I operate in the space between painting and photograph — object and print.  These works of horses represent a new starting point in the continuum of my process.  In each work, collage functions both to break the image down into component parts and to create a cohesive whole.  At the heart of my process is the desire to see things differently; to build an image literally in order to come to an understanding of the visceral nature of form. [Read more…]

For me, the “creation of unknown beings” requires the collaboration of my companion, CLAY. I do not approach CLAY with a preconceived notion of what will result from our encounter. The process of handling the clay stimulates and informs my creative process. Much depends on the plasticity of the clay, which can vary considerably. Much also depends on the tools which I use to shape the clay and create textures. [Read more…]

For the past 20 years I have been exploring the place where fine art and folk art intersect.  My subject matter draws from the local experience of community, family and immediate surroundings as well as an internal dream place. Although some of the imagery is very personal, I am always striving for the universal. The figures in the pictures are simultaneously ‘me’ and a sort of ‘Everyman’.  [Read more…]

Julia Zanes mixed media paintings read like fairy tales unfolding in intricate visual patterns. Rich interiors and lush, fertile landscapes are populated by ethereal figures, birds, and houses. [Read more…]

My work is an ongoing account, a product of negotiating stimuli from “everyday” happenings I refer to as “visual education.”  I respond to the varied visual phenomena with forms and ways of marking.  To be clear, it is the organization of the elements that I am interested in.  To arrange and record is to acknowledge and to reconcile. [Read more…]

“The creative process for me is varied and yet finite. I have my boards, my paint and my solitude, which stimulates me. Painting is a private, intimate and passionate obsession. I feel blessed to have this time to create a piece of art that someone else can enjoy.” [Read more…]

Elizabeth Coyne was born in Minnesota, raised in California, Canada and Indiana, before moving to New York in the early 1980’s. Ms. Coyne had numerous exhibitions in New York during the 80’s and 90’s.  She has been a working artist for more than 30 years. She has Masters of Fine Arts in painting from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, a B.A. in fine arts from Purdue University and  has studied and lectured at the Art Institute of Chicago. [Read more…]

Painter Robert Cartmell, who is also a renowned roller coaster enthusiast, works in a tradition that could be loosely connected to Philip Guston and other members of the so-called second generation New York School, who preferred a more lyrical variation on the blood-and-guts formula of abstract expressionism. [Read more…]