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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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
BLACK CODES - Portrait of the Artist's Daughter Adorned in African Tribal Makeup
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming Soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Acrylic, Vinyl
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
In the rear view, Acrylic painting on canvas
By Brian Nash
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is acrylic on deep-profile canvas, wired and ready to hang. Signed by the artist.
Category
2010s Pop Art Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
We Want Skulls
By Mike Egan
Located in Nashville, TN
Mike Egan’s We Want Skulls is a striking acrylic painting on wood that blends folk art influences with themes of death, devotion, and the afterlife. Known for his bold, graphic style...
Category
2010s Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Adam N Dave
Located in Nashville, TN
The painting Adam and Dave emerges from the creative mind of artist Go Suga, showcasing the interplay of artificiality and nature, blending reality with surreality. Suga emphasizes t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Balloon Hater
Located in Nashville, TN
Balloon Hater by Nashville-based artist Tim Hooper is a whimsical yet subtly unsettling exploration of emotion, contradiction, and absurdity—hallmarks of Hooper’s distinct artistic v...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Wading Robot
Located in Nashville, TN
Wading Robot by beloved Nashville artist Tim Hooper presents a striking and emotionally nuanced scene, blending humor, tension, and empathy into a single moment of mechanical mayhem....
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Green-Eyed Robot
Located in Nashville, TN
Green-Eyed Robot by Nashville-based artist Tim Hooper is a quietly captivating and emotionally layered painting that speaks to both the curiosity of childhood and the solitude of mod...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dennis's Doughnuts
Located in Nashville, TN
Dennis’s Doughnuts by local Nashville artist Tim Hooper is a delightful and imaginative celebration of nostalgia, whimsy, and the passage of time. The painting features a joyful robo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Gravity
Located in Nashville, TN
Gravity showcases a striking non-binary figure that symbolizes the god of gravity, tasked with the crucial role of balancing the gravitational forces in an unknown galactic region. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
We Were At Your Funeral
By Mike Egan
Located in Nashville, TN
We Were At Your Funeral is a vivid exploration of mortality, memory, and celebration. At the center, a single skeleton lies within a bold, coffin-shaped frame, its stark white form contrasting against the dark leaf motifs surrounding it. Encircling this central figure, four smaller skeletons...
Category
2010s Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Three Musicians
Located in Nashville, TN
"3 Blues Musicians" is an oil-on-wood sculptural painting by artist Luther Tatum. The artist was inspired by Picasso's and Romare Bearden's paintings of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Panel
Blossolini
Located in Nashville, TN
Blossolini explores the intricate relationship between artificial intelligence and humanity. The distorted figure presents a surreal and uncanny representation, possessing elements o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hunting Ghosts On A Lion
By Mike Egan
Located in Nashville, TN
Mike Egan’s Hunting Ghosts on a Lion is a bold, folk-art-inspired acrylic painting on wood that combines themes of mortality, protection, and the supernatural. A skeletal figure, rendered in Egan’s signature black-and-white style, rides atop a regal golden lion, exuding an air of both power and mystery. The lion’s face, adorned with intricate patterns and deep red eyes, evokes a spiritual guardian guiding the skeleton on its ghostly hunt.
The crimson red background, dotted with floating skulls and delicate floral motifs, reinforces the painting’s balance between life and death. Above the rider, pale blue ghostly forms float across the scene, emphasizing the painting’s supernatural...
Category
2010s Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Apparition (Dogwoods)
Located in Nashville, TN
Apparition (Dogwoods) displays a startled horse on his back legs as his handler holds onto the lead rope. The horse and handler, painted in full color, are set in the foreground in front of a mansion. The monochromatic grayscale of the background and mansion recede in the composition as the bright pink dogwood hang across the top of the painting,
creating a dreamlike backdrop inspired by an old Hollywood movie set. Charles Keiger...
Category
2010s Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cowboy in the Rain
Located in Nashville, TN
Cowboy in the Rain portrays an expressive portrait of a cowboy wearing a brown cowboy hat with blue hues of paint dripping over him on an unstretched canvas. The cowboy’s eyes look t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
Where Love Grows
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Where Love Grows portrays a young woman with hazel eyes and blue lips surrounded by white florals through the use of paint, graphite, and collage. Yances reflects the Latin literary ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Oil
Si Tu Puedes
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Si Tu Puedes portrays a young woman with blue eyes and red lips surrounded by white and red florals through the use of paint, graphite, and collage. Yances reflects the Latin literar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Vida Feliz
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Vida Feliz portrays a young woman with blue eyes and red lips surrounded by white and red florals through the use of paint, graphite, and collage. Yances reflects the Latin literary ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
RED LINING - Paintings of the Artist's Family on Handmade Cushions
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming Soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Yarn, Glitter, Acrylic
SONGS - Oil on Canvas Painting of Flowers in Front of a Field
By Jered Sprecher
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Polymer
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
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 Tennessee - 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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 Tennessee - 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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 Tennessee - 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 Tennessee - 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
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 Tennessee - 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Tennessee - Figurative 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 Tennessee - 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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 Tennessee - 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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
ECHO IV - Painted Mesh Screen Over Paper Depicting Light of the Southern U.S.
By Heather Hartman
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Polyester, Acrylic, Gouache
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 Tennessee - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel, Steel
