on the sill, looking back at her. The open window reveals a hint of a snowy cityscape.
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Building on her previous show, Main Squeeze, which featured bodies pressing through the grid of lawn chairs, in “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints.
The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings of young women based on Nancy Drew...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Enamel
DYAD 8 - Square Sculptural Painting - Contemporary Oil & Acrylic on Linen
By Linda King Ferguson
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Linda King Ferguson describes her "Equivalence Series" as social bodies; a re-thinking of Modernist figurative abstraction. They are a discursive formal and reductive language. As fi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
From Sea to Shining Sea - Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting, green, red
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment.
In "From Sea to Shining Sea" Peña takes a traditional approach to representing a house with modern architecture in what is seemingly the suburbs and contrasts the image with a more abstracted and chaotic foreground consisting of Sintra or PVC. The image is framed with a 1 inch white border.
Nick Peña...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
PVC, Acrylic, Watercolor
UNTITLED SCULPTURAL PAINTING -Abstract Oil & Acrylic on Linen, Pink, Orange, Tan
By Linda King Ferguson
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Linda King Ferguson describes her "Equivalence Series" as social bodies; a re-thinking of Modernist figurative abstraction. They are a discursive formal and reductive language. As fi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
GC Ms 5 Babel - Yuri Figueroa - Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas - Abstract Painting
By Yuri Figueroa
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"GC Ms 5 Babel" by Yuri Figueroa is a mixed media painting that combines squeegeed oil paint, collaged newspaper, and meticulously applied gold leaf....
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
THE ABDUCTION - Contemporary Figurative Mixed Media Painting, spray paint, dark
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"The Abduction" paints a more sinister picture than what is typically seen from Eleanor Aldrich. A bullseye is placed on a child abductor as Aldrich provides her commentary on the more grim aspects of society.
More info below:
Eleanor Aldrich was born in Springerville, Arizona. A participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, she also holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she currently lives. She earned her BFA in Painting & Drawing through the Academie Minerva (Groningen, the Netherlands) and Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. She was a participant in the Drawing Center’s first Open Sessions.
Eleanor has had solo shows in Boston, Nashville, Knoxville, Flagstaff, AZ, and at the University of Alabama. Her work has been shown at Saltworks Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Drawing Center (New York, NY), Grin (Providence, RI) and Ortega y Gasset (New York, NY). Her work was chosen for 1708 Gallery’s ‘FEED 2013’ (Richmond, VA). She has been awarded an Endowment for the Arts through the Whiteman Foundation, and the Herman E. Spivey Fellowship. Her work has been included in New American Paintings and on Artforum.
Aldrich's work is textural and alchemical; she matches materials – often industrial sealants – and techniques to the subject matter they look like, thereby approaching a likeness without realistic rendering. She attributes her appreciation of mystery and the possibility of transformation in her work to her Catholic upbringing, in which materials were transformed and images held power over life.
Her work intersects modernist painting, her own experiences, and the physicality of the body. Sometimes her work is about the application – paint is combed, piped, sprinkled and sprayed, reflecting traditional feminine work and crafts. Often the subject matter acts as a metaphor. The lines of a lawn chair seat serves as a veiled reference to the grid, and its breakdown – presumably by human weight – to an imagined encounter with the human body.
*Make sure to use the "view in a room...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
FRAME #92: Original Animation Frame from Fistfuls of Diamonds
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Many of the depicted scenes were inspired by moments where Fahnestock was astonished by something that was equal parts mesmerizing and distressing. “Seeing my first wildfire in person, or the images of San Francisco covered in an orange haze, all the while recognizing that these things were in fact terrible. They signified disasters and ecological shifts. The increase in wildfire events is due in part to the encroachment of larger, developed communities onto lands that were previously maintained for fire season by natural means or by the Forest Service...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White
FRAME #80: Original Animation Frame from Fistfuls of Diamonds
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Many of the depicted scenes were inspired by moments where Fahnestock was astonished by something that was equal parts mesmerizing and distressing. “Seeing my first wildfire in person, or the images of San Francisco covered in an orange haze, all the while recognizing that these things were in fact terrible. They signified disasters and ecological shifts. The increase in wildfire events is due in part to the encroachment of larger, developed communities onto lands that were previously maintained for fire season by natural means or by the Forest Service, but it is also due in a large part to global climate change and massive drought. Wildfires are not relegated to the western US. They happen across the country and often occur in the Smokey Mountains, just on a smaller scale.”
McLean Fahnestock...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
FRAME # 98: Original Animation Frame from Gold Rush
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awful Scenes." This still depicts a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Glitter, Black and White
FRAME #88: Original Animation Frame from Fistfuls of Diamonds
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This black and white still from McLean Fahnestock's animated video titled "Fistfuls of Diamonds," depicts two planes attempting to put out wildfires with water. The "water" in this c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
