Winners: Editor’s Selections

Barbara Campbell Thomas

Ray | collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced and machine-stitched fabric, 13 x 10 inches

Barbara Campbell Thomas

Muein | collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced and machine-stitched fabric, 19 x 18 inches

Barbara Campbell Thomas

Sky Book | collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced and machine-stitched fabric, 60 x 72 inches

Barbara Campbell Thomas

Climax, NC 704.334.7302 (Hidell Brooks Gallery) barbara.campbell.thomas@gmail.com / www.barbaracampbellthomas.com / @barbaracampbellthomas

b. 1975 York, PA

Education 2000 MFA, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Residency 2021 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Granville, NY

Solo Exhibitions 2021 Rhythms for Transport, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2020 Pneuma, Ruffin Gallery, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 2019 Thisness, The Painting Center, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions 2021 Amplify, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA Intro 8, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC The Printmakers Left, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA 2020 Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Escapes and Revelations: NC Artists Fellows Exhibit, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC 2019 Somatic Shapes, James May Gallery, Algoma, WI

Awards 2018 North Carolina Arts Council Artists Fellowship

Collections William P. Clements Junior University Hospital Art Collection, Dallas, TX City of Raleigh Municipal Art Collection, Raleigh, NC The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

Represented by Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC

My paintings harness geometric abstraction and a materially diverse surface of paint, collage, and sewn fabric to explore how the everyday experience of living and being is an arena for spiritual perception. I make paintings to understand facets of reality invisible to the human eye, but perceivable through other senses. By making paintings—by moving paint around year after year until I grasp some of what paint is and how it functions—I have come to see painting as a practice which allows me incremental knowledge of what it is to inhabit a living, breathing human body. As my understanding of what paint is unfolds through the movement and experience of my body, I see comprehension of painting is analogous to comprehension of being. I see painting as analogous to being. Pathways to comprehension of painting and being are similarly life long, and in both instances one is engaging with an experience that is simultaneously material and immaterial, with an experience in which the corporeal (paint and the body) is a gateway into the metaphysical.

Sophie Treppendahl

Living Room, Morning | oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 76 inches

Sophie Treppendahl

Living Room, Evening | oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 76 inches

Sophie Treppendahl

September Morning | oil on canvas, 38 x 44 inches

Sophie Treppendahl

New Orleans, LA sophietreppendahl@gmail.com / www.sophietreppendahl.com / @sophie.treppendahl

b. 1991 Baton Rouge, LA

Education 2013 BA, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

Residencies 2019 100 W Corsicana, Corsicana, TX The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

Solo Exhibitions 2022 Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA 2020 Living with my (white, Southern, racist) family history, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA 2019 A World of People in my Studio, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN 2018 Skinny-dip Daydreams and a Striped Shirt, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA

Group Exhibitions 2022 Lush, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY February Selection, Platform Art by David Zwirner, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA 2021 The Scenic Route, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY Plein Air, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL 2020 From Morning Til Night, We Should Never Rely on a Single Thing, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Interiors: hello from the living room, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY Fete Galante, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL Dreams and Diversions: Images of America, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA 2018 Everybody in the Pool, Ada Gallery, Richmond, VA I create paintings of sun-drenched domestic spaces that celebrate the quiet moments of everyday life. My paintings are an opportunity for me to play with and piece together things I love into a painting: books of favorite artists, coffee cups and candlesticks, walls filled with family portraits, and art by friends. I wear my influences on my sleeve, sometimes using a Vuillard inspired pattern and including his book open on the table or showing a favorite Lois Dodd piece on the wall of my kitchen. I use light and pattern as tools for abstraction. These paintings, like my home, are filled with the things that bring me joy and comfort. Treppendahl

Gaby Wolodarski

Oh (For Frida and Tova) | oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches

Gaby Wolodarski

Why Does She Save Bits of Paper? (for Miriam) | oil and acrylic on canvas, 84 x 108 inches

Gaby Wolodarski

Muv | oil and acrylic on canvas, 52 x 42 inches

Gaby Wolodarski

Montevallo, AL gabberwocky@gmail.com / www.gabywolodarski.com / @wolodarsque

b. 1981 Stockholm, Sweden

Education 2013 MFA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2003 BA, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Professional Experience 2014-22 University of Montevallo, Adjunct Faculty, Montevallo, AL 2021 University of California, Berkeley, Lecturer, Berkeley, CA

Solo Exhibitions 2022 Nice ‘n Dark, Friends Gallery, Hoover Public Library, Hoover, AL 2017 Pigurative Faintings, Bloch Hall Gallery, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL What Are We Making Waking: Spells for the Image Culture, The Range, Saguache, CO 2016 Honey Blips, Saffron Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Pictures That Match the Couch, Fort Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 Textie Textie, Hatch Gallery, Oakland, CA

Two-Person Exhibition 2021 Crystal Jew and the Party Garland: Gaby Wolodarski/April Bachtel (with April Bachtel), Vulcan Gallery, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL

Group Exhibitions 2020 B20: Wiregrass Biennial, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL 2019 24 Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art, Museum House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria 2009 Passive Aggressive: Juried Film & Video, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 2008 There! New Art from Oakland, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA 2006 Oakland: East Side Story, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA My work is about attention span, babies, canaries, description, extracts, filters, grouping, hums, importance, jelly, kerning, looming, motion sensors, nerves, order, parity, qwerty, respite, smallness, stillness, tact, understanding, vanity, the West, xenophobias, yeses, and zeros. Wolodarski

Markeith Woods

Everyday It's Something | oil on paper, 30 x 22 inches

Markeith Woods

Is It Possible | oil on paper, 30 x 22 inches

Markeith Woods

Never Forget | oil and collage paper on canvas, 72 x 120 inches

Markeith Woods

Fayetteville, AR theartistwoods@gmail.com / www.markeithwoods.com / @markeith_theartist

b. 1987 Pine Bluff, AR

Education 2002 MFA, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Fayetteville, AR 2014 BS, Visual Arts, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR

Professional Experience 2021 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Instructor, Fayetteville, AR 2017-19 James Matthew Elementary School, Art Teacher, Pine Bluff, AR 2015 Memphis College of Art, Teaching Assistant, Memphis, TN

Solo Exhibitions 2021 Batesville Area Arts Council Batesville, AR 2020 Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council, Texarkana, TX 2018 John Brown Watson Memorial Library, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR 2015 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

Group Exhibitions 2022 Frame of Mind 2022, Art Ventures Gallery, Fayetteville, AR 2021 Frame of Mind 2021, Art Ventures Gallery, Fayetteville, AR 2019 Roots and Wings, Agora Gallery, New York, NY

Awards 2021 Student Award, Artists 360, Northwest Arkansas 2020 Best of Show, Batesville Area Arts Council National Juried Art Competition 2018 Best of Show, Arkansas Arts Council Small Works on Paper 2014 Award of Distinction, HSFAC Regional Art Competition My paintings depict a personal story of Life’s reality that explores the psychological state of living as a Black male in America. We are always in survival mode in a culture built to create division and separation. I recreate my personal experiences through conversations between me and friends, using familiar images, poses, objects, environments, and emotions. Perception is everything, so I make it my mission to portray an authentic view of the figures in my artwork.

Based on conversations with my high school classmates from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, I paint the challenges we have faced and how they have impacted our goals. Therefore, I aim to show the sitter deep in thought, problem-solving issues that society has imposed upon us. I obscure perspective to show how the policies and rules of institutions stop agency. I aim to undo false narratives that have been perpetrated by society. Thus, my objective is to provide two points of view: the subject’s and my own.

Editor’s Selections

The following section is presented in alphabetical order. Biographical information has been edited. Prices for available work may be found on p178.

Justin Tyler Bryant

Quasar | buon fresco, 11 x 11 inches

Justin Tyler Bryant

Sun | buon fresco, 10 x 10 inches