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  1. Studio Dance

    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…

  2. Bicking Back Booling

    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…

  3. Untitled Self-Portrait

    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…

  4. Cypress Cabaret

    Jenny Ellerbe is a self-taught photographer whose black and white images are landscape driven and often deal with the historical or ecological importance of a site. Ellerbe’s images are meant to give a sense of the places she photographs. Her work has an enduring quality that manages to make subtle references to the passage of…

  5. On Bended Trees

    Jenny Ellerbe, a Monroe, Louisiana native, is a self-taught photographer that creates black and white digital archival images with a conceptual strategy to illustrate the historical importance of her surroundings. She makes work within about sixty miles of her home, often traveling on the water by kayak. Ellerbe focuses on the environments as they are…