Quirk Gallery Artist Catalog

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Quirk Gallery Represented Artists

Represented Artists

Allan Rosenbaum……..………...……...............4-11 Kathleen Markowitz………….........................12-17 Jeanie Keys……………………...…………….18-25 Sean Donlon…………….……….………….....26-31 Seth Bauserman………….…..………….…....32-39 Shelly Klein……………...….…………….…....40-47 Riley Goodman……………………….………..48-55

ALLAN ROSENBAUM

Allan Rosenbaum “My practice is a visual inquiry in which I use labor and material to explore the intersection of craft, painting and sculpture. I am focused on the way the hand can slow the eye to create an experience.

My current body of work began with a desire to repurpose an inherited collection of neckties and fabric scraps from family sewing projects—materials that speak about who we are and what we do. Accumulated over decades, the scraps are a memorial—to time spent on selection, the labor of execution, and the memory of use. Seeking to expand beyond personal associations, I built a collection of materials from diverse geographies and histories: feed sacks, quiltmaker’s scrap, deadstock, vintage kimonos and dutch wax fabric. I have developed forms and processes in response to the patterns and shapes within these materials.

Through strategies of layering and accretion I seek out the unfamiliar and the mutability of beauty. As my work has evolved I continue to celebrate qualities associated with craft— material, texture, repetition and pattern—that have long been central to my artistic production.”

Bio Allan Rosenbaum is a full time studio artist and former Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Craft and Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. His grants, fellowships and awards include two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts; two research leaves from the School of the Arts at VCU; two VCU faculty research grants; a Teaching Excellence Grant from VCU, a Distinguished Service Award from the Visual Art Center of Richmond and three project grants from the Wisconsin Arts Board. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in public collections including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Arkansas Art Center Decorative Arts Museum; Madison Art Center; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama, the City of Richmond Public Art Commission, and the Kamm Teapot Foundation. @allanrosenbaumstudio www.allanrosenbaum.com

Stolen Moments; 19”h x 24”w x 9”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $4000

Charger; 15”h x 18”w x 5”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $2000

There and Back; 17”h x 12”w x 4”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint, felted wool; 2021, $2500

Round About; 22.5h x 25"w x 7.5"d; epoxy clay, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $3000

Big X; 18”h x 35”w x 6”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $3500

Price List- Allan Rosenbaum 1. Title Page- In Tandem; 22”h x 18”w x 6”; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint, 2020, $2500 2. Floating Points; 42"h x 13"w x 7”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint, gold leaf; 2021,$4200 3. Collar; 27”h x 22”w x 8”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2022, $4500 4. Stolen Moments; 19”h x 24”w x 9”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $4000 5. Charger; 15”h x 18”w x 5”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $2000 6. There and Back; 17”h x 12”w x 4”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint, felted wool; 2021, $2500 7. Round About; 22.5h x 25"w x 7.5"d; epoxy clay, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $3000 8. Big X; 18”h x 35”w x 6”d; resin, repurposed textiles, fabric, paint; 2021, $3500

KATHLEEN MARKOWITZ

Kathleen Markowitz

Kathleen Markowitz is a Richmond painter, whose complex, layered and faceted surfaces consider the energy in memory and evidence, weaving the intersecting paths of synapses into a loose and luscious textile. Markowitz's paintings often originate as personal and journalistic, but fluidly transform from the particular to the universal through her processes of interpretation, releasing the paintings outward from intimate titles into an inter- netting of universal experiences.

kathleenmarkowitz.com @katmarkowitz

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Wild With Affection, acrylic on panel, 12x12 inches, $800

Gabriel's Oboe, acrylic, crayon, marker, graphite, 36×36 inches, $3,200

Hum, acrylic, graphite, watercolor on panel 36×36 inches, $3,200

Price List- Kathleen Markowitz 1. 3:10 To Yuma, acrylic, carpet, hand-stitched drop cloth, nails, corrugated cardboard, spray paint on panel, 30×30”, $2,800 2. Again The Mockingbird, acrylic, flashe, liquid watercolor, waxed pencil, 48x36”, $4,000 3. Migration of Another Sort 3, 36 x 36”, Mixed media on panel, $3,500 a. Sky Rodeo 1-3, 12 x 12”, mixed media on panel, $850/ea.

4. Wild With Affection, acrylic on panel, 12x12”, $800 5. Gabriel's Oboe, acrylic, crayon, marker, graphite, 36×36”, $3,200 6. Hum, acrylic, graphite, watercolor on panel 36×36”, $3,200

JEANIE KEYS

Jeanie Keys “Our human nature deeply desires expression. Thoughts and feelings run through our "station" and like antennas, we open our senses to what is invisible to the eye. I have the desire to bring my inner world to expression. Imagination is in place to work from.

Imagination balanced with trusted foundation. Oil paint is my medium. I was practiced in watercolor for 30 years where I developed a style of the obvious in my communication. How I perceived the world painting people, places and things as my subjects, I gained national recognition during my partnership with Nordstrom Department Stores. Pulling from my former background in the graphic arts, advertising and marketing, I developed a product of my colorful watercolors. The prints were featured and sold through Nordstrom's Gift Department along with other smaller stores across our nation. I not only created the images.....I ran the business and built the product.

Today my inspiration comes from subtle feelings. My interest lies in philosophy, dream and vision work along with mythology and eastern thought. I interpret through my own experiences of emotional understanding , what I have learned what lies behind, underneath and "lost". I am in love with the irrational, abstract symmetry of thought and imagination working in tandem to create paintings. I do not title my work after completion. The viewer is independent to discover and follow their own imaginative sense trail in the reflection.”

Untitled, oil paint, charcoal and plastic on canvas, 36x18, $2,000

Landscaped Still, oil on canvas, 24 x 36” inches, $2,400

Bio Flowers influenced my life since childhood, from the stylized floral embroidery I learned from my Hungarian mother to the dozens of splendid peony bushes in the gardens where I played.

There was always a colorful vase of handpicked flowers on the table in the summer. I was fascinated with surface decorations, patterns and family place settings. The delicious kitchen smells and sound of preparation remain clear, adding dimension to the experience.

Painting flowers and vases within imaginary environments is my emotional marking, translating the warmth I feel from the past.

The paintings are visual journeys between reality and imagination in time. It is an emotional response to form and color beyond representation.

I think about the fragility, the beauty, the symbolism and the grace of flowers as a reminder of the miraculous life moments we hold in our hands.

The Round Space and Rapt Below, oil on canvas, 24 x 30”, $2,400

Price List- Jeanie Keys 1. Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 32 x 42”, $3,000 2. Untitled, oil paint, charcoal and plastic on canvas, 36x18, $2,000 3. Landscaped Still, oil on canvas, 24 x 36” inches, $2,400 4. Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30”, $2,400 5. The Round Space and Rapt Below, oil on canvas, 24 x 30” inches, $2,400 Jeaniecollinkeys.com @jeaniekeys

SEAN DONLON

Sean Donlan “We are surrounded daily by functional objects, beauty everywhere is easily overlooked when it is hidden in plain view. My fascination with teapots began when I grasped the beauty in its simplicity. Being overwhelmed in this simplicity of an epiphany was breathtaking. It was never important to me until I realized what I had overlooked—until I considered teapots a canvas for artistic expression.

Becoming obsessed with this practical object turned into an opportunity to make sense of the world. The teapot became a symbol in my eyes, one that could be recognized by people of all ages, languages, and different cultures. Throughout history teapots have be used as a canvas for expression through its maker or utilitarian user. This makes the teapot a greater symbol—one that can connect everyone on the principle of taking a moment to wind down, interact with each other, tell stories, or internally reflect.

I use flameworking, a glassblowing technique, to create these teapots. I use teapots as sculptural objects in my work because they are universal.

Within the manipulation of glass and fire a unique vessel is born. This inanimate object becomes vibrant and alive when juxtaposed in a foreign environment; I love how every teapot manifests its own personality in these installations of community. Reflecting light off of each other and playing with their surrounding environment, these teapots, in every viewing angle become their own story—their own conversation—their own idea—or forgotten memory that jars back to life right before one's eyes”.

Mirrored Teapot + Cup I, flameworked and mirrorized glass, variable dimensions, $450

Mirrored Teapot + Cup II, flameworked and mirrorized glass, variable dimensions, $450

Installation example (private collection)

Bio Since his first day melting glass into a clear marble, Sean Donlon has been drawn to the challenges of glass manipulation. Sean earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Craft and Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012. He then traveled to Lauscha, Germany to study glass eye prosthetics from a third generation glass making family. In addition to receiving multiple research grants, Sean was a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts fellowship,and recently Craft + Designs 2016 Best in Show Award. He is currently a full-time artist and the founder of Mule Barn Craft Studios, a collaborative art space in Richmond, Virginia with a conceptual craft focus.

Seandonlondesign.com @donlonglass

SETH BAUSERMAN

Seth Bauserman Seth Bauserman’s drawings are more question than statement. Each piece is a series of layers that hide and obscure, blend and conflict—each mimicking in color, texture, and form the process by which people come to understand or remain blind to the truth about their selves.

The drawings in this series begin as layers of individual marks made upon paper. Each layer is then shaped and reshaped to conceal, emphasize, or transform the individual marks. Each is a record of presence and absence; forms made of simple strokes and their own negations.

A socio-political moment fraught with caricatures of groups and carelessness with words demands a visual idiom of careful perception and focused intention.

These works invite introspection and instead of reaction—a visual space to consider the complex and layered nature of identity as a remedy to the flattening and simplifying of identity politics.

Metastasis, mixed media on canvas, 38 x 38 inches, framed, price on request

02/20/2022 1:58 p. m., 18 x 18”, oil pencil, graphite, oil stick, spray paint, charcoal, and paper, on wood panel, price on request

04/03/22 3:55 p.m., 18x18”, pencil, pastel, oil stick, and paper on wood panel, price on request

Bio

Seth Bauserman lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. Through a combination of materials and techniques, his work contemplates the complex and layered nature of identity. He is a recipient of a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship.

Sethbauserman.com @seth_bauserman

Iceberg Study #7, pencil and paint on paper, 23" x 30", price on request

Iceberg Study #5, pencil and paint on paper, 23" x 30", price on request

Overview- Seth Bauserman 1. Born Into A Pandemic, mixed media on canvas, 60 x 64 inches 2. Metastasis, mixed media on canvas, 38 x 38 inches, framed 3. SAVED, 24 x 28”, mixed media on wood 4. Iceberg Study #4, pencil and paint on paper, 23" x 30" 5. 02/20/2022 1:58 p. m., 18 x 18”, oil pencil, graphite, oil stick, spray paint, charcoal, and paper, on wood panel, price on request 6. 04/03/22 3:55 p.m., 18x18”, pencil, pastel, oil stick, and paper on wood panel, price on request 7. Iceberg Study #7, pencil and paint on paper, 23" x 30" 8. Iceberg Study #5, pencil and paint on paper, 23" x 30"

SHELLY KLEIN

Shelly Klein “I’m a homebody and always have been. Home to me feels like a secret, like how it felt as a child to stay home sick from school. Nobody else gets to see the specific angle of the sun shining through the window at midday. It’s just for me. I work, I take a break, I clean, I drink coffee. I measure my time at home. This life is a dream, and these works are a dream journal. Glimpses and tidbits of the safest place. A love letter.

As a practicing fine artist and creative director of an art-based product line, k studio, I feel fortunate to have two outlets for creating images. I’ve spent some years focusing on the product side of my practice, but I feel it is important to switch gears, look inside, and see what comes to the surface when I enter the studio without the constraints of commerce at the forefront of my mind.”

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Sunshine Day, 48” x 36”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $2800

House Pallette, 48” x 36”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $2800

Studio View Summer, 48” x 36”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $2800

Bio Shelly Klein lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is best known for her product line, k studio. A fine artist by training (she earned her BFA in Painting from Kendall College of Art & Design), Shelly launched k studio in 2004 to bring her artwork to a broader audience. Today, the studio produces a full line of art-based products comprising embroidered pillows, accessories, and framed art, which are sold through online and brickand-mortar retailers around the world. www.kstudiohome.com @kstudioshelly

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Rug, 40” x 30”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $1950

Many Moons, 24” x 20”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $790

Pricelist- Shelly Klein

1. Sunny Day Spectacular, 40” x 30”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $1950 2. Sunshine Day, 48” x 36”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $2800 3. House Pallette, 48” x 36”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $2800 4. Studio View Summer, 48” x 36”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $2800 5. Leggy Geraniums, 48” x 36”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $2800 6. Rug, 40” x 30”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $1950 7. Many Moons, 24” x 20”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $790

RILEY GOODMAN

Riley Goodman “2022 marks my eighth year living in Richmond, Virginia- four spent in undergrad at VCUarts, and now four as an emerging artist. I never imagined the impact that coming of age in this city would afford me.

Richmond became a shelter to take refuge in as I endured the universally difficult journey of leaving my childhood home for the first time. To live in Richmond, a city alive with its own history, is to be surrounded by generations who called it home before me. Glints of afternoon sunlight create movie-like sets in hundredyear-old apartment buildings, jazz music radiates from an indiscernible car, someone’s initials have been carved into your basement door- everything brushes the threshold of reality and fiction, our present only a continuation of the movie the city has been directing for over three hundred years. It is the almost indescribable everyday magic of Richmond that has allowed me to become the photographer and person I am today.”

The Angel of Hollywood, Archival Pigment Print, 16x24”

Remembrances on a Parlor Wall (2017) - Archival Pigment Print, 16x24”

Fair Weather Soon (2020) - Archival Pigment Print, 16x24”

Riley Goodman Riley Goodman, raised in the Patapsco River Valley of Maryland, inquires folklore, American history, and humankind's relation to the environments they inhabit in an effort to understand what endures, and how this manifests through the passage of time. Goodman juxtaposes the visual interpretation of researched, often folkbased, storytelling with archival imagery and material from his personal collections of artifact and ephemera. When combined, the work depicts a narrative that rather than noting a specific period, creates an ever-occurring understanding of history. By establishing this crafted world, Goodman invites the viewer to question tenets of authenticity, leaving the idea of 'historical truth' in an undisclosed middle ground.

www.rileycgoodman.com @rileycgoodman

Forever at the Windows (2020), Archival Pigment Print, 16x24”

To Cultivate a Magnolia, Archival Pigment Print, 16x24”

Overview- Riley Goodman 1. Virginia Dare (2020), Archival Pigment Print, 16x24” 2. The Angel of Hollywood, Archival Pigment Print, 16x24” 3. Remembrances on a Parlor Wall (2017) Archival Pigment Print, 16x24” 4. Fair Weather Soon (2020) - Archival Pigment Print, 16x24” 5. Cruel Summer (2020), Archival Pigment Print, 16x24” 6. Forever at the Windows (2020), Archival Pigment Print, 16x24” 7. To Cultivate a Magnolia, Archival Pigment Print, 16x24”