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Daisy Patton
Daisy Patton explores the meaning of old photographs once they are taken out of the context. She questions, “what place does an old family photo have outside their original home?” Daisy re-imagines and re-enlivens old, abandoned photographs to give them new life.
Matthew McLaughlin
“My work explores the relationship human beings have with their surrounding environments, both natural and man-made, suburban and urban. Through image manipulation and the re-contextualizing of symbols, the work creates new perspectives for the viewer to consider when confronted with their own relationship with the environment. Each different series of work explores different aspects of […]
Rebecca Murtaugh
Organic and geometric at the same time, Rebecca Murtaugh hopes her sculptures will engage visitors and cause them to slow down and question what they are looking at. Rebecca’s sculptures will be on display at Hillyer Art Space through October 31st.
Mo Kong: Data Paintings
“This work is a story collection of coal miners. It is about loss, mourning, and memorial. It happened in my own village, an unknown place in China, but it is a story of everybody.”
Brooke Marcy
Brooke Marcy explores mass consumerism of fast food in her paintings, focusing on giving them a pop art feel. Come check out these paintings at Hillyer Art Space through October 31st. Photos courtesy of Brooke Marcy.
Jenny Kanzler
“Mother May I”
Sharon Koelblinger
Sharon Koelblinger, “Perfection as Absolute” is on view now in our October exhibition, Perspective: A Fresh Look at Contemporary Painting and Drawing: Her work explores “cyclical relationships between loss and desire, perfection and fallibility, repetition and rarity. Obsessive gestures underscore these relationships and represent a reverence for ritual through hand drawn lines and enigmatic imagery.”
Scott Hutchison
Displaced “The painting is is composed of five digitally merged self portraits that are painted as one. The abstracted version of himself is intended to illustrate the complexities of our personalities and the relationship between the individual and the experiences that shape us. We are in flux, forever changing from one experience to the next.”
Ryan Carr Johnson
Vector-Visa-Versa 01 “I’m interested in pushing the plasticity of paint through the act of painting itself. Data in the form of paint becomes layered, removed, and reassembled. The order in which colors are applied and subsequently removed through various hand sanding techniques allows each work in the series to have a final aesthetic reflecting its […]