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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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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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Peter Jones is a second-generation Woodstock, New York, artist. His father, Wendell Jones, painted murals for the U.S. Treasury’s Section of Fine Arts program during the Depression, and went on to teach at Vassar College, while his mother, Jane Jones, specialized in portraits. He earned a degree in fine arts from Amherst College and studied…
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Edwin Pinkston lives in Ruston, Louisiana, where he taught painting and drawing at Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 2004. He is an abstract painter. Pinkston intentionally limits his compositions to a square format because the shape pleases him and it gives him a consistent foundation on which to build his work. He contrasts a…
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John Geldersma works primarily in wood and has produced a wide array of pieces in archetypal forms, from his hanging Shamans to mandala-like totemic sculpture termed Spirit Poles. These are inspired by primitive fetishes, various trans-historic ritualistic geometric designs, and the vibrant cultural milieu of his native southwestern Louisiana. The artist has cited his early…
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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…
