Exhibition runs June 21st – July 27th
MICHAEL BARRINGER A native North Carolinian, Michael began expressing his artistic abilities at a young age. He remembers always feeling the magic of being in the ocean or the mountains, and wanting to make his own version of those experiences through art. With a long lineage of artisans, one could suppose his knack for creating is in his blood. Michael is inspired particularly by written word such as poetry, novels, religious history, anthropology, biology, and art history, however he believes everything serves as inspiration and nothing should be ignored. “A question which is always present for me: how does the world fit together from its many parts, and what drives our need to know and create and seek the spiritual?” Authentic expression presenting itself as an inevitable presence is his artistic goal, as well as a well-crafted surface. That, he says, is mandatory! A favorite quote of his is by painter Robert Ryman, which states: ” The one quality I look for and I think is in all good painting, is that it has to look as if no struggle was involved. It has to look as if it was the most natural thing — it just happened and you don’t have to think about how it happened. It has to look very easy even though it wasn’t.”
CAPTURED AMULETS ON BLUE | 48x60 | $7700
HARLEQUIN | 48x48 | $6000
PYRE PALIMPSEST | 48x48 | $6000
AURORA CAIRN | 29x23 | $2900
ANCIENT SWATCHES | 36x24 | $3500
THE WINE DARK SEA II | 48x44 | $5800
JEFF ERICKSON Jeff knew at an early age, art would be a part of his life. His grandmother was an American Impressionist painter, and he would watch her create colorful brush strokes across the canvas. Jeff grew up traveling the world and living in faraway lands with his family. He visited museums across the world, and soaked in images of the different landscapes he was fortunate to travel to. Jeff’s art developed out of these experiences, with an eye toward texture and abstraction. His paintings have a minimal and literal landscape element, while he tries to capture and convey the textures of life. The experience of painting became a great escape from the complexities of life as he learned to create abstract scenes of peacefulness, relaxation, and calmness. Jeff is drawn to water, the sea, the ocean, and those feelings show up in his abstract landscapes. Jeff paints with oil and wax mediums, on canvas, gessoed hardboard, and paper. He is able to create multiple layers of translucent colors, and through the process of scratching, distressing, and dissolving, he captures depth and feeling within the painting. With each painting, Jeff begins with no end game in mind. He allows the painting to develop to see where it leads him.
BLOOMING FIELDS | 24x24 | $2900
CROSSTOWN TRAFF
FIC | 24x24 | $2000
SLIVERS | 30x30 | $2900
COOL MORNING | 48x48 | $6500
CROSSING PATHS | 48x48 | $6500
NEW DAWN | 12x12 | $600
EARLY MORNING | 12x12 | $600
WIND CHILLS | 12x12 | $600
GRAND FINALE | 12x12 | $600
TRADE WINDS |12x12 | $5000
INCOMING STORM |12x12 | $5000
COUNTRY SUNSET | 48x36 | $5000
MARCY GREGG Marcy Gregg’s distinctive artwork springs from a love of color and line. Born in rural East Texas, she expressed an interest in art at an early age. She remained in Texas after graduation from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, where she majored in studio art. After graduation, Marcy married and set her art aside while focusing on her family. They soon relocated to Charlotte, NC and in the busyness of family life Marcy continued to put her art on hold. However, her life was changed forever after a serious complication arose during the delivery of her third child, leaving Marcy in a coma from which there was little hope of recovery. Overcoming incredible odds, through the healing power of God, Marcy regained consciousness but lost much of her memory. Faced with the daunting task of rebuilding her identity, Marcy slowly put the pieces of her life back together, even starting her own corporate consulting business. However, she found that her gratitude for being given a second chance at life did not find expression in the confines of the corporate world. Determined to make the most of the life that had been restored to her, Gregg sold her successful business in 2006 and returned to her true passion, art. Gregg describes her paintings as “puzzles” in which line plays a crucial part. It is through an artistic process of finding “lines lost and an unexpected perspective found” that she imbues her compositions with energy. While the line work gives her art energy, it is the artist’s distinctive palette that gives her oil paintings life. Marcy’s art is found in private and corporate collections across the United States and abroad.
BEYOND TRACING | 60x60 | $8600
IN ITS TIME | 60x48 | $7000
WHEREVER YOU GO
O | 60x48 | $7000
TAKE FLIGHT | 60x48 | $7000
EYES OPEN | 40x40 | $4000
RECREATING | 40x40 | $4000
FULL OF BELIEF | 48x48 | $5000
UNDIVIDED | 30x30 | $3000
UNFAILING LOVE | 36x36 | $3500
AUDREY STONE Audrey Stone is a protean artist, she expresses herself through various activities such as installations, painting, drawing, sculpture and mixed media. Her work explores colors, lines, materialism on various mediums and surfaces. Being nearsighted from a young age, Audrey Stone is drawn to seeing things up close; her work entails detail in the making and her desire for visual intimacy. How craft and art are distinguished from one another is a fascination for Stone and her work often involves a tension of two parts, like the use of two mediums – thread and paint. For Stone this duality is an expression of existing in two places at once. Audrey Stone was born and raised in New York City and has many memories of haunting museums, galleries and the studios of established artists while growing up. She studied painting at Pratt Institute and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1986. In 1993 She received an MFA from Hunter College. Audrey Stone lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
POUR I | 17x14 | $1800
POUR II | 17x14 | $1800
I’LL HAVE WHAT SHE’S HAVING | 24x18 | $2500
HAPPY FOR HER | 20x16 | $2200
I’M YOUR VENUS | 24x18 | $2500
K E N TAT E Louisiana non-figurative artist Ken Tate’s art explores the more emotional aspects of the human condition. The impetus for the current work comes from the writings of Beats such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, the writing and short stories of Jorge Borges, the works of abstract expressionists Robert Motherwell, William de Kooning, John Chamberlain and David Smith, as well as the works of Robert Rauschenberg. Another influence is the art of cinema, especially in the framing and editing of film. But when Ken works in the studio, the art often has a “mind of its own”. Ken’s paintings have been featured in magazines such as House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Coastal Living and New Orleans House & Home. His work is in private collections in New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Tulsa, Nashville, Houston and Jackson, MS to name a few.
LADY IN YELLOW | 65x50 | $6000
TRUE BLUE | 31x25 | $2000
PENELOPE | 31x25 | $2000
VUITTON | 31
1x25 | $2000
SOUL | 31x25 | $2000
PRESENT TENSE | 31x25 | $2000
GUCCI I| 31x25 | $2000
GUCCI II | 31x25 | $2000
BLACK + YELLOW I
II | 31x25 | $2000
AKRIS | 31x25 | $2000
MOST WANTED | 31x25 | $2000
PRINCE | 31x25 | $2000
MR. LOUIS VUITTON | 41x33 | $3200
ASIA | 41x33 | $3200
MONSE | 65x50 | $6000
JOE VINSON As a conscious member of a tradition, Joe Vinson paints landscapes outside, from direct observation. He produces paintings that depict the kind of light our eyes were formed to see. This has proved to be the best way to learn color and has laid the foundation for Joe’s abstract studio work. These paintings from the studio make an appeal to the viewer through the pleasure of the senses, the sheer enjoyment of experiencing color contrasts. Having removed the representation allows a space for a pure aesthetic experience. It is a space that taps into the spirit, provoking an emotional response, through a direct, straightforward simple poetry of color with painting ideas embedded. “I would love to make someone cry from the beauty of my color contrasts. Using my paintings as the vector, I would like to be the Typhoid Mary of the “Stendhal Syndrome”. Joe likes the clean uncluttered feel of many modern paintings, but they are often painted in a simple single layer of paint. This can make for a too quick reading of the works’ construction, losing the mystery that is acquired when a painting is more developed in its facture. To counter this Joe developed a technique that creates a complex optical surface that vibrates in the eye with subtle and constantly changing color contrasts. Most of Joe’s paintings are done with a technique he has been refining for the last eight years, a form of cross-hatching. The subtle elegance of these paintings make them virtually impossible to photograph and the shadows of the thick physical paint itself across the surface add to the difficulty of finding an accurate light meter reading. They need to be experienced in person to create the aesthetic resonance that they generate. “In a world obsessed with virtual reality there are still some things that can only be experienced directly.”
TANGERINE | 24x24 | $1800
COLOR FRIENDS I | 18x18 | $1200
COLOR FRIENDS II | 18x18 | $1200
TWO TONED | 24x24 | $1800
INTERVALS | 24x24 | $1800
FRINGE | 12x12| $900
A2 | 18x18
8 | $1200
A3 | 18x18 | $1200
A6 | 12x12| $900
GESSO LEFT UNDER | 12x12| $900
BIG BOX | 30x30 | $2800
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