Editorial

Cecil Touchon is a painter, performance artist, collector, draftsman, photographer, and curator.  But it is through his collage work that he has made his most lasting mark. His collages are the seeds that grow into his other practices.

Touchon's paintings are abstractions based upon typography.  Using the techniques of collage, he reassembles portions of letter fonts from billboards and printed material into pure abstractions that transform verbal language into a form of visual architecture.  

In Tolman’s mixed-media paintings, the artist’s close observation of his immediate environment creates an almost synesthetic richness to his abstract compositions. The accumulation of texture, pattern, form, line, and saturated color passages all layer and counterpoint each other on his canvas, giving the work the feeling of being in conversation with the unfolding of the natural world.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.