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 Margaret Clark
Margaret Clark's images reflect the effect of Media on the American psyche. She contrasts elements of mundane, like a typical suburban street, against emblems of nostalgia. Clarke points to the need in American culture to covet the object, and how that has changed over time to include objectifying the female body: an image of a teapot juxtaposed with a female torso. In some instances, her artwork compare cultures, showing us the similarities between American Glamour and African Tribal Dress. |
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Ryan Seng
Ryan Seng strives to create something all together unique on canvas from his
intense observations about the world around him. Mozart's opera, The
Magic Flute for subject material liberated Seng to create
something real out of a fanciful situation. Of his opera themed paintings, the artist says "I found myself able to relate to the nonsense [in the opera] by comparing those events to ones in my life that made very little sense".
In his landscapes, Ryan Seng
always weaves an element of allegory and metaphor, causing the viewer to
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 Suzanne Archibald
Suzanne says the unpredictability of the everyday informs her abstract works. Her line drawings act as the structure of each piece, then she layers on patches of color to illustrate the changing meaning of images throughout our lives. Suzanne Archibald received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and has exhibited her work in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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 Sheila Baldwin
Sheila Baldwin's landscapes and botanical paintings explore the relationship of objects and their environment. Her floral works, for example, are more focused on capturing the essence of the flower and the fence it grows near, rather than the flower itself. Of her work she says "My Goal is not to depict representational landscapes, but to evoke the intangibles intrinsic to all subjects." She has had solo exhibitions in Tennessee, and has her works exhibited in museums in Indiana, Alabama, and Tennessee. Her work belongs to the collections of McGraw Hill Companies and the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama.
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 James Juett
James Juett derives inspiration from articles of consumer culture and their effect on our psyche. He brings world events and items like salt container or the television, into the realm of classical still-life painting of still life. He approaches packaged goods with the same range that he employs painting techniques. Influenced by a wide variety of art historical genres, Juett claims that "a new type of work is created by combining my artistic interests in Pop Art, Surrealism, or in the use of color, for example, Expressionism".
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