AUTUMN 2023 | SELECT GALLERY ARTISTS

AUTUMN 2023 SELECT GALLERY ARTISTS

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AUTUMN 2023 SELECT GALLERY ARTISTS

ARTISTS FEATURED: ISABELLE ABBOT MAC BALL KAREN BLAIR JIM BUMGARDNER ALISON COOLEY FLEMING CUNNINGHAM DAVID DOUGLAS VM FISK

JOHN GRANT CLAY JOHNSON FRANK PHILLIPS CAMERON RITCHER ERLING SJOVOLD ALAIN VAES KAZAAN VIVEIROS DENNIS WINSTON SARAH BOYTS YODER

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ISABELLE ABBOT Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA Abbot studied art at the University of Virginia with painters Richard Crozier and Philip Geiger and earned her Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

STATEMENT Every painting is a series of questions I pose to myself, about the landscape, about my relationship to my environment, about the specificities of where I am. How does this moment feel? How does the atmosphere, the topography, the light affect me? How can I communicate these sensations honestly and clearly? The answers come through editing, through paring down and cutting out extraneous detail to discover what is essential about a place.

The answer also comes through using paint as an investigative tool that can take on the textures and colors of earth and sky, allowing me to reconstruct my surroundings on the canvas.

All the work begins with direct observation and, by asking and answering questions, grows into a painting that does not illustrate but embodies the qualities of a particular moment in a particular landscape. I am a painter of a very specific region and I want my viewers to feel instinctively where these paintings come from. I am paying homage, as well as feeding my own need to be oriented, to be grounded, to know where I am and to feel connected to that place.and the beaten. I aim to create a quiet calm to the work that is still able to convey a stoic presence.

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Long View, Gentle Light, 2023 Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 inches $4,600

Frost, Warm Light, 2023 Oil on Canvas 36 x 48 inches $6,600

First Step, 2023 Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 inches $4,600

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MAC BALL Lives and works in New Orleans, LA Artist and architect Mac Ball finds inspiration in riverine environments and coastal southern landscapes. Raised along the waterways and marshes of Charleston, South Carolina, he now resides in New Orleans where he has been witnessing an ever-increasing crisis of land loss and environmental devastation.

Since Hurricane Katrina, his architectural firm has been rebuilding the City and has focused on sustainable water management.

Waggonner & Ball has teamed with experts from the Netherlands to weave stormwater management concepts into urban design initiatives and coastal stormwater projects in Connecticut, Norfolk, Charleston and Houston.

Mac’s love of Louisiana’s coastal landscape and a fascination with the way water alters one’s perception of the environment has fundamentally changed his artistic direction in this time of sea level rise. Counterpoised with coastal imagery, a fascination with the source and movement of water that flows to the sea has also born a body of work that is focused on movement and the refraction of light and color that plays upon highland streams.

“Climate change will continue to erode and transform landscapes and waterways, yet Earth will continue to yield magic and beauty throughout this ongoing and inevitable process. My hope is that my work will, for a brief moment, capture the materiality and light, the feel, of this ephemeral threshold in time.”

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Cypress Pond, 2021 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches $3,400

Bitterroot 67, 2019 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $5,000

Farm on Old Darby Road, Como MT, 2021 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches $3,400

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KAREN BLAIR Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA Karen Blair lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where the surrounding mountains provide daily inspiration for her work. Her own garden and those of friends inspire the flowers and trees also prevalent in the paintings and collages. There is constant tension between depicting the natural world and finding the essence of things through abstraction. Blair is known for her joyous use of color and for exuberant mark-making. She shares her life with her husband Jimmy Jackson and a Brittany named Remi.

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Fog Lifting, 2016 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $4,500

Late Summer, 2014 Oil on canvas 76 x 79 inches $12,000

River Walk I, 2019 Mixed media on oil paper 30 x 23 inches $1500 unframed

Clear Tomorrow Mixed media on canvas 43 x 43 inches $6,500 9

THE ESTATE OF JIM BUMGARDNER James (Jim) Bumgardner (1935–2015) was an expressionist/figurative painter, multi-media artist, and a Virginia Commonwealth University professor of art in the VCU School of the Arts. As an undergraduate student at Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), Bumgardner was encouraged by his mentor Jewett Campbell to study with the notable Art Students League of New York instructor Hans Hoffman (1880–1966), and Bumgardner received the last scholarship given by Hoffman, a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.

Using his scholarship, Bumgardner studied with Hoffman in Provincetown in 1957, during which time he became friends with gallery director Richard Bellamy and artist Jan Müller. In 1963 in Richmond Jim Bumgardner and Jon Bowie co-directed a series of multi-media events or “happenings”. The first was called “Synthesis” and was influenced by the productions of Allan Kaprow and the ONCE Festival of New Music of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

After “Synthesis” Bumgardner and Jon Bowie invited notable outside performance and visual artists who joined in a series of annual “Bang, Bang, Bang Arts Festival” happenings in Richmond.

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Deltaville River Window (RW 5), 2008 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, & graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches $1,000 unframed

River Window (RW 4-1), 2004 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, & graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches $1,000 unframed

Belle Isle en Mar (BI), 2002 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches $1,000 unframed

Deltaville River Window (RW 4-7), 2004 Pastel, watercolor, gouache, & graphite on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches $1,000 unframed 11

ALLISON COOLEY Lives and works in Savannah, GA STATEMENT Growing up in Washington, with its specifically humid climate, I was always attuned to atmospheres and changing weather patterns. It’s basically what I paint. Most recently I’ve taken this ambient abstraction into a much more intimate zone - an exploration of daily, mostly anonymous, interactions. So often we are thrown into surprising intimacy with strangers and the encounter is visceral. The scent of a wet coat, the recognition of a song leaking from ear buds, the unexpected look at a shaving cut can momentarily engage us in a stranger’s world.

A passerby may stun us with an unexpected phrase, captivate us with whimsical makeup, or bury us deep in shadow like a thunderhead. The throwaway exchanges between people navigating a city - invasive and vulnerable, connected yet disconnected - build intricate, fleeting microclimates. My work acts as a collective portraiture, capturing the shifting fronts and clouds of humans moving through and around each other, leaving elements in their wake.

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Luce 3000, 2022 Mixed media on yupo paper 36 x 26 inches $1,000 unframed

Elysium 7000x, 2022 Acrylic ink, vinyl paint, plastic & pen on canvas 48 x 48 inches $6,000

Luce 3100, 2022 Mixed media on yupo paper 36 x 26 inches $1,000 unframed 13

FLEMING CUNNINGHAM Lives and works in Virginia Fleming Cunningham earned her MFA in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University and has exhibited with Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, VA since 2002. She is in many public and private collections including The Polaroid Collection, Martha Jefferson Hospital, and the Capital One Collection.

STATEMENT “For several years, I worked for a florist, cutting thorns from roses, removing yellow pollen from flower stamens, flipping tulip petals inside out, and carefully pushing wire through drooping stems.

During these quiet hours, I gained a deep appreciation for the unique characteristics and the marvelous minute details of many flowers and plants.

In the late 1990s when I was in graduate school, the predominant images of flowers were photographed with dramatic lighting against a black background. Once I began work in the studio, I wanted to photograph the plants I knew so well in a much different manner, an approach that I have used ever since. Photographing one or two flowers complexly lit from all angles against a plain white background showed off the characteristics that, for me, made them remarkable – the looping fluidity of stems, the subtle gradations or exuberant contrasts of color, sharp needles jutting from a pin-cushion flower head, the beehive texture of a stamen, and the intricate veins inside the smoothest petal.”

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Poppies Family Creation, 2020 Archival ink on watercolor paper, Edition of 10 24 x 36 inches $1500 unframed

Red and Pink Poppies, 2020 Archival ink on watercolor paper, Edition of 10 36 x 24 inches $1500 unframed

Three Pink Poppies,, 2020 Archival ink on watercolor paper, Edition of 10 36 x 24 inches $1500 unframed

Poppies Family Red, 2020 Archival ink on watercolor paper, Edition of 10 24 x 36 inches $1500 unframed

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DAVID DOUGLAS Lives and works in Northern Virginia

Working at the intersection of drawing, painting and photography, David A. Douglas creates large-scale works that explore the power of place. Depicting personally significant landscapes on a monumental scale, Douglas offers the viewer the opportunity to enter his visual world and experience the potency that underlies each moment.

Amplifying the inner beauty within the ordinary, Douglas’ works resonate with the intensity of a poem, simply stated yet somehow glowing with life from the inside out Although the works appear to be photographs, Douglas’ method incorporates drawing and painting techniques as well. Trained first as a painter, Douglas came to use photography in mid-career, primarily as an offshoot of his work as a teacher. Although he now collects his imagery through a camera lens, his pieces still come into being through a process much more akin to painting. Image fragments are brought together with conscious attention focused on formal compositional elements. While drawn from specific and personally impactful landscapes, a finished work will most likely be made of parts from multiple places at once and is a depiction more of the artists’ vision rather than a specific place. In this way, Douglas imbues each scene with a luscious and beautifully confounding incongruity. These qualities are subtle. One has to look closely, but the reward is layered and sublime.

Nancy Sausser, Exhibitions director MPA

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Moving Day, 2022 Mixed media on panel 50 x 75 inches $9,000

Early Morning in the Valley, 2019 Mixed media on panel 70 x 74 inches $12,000

Large Study, Early Mountain Vineyard, 2019 Mixed media on panel 50 x 50 inches $6,000

Next Door 1789, 2021 Mixed media on panel 50 x 69 inches $8,500

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VM FISK Lives and works in Richmond, VA VM Fisk (Mads) was born and raised on a farm near the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia. She studied painting and video art at California Institute of the Arts and sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Interdisciplinary artist Fisk explores shape, line and color using a wide range of materials and practices. Fisk’s work offers a window into the ways she is working through, and working with, nuerodivergency. By combining various geometric forms with saturated color palettes, the artist evokes a wide array of cognitive maps tinted with emotion. These works trace out the pattern-making and connection-seeking tendencies of their creator’s mind, and draw attention to both a literally and figuratively skewed perspective inherent within the artwork.

STATEMENT - Thought Traps + Mind Mazes “Born out of a period of intense self-discovery following a diagnosis of adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), these abstract works acknowledge and embody aspects of my mental and artistic processes. Each piece is simultaneously an illustration of a thought process and a cathartic meditation, as I engage with sense-making through my studio practice and interrogate the ways in which my mind operates.”

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V M Fisk RGB18, 2021 Acrylic and wood 48 x 37 inches $4,000

BRP26/Big Pink, 2021 Acrylic and wood 58 x 44 inches $6,000

YRB13/wonder woman, 2021 Acrylic and wood 22 x 44 inches $2,800 19

JOHN GRANT Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA Local to the DMV area, John Grant is photographer/artist who is best known for his inventive botanical works. He has twice received high recognition from Kew Garden’s, London, in their “International Garden Photographer of the Year” competition.

His works are represented in major collections world-wide including Capital One, The United States Federal Reserve, and many other private collections.

Unlike traditional photography, which demands the artist shoot film to be brought back into the darkroom and developed into an image, Grant goes out into the world and takes his subject home with him. Collecting blossoms from his personal spring gardens and across Central Virginia’s naturally bountiful landscape, Grant returns to the studio to scan the botanical material at a high resolution. These hauntingly detailed floral studies embrace the often clichéd or sentimental botanical portrayal, presenting objects in ways that infuse them with an enigmatic quality that expands expectations and tweaks the imagination.

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White Cleome, 2022 Archival pigment print 14 x 14 inches, 17 x 22 paper $1,200

Sheep, 2022 Digital archival print 30 x 30 inch image, 36 x 36 inch paper $1,500 unframed

Seascape, 2022 Digital archival print 30 x 30 inch image, 36 x 36 inch paper $1500 unframed

Circus Today, 2023 Archival pigment print 21 x 21 inches on 24 inch paper $1,200 unframed 21

CLAY JOHNSON Lives and works in Laramie, WY Clay Johnson was born in Durham, North Carolina, where he studied art and art history at Duke University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1985. He then worked for several years as assistant to the painter Robert Natkin in Connecticut and New York City. He began showing paintings from his first series of mature work in 1998, and has since exhibited in galleries across the United States and in Europe. His work is represented in collections around the world.

Clay began work on his Strata Series shortly after relocating to Wyoming, and, while non-objective in nature, the paintings convey a sense of the wide open landscape of the American west.

The Atomic Series continues his exploration of formal concerns—light, color, texture—while introducing a more narrative element inspired by the interactions of subatomic particles.

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East of Bordeaux, 2022 Acrylic on wood panel 36 x 36 inches $6,500

Atomic Painting #6, 2023 Acrylic on wood panel 48 x 48 inches $10,000

Andrew’s Refrain, 2022 Acrylic on wood panel 36 x 36 inches $6,500 23

FRANK PHILLIPS Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA Frank P. Phillips has been professionally creating art for over 20 years. He, his wife Meg, daughter Bess, and brood of animals live in the greater Charlottesville area. Phillips works at St. Anne’sBelfield School, where he teaches Painting, Drawing, and is Chair of the Arts. He received his BA with High Honors from Hobart College in 1997 and received his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2005.

STATEMENT “My work uses a flat plane to convey the visual ideas of construction, mass, and volume. The formally arranged imagery is all invented, but takes cues from architecture and engineering (materials and the structures themselves), as well as the erosion and the decay of perceived ruin. The display of process is an integral component to the work; it tracks the time, mistakes, revisions, and the experience used to arrive to a resolved composition. The end results are pieces that embrace surface and relate the ideas of: the used, the weathered, the discarded, and the beaten. I aim to create a quiet calm to the work that is still able to convey a stoic presence.”

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OLR 212, 2023 Acrylic and graphite on paper 44 x 31 inches $2,750 unframed

Miss Virginia, 2022 Acrylic and graphite on paper 36 x 24 inches $2,000 unframed

OLR 101, 2022 Acrylic and graphite on paper 44 x 31 inches $2,750 unframed 25

ERLING SJOVOLD Lives and works in Richmond, VA Erling Sjovold’s work shows the deep influence of camping and backpacking trips in California when he was a child.

Erling Sjovold grew up in Santa Barbara, graduated from Cal Berkeley, and lived in the upper Mojave desert before leaving California in his mid-twenties to pursue an MFA at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

Sjovold has enjoyed a number of grants and residency awards including the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, Ragdale, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Jessie Ball DuPont Summer Fellowship at the National Center for the Humanities, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship.

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Flatwater, 2016 Oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches $3,000

Whitewatermash, 2013 Oil and acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 inches $7,500

Rapid Twin 2, 2014-15 Oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 34 inches $5,000 27

CAMERON RITCHER Lives and works in Richmond, VA Cameron is a nationally represented non-objective painter and assemblage artist. He graduated from James Madison University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art. He accepted the school’s award for a graduating senior with a concentration in painting, among numerous other awards and scholarships. He currently works from his home studio in Richmond, VA, where he lives with his wife, Emily, and their cat, Louie.

Abbreviated Statement “Often, the greatest innovations come not from abundance but from scarcity.

I like to play a game in the studio where the only rule is that I cannot buy new materials. Instead, I try to convince myself that there is already a good painting somewhere in my studio, in the heaps of scraps from previous works and housing renovations and rusted buckets of salvaged house paint. While my marks maintain a childlike innocence, the weathered materials evoke nostalgia. When combined with the structural organization of the pieces, this suggests an urban, industrial history, and yet does not impose any concrete narrative on the viewer. The process of painting, cropping, and reassembling allows me to synthesize disparate ideas, in order to create works that are simultaneously spontaneous and available to the accident, yet is entirely within my control.​

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Red Cloud (Blue Cloud), 2023 Mixed media on panel 48 x 36 inches $5,800

Outside Man’s Jurisdiction, 2023 Mixed media on panel 48 x 48 inches $6,500

Egypt Bend, 2023 Mixed media on cut + assembled wood panel 30 x 36 inches $4,860 29

ALAIN VAES Lives and works in New York I am drawn to depicting dense scenes populated by the beautiful and the hideous, where the dominant pattern slowly reveals the presence of a rich natural world filled with flowers, plants, animals and insects, slightly ominous, luscious and teaming with life.

The repetition of the tension between prey and predator such as in “Crows and Toads” interests me.

On a formal level, I like the abstraction created by a repeating pattern. Familiar with the work of M.C. Escher and William Morris, I am intrigued by the idea of a single composition repeating as a tessellation. In mathematics, to tessellate is to cover a plane by repeated use of a single shape without gaps or overlaps.

Each painting in this series is made up of an individual composition replicated many times, as in fabric or wallpaper. Only the size of the canvas limits a pattern that could go on indefinitely.

Painting the same thing over and over again is a meditative process that comes with an array of feelings and surprises.

As I execute each repeat, the result evolves in various ways. It is my hope that the paintings do not appear static, but evoke movement and energy and intrigue the viewer.

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Bluejays and Grapes, 2011 Acrylic on canvas 50 x 46 inches $8,500

All Seagulls, 2013 Acrylic on canvas 50 x 46 inches $8,000

Run of the Salmon, 2011 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 60 inches $19,500 31

KAZAAN VIVEIROS Lives and works in New Jersey My paintings incorporate invention and observation, mind and matter. The work is diverse. Some works focus on marine life, the transformative power of landscape, or the complex lives of trees. My abstract series uses geometry to explore concepts of mechanics, natural phenomenon, ecology, and natural and designed systems. The compositions feature crossing pathways, complementary forces of yin and yang, and interconnected paths flowing through undefined space. The forms within reference a varied list of sources, such as shifting tides, evolution, or the concept of infinity and perpetual motion.

Each project I’ve pursued reflects an aspect of my core interests— each has involved the same philosophy and worldview. My focus is on the human connection to the natural world, the point of intersection between man and environment; the idea that we are part of, not apart from, Nature; that we are connected to all life in a continuum; that there is an underlying pattern and flow to all things; that we should learn from nature, not commodify it; that you can see the macrocosm in the microcosm—the universe in a single leaf; that, as designer Charles Eames said, “Eventually, everything connects.

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Marsh XIII, 2017 Acrylic on paper 30 x 22 inches $1,200

Color Play, 2023 30 x 24 inches Acrylic, flashe on canvas $2,100

Road X, 2017 Acrylic on paper 30 x 22 inches $1,200

Ripple, 2023 Acrylic, flashe on canvas 30 x 24 inches $2,100 33

DENNIS WINSTON Lives and works in Richmond, VA Dennis R. Winston is a Virginia artist and educator. He is a graduate of Norfolk State University and the University of Richmond and has done post-graduate work at the University of Colorado and Virginia Commonwealth University. He has served on the faculties of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia State University and the Governor’s School of South Carolina. He retired as the Coordinator of Arts Education and the Humanities Center for the Richmond Public Schools.

Winston has received honors both locally and nationally as an artist and as an educator. He has been included in an educational multimedia series entitled, “African American Artists: Past and Present,” and recently was included in the textbook publication “Below the Surface; Ethnic Echoes in America’s Modern and Contemporary Art”.

The woodcut print is his primary medium of expression and his themes are concerned with the everyday reality of human existence. The woodcut allows him to use a bold and direct black and white approach in his work. He endeavors to capture telling moments in the lives of ordinary people and his community. It is an attempt to reveal something of their character, the history that has shaped them, and the spirit that sustains them.

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Nightscape, 2022 Woodcut on mulberry paper framed 21 x 24 inches $1,400

Let’s Be Friends, 2017 Hand-pulled woodcut on mulberry paper 21 1/2 x 28 inches $1,500 framed

Charlotte’s Bonnet, 2022 Woodcut / mixed media on mulberry paper 16 x 20 inches $1,000 35

SARAH BOYTS YODER Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA Sarah Boyts Yoder is a painter based in Charlottesville, VA. She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in 2006. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, exhibitions, and corporate and private collections throughout the United States and abroad, including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. Sarah has been the recipient of a professional fellowship in painting from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and has been a fellow multiple times at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and 100W Corsicana in Corsicana, TX. STATEMENT “In a world that all too often insists on inevitability and separateness, Boyts Yoder’s paintings are playful refusals of these false assurances and fixedness. Using a visual lexicon of symbols she has generated over time, each work articulates how space constantly extends and collapses all around us and how joyfully form can evade our need for categorization.

What emerges are welcoming and engaging spaces for imaginative play, a celebratory take on color and material, and an invitation to open up. In this context, Boyts Yoder sees the paintings as hopeful, optimistic acts, and the mode of abstraction as a generous state of being.”

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Blocked Out, 2022 Mixed media on paper 30 x 22 inches $1,600

Summer Jewels 1, 2022 Acrylic, ink, tempera on canvas 32 x 32 inches $3,200

Suns Set, 2022 Mixed media on paper 30 x 22 inches $1,600 37

AUTUMN 2023 SELECT GALLERY ARTISTS

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