Albemarle Corporation Phase II Artwork Program

Artwork Collection

We strive to create a visual identity that signifies Albemarle’s company philosophy. The aesthetic of the program is designed to inspire, encourage and promote a creative atmosphere through multi-faceted artwork installations and sculptural work. The unifying principle of the selected artists lies in the quality of work and diversity in their artistry.

Each element of the program will contribute its own original voice, together representing the spirit of collaboration and the importance of a world perspective

RICHARD TAYLOR

Milwaukee, WI

Richard Taylor is a sculptor and a painter who uses three-dimensional metal forms as canvases for a variety of paint applications. His work is created primarily for site-specific locations and much of his work happens in a series. Taylor enjoys variations on the theme of visual language, and creating groups of pieces that are connected by their reference to communication.

VISUAL LANGUAGE Letterform + Communication

In line with Albemarle’s vision for space where ideas and communication can flow freely; the idea of visual language is a primary theme of the art program. The use of letterforms and symbols that represent modes of communication are the primary focus of Richard Taylor’s installation piece.

“I would like to title the larger wall sculpture ‘Onomatopoeia,’ and the smaller one ‘Silk Road.’

Onomatopoeia seems a fitting title, as it has a very literary reference, and rather resembles the word in its flow on the wall.

The play of letter forms works well with the whimsy of the word itself, and the piece ends up looking a bit what it sounds like and what it is titled. I think this title brings both meaning and a bit of humor to the piece.

Silk Road refers to the flow of people, culture, goods, and languages along the silk road to and from China centuries ago.

Again, the meaning is relevant to the letter like shapes, and to the sense of flow in this work. I see languages flowing back and forth along with the silk road as much as the flowing of goods.”

JOHN FOLSOM Paducah, Kentucky

Mixed media artist John Folsom received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. His work deals primarily with the way in which images of landscape are used or fictionalized to present a personal sense of place. Folsom’s photographic paintings utilize a mixed media process dealing with photography, painting, and wax.

CONNECTIVITY Water as a universal theme

The relationship to water is a universal connection that people of all walks of life can identify with. Our waters, oceans, and seas provide a pillar in the way we perceive our surroundings. John Folsom’s interpretation of water is an example of a view of water that illicitness a response of thoughtfulness, engagement, and introspection.

DOUG GLOVASKI Pacific Grove, California

Glovaski works with what appears before him and lets it unfold with some gentle, and sometimes not so gentle prodding, scraping, brushing. This collection of work was created specifically for Albemarle, focusing on the theme of energy and movement.

TRISH RAMSAY Huntsville, Texas

Trish Ramsay uses pliant materials such as wire, yarn, and wool to explore spatial tension between flat and dimensional, drawn and constructed. Working on the wall, she transforms space by referencing multiple perspectives. “Thought of a Thought” was created as the artist’s attempt to depict the creation of an idea.

“THOUGHT OF A THOUGHT”

MICHAEL BUSCEMI San Francisco, California

Buscemi is always in search of the spontaneous forms that seem to spring from movement. He finds himself always drawn to capture these forms as they emerge, caught in a moment of their evolution. Buscemi loves the freedom of expression that occurs when a gesture made by him is translated through “my brush� to the surface he is working with.

SARA ROHR

Dallas, Texas

Sara is southern photographer focusing on alternative processes in digital photography. Her nature-based abstract imagery is a study in how the human brain interprets what it perceives. Much of her photography involves layering basic elements with water, resulting in a fluid, dynamic abstract image.

ROB CARPENTER Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Rob Carpenter’s images result from multiple applications of chromatic and achromatic layers of ink. He uses various hand-drawn techniques to create surfaces that have the quality of weavings or tapestries.

These mark-making techniques also contribute to the quiet atmosphere that the images emit.

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MEREDITH PARDUE

Monroe, Louisiana

Pardue’s paintings are visual records of nature’s cycles of growth and decay. She combines the random actions of painting with controlled and deliberate mark making to describe each form, which is often floral or plantlike. Her abstract paintings aim to capture the human experience and its relationship to the natural world.

TRACEY ADAMS Carmel, California

Tracey is drawn to intersections: ideas that might seem to be at opposite ends of a continuum, like the organic and the geometric, are brought together in her work. Each work and each series is a kind of diary of Tracey’s explorations. Her ideas evolve as she applies her intellect, sense of order and sense of play to the images and materials at hand. Adams starts with a kernel of an idea in mind, but somewhere between intention and chance she always finds new energies and new directions.

She’s never quite sure how a painting will look when it’s finished.

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION Created as a compliment to the inspirational directive of the Albemarle’s corporate philosophy, this installation engages with the Albemarle team. The post it concept is an interactive installation that takes its direction from the responses given by employees to a variety of prompts that encourage creative thinking and positive introspection. The words “BE DO HAVE” will be applied to the wall in life-sized scale and will be a fun and thoughtful way for the Albemarle team to interact and communicate.

CORPORATE PHILOSOPHY Engaging the Team Questions to prompt answers from the Albemarle team 1) What three words describe the future you envision?

2) What is one word you would use to describe yourself as a child?

3) How do you recharge?

4) When are you the happiest?

6) If you were to start a company from scratch, what values would you build it on?

7) What characteristics to you most admire in others?

8) What kind of impact to you believe you have on people?

9) What super power would you like to have?

KEITH HARING

New York, New York

Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980’s by expressing the evolution of life through the human experience. Haring’s work was often heavily political and his imagery has become a widely recognized.

CHELSEA RAMIREZ

Brooklyn, New York

Chelsea’s work resides, primarily, in two-dimensional collage techniques rooted in drawing. Her draftsmanship quality creates life-size environments from interesting perspectives. For Albemarle, the artist will be drawing directly on the wall to create a dynamic environment that encourages collaboration.

JEN PACK

Durango, Colorado Jen Pack’s fabric constructions are created to allow light to pass through them, combining the effects of ambient light and translucent fabric. Her work is an investigation of color theory and the emotional impact color can have in triggering memories, ideas, and building interpersonal connections.

SELENA BEAUDRY Charlotte, North Carolina

All of Selena’s work is created by a series of marks or perhaps the lack of marks. She started cutting up her work, which led to the rediscovery of her visual language. Through this formal exercise of pushing her work in different directions, the compositions started to take on an energy and vibrancy of their own.

VIRGINIA SCOTCHIE

Columbia, South Carolina

Virginia Scotchie is a ceramic artist and area head of ceramics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. The idea of taking from one object and connecting it to another through the dissection of parts and pieces is a foundation of Scotchie’s recent work in ceramic sculpture.

ROBERT RECTOR

Slaughter, Louisiana

The panels were designed to personify the colors of landscapes from around the country. Using rectangles, the artist creates a dimensional life-sized installation--almost like figures walking down the corridor. The colors are layered to produce a variety of textures and colors that are inspired by the environment.

DIANE HANSON Dallas, Texas

Diane was born into a family of farmers in Southern Minnesota and grew up in the fields and barns of their land.

She’s continually inspired by man’s relationship to the environment and uses those memories to create narrative paintings blending agriculture, nature and the human experience.

DOUG KENNEDY Austin, Texas

The artist uses a variety of media to create washes of color with acrylic, oil, graphite, ink and conte marker. The canvases are painted outdoors when possible, painting from all directions to create a fluid atmosphere relating to the flora and fauna along the river banks of the Mississippi. The artist created this piece with a strong reference to the shape of the flower that mimics the shape of the wind turbines he sees in Texas, relating to Albemarle’s mission of sustainability and environmental consciousness.

MARIELLA BISSON Woodstock, New York

The artist’s work is based in drawing. She creates paintings and mixed media works on linen; layering veils of papers, fibers, and paint. “I use landscape elements of rock, forest and water to explore themes of time, light, gravity, change and constancy.”

MELISSA MORROW

Grand Rapids, Michigan

A formerly trained coatings engineer, Missy transitioned to a full time artist and illustrator depicting playful scenes with colorful birds, recognizable objects and using nostalgic color palettes. The pieces created for Albemarle were a commentary on looking to the natural world to create solutions to complex problems in the modern world.

MITCHELL GAUDET New Orleans, Louisiana

Gaudet’s work tends to take the form of a visual narrative.

He created a story with hand poured glass panels inlaid with images tied to the mission and company history of Albemarle. This implied image of interconnectedness of people and communities as well as the symbolic flow of water, ideas, commerce, and environmental concerns were important to me to convey as an important aspect of the installation.

MEL DEWEES

Houston, Texas

A Cooper Union Graduate, Mel Dewees has been a full-time painter living in the South focusing on creating realistic and dimensional depictions of water through multiple layers to develop depth and movement. The pair of water paintings was created to compliment the atrium with a soft energy and reference the universal theme of water, reinforcing the companies theme of a global perspective.

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