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Artist Spotlight: Q+A with William Carson
William T. Carson's work is influenced by the landscapes and cultures in which he grew up — a cattle ranch in rural southeastern Montana and a small island in the Salish Sea. His artwork raises questions about our cultural understandings of fossil fuels and how we value natural materials.
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Artist Spotlight: Q+A with Vincenzo Calli
Vincenzo Calli is known for oil paintings that celebrate the relationship between sensuality and innocence. Using the modern idiom of painting Calli explores ancient mysteries with figures that inhabit a mythic world that lies beyond time but are drenched in the light of the sun-soaked Mediterranean. -
Artist Spotlight: Q+A with Matthias Brandes
Brandes was born in Bochum, Germany. He studied at the Academy and The University of Hamburg, specializing in art history and art-pedagogy. Since the late '60s he has devoted himself entirely to painting, living and working in Meolo near Venice/Italy. -
Artist Spotlight: Q + A with Kevin Tolman
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1949, Kevin Tolman attended classes at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Cass Tech as a youth, and he is a graduate of the Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts, in Detroit.
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Artist Spotlight: Q + A with Anne Kaferle
Anne Kaferle is a landscape painter based in Helper, UT. She was raised in Connecticut and received a BA from Colby College in Maine where she studied art and geology.
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Artist Spotlight: Q+A with Erin Cone
Erin Cone's portraits are commanding, enigmatic mirrors of the human condition. A fusion of traditional portraiture and magical realism, Cone's paintings evoke the perspective and emotional complexity of the sitter's interior world. Detached, yet imbued with raw emotion, Cone places her subject in abstract settings devoid of reference to the material world.
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Artist Spotlight: Q + A with Joseph Ostraff
Joseph Ostraff's paintings evoke the varied shapes and motifs of human activity and geography. Using subtle color gradations and rich patterning, Ostraff creates works with startling compositional depth. While choices found in these paintings suggest a personal sense of value, more generally these decisions reflect the processes people use to make sense of the commonplace. His work is a visual documentation of the things that convert spaces into places.
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Artist Spotlight: Q+A with Shar Coulson
Shar Coulson’s lush application of paint plays with contrast as well as a spectrum of tonal shifts. Embracing the essence of Organic Expressionism, Coulson explores the idea of perception versus reality within the allusive figuration, gestural line work and organic forms found in her paintings.
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Artist Spotlight: Q + A with Willy Bo Richardson
Willy Bo Richardson married himself to a single mode of working as a formal recognition of the power of remaining in one place and as a way to honor consistency and quietude.
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Artist Spotlight: Q + A with Randall Reid
Randall Reid builds sculptural wall constructions of aged wood, metal, and repurposed found objects. His steel-framed compositions are made of materials from the past, but his novel arrangements and abstract patterns feel distinctly contemporary.
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Artist Spotlight: Q + A with Daniel Phill
First and foremost a colorist, Phill pieces together organic shapes in his abstractions and teases images from splatters of paint. Known mostly for his abstracted botanical imagery, the paintings bear his signature bold strokes and improvised gestures.
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IN THE STUDIO: ERIN CONE
Erin Cone's portraits are commanding, enigmatic mirrors of the human condition. A fusion of traditional portraiture and magical realism, Cone's paintings evoke the perspective and emotional complexity of the sitter's interior world. Detached, yet imbued with raw emotion, Cone places her subject in abstract settings devoid of reference to the material world.
