Small Works | Big Impact is an annual exhibition that allows our clientele to discover and acquire exquisite original works by Momentum Gallery artists and guests. Small scale works are great options for intimate spaces and make unique holiday gifts. Participating artists include Mariella Bisson, Christina Bothwell, Dana Brown, Jessica Calderwood, David Ellsworth, Amy Gross, Bill Hall, Rosa de Jong, Ivy Jacobsen, Bryce Lafferty, Greg Sand, Paul Sattler, Casey Roberts, Brian Sostrom, John Paul Vincent, and more!
-
Small Works Big Impact 2020
-
Christina Bothwell
Glass artist Christina Bothwell works with cast glass and raku clay to create ethereal and often narrative sculptures. Bothwell's work examines mysteries of the body and soul. Through her delicate and at times whimsical renditions of humans and animals, one may see the allusions to life and death. These ideas are pushed as many of her glass sculpture are impregnated with objects - often faces, or babies.
-
Brian Sostrom
Brian Sostom's atmospheric paintings evoke a gentle moodiness, taking the viewer on an emotional journey through ripples, skies, and forests. Utilizing translucent acrylic paint, the artist paints onto a translucent substrate. This unique process gives Sostrom's landscapes an ethereal quality akin to that of dreams.
-
-
Bill Hall
Bill Hall's minimalist intaglio prints and collaged prints are tonal studies in contrast of darks and lights in geometric grids or in linear patterns that subtly reference and pay homage to the aesthetics of Barnett Newman. As master intaglio printer at Pace Editions in New York for almost thirty years, Bill collaborated on hundreds of print editions and worked with many well-known artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine, Chuck Close, Mary Heilmann, Robert Mangold and James Turrell.
-
David Ellsworth
David Ellsworth has been creating dramatic art forms in wood for over four decades. He began his career in the formal studies of architecture, sculpture, and ceramics. In the 1970s Ellsworth was responsible for developing the first woodworking program at Anderson Ranch in Colorado. Today, David Ellsworth's art in wood is included in 43 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and in major private collections across the United States. Formerly a resident of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, David has recently relocated to Western North Carolina.
-
-
David Ellsworth, Spirit Form - Fishtail Oak
-
David Ellsworth, Afzelia
-
David Ellsworth, Spirit Form - Figured Koa
-
David Ellsworth, Spirit Form - Redwood Burl
-
-
Amy Gross
Amy Gross' hand-embroidered and beaded sculptures are magical microcosms, merging the natural world with her own inner life. Attracted and frightened by things on the edge of spoiling or straining to support an excess, the Florida artist creates vignettes that cluster, tangle, cling and multiply. Paradoxically, these vivid accounts of the natural world use nothing from nature.
-
Casey Roberts
Dreamy and contemplative – Roberts’ large-scale cyanotype paintings on paper depict a variety of domestic and wilderness subjects which evoke a still and wonderous world. Subjects the artist often revisits include trees, water, animals, and sky. Through his thoughtful use of silhouettes and selective color, Roberts’ ethereal works, profound in their simplicity, tap into our longing for connection through nature.
-
Greg Sand
Artist Greg Sand’s work is a testament to the passage of time, memory, and morality. These themes are masterfully highlighted through Sand’s collages and prints. Using found photographs, postcards, and stamps, Sand constructs works that examine the fragmentation of memories and the temporality of life.
-
John Paul Vincent
Artist John Paul Vincent works with watercolor and collage to create luminous and dreamlike renditions of rural landscapes. Vincent’s timeless works evoke a sense of calm and wonder, allowing the viewer to become immersed in the etheral nature of the medium.
-
Dana Brown
North Carolina based studio painter Dana Brown works with encaustic, using beeswax and resin to convey elaborate depictions of botanical scenes, farm equipment, urban backdrops, and other mechanically complex machinery. Utilizing tools designed for ceramists, Brown carves, fills, layers, and fuses the wax, creating areas to be filled with pigment. Her industrial scenes evoke a sense of wonder, guiding the eye through geometrically complex landscapes teeming with rich detail.
-
Rosa de Jong
Roe Mixed medium miniature
6 1/3 x 5 1/10 x 1/ 1/2 inches -
Bryce Lafferty
Mountains and nature are the inspiration for the methodically abstracted landscapes of Bryce Lafferty. The conceptual and surreal details provide insight to the emotional and ineffable response to overwhelming beauty and illuminate the inner workings of nature.
-
Jessica Calderwood
As an image-maker and sculptor, Jessica Calderwood’s works uniquely imbue statements that resonate with contemporary life. Her craftsmanship instills equal measures of chic and peculiarity. Working with the mediums of metal, enamel, glass, and porcelain, she combines the familiarity of traditional crafts with the industrial processes of metalworking and creates personal narratives, gender, relationships, and identity.
-
David Shingler
Specializing in painting oil on wood panels, which he personally builds, painter David Shingler creates unique and impressive images that are inspired by the dramatic scenery and the mystery of wild landscapes. His paintings have a sense of depth and kinetic energy that draw the viewer in. Originally focusing on sculpture and glassblowing, his understanding of various materials responding to natural forces become apparent in his work.
-
Ivy Jacobsen
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.
Her paintings are composed of many thin layers of oil paint, bronzing
powder, acrylic paint, resin, and other mixed media on panel.
-
Heather Hietala
Asheville artist, Heather Hietala, explores form, purpose, and design through experimentation with an array of materials. Many of Hietala’s sculptural objects embody sentiments of self and their connection to one’s journey through life. The vessel is often found in Hietala’s work and attests to her personal history and narrative. The duality of the vessel aligns with the intrinsic nature of Hietala’s work. That is, vessels are both universal and personal – signifying transport as well as a journey.
-
Mark Matthews
Mining 5,000 years of glass history as a rich source of inspiration,
Matthews has become internationally recognized for his mastery
of the glass sphere. He utilizes both modern and ancient techniques
to create everything from traditional swirls and lutz marbles to realistic
interpretations of animal pelts.
-
Paul Sattler
Paul Sattler’s imaginative and figurative paintings, drawings, prints and other two-dimensional art forms play out through vibrant colors and theatrical scenes. Drawing upon color theory and surrealism for inspiration, his works encourage questioning of one’s own reality. Paul received his MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington and BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously a professor of art at Boston University, Sattler is now Director of the Schick Art Gallery and Associate Professor Art at Skidmore College, where he has taught since 1998.
-
Seth Clark
Clark earned his BFA in Graphic Design, focusing primarily on print
design and alternative typography. During this time, he discovered
collage. This method of hands-on, spatial development took a major
role in his digital work as well as his physical works on wood and
paper. His drawings and paintings have shown nationally including
exhibitions in the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Chautauqua
Institution. Clark is a 2012 Flight School Fellow and was named
Pittsburgh’s 2015 Emerging Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh
Center for the Arts. He is the recipient of three Design Excellence
Awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Pittsburgh.
-
Mariella Bisson
Mariella Bisson deftly delineates the sculptural planes of her subjects creating refreshingly contemporary oil landscapes over collage underpaintings. Textures are built up through this process of layering, depicting the complex surface of stone and tree bark, lichen, and moss. Bisson's paintings demonstrate a strong understanding of formal composition and reflect a sensibility honed from the time she's spent immersed in the outdoors, evident through her understanding of the subtle interplay of light and shadow and her ability to convey the transparent quality of water moving over rocks. Of note, Bisson is a two-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant and was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in painting.
-
Andy Farkas
Andy Farkas is a beloved printmaker practicing the ancient art of moku hanga (woodblock print), originating in Japan. The images carved into Farkas' wood blocks are most often animals, embedded with charm and grace, featured in the vast wilderness. Quietly added to his depictions are typographical passages -- lessons, reminders, or uplifting sentiments -- which complete the narrative of the scene.
-
Vicki Grant
Vicki Grant was an accomplished architect before she became a well-collected ceramic artist. Her design principles are still clearly evident in her popular sculptural work which feature objects found in nature – shells, bark, stones, and reeds – as well as beads, wire, and other found objects. Each one of her wall hangings and three-dimensional pieces are truly unique, inspiring collectors to curate their own groupings for their home or office.
-
-
Vicki Grant, Quilted Whimsy Series - Q20004
-
Vicki Grant, Quilted Whimsy Series - QW20007
-
Vicki Grant, Quilted Whimsy Series - QW20001
-
Vicki Grant, Quilted Whimsy Series - QW20005
-
-
John L. Cleaveland, Jr.
John L. Cleaveland, Jr. (b. 1963) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Georgia. Known for his breathtakingly realistic oil paintings, Cleaveland offers viewers a timeless glimpse into the settings for Civil War battles, iconic southern scenes, as well as vast pastoral expanses of the United States and Europe. Cleaveland enjoys conveying perspective and qualities of light in remarkable detail – allowing for total immersion in the work. Standing in front of one of his large-scale oil paintings, you may feel as if you could walk right into the landscape before you.
-
Robert Bender
Artist Robert Bender creates glass sculptures by combining cast found objects and the human figure. Bender utilizes objects from everyday life, but alters the context in which they are seen, inviting the viewer to connect with these objects and ideas in a new light.
-
Ron Layport
The expertly detailed wood sculptures of Ron Layport are not assemblages – each is sculpted from a single piece of wood. Working directly from sustainably sourced fresh cut local hardwoods, Ron first turns the logs on the lathe, then sculpts and finishes the pieces by hand over a period of months. What may have begun as an eighty-pound cross-section of tree is reduced to a beautifully finessed vessel weighing less than two pounds by the time it goes to the pedestal.
-
Ani Kasten
Ceramicist Ani Kasten’s work is inspired by both natural phenomena and geological imagery. Through wheel-throwing and hand-building techniques Kasten explores the materiality of clay, utilizing stoneware, porcelain and locally sourced wild clays. She views the merging of these materials as an investigation – bringing light to the ever-changing nature of relationships.
-
-
Ani Kasten, Black Crackle Tea Bowl
-
Ani Kasten, Lavender & Green Tea Bowl
-
Ani Kasten, Yellow Tea Bowl
-
Ani Kasten, White Winter Landscape Bowls
-
Ani Kasten, Black Landscape Bowls
-
Ani Kasten, On the Rocks Cocktail Cup
-
Ani Kasten, Porcelain Egg Vase (Small)
-
Ani Kasten, Porcelain Egg Vase (Small)
-
