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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...

I have sketchbooks filled with small thumbnail drawings which I usually base compositional arrangements upon. These are non-representational: just lines, arcs, mass tones, etc – basically just playing with formal elements. I had an idea to recreate these doodles as small sculptures. I liked the results, and wanted to have it feed back into my painting work as an intermediate step. That idea grew and I began lighting the sculptures with colored lights...

This painting is inspired by a non-representational compositional sketch that I turned into a sculpture and then an oil painting. Whereas previous works were treating the sculptural form strictly as a still life, in Untitled Construct 2 I wanted to bring the work back to its abstract origins. I lit the sculpture with colored lights...

AS FAR AS A VISTA, is part of a series of works that consider the decorative and escapist role of the landscape in the home. When seeking beauty in the world to distract us, delight ...

AS FAR AS A VIEW, is part of a series of works that consider the decorative and escapist role of the landscape in the home. When seeking beauty in the world to distract us, delight us, and bring us into our own world, we seek something that stirs within us a memory or a dream. Traditionally, tapestries are a storytelling media as well as décor. This particular work is constructed from commercially printed tapestries acquired from a Chinese supplier during the pandemic. These tell a story of arrested, yet ample, desire. On one side of the piece we see a sunrise from a beach with palm trees. Gently folded over to the right is a second tapestry. In this the artist has chose to expose the desaturated backside which obscures slightly the third tapestry landscape of beach scene around midday. It brings to mind the passage of time much like time lapse photography...

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 ...

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.

My favorite color is the blue of the sky in October in Tennessee. It is an intense, electric blue that is created in part through color theory: as the leaves turn, the reds, oranges,...

The composition in this work is a fractal pattern based on the golden ratio: golden triangles in which each larger triangle is divided into smaller triangles. The high-gloss black wh...

This piece was inspired by my families’ journey of becoming displaced. Glenrose Ave. was our first home in America and a time of transitioning into a new society.

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...

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...

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

This 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...

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...

Commentary portraiture and the vacuous shell that currently holds the human condition and the relationship between internal spirit and external exhaustion.

“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...

Echo IV is a composite of images collected from my daily surroundings (light, architecture, and botanical forms) combined and reimagined as an attempt to grapple with larger questions of ecology and mutability. Layers of paper and cut Tyvek are painted and manipulated beneath the surface – pushed and pulled in and out of focus...

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In this work, Michelle Weddle utilizes line, color, and form to create a painting which acts at the balance between the nonobjective and representation...

In this work, Michelle Weddle utilizes line, color, and form to create a painting which acts at the balance between the nonobjective and representation...

In this work, Michelle Weddle utilizes line, color, and form to create a painting which acts at the balance between the nonobjective and representational. Using organic, elliptical s...

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Amanda Joy-Brown is a visual artist based in Nashville, TN. She received her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this abstract work, Mexico-born artist Yuri Figueroa uses bright, dynamic colors on a stark, white background to point the viewer towards larger issues ...

An original impressionist work by Belgian artist Willy Kemp. The composition depicts an atmospheric view of the Amblève River bridge at Martinrive. Kemp employs dynamic brushwork to ...

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 ...

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...

This video is an original artwork by McLean Fahnestock. It depicts a burning palm tree on black and white film. The artist has replaced the "fire" with gold glitter in this animation...

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 ...

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...

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 case, has been replaced with glitter by the artist. 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...

This black and white still from McLean Fahnestock's animated video titled "Fistfuls of Diamonds," depicts two planes attempting to put out wildfires ...

This framed still is part of an animated video project titled "Gold Rush," from McLean Fahnestock's solo show at Channel to Channel, "Beautifully Awf...

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 ...

This black and white still from McLean Fahnestock's animated video titled "Fistfuls of Diamonds," depicts two planes attempting to put out wildfires ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 case, has been replaced with glitter by the artist. 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...

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 ...

In this sculptural piece, Linda King Ferguson has cut a piece of linen canvas into a somewhat trapezoidal shape, with a scalloped top edge. A red cotton thread completes the remainder of the diamond shape. King Ferguson's paintings are abstractions of the female body. She chooses to use linen...

Pair of French beechwood chairs upholstered with paisley linen.

Large scale still life original oil painting with wine, fruit, a jug, and bread. The work is signed by the artist, Nancy Wilson Gaw, a Middle Tennessee ar...

This is an absolutely stunning French chair! The antique frame is a deep brown wood with hand carve detail all along the edges and top. It has been newly...

DORMANT by Heather Hartman, made for her show "Kudzu Season," is one of a series of four paintings representing the four seasons relative to the Kudzu growth cycle. This painting, titled "Dormant," is the Winter-inspired piece in the series. After the first frost of winter, all of the leaves of the kudzu plant fall off of the vine, leaving it limp and bare. Here, we see the stark outline of a kudzu vine...

This piece by Heather Hartman was created for her exhibit titled "Kudzu Season." This painting, titled FROST, depicts Kudzu during the winter season. It is an enlarged cropped compos...

WATER AND LIGHT (THE THIEF) by Heather Hartman, made for her show "Kudzu Season," is one of a series of four paintings representing the four seasons relative to the Kudzu growth cycle. "Water and Light" is the spring-inspired painting of this seasonal series. During the spring, the kudzu plant begins to awaken from its winter dormancy. The predominantly light blue/sage green atmosphere of this painting gives way to the vibrant curve of a rainbow on the right-hand side of the painting. The leaves of a tree in the background give us the sense that plant life is beginning to flourish. The silhouette of a bare kudzu vine...