New Members Exhibition 2024

Photography Mom 20 x 24 in. My portrait series, Soul Portraits, is an exploration of personal discovery and creative expression. I invite people to come to our session with an idea, experience or question they wish to explore and together we collaborate to portray their story photographically.  The portraits can be representational, symbolic or metaphorical in nature, and can be a single image or series.  This image is from a body of work in which my mom reveals her profound struggles with aging and her love/hate relationship with life itself. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Painting Nyil 8 x 8 x 1/8 I am a self-taught artist, focused primarily on portraits and figures in oil and acrylic.  This painting is part of a series of portraits of friends and family, as well as people I encounter in everyday life. Nyil is a young man I met in Pittsburgh, who graciously permitted me to take his photograph so that I could paint his portrait. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Sculpture Grasping for Air 18 x 24 x 2 in. I am attracted to both the flow of fabric and the elements of construction that transform an unstructured surface into a sculptured form that fits a human body.  Seams, edgings, buttons, zippers and all the other ways that cloth becomes clothing find their way into my current body of work.  Like an abstract painting, my work emerges from a process of deconstructing and then reassembling the fractured elements from my collection of discarded clothing.  I hand stitch the garment fragments into a low relief sculpture, then solidify the surface by applying multiple layers of canvas priming gesso.  Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Painting 12 x 12 x 1.5 in. One never knows for sure where one is going or if one has even arrived! The creative process is elusive and fascinating. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Painting Yellow Door 20 x 16 in. Vibrant Colors and Rich textures are a signature of my works. My paintings are always a process. I work intuitively as the image evolves.  Varied layers of glazing give lushness and depth, while the addition of mediums helps to create the textures that emerge in the final image. I work pushing and pulling shapes, surfaces, and colors, until I am excited with the uniqueness of each piece.  Yellow Door was inspired by the many homes we passed on the waterway  while my husband, cocker spaniel and I cruised the great American Loop through the Eastern United States and Canada. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Fiber Arts NUBIGI ,000,097. 9 x 14 in. All of the tiltles of art work include the term "NUBIGi" and a number. Numbers just state the order of art work.  NUBIGi means sewing in Korean. For me, sewing means passing through time. The needle pierces the fabric, and the thread connects the holes with the holes, drawing lines and planes from the points. Only expresses the sewing itself, shows that time is still in it. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Painting Wheeling's Sandscrest Mansion, Rear Elevation 20 x 20 x 1.5 in.   Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Mixed Media Divine Dive Into Consciousness 11.75 x 11.75 in. This piece captures the delicate balance between strength and vulnerability. The figure, falling back into tall grass, embodies the beauty found within us all, inviting a sense of connection to the world around us. His outward-reaching hand encourages us to embrace our authentic selves, while the grass symbolizes the grounding presence of nature. Surrounding him, the grass represents not only our connection to nature but also how nature reaches out to us, inviting us to find solace and refuge. This work explores the fragile strength inherent in self-acceptance, reminding us that true brilliance lies in celebrating our shared humanity and our intrinsic bond with the natural world. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Painting Will You Catch Me? 16 x 16 x 2 in. This piece- Will You Catch Me? - was part of a body of work inspired by 'play'- in the way that many artists, such as myself,  utilize playfulness to get into the process of art making. With this piece, my process started with mark making, collage. painting, removing, drawing into, printmaking, until ideas began to emerge - a fantasy under and over water perhaps (?) since I am surrounded by quarries and ocean. Eventually a theme around risk-taking (with or without a net) began to surface. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Mixed Media Painting 20 x 20 x 1.5 in. This painting is part of the "Universal Us" series based on the notion that science and reason reveal that we are truly one with the universe.  All physical things derive from the same elemental building blocks, making us ... all the same. This series depicts diverse beings (some from the imagination), traveling through time, space or our minds and joining together in harmony.  In this painting, a Gong Fu figure formed by genetic coding, a tree like plant, and a landscape from another world, are separately and jointly ruled over by a symbolic law of gravity. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Mixed Media Siren Song I 20 x 11 x 2 in. "Siren Song" is a mixed media painting that dives into the ocean's contrasting nature. The textural richness of the impasto technique reflects the power and movement of the ocean, while the abstraction evokes the mystery and allure that has captivated humanity for centuries. The painting hints at the ocean's violence and tranquility. The title, "Siren Song," reflects the ocean's seductive danger, luring viewers in with its beauty just as the mythical sirens did. The impasto technique itself, with its thick application of paint, draws the viewer in, inviting them to explore the textural depths of the artwork, much like the ocean beckons us to delve deeper. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Works on Paper 36 x 36 in. This piece, Windblown, is part of a series called Transitions. When I started this series I was touched by the lament of “women of a certain age”, feeling that they were invisible, overlooked, and insignificant. This series is my attempt to visually capture this time in a woman’s life as an ending as well as a new beginning as the sunflower emits its seeds and begins again.  The subject of this work is an aged, dried sunflower. I used Chinese ink to explore the transient nature of life and the strength of that transience. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Painting Madame Issac Pereire 14 x 11 x .001 in. Moving on in life I became steadily aware of the fact that my relationship with dreams and aspirations had become disconnected, survival became the guiding star. Stepping back and embracing larger constellations, realizing that all lives have an end date, it was time to make the most of what time I do have left, which is to nurture my original impulses and challenges while at the same time creating  meaningful connections between how I feel and ways to express it. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.  

Painting Healthy Skeptic 18 x 18 x 1 in. When I start a new portrait, I work to establish a faithful depiction of my subject first, through careful sketching and underpainting, paying close attention to the underlying bone structure, musculature and proportion. Then, with my choices of color, texture, brushwork, and some intuition, I try to go beyond, to capture a sense of the subject’s inner self as well.   A finished painting conveys a likeness, but hopefully also a presence; when you look at it, you might feel it is looking back at you. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.