Life on the Brighter Side

LIFE ON THE

Brighter Side

Life on the Brighter Side brings together works by artists such as Cynthia Bjorn, Marcel Rozek, and Tom Gregg to explore the expressive potential of color in a variety of artistic styles ranging from color eld to abstraction to hyper-realism. These artists playful use of color provide a space to feel the weight of the last year lift ever so slightly and give hope for brighter days ahead.

After a long, incredibly challenging year lacking in liveliness and excitement, this collection of works reminds us of the power of color and its’ ability to impact the way that we experience the world. The vibrancy of the colors serves as a reminder that we are now living on the brighter side, forging a path ahead as we navigate a post-pandemic society.

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Cynthia Bjorn Tom Gregg Margaret Evangeline Brady Legler Antonio Marra Erin Mcintosh Laura Nugent Marcel Rozek Jim Sajovic Hunt Slonem Steve Snell

CYNTHIA BJORN Cynthia was born in Bellingham Washington and as a young child, her family moved to the Midwest. Cynthia received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute with a focus on painting and design and has since used her design skills to produce a ourishing career. After many years in a creative, corporate world, Cynthia was able to redirect her life path back to painting.

Painting in her studio has given Cynthia the language to communicate, through her work, on a deeper level and the ability to connect to something larger than herself.

Bjorn’s work is a partnership between emotive mark making and responding to the surface of the painting. Each piece begins with an emotional tone in mind, inspired by the energy within moments of clarity and moments of calming peace… in the midst of chaos.

Bjorn has a fascination with mark making. Using the painting’s surface as a metaphor of conversation, she layers the paint until a statement that captures her intention and intuitive voice has been created.

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1. Purple II, acrylic and resin on panel, 36 x 12 inches, $1100 2. First Bloom, acrylic and resin on panel, 36 x 36 inches, $3200 3. Purple I, acrylic and resin on panel, 24 x 36 inches, $2200 4. Orange 4, acrylic and resin on panel, 36 x 24 inches, $2200

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1. Fearless II, acrylic and resin on panel, 36 x 36 inches, $3200

TOM GREGG

“The process of painting for me is looking, marking, then looking again, and marking again, adjusting and changing, around and around, back and forth, repeating this process until I feel I have captured something meaningful or true to what it is I am seeing”.

Tom Gregg’s interest in still life painting stems from a fascination with objects and the way they share the world of people and yet remain independent, even indifferent, to our struggles and exertions. They maintain a steadfast otherness, an unknown quality, even a mystery in their mere existence. They acquire meaning through our world and yet are thoroughly and distinctly of their world, the world of things. Objects exist; simply, clearly, and profoundly. Still life as a subject matter offers a wealth of potential in terms of metaphor and narrative. Objects, placed upon a tabletop in the studio, are a bit like actors on a stage, in a visual drama. In pure painterly terms, the subject of still life provides me both with a wide range of formal elements to be explored and a unique ability to exert control over these experiments.

“The process of painting for me is looking, marking, then looking again, and marking again, adjusting and changing, around and around, back and forth, repeating this process until I feel I have captured something meaningful or true to what it is I am seeing. This goes beyond representation or illusion and has more to do with the energy created by the visual relationships within the painting itself. My hope is to construct a set of relationships within the work that are harmonious, while at the same time imbued with a hint of tension, so as to strike a very particular visual note. Each painting is an attempt to weave together a clear and convincing realism and a clear and charged formal construction, and in so doing, create a remarkable event out of the most ordinary of circumstances.”

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1. 8 Ball, Egg, and Lemon, oil on panel, 21 x 21 inches, $5250 2. Money Bag, oil on panel, 28.5 x 24 inches, $7,600 3. Boom, oil on panel, 32 x 32 inches,

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1. Green Candies, oil on panel, 15.5 x 20 inches, $4080 2. Two Apples, oil on panel, 15.75 x 17.25 inches, $3800

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1. Red Candies, oil on panel, 15.5 x 20 inches, $4080 2. Crown, oil on panel, 29 x 33 inches, $7600 3. Two Aperitifs, oil on panel, 17 x 20 inches, $4250 2.

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1. Two Oranges, oil on panel, 15.75 x 17.25 inches, $3800 2. Little Duck, oil on panel, 12.5 x 10.5 inches, $2400 3. Lemon in Bowl, oil on panel, 10.5 x 12.5 inches, $2400

BRADY LEGLER Family has played a big role in Brady Legler’s development as a jewelry designer and painter. He began designing jewelry in 2008 at the age of 19 with the inspiration of his grandmother, Lou Legler. His eye for design quickly translated into painting and has grown his career as an artist ever since. Brady’s time as a student of product design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York helped to hone his aesthetic. Both his jewelry and his paintings have gained Brady a wide audience. The paintings have sold worldwide and samples of his artwork have appeared in Elle Décor, Modern and Hunger UK magazines. “Art is all about color for me. When I pick up a paintbrush my goal is to add depth,

movement, and emotion but I cannot attain any of these without the right colors.” His abstract works of art can vary in mood from the raw and spontaneous to the thoughtful and serene. Images from the paintings are now being translated onto wool and silk rugs handmade in Nepal.

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Con dence, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60 inches, $7500

ANTONIO MARRA Using precise mathematical calculations and a masterful hand, painter Antonio

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Marra creates a fascinating visual experience for his viewers. His technique uses thick, precisely painted grooves he forms entirely by hand to create a sculptural surface that interacts with the eye as the visual eld changes. These grooves meld art and mathematics to create interlacing geometries: as the viewer shifts perspective, brightly colored patterns kaleidoskopically unfold providing three distinct views to each piece.

Marra was born in Volturara Irpina, Italy and raised in Naples, Italy before relocating to Offenbach, Germany where he currently resides. He attended art university at The Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli where graduated with his BFA in 1982.

He has exhibited throughout Europe since the early 1990s, but only recently exhibited in the United States. He has shown work notably in Frankfurt, Cologne, Berlin, Karlsruhe, Shanghai, Bolzano, Munich, and Dubai. His work is held in private and public collections with museum representation in the Museum Explora Frankfurt, Ritter Museum Stuttgart, ZKM: Center for Art and Media, and The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto.

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Alexa, Be Quiet (in three views), acrylic on canvas, 39.4 x 39.4 inches

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Lust and the Burden of the Painter, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, $19,500

E R I N M C I N TO S H Erin McIntosh is an abstract painter whose work brings together asymmetrical, organic forms and mark making with geometric shapes. Despite their abstraction, McIntosh's works often evoke a corporeal feel due to the tactile nature of many of her marks and her tendency to borrow from a gurative color palette.

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Shape Dance 8 | gouache on paper | 9 x 6 inches

Microbe Dance III, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches, $5000

L AU R A N U G E N T Working with a loose idea of pattern and a limited color palette, Laura Nugent creates works with insistent rhythm and restrained hues. Her method of layering paint, with both transparent washes and thick, dripping coats, creates depth and allows for accident. Her hand is apparent in each imperfect line that is painted and her later works are showing a tolerance for letting her materials speak without correction.

These non- representational works employ traditions of Minimalism, Color Field, Pattern Painting and textile arts.

A nationally exhibited artist, Laura has traveled around the US to participate in dozens of juried art fairs. She has been both the featured artist and juror at the highly competitive Plaza Art Fair. Her recent honors include winning one of the top art fair prizes in the United States, the Raymond James Gasparilla Best of show honors at the Tampa Museum of Art in 2014.

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Undiscovered Countries Number 27 | Acrylic on Canvas Board | 12 x 16 in

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#3, acrylic on mdf, 23 x 28 inches, $1,700 #29, acrylic on mdf, 22 x 16 inches, $1,200 #21, acrylic on mdf, 24 x 25 inches, $1,600 #27, acrylic on mdf, 20 x 16 inches, $1,200

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1. #9, acrylic on mdf, 43 x 23 inches, $2,200 2. #24, acrylic on mdf, 27 x 25 inches, $1,700 3. #19, acrylic on mdf, 36 x 23 inches, $2,000

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M A R C E L R OZ E K Marcel Rozek is an abstract color eld artist interested in color relationships and the role of transparency in painting. Rozek uses a stain painting technique to create his brightly colored and richly layered compositions. He begins with liqui ed oil paint that he has mixed and diluted before pouring it directly onto raw unprimed canvas allowing the paint to generate organic shapes and movement. This technique creates puddles of color that overlap and extend into one another while soaking into the canvas. As the colors converge, overlap, and blend they absorb at different rates creating unique color families and blurry, spectral forms.

Rozek considers his work a re ection of himself with each piece carrying a unique message that changes for every viewer. How Rozek’s messages translates is a rumination into the viewers own perspective. “I try to translate depth and intuition to the viewer in the hopes we can have a conversation and a connection,” he says.

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#48, oil on canvas. 35 x 58 inches, $3,600

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1. #96, oil on raw canvas, 66 x 40 inches, $4200 2. #106, oil on raw canvas, 66 x 40 inches, $4200

#48, oil on raw canvas, 58 x 35 inches, $3500

JIM SAJOVIC Jim Sajovic is a contemporary painter who creates dense, vivid compositions using deconstructed images to create an “illusion of chaos through intricacy, complication, and contradiction.” Born in Chicago, Sajovic studied painting at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida before becoming a professor of painting at the Kansas City Art institute, a position he held for 44 years. His most recent body of work exudes a sense of vibration and pulsation that hovers between the tangible and the atmospheric. Sajovic has exhibited extensively including the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art and Incontri Internazionale d’Arte with many of works held in public and private collections the world over. He has been published in New American Paintings, Art in America, and Notes for a Young Painter (Prentice-Hall, Inc.) among others, and he is a recipient of the MidAmerica Arts

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1. Energy Field 7/28/20, pigmented inks & acrylic on canvas, 38 x 42 inches, $3200 2. Microscape 12/11/20, pigmented inks & acrylic on canvas, 38 x 42 inches, $3200 3. Microscape 7/16/20, pigmented inks & acrylic on canvas, 38 x 42 inches, $3200 4. Microscape 2/15/21, pigmented inks & acrylic on canvas, 38 x 42 inches, $3200

HUNT SLONEM Hunt Slonem is a world-renowned artist whose highly acclaimed paintings are in over eighty museum collections worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, and Kansas City’s own Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. He has been commissioned to paint large- scale murals for the Bryant Park Grill, New York City and the former World Trade Center, NYC. Slonem divides his time between Louisiana where he owns two plantation homes on the historic register, Albania in St. Mary’s Parish and Lakeside in Pointe Coupee; and New York City where he has lived and worked since 1973.

His legendary New York City studio is frequently featured in television and print. The expansive loft houses a vibrant salon style gallery, an ever expanding collection of antiques, and Slonem’s personal aviary.

Hunt Slonem received the prestigious “Stars of Design” award in art October 2009 in New York City, the Greenshields Foundation award in 1976, the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1991, and numerous others.

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Peace Plan, oil on canvas, 62 x 72 inches

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“I would say my whole life could be summed up by the word ‘exotica’”

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1. Abe on Green, oil on wood, 14 x 18 inches, $10,000 2. Yellow Finches, oil on wood, 27 x 21.5 inches, $16,000 3. 4 Viceroy, oil on wood, 16 x 19 inches, $11,375

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1. Teal Bunny, oil on wood, 8 x 10 inches, $6,000 2. Rosey, oil on wood, 11 x 14 inches, $8,750 3. Scott, oil on wood, 8 x 10 inches, $6,000 4. Bunny on Red, oil on wood, 8 x 10 inches, $6,000

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1. Bunny on Blue, oil on wood, 8 x 10 inches, $6,000 2. Banded Pink, oil on wood, 8 x 10 inches, $6,000