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VERT DE GRIS - Oil on Canvas Painting of Striped Flower in Muted Colors
By Jered Sprecher
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
VERT DE GRIS is an oil on canvas painting by Jered Sprecher and a piece in his series of works depicting grayscale flowers. The initial impulse behind the piece came from the idea of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
SONGS - Oil on Canvas Painting of Flowers in Front of a Field
By Jered Sprecher
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
STRANGE LIGHT - Framed Oil on Paper and Panel Painting of Skull w/ Interference
By Jered Sprecher
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
STRANGE LIGHT is the most recent of Sprecher’s paintings depicting skulls. Just like in other pieces from the series, the painting consists of several layers, this time bringing the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Panel
SOLID SOUND - Oil on Paper and Panel Painting of Skull on Table
By Jered Sprecher
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
SOLID SOUND is an oil on paper piece by Jered Sprecher. The first layer of the painting was simply the result of the artist cleaning his brush, working without a conscious goal. At s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
DWELL - Expressionistic Oil on Canvas Painting of Flowers in a Vase on a Table
By Jered Sprecher
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
DWELL is a multi-layered oil on linen painting by Jered Sprecher. The piece presents a floral composition, modeled on a bouquet arrangement created by the artist’s wife. Starting fro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
ESSENTIAL - Oil Painting of an Essential Worker Dishwasher Named Raymundo
By Omari Booker
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Raymundo was a dishwasher in a number of Hillsboro Village restaurants. I chose to highlight him because he is one of those overlooked essential workers...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
TACITURN EYES - Figurative Abstract Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Dustin Hedrick
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Dustin Hedrick was born in Amory, MS in 1986 and received his BFA from Mississippi State University. Hedrick lives and works in Chattanooga, TN.
As a visual artist and the founder of Channel To Channel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
CEREAL - Oil Painting of Frosted Flakes Boiling Over a Gas Stove Range
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Sauer often creates paintings that are rendered from dream encounters.
"Can something be perceived as both ordinary and absurd? When does it crossover from one realm to the other? W...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CADDIS 7- Abstract Figurative Painting, Maroon, Yellow, White, Marine Shapes
By Chloe York
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
CADDIS 7 is part of an on-going series of paintings by Chloe York centered around marine biology. Chloe’s work is flat and linear and always begins with a human head and shoulders. She call's the process "decorating", which is in her word “metaphorical for the way clothing and makeup prepare her for social interaction. These paintings are anthropomorphic portraits encrusted with oceanic and organic shapes and patterns, this one, a nod to the Caddis Fly, an insect with an aquatic larva that typically builds a protective, portable case...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
SUNGLASSES IN A VEIL (after Sargent) - Abstract Figurative Painting, textured
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Are those actual sunglasses in that painting? You might be asking. Good question! Keep em comin. But Nope! They are in fact painted. "Sunglasses in a Veil (After Sargent...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
FOXGLOVE #1 - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life in the Forest
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION - Wall Hanging Sculpture w/ Oil Paint, Flowers & Vinyl
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, Samuel Dunson creates an epic work that encompasses generations, drawing upon his own personal creative history and inspirations t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Vinyl
NO MAN, NO ISLAND - Portrait Painting of the Artist as an Island - Oil on Canvas
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In NO MAN, NO ISLAND, Samuel Dunson repurposes an older, unfinished painting to make a statement about the personal and political processes of reconstruc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
WELFARE
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In WELFARE, Samuel Dunson creates a work that encompasses generations, drawing upon the symbolism of his personal history and political beliefs to expres...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Vinyl
BLACK FACE - Painting of the Artist, His Father & Son Combined into 1 Portrait
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In BLACK FACE, Samuel Dunson creates an epic portrait which cuts across time, combining three generations of his family onto a handsewn canvas of repurpo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Vinyl
INTO THE WILD - Impasto Painting - A.I. Woman in Wooden Frame
By Matthew Dutton
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Disappearing back into the shadows, she leans into the nature of a new existence, wild and free but still so alone..
In INTO THE WILD, Matthew Dutton creates a new work out of conte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
BLACK CODES - Portrait of the Artist's Daughter Adorned in African Tribal Makeup
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming Soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Acrylic, Vinyl
GIRL AFRAID - Impasto Painting - A.I. Woman in Wooden Frame
By Matthew Dutton
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Her cautious approach shields her inner desires. Longing for acceptance, she pushes her apprehension aside to seize the moment.
In GIRL AFRAID, Matthew Dutton creates a new work ou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
FLORAL VEIL - Impasto Painting - A.I. Woman in Wooden Frame
By Matthew Dutton
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Hidden away behind a floral veil, a shield so thin that her own breathe can make it falter, yet shielded enough to regain her bountiful confidence."
In F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
ALTAR - Oil on Yupo Panel - Painting of Skull, Trees, and Plants in the Woods
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting was a revisitation of ‘Woodland Shrine’, upon finding yet another site with a deer
skull, it seemed uncannily familiar. This moment with the woods documented in paint b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
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
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
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
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
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
RED LINING - Paintings of the Artist's Family on Handmade Cushions
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming Soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Yarn, Glitter, Acrylic
SNAKE EYES - Contemporary mixed media, textural figure painting with tacks
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In “Snake Eyes”, Eleanor Aldrich uses oil, silicone, enamel, thumbtacks, and sharpie on canvas to create a visceral exploration into a lounging back. The m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
THE EDGE OF THE HALL - Cubist Interior Painting Inspired by Covid Lockdown
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming Soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
GOD WANTS ME TO FORGIVE THEM!?! - Oil Painting of a Frightened Bob the Tomato
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A scene of distress is depicted in this work regarding Bob the Tomato, a primary character in the acclaimed children’s animation, VeggieTales. “God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!” challenges the formative life lessons we are taught from a young age that is not always easy to uphold. Based on a prophetic dream I had surrounding ideas of violence, familial relationships, estrangement, biblical references, revenge, and ultimately death, this painting begs...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
MONSTERA LATRINA - Oil Painting of Monstera Adansonii Growing From a Toilet
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"I’ve been searching to find the balance between hyper-independence as a trauma response and falling victim to, well… a victim complex. In today’s society where co-dependency is ofte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
DIRTY OR CLEAN? - Oil Painting of Laundry on a Wooden Floor
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
DIRTY OR CLEAN? depicts a grouping of laundry consisting of solid colors as well as striped patterned shirts in a photo representational rendering. Sauer meticulously creates a composition of organized chaos that is shown to exemplify the beauty in the mundane.
This piece appears as part of a two-person exhibition with Jason Stout in April 2021 at Channel To Channel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PARTHENOCISSUS - Oil and Monotype Painting on Panel of Creeping Ivy in the Woods
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Parthenocissus came about in the spring, I was focusing quite a bit on my monotypes in the
print studio and wanted to create a painting that incorporated my monotyping technique in
a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Monotype, Panel
THE DECORATOR 42 - Abstract Figurative Painting on Canvas, Marine Purple, Blue
By Chloe York
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Decorator 42" is part of an on-going series of paintings by Chloe York centered around marine biology. Chloe’s work is flat and linear and always begins with a human head and shoulders. She call's the process "decorating", which is in her word “metaphorical for the way clothing and makeup prepare her for social interaction. These paintings are anthropomorphic portraits encrusted with oceanic and organic shapes and patterns, a nod to the decorator...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 6 - Framed Abstract Painting in Blue, Yellow, White & Green
By Donald Keefe
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Many of the works in this series have a similar viewing distance from the subject. In Untitled Construct 6 I wanted to close that distance by painting a picture with the view being c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
I WOKE UP ASLEEP - Panoramic Oil Painting of a Bathroom Scene From a Dream
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
The interconnectivity between one's waking life and one’s dreams offers a point of convergence between the real and the surreal, the ordinary and the absurd. Daily observations are recycled into nightly visions, and consciousness becomes an in-between state. Experiences turn into memories which turn into dreams which turn into experiences.
This piece appears as part of two-person exhibition with Jason Stout at Channel To Channel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
LOVE, ME - Figurative Painting on Brown Fabric
By Omari Booker
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting by Omari Booker depicts himself and his sister when they were children. Originally painted as a study for a mural in Nashville, Tennessee, Booker reworked this very personal piece to stand alone. On the left side of this painting, Omari's sister sits in a pink and white polk-a-dot dress with a bow in her hair. She looks lovingly at her brother to the right, who is wearing a black and white button-up. The artist recalled that his mother made those outfits by hand, and he alludes to the special nature of textiles in his history by utilizing found fabric rather than a canvas as his medium.
Omari Booker, a Nashville native, began his journey in the visual arts at Montgomery Bell Academy. Since then, he has studied and displayed his work at multiple institutions including Belmont University, Middle Tennessee State...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
LA MAQUINA - Portrait Painting of Conway the Machine, Rapper, Gold, Black
By Omari Booker
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting is a portrait of the rapper, Conway The Machine. Rendered on Gold found fabric, Conway is centered in the composition, meeting the vie...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Oil
FOXGLOVE #2 - 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 #2 was the second iteration of the study tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
TAKE ME TO THE WATER
By Omari Booker
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
TAKE ME TO THE WATER is inspired by a Lorna Simpson photograph. There is literal water in the photograph, and piece also speaks to the cultural nourishment that the father is provid...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
PIECES OF ME, FOR YOU - Oil Painting on Canvas of Bathroom Tile w/ Hair
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
PIECES OF ME, FOR YOU by Victoria Sauer depicts a subway-tiled bathroom meticulously painted in a photo-representational way with the artist's own hair ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SPRING EQUINOX CYCLE II - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life in the Forest
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
SPRING EQUINOX CYCLE II is a painting about the rebirth of spring, sort of an homage to new
growth, and new life. I was making a lot of monotypes at the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
WATERS - Figurative Painting of 2 Men Boat w/ Pillow Case Sail
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Everybody Eats
No matter what it looks like
Hunters get their prey
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
FOXGLOVE #3 - 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 2 was the second iteration of the study that...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
THOU ART LOVED...THOU ART LOVED - Mixed Media Painting of Mirrored Figure
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
“My father is the subject in Thou Art Loved….Thou Art Loved.” If you were to speak to my father at this point, you may not recognize the repeating patterns of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Latex, Oil
LUCIDITY - Mixed Media Portrait of a Woman w/ Textured Pattern Overlay - Framed
By Matthew Dutton
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Acknowledging the beauty that lies beneath, she struggles to break through past shallow entanglement. Clarity within reach, her gasping consciousness shutters beneath the weight of h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
FOREST FLOOR INHABITANTS: OCTOBER - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
LATE SUMMER FORAGE - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life in the Forest
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
I liken my process of finding a spot to paint to be like foraging for mushrooms. I typically wander
through the woods with my gear, looking at the ground, finding places of intrigue ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
WASHINGTON DISAPPEARING - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life in the Forest
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
CAUL BEARER - Mixed Media Portrait w/. Textured Floral Overlay - Framed in Black
By Matthew Dutton
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A gift yet come to fruition, the boys destined from the start for greatness or infamy. Laid out before him, a life full of visions longing for a chance to be conjured and revealed.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
THE GORGE WALKER - Painting of the Artist's Wife Hiking Through a Gorge
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In THE GORGE WALKER, Charlie Newton attests to the spiritual reality of our human relationship with nature. Emphasizing the linear qualities of nature, its ability to permeate deep i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
