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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
GIRL WITH SEAGULL TATTOO - abstract figurative, textured painting/mixed media
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Girl with Seagull Tattoo" uses caulking to create the texture of lace as the prominent physicality of the clothing is juxtaposed against a background of browns and pastels. The figu...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
PONCHO (ZIG-ZAG) - Eleanor Aldrich - Contemporary Figurative/Abstract Painting
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Aldrich uses spray paint and a grouting tool to create a figure wearing a poncho. An electrifying intensity is carried throughout the painting.
More info below:
Eleanor Aldrich wa...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
DOUBLE PORTRAIT - Eleanor Aldrich - Contemporary Figurative Painting on Silicone
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
DOUBLE PORTRAIT was created with bubble wrap as a mold for silicone. Eleanor Aldrich then takes this silicone andP paints the portrait you see here of a couple embraced for their por...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Silicone
THE SOFTBALL PLAYER - Contemporary Figurative/Abstract, Blue, Purple, Pink
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"The Softball Player" is a prime example of how Eleanor Aldrich utilizes an impasto technique to create texture in an oil painting. Using techniques such as layering, scraping, and an additive technique with a grouting tool, Aldrich brings out common figurative subject matter that create paintings with a heartbeat.
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
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
Panel, Oil
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
Wood Panel, Oil
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
Oil, Canvas
ON THE ICE - Textural figure painting - Oil and Enamel on Canvas Red, Polka-Dot
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In the series of paintings titled “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
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
READER IN A LAWN CHAIR - Abstract Figure Painting, textured, red stripes
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Reader in a Lawn Chair" 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
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
Panel, Oil
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
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
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
Oil, Fabric
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
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
THE ROSE DRAPE - Textured Oil Painting - Scene w/ Girl, Roses & Rays of Color
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
THE ROSE DRAPE is an oil on canvas painting by Eleanor Aldrich created in 2022. This piece utilizes a thick caulk on top of the canvas as an underlayment, creating a grid texture. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NIGHT TABLE - Textured Oil Painting w/ Scene of a Girl and a Birthday Cake
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
NIGHT TABLE is an oil on canvas painting by Eleanor Aldrich created in 2022. This piece utilizes a thick caulk on top of the canvas as an underlayment, creating a pattern of thick, c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PROM HAIR - Textured Oil Painting w/ Scene of a Girl Preparing for Prom
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
PROM HAIR is an oil on canvas painting created by Eleanor Aldrich in 2022. This piece utilizes a thick caulk on top of the canvas as an underlayment. The texture gives the canvas an over exaggerated "tooth" that adds a sculptural quality to the painting. The scene painted is taken from a magazine in the 90s where someone is preparing a girl's hair from prom night. This piece has a nostalgic quality that is echoed by the rays of light acting as somewhat of a time-warp.
PROM HAIR was featured as part of a two person exhibition with Pamela Jorden...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
IRONING (WITH RAYS) - Large Textured Oil Painting w/ Domestic Scene of a Woman
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
IRONING (w/ RAYS) is an oil on canvas painting by Eleanor Aldrich created in 2021.
In this piece, we see a woman ironing a white cloth. Only the torso part and the arms are discernible, with the focus on the woman’s outfit. In the background, behind the figure, we can see a spray bottle...
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
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
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
Polymer, Acrylic, Paper, Canvas, Ink
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
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
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
INCLINED READER - Textured Oil Painting w/ Scene of a Girl Reading a Book
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
INCLINED READER is an oil and canvas painting by Eleanor Aldrich created in 2022. This piece utilizes a thick caulk on top of the canvas as an underlayment, adding a wavy, structural texture to the painting. In the center, we see a young girl reading. She’s laying on a bed, inclined slightly, with her head and gaze turned towards the viewer. Her legs, along with the colors of the background and the bedding, warp into rays emanating to the edges of the canvas. The painting resembles a nostalgic, family-archive type photograph, processed through a simple photobooth filter.
INCLINED READER was featured as part of a two-person exhibition with Pamela Jorden...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
KITCHEN SINK (WITH RAYS) - Large Textured Oil Painting w/ Bold Blue, Gold & Pink
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
KITCHEN SINK (w/ RAYS) is a large scale oil on canvas painting created in 2022 by Eleanor Aldrich. This piece is created using more abstract qualities than her previous work. Utilizing a filter from Apple's Photo Booth, she has created a composition that centers around a subject working at a kitchen sink. Outwardly projecting from this image (or closing in on) are rays of color and light. The expanding and contracting effect is meant to symbolize the quick passage of time.
KITCHEN SINK (w/ RAYS) was part of a two person exhibition with Pamela Jorden...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CLAIRE AT THE PIANO - Textured Oil Painting w/ Scene of Girl Playing the Piano
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
CLAIRE AT THE PIANO is an oil on canvas painting by Eleanor Aldrich created in 2022. This piece utilizes a thick caulk on top of the canvas as an underlayment, adding a linear texture. The subject of the painting is a young girl sitting by the piano...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
COMBING (WITH RAYS) - Large Textured Oil Painting w/ Scene of a Mother & Child
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
COMBING (w/ RAYS) is an oil on canvas painting by Eleanor Aldrich created in 2021. In this piece we see a scene of a girl having her hair combed by her mother. The thick texture of the imagery is created utilizing a device made by the artist in which the paint is literally combed through the forms to give the contour lines and illusion of space. Aldrich is utilizing a palette that has more neutral tones in the center of the canvas while bold rays of color expand from the center and outwards towards the edge of the piece.
COMBING (w/ RAYS) was featured as part of a two person exhibition with Pamela...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Oil, Canvas
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
RED PONCHO - abstract, figurative, texture, red, black, yellow oil and enamel
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Red Poncho" provides a mix of techniques to engage two opposite forms of texture - flat, 2-D texture and thick impasto. The background has been scraped awa...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
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
Panel, Oil, Monotype
THE CRACKED MIRROR - oil and enamel and canvas on canvas- textural, figurative
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A feminine figure occupies the majority of the right side of this canvas, and though we can't see her face, we know that she is looking at the wall beside her. The wall is disheveled, seemingly covered with graffiti and a broken mirror hangs loosely at a precarious angle.
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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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
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
CELLO IN THE SNOW - oil, enamel, glazed ceramic and canvas on panel, textural
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A cello is held up between the legs of its accompanying musician in a snowy landscape. Snow has collected on the protruding bits of Cello and on the tops of the musician's knees. Though we can't see the face of the musician, we see their bare arms, folding upwards, as if they have buried their face in their hands.
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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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Enamel
FAT BACK - Contemporary Figurative/Abstract Oil Painting, texture, mixed media
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
FAT BACK 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.
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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.
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Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
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
Oil, Panel