Artists
LARGE PAINTINGS SMALL & MEDIUM PAINTINGS Sculptures The current body of work is a group of paintings that employ a wide variety of materials and processes. These new paintings grow out of an earlier series that was inspired by photographs of galaxies and nebulae seen through the Hubble telescope. The images suggested a… Read more »
Formed from hundreds of individual pieces of wire, Kristine Mays has developed a way of expressing the human form through wire. “As an artist I am very aware of the impermanence of life. With metal wire I have timelessly captured a fleeting moment that I hope will last for decades. My artwork points to… Read more »
“Fashion is well known as a reliable reflection of cultural trends and historical events. On a personal level, it has become my creative vehicle for exploring mysteries of life. My inspiration arose from contemplating the dichotomy between the perception of women as fragile, delicate creatures, and the reality that most women are defined… Read more »
Sculptures Functional Sculptures Hadrian Mendoza, a stoneware Potter, works with a fearless and audacious search for unusual and indigenous forms, including expressionistic and abstract shapes. Mendoza was a graduate at Mary Washington College in Virginia and a former student at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, where he was awarded the prestigious… Read more »
PAINTINGS PORTRAITS A BOOK BY DAVIS MORTON In the spirit of “show me … don’t tell me,” this book uses a unique adventure to deliver its message by pairing 40 different paintings with prose, vignettes, and stories that were inspired by those paintings. To buy this book now, please click As a painter, I… Read more »
When I sculpt, I am recovering hundreds of years of lost harmony of the people. In the past, people were proud of their work and did it with skill and power. People recognized of what you are capable. We have lost this belief. It is up to us the artists, to recover the harmony we… Read more »
Risë Nagin’s rectangular fabric constructions are often called “art quilts,” but they are not restricted to developments within the field of textiles alone. Instead, the appliquéd works are natural outgrowths from her prior training and ongoing interest in painting. The artist actually describes herself as “a painter who puts things together in a particular way.”… Read more »
Stuck on a proverbial iceberg, disengaged from the rest of humanity, I empathize with the polar bears and other animals soon to be inundated by the global-warming induced floodwaters encouraged by our present politicians and government officials. Artists inform, artists warn, artists engage. This is my scream. Are you listening? Can you hear me? Will… Read more »
Bronze Sculptures CLICK HERE to purchase sculpture & jewelry by Carol Newmyer Jewelry Outdoor Sculptures I have always felt that the desire to communicate is one of the great universal reasons why artists create their work. It is certainly the main reason why I love to create participatory art. Many of my sculptures… Read more »
My paintings take advantage of humor. (The absurd rears its ugly head.) The process is as important as the artwork itself. My work is changing and dynamic. Tumultuous materials explode in a rush of energy. Elements of the familiar arise with the repetition of characters and situations. Familiar actions and themes surface as the pieces progress: Business vs…. Read more »
MARCELO NOVO was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated as a Profesor de Bellas Artes from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “Prilidiano Pueyrredon” and studied painting under Surrealist artist Roberto Aizemberg. He received a Master’s Degree from the University of South Carolina and taught art at Benedict College from 1995 to 1998. His art… Read more »
Katharine Owens, a self-taught artist, wields her scissors with precision in meticulously designed three-dimensional paper collages that stand out of a two-dimensional surface. Owens is a sculptor in her own right creating structures, people, and places out of paper. Apprenticing under Guenther Riess, she has continued his legacy of three-dimensional paper construction in her own… Read more »
For more than 45 years, as President of Foresite Planning, Inc., Jerome Harris Parmet focused his artistic career on planning/designing/rehabbing architectural interiors and buildings for corporations, showrooms and restaurants primarily in NYC and its metro area. However, he always remembered a gratifying experience in a sculpture class in college and upon semi-retirement twenty years… Read more »
For these pieces, I tie canvas panels into steel grids and paint both sides of the panels – sky imagery on the front and color fields on the reverse. Photographs are not involved. Sometimes the cords extend beyond the confines, breaking boundaries between the real and represented. Other times they appear to vanish, the panels… Read more »
I am a painter working in North Carolina. Inspired by the foliage and fresh air of wilderness areas as well as the vibrancy of diverse urban areas. I show my work locally as a member of the City Market Artist Collective located in downtown Raleigh. I also show my work regionally and nationally.
