Over the course of late January and early February, we received incredible new additions to our collection that we can't wait to share with you! These artworks will be implemented into our newest curatorial programming in conjunction with three new exhibitions debuting February 29th.
Paul Sattler is a contemporary surrealist painter whose allegorical works pull from many lineages of history- personal, artistic, cultural, and beyond. Packed with detail and incredible colorations, his paintings seek to explore narratives through his perspective while allowing the viewer to compile their own interpretations.
Oil on canvas
78 x 54 inches
79 x 55 inches framed
Oil on canvas
30 x 50 inches
33 x 53 inches framed
British artist, Joanna Manousis, works with glass and mixed media creating sculptural objects and installations that urge the viewer to consider ideas of impermanence. Her work has been recognized with nominations for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and a Bombay Sapphire Award Nomination for 'Excellence in Glass' as well as the Margaret M. Mead Award and the Hans Godo Frabel Award. Manousis has received support from internationally recognized residency programs including the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; the Corning Museum of Glass, New York; and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. Her work has been exhibited at Design Miami and Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland; FOG Art + Design, San Francisco; the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark; and the British Glass Biennale, Stourbridge, England.
Samantha Keely Smith is a force to be reckoned with. The Brooklyn based artist has become known for her luminous abstract paintings which she refers to as conscious landscapes. While having some reference to time and place, these ethereal nebulas transport the viewers from the physical into the metaphysical, packed with emotion, movement, and reflections of color. Her layered pigments allow light to bounce through her compositions and enhance the vibrancy of her palette.
Oil on canvas
54 x 50 inches
Oil on canvas
60 x 68 inches
Jennifer Halvorson’s sculptures explore the simple beauty of familiar household objects that she has cast, manipulated or collaged to evoke a range of emotions and nostalgia. Her glasswork transports and connects viewers both to their personal memories of family and childhood and to society's collective, sometimes blurred, remembrance of the past.
Ivy Jacobsen’s paintings balance magical elements with rendering of flora and fauna found in nature to create mysterious landscapes that inspire inner curiosity. She draws inspiration from studying the plants she encounters on daily strolls through her neighborhood, botanical illustrations, and the science of plants and their life cycles.
Oil, acrylic, and collage on panel
30 x 48 inches
31-1/4 x 49-1/4 inches framed
In John's newest body of work exploring the landscape of Vietnam, he has visited sites where violence had taken place to document how nature has reclaimed the land, yet the memories persist.
The Color of Prayers, Danang Harbor, Vietnam
A Quiet Moment Song Thach Han, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
Bisson creates a base of collaged torn paper to serve as underpainting for her dramatic oils. This technique emboldens the geometry of her forms, highlighting the texture as well as the color and line of her natural scenes. Often these torn papers are en plein air studies of the environment she is painting - allowing the scent of the wood and the moisture of the river to live forever encapsulated in her work.
Oil and mixed media on linen
76 x 60 inches
78 x 62 inches framed
"Blending a traditional craft with new media technology gives me the framework in which I fit my artistic narrative. In my work, I explore moving images and endless mirrors to achieve my interest in contemporary work with the aesthetic of Victorian techno-fetishism. In my endless mirrors, I try to entice the viewer to look deeply into and completely experience my windows into alternative dimensions." - Tim Tate
An Intense Examination of Our Natural World
Known for utilizing the sgraffito technique, Janis layers and fuses finely ground glass onto sheets of glass with overlapping elements. This innovative technique is matched by narrative qualities within the work. Simple forms in combination with intricate glass powder drawings play on the elements of light, color, and sequence to evoke a sense of awareness to the perceptions of self.
Nothing is Certain Except the Future
Michael Enn SirvetAluminum, brass, padauk hardwood
17 x 25 x 5 inches
Artist Robert Bender's newest series of work continues his depcitions of fantastical creatures - but now in carved wood. "Like a dream, these images have many interpretations and the work is telling more than one story."
- Robert Bender
Wood
32 x 8 x 5 inches
