Community Connection #4
Thomas Swanston
- Bird Silhouettes
- Mixed Media
- Dark Colors
- Visible Brushstrokes
Tom Swanston is a southern painter who enjoys painting imagery of nature. His work is mixed media and consists mainly of bird silhouettes. In addition to several solo exhibitions with the Bill Lowe Gallery, Tom Swanston has exhibited his work widely throughout the Southeastern United States, including shows at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Alexandria Museum in Alexandria, Louisiana. Swanston earned an MFA at the Parsons School of Design in New York, and has been featured in numerous art and lifestyle publications for two decades.
Community Connection #3
Hyunmee Lee
Lowegallery.com
4.26.10
- Series of yellow black and white paintings
- Acrylics on canvas
- Abstract expressionism
- Thick black lines
- Yellow Boxes
- Black triangles overlaying
- Gray watercolors
Hyunmee Lee is a Korean-born abstract painter. Her work captures bold, expressive brushstrokes with soft, fields of color. She creates a beautiful balance in composition and design. She credits some of her brushstrokes to her early training in calligraphy during her childhood in Korea. I like the way that she paints with such nice composition. The work grabs my eye very well.
Community Connection #2
Taylor Means
LoweGallery
3/16/10
- Bright pastel colors
- Mixed media
- Impressionistic
- Bold lines
- Figure drawings
- Acrylics, Oil pastel, pencil, ink.
Taylor Means lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in Decatur, Georgia and prior to college hadn’t spent too much time creating work in the classroom. He credits his household for sparking his creative interests, his father owned a woodshop where he spent a great deal of time. He also hung out at an art giclee company to hang out with other artists employed there. He is now studying art in Florence Italy. His work is mainly mixed media, impressionistic, drawings of people.
Community Connection #1
Amadea Bailey
LoweGallery
2.23.10
- Mixed Media
- Simple, but complex abstractions
- Almost childlike
- Violent, evokes anger
- Attractive ugliness
- “Trainwreck” effect
Amadea was featured in the Bill Lowe Gallery in the April 2007 show group. She uses a wide variety of mixed medias and artistic techniques to create highly textured depictions of inner and outer landscapes and states of mind. Her work is emotionally driven and is regarded very highly by many. Her work has been featured in national television commercials and numerous films. Her artwork has a “train wreck” effect on me.
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Fall Semester 2009
Community Connection #4
1/5/10
- Figure drawings
- Mixed Media
- Figures are faceless
- Repeating color (reds and blues)
- Paint Splatter
- Pain Drippings
Harry Paul Ally lives and works in Ohio and Georgia. He is recognized as one of the South’s finest painters, and has had a prosperous collaboration with the Bill Lowe Gallery for several years. He has been a professor of drawing and painting at the Valdosta state University in Georgia for over 20 years. His artwork has been exhibited since the early 1970s. Ally uses a wide variety of materials- dry pigments, acrylics, tar, fabrics, oils, and clay. He is mainly a figurative painter, but has talent in traditional photorealism as well.
Community Connection #3
12/1/09
- Impressionistic
- Acrylic on canvas
- Bright pastel colors (Yellow, Blue, Orange, Purple)
- Visible brushstrokes
- All are decent sized
Mark Bowles was one of many featured artists at the Los Angeles & Atlanta Lowe Gallery. Mark Bowles lives and works in California. He grew up painting his entire life and he attended the California College of Arts. His interest in his work is with texture, form and color. He uses form and color to express how he is feeling and what he is seeing. His artwork ranges from representational to minimalist to abstraction. I enjoy looking at his pieces because of the bright colors and the present emotional release or connection in his work.
Community Connection #2
Karen Kieser
Art In The Store Front
10/26/09
- Close images of faces
- Wide use of blue in single painting
- Detailed oil paintings
- Interesting concepts
- Style is unique/modern
- Clay sculptures
Art in the store front features a new artist every couple of months, in the heart of Ambler. This month they had an artist named Karen Kieser, her work is very stylistic. She paints very detailed and interesting oil paintings of people. There were multiple pieces that had very close images of peoples faces. She had very bold lines and worked very well with color. Most of the paintings were from the early 90′s and some from the late 80′s. I wish I understood what she was taping into, but it is to mysterious to unmask from a simple viewing.
Community Connection #1
Ray Caeser
9/22/09
- Extreme realism
- 3-D digital art
- Very strong lines
- Paintings are disturbing but intriguing
- Almost sci-fi fantasy.
- Victorian style
His work appears to be realistic paintings, but each model is actually created using a 3D modeling software called Maya. His images are set up with an invisible skeleton that allows him to pose each figure in its 3D environment. He then wraps them in painted and manipulated texture maps, then adds Digital lights and cameras with shadows and reflections to simulate his extraordinary style of work. The realism in his work is mind blowing. There is considerable evidence behind a relentless work ethic to blend his lines. His work is mainly inspired by his memories of working as a photographer and artist for a children’s hospital (17 years). The images are widely impressive and overwhelming. The images have a Victorian classical style to them but at the same time they are very contemporary and modern. His work is colorful and full of meaning.
