Everything In Between features work by Philadelphia-based painters Diane Lachman, Stephanie Rogers, and John Howell White. These artists pull their inspiration from nature and the colors around us, exploring how we experience colorways and what lingers behind in our periphery.
Diane Lachman pulls from color theory to create visual soundscapes, building her pigment in layers much like a musician would find the perfect pitch in a chord.
Stephanie Rogers finds inspiration from nature, and uses intuitive gestures and bright color accents to bring joy into her canvases. Starting with a simple form, she lets the paint and colors guide her through the composition, gathering inspiration from contrasting colors and movement.
John Howell White illustrates the space between color, the ghost image that is left over after looking away. He lets the color hold a space usually occupied by something intangible. Lachman, Rogers, and White implore us to think about color around us, not just in front of us.
Cover image:
John Howell White, Quake (detail)
Right: Diane Lachman
Radiant, 2019
Oil on 4 panels
24 x 27"
Diane Lachman
Diane Lachman’s inventive abstract paintings and photographs emphasize the expressive power of color. She studied at RISD and earned her BFA and MFA from the School of Design at University of Pennsylvania, where she taught Color Theory and Drawing from 1993 to 2014. Her work has been the subject of fourteen solo shows. In 2024, she had her second solo photography exhibit, “Kaleidoscope,” at Muse Gallery in Philadelphia. Her vibrant photographs capture the refraction of natural light through prisms.
Lachman’s work is widely exhibited in museums, galleries, and juried exhibitions. Recent highlights include (re)FOCUS at Muse Gallery, In The Umbra at Chimaera Gallery, The Annual 81st Juried Exhibition at the Woodmere, Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition at the Main Line Art Center, PhotoEx Photography Exhibit at Media Arts Council, Changelings at Powell Lane Arts, University City Science Center in Unprecedented Times: A Socially Distanced Art Project, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE and at the Susanna Gold Gallery on Artsy.net.
She is a member of Muse Gallery and was the director from 2019 through 2022. Her paintings are represented in numerous private and corporate collections including New York Presbyterian Hospital, The Student Center at Temple University, Park Towne Place in Philadelphia, and Lankenau Hospital.
Artist Statement
“In my abstract paintings and photographs, I search for a way to reconcile opposing forces in life and nature: light and shadow, rhythm and order, control and surprise, clarity and mystery. I discover equilibrium by making connections between color, form, and meaning. Although, I am influenced by my observations, Bauhaus teachings, ancient architecture, textile design, and the places I have traveled, color remains my primary source of inspiration. My years of experience studying and teaching color theory complements my intuitive approach to visual communication in my painting.”
Diane Lachman
Color Notation 1, 2017
Watercolor and gouache
10 x 11.5 x 2"
Left: Diane Lachman
Detour, 2019
Oil on 6 panels
19.5 x 23"
Opposite page: Diane Lachman
Slippage, 2016
Watercolor and gouache
22 x 34 x 2"
Left:
Diane Lachman
Color Notation 4, 2017
Watercolor and gouache
10 x 11.5 x 3"
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Diane Lachman
Lingering Sunset, 2019
Oil on 11 panels
27 x 44"
Diane Lachman
Castle in the Air, 2016
Watercolor and gouache
34 x 22 x 2"
Stephanie Rogers
Artist Statement
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Stephanie Rogers
Campgrounds, 2018
Acrylic on board
30 x 30 x 2"
Stephanie Rogers
Country Air, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 x 2"
“As an artist who works primarily in abstraction, my process is generally intuitive and spontaneous. I often begin with a loose idea or concept, and then let the painting evolve organically as I work. This approach allows me to create pieces that are both dynamic and harmonious, reflecting the balance and complexity of the natural word and the wildness of the imagination, freeing me to tap into the energy and vitality of nature and the joy I feel while creating the work.
I find bliss in exploring various painting surfaces, techniques, and color and shape relationships. My paintings, often informed by memories of a garden, a cloud, or the lightness of a warm embrace, begin with a gesture and end in a rhythmic contemplation of shapes and hues – a meditation in optimistic colorful motion. I hope to impart the joy of mindfully surrendering to intuition while maintaining the essence of balance and playfulness in the finished piece. When the painting flows from the heart I am always pleased with the result.”
Left:
Stephanie Rogers
Air Bubbles, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
30 x 30 x 2"
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Stephanie Rogers Freshly Opened, 2012
Acrylic on board
30 x 30 x 2"
Stephanie Rogers
Powdered Contours, 2012
Acrylic on board
30 x 30"
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Stephanie Rogers
Good Morning, 2008
Acrylic on board
30 x 30 x 2"
Stephanie Rogers
Perfume, 2018
Acrylic on board
24 x 24"
Right:
Stephanie Rogers
Green Day, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36"
John Howell White
“I have been been a practicing artist for over 50 years. This sampling was produced in my Philadelphia studio in 2023-24, where I benefited from the interplay of cognition, sensation, materiality, faith, and imagery. I have most recently shown at: Honickman Center, 2024; The Shape of Tomorrow (2021), Parktown Place, Philadelphia; Incubations (2021), Scotts Mills Gallery; Ghost Stories, The Works Gallery (2019), NYC & Archer Law Gallery 35 (2019), Philadelphia, PA; and Related Visions, Provincetown Art Association and Museum (2018), Provincetown, MA, The Cotuit Center for the Arts (2016), Cotuit, MA; and Maryland Hall (2014), Annapolis, MD.
I attended a three-week artist residency at Jentel in Banner, WY in 2024. I am an Emeritus Professor of Art Education at Kutztown University. I earned an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute and a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. My textbook, Experience Painting, is published by Davis Press. In 2012 I was named the NAEA Higher Education Art Educator of the Year.”
Artist Statement
“Paintings hover about, unattached to their referents. They differ, in time, reference, and ambience, from film and photography. They welcome their viewers through their visual impact and, like ghosts, haunt them through their visual omissions. They conjure an absence, which ferments attachments and invites future visitations.
These works are place holders, solid forms that contain the residue of the immanence that comes from the search for a future. They invite contemplation.
Paint is ubiquitous, simple, and infinitely fascinating. It allows for a rhythmic oscillation between the permanent and the timeless; the material and the virtual; and the private and the public.”
John Howell White Rumble, 2022
Oil on paper
22 x 22"
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John Howell White Torquatus, 2018
Oil on panel
36 x 36"
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John Howell White MeeLay, 2023
Oil on canvas
36 x 54"
x 54"
Left:
John Howell White Verge, 2023 Oil on canvas 36 x 54"
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John Howell White Weathering, 2023 Oil on canvas
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John Howell White Quake, 2023
Oil on canvas
36 x 54" Right:
John Howell White Decant, 2022
Oil on paper
20.75 x 20.75"
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