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Richard Buswell is a Helena, Montana based physician and photographer who uses black and white photography to document the passing of time. His subjects often include items which have become dilapidated through years of non-use, possibly left behind by Montana’s early miners and homesteaders. As is seen in Cash Register, Buswell has a unique way…
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The American artist Alex Katz, now in his 80’s, lives and works in New York. He is best known for his portraits, especially those of his wife Ada. The cropped, flatly colored, and close-up image found in this lithograph is a distinction of his work.
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Edwin Pinkston’s begin with an exploration of the principle foundations of art and design, exploring the confluence of color, texture, paint handling, and spatial fields. This pastel painting differs slightly from Pinkston’s signature color-field style, as it contains more architectural elements that indicate depth of space. Pinkston has exhibited widely and enjoyed affiliations with galleries…
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A native of Monroe, Louisiana, Vitus Shell works with complex and intense ideas surrounding the black experience in America. His mixed media compositions often juxtapose contemporary figures in modern dress with collaged vintage ads and repeated, printed elements including text. He uses these varying elements to bridge a gap between generations and highlight the nuance…
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Gift of Lisa Qualls and Matthew Scheiner. Ron Adams is a renowned contemporary printmaker who trained widely in a variety of technical printmaking methods and techniques. While studying at the University of Mexico in the late 1960s, Adams designed the decorations for the Mexico City Olympic Stadium. He also notably collaborated with the likes of…
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Aristocratic interiors, characters in period dress, and whimsical portraits of birds and other animals appear throughout Sally Chandler’s work. Her paintings are like memories, at once historical and imaginative. Pembrokshire evokes past and present simultaneously and can be considered a portrait of a room full of personality. Despite the formality and large size of the…
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Gift of Dr. John and Dee Ledbetter. Dara Engler paints exaggerated portraits of her alter ego, complementing allegory with humor. Her “pirates” are curious, adventurous, and most certainly well-meaning, if at times awkward and inefficient in her quests. Engler utilizes pattern, line, and flattened space to emphasize her character’s relationship to her constructed environments and…
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A resident of Northwestern Louisiana, Joshua Chambers constructs quiet narrative scenes that reflect real and relatable experiences and decisions. Chambers’ compositions are influenced by absurdist theater, with their deconstructed sets, soft washes of moody colored lighting, implied vastness of space, and visible incorporation of props. Pairings of unusual characters and costumes construct a mythological universe…
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Don Cincone was born Don Wills in a sharecropper’s home in Alto, LA. When he was seven, his family moved to Monroe. As a young man, Cincone spent three years traveling throughout Europe studying the work of master painters in Europe’s great museums and cathedrals. After returning to the U.S., Cincone studied fashion design and…
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The New Orleans native is known for his colorful paintings and prints of his city’s neighborhoods and celebrations. Brice designed the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival poster in 1970 and was a permanent fixture at Jazz Fest each and every year after that. The artist also painted several large murals in the French…
