LEWIS COHEN
LEE MATNEY
JILL CARNES
Jill Carnes’ work has been shown in diverse locales including Athens, Asheville, Atlanta, Austin, and New York City and in exhibitions alongside Lonnie Holley, Thornton Dial, Clementine Hunter, Bill Traylor, Howard Finster, Mose Tolliver and Jimmy Lee Sudduth. Jill Carnes' artistry is a vibrant tapestry of color, pattern, and innovation. Her paintings and drawings have adorned the album covers of bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel and cd inserts for projects featuring R.E.M., Indigo Girls, Madonna, Vic Chesnutt, Victoria Williams, Pearl Jam, Garbage, Kristen Hersch, Soul Asylum and Hootie and the Blowfish. Her work has been exhibited in the Georgia Museum of Art in association with the Elephant Six Collective, a group of American musicians that gave rise to numerous prominent indie bands of the 1990s, including the Apples in Stereo, the Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, of Montreal, and Circulatory System. Her contributions have also been featured in esteemed publications like Rolling Stone and Creem and projects for Sony Music. Jill’s talents extend beyond visual art; she also captivates audiences musically as Thimble Circus, incorporating whimsical instruments like the toy piano and trombone kazoo into her performances. Michael Stipe included Jill’s name in an art piece in his 2021 book of photography.
THE PORTRAIT: HISTORIES, MYTHS, AND ALLEGORIES
Steve Prince, Oleg Dou, Jeffrey Whittle, Billy Martin, Lee Matney, Jill Carnes, Jadea Knight, Nicole Santiago, Brian Kreydatus, Ivan Plusch, Olga Tobreluts, Christi Harris, Bob Krueger, Brittainy Lauback, Brian Freer and others
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STEVE A. PRINCE
Steve A. Prince is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and he currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary. Prince received his BFA from Xavier University of Louisiana and his MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from Michigan State University. Prince is a mixed media artist, master printmaker, lecturer, educator, and art evangelist. He has taught middle school, high school, community college, 4-year public, and 4-year private, and has conducted workshops internationally in various media.
He has worked with several churches of various denominations across the nation spreading a message of hope and renewal philosophically rooted in the cathartic nature of the Jazz Funerary tradition of New Orleans. To Prince, art media is like languages to a linguist as he adeptly tithers between two-dimensional and three-dimensional artistic practices while working with virtually every age bracket and multiple ethnicities. He is represented by Eyekons Gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Black Art in America in Columbus, Georgia, and Zucot Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. Prince has created several public works including an 8’ x 8’ mixed media work titled “Lemonade: A Picture of America” at William and Mary commemorating the first 3 African American resident students in 1967 at the college, a 15’ stainless steel kinetic sculpture titled “Song for John” located in Hampton, Virginia and a 4’ x 32’ communal woodcut titled, “Links,” commemorating the 400thanniversary of 1619 and the first documented Africans at Point Comfort (Hampton, Virginia.)
Prince has received several honors for his art and scholarship including the 2010 Teacher of the Year award from the City of Hampton and he is a 2020 recipient of a VMFA (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) Grant. Prince has shown his art internationally in various solo, group, and juried exhibitions. He has participated in several residencies including Artist in Residence at Segura Arts Center at Notre Dame University, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, Maryland, the Atlanta Printmakers Studio, and the University of Iowa to name a few.
INTRODUCING JADEA KNIGHT
JADEA KNIGHT (b. 1997) is a multi- disciplinary artist born and raised in VIRGINIA. Through visual mediums such as MOTION PICTURE and FILM PHOTOGRAPHY, she highlights experiences that connect with her most.
“There has never been anything or anyone that has understood me the way that images do. Basic aspects of the human experience such as words, emotions, and relationships have always felt elusive to me. Discovering my voice within the fluency of film and photography has been a profound journey of self-exploration. In my work, the interaction of identity and transformation serves as my central muse. Fueling my creative passion is the need for black women to continue to narrate and reclaim their own stories and experiences.”
INTRODUCING OLEG DOU
Discovered in 2006 by Liza Fetissova, Oleg Dou is represented today by galleries in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Russia, and the United States. His work has been published in many international reviews. He is one of the most promising artists of his generation. In 2011, the Artprice company, a leader in information on art value, graded Oleg Dou in the top 3 of the under-30-year-old photographers the best sold in public auctions.
Oleg Dou in THE PORTRAIT: HISTORIES, MYTHS, AND ALLEGORIES
OLGA TOBRELUTS
Born in 1970 in Murino, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, Olga Tobreluts now lives in St. Petersburg and has studios also in Berlin, Germany and San Tagliamento, Italy. An accomplished artist who works with photography,
video, painting and sculpture, Olga she is a pioneer of digital art movement in Russia and has belonged to the Neo-Academism group of artists in St. Petersburg since 1994. Olga has had numerous solo museum exhibitions throughout the world, including in Belgium, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Singapore. Moreover, Tobreluts has shown with American favorites like Tony Oursler and Cindy Sherman, in addition to countless other well known
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BILLY MARTIN
IVAN PLUSCH
Ivan Plusch (born in 1981) is a young artist from the rising Russian scene, part of the Nepokorennie group (“The Unconquered”) based in St. Petersburg. He studied in various art schools, such as the State Academy of Art and Design, the Roerich Art School and the PRO ARTE Institute. Ivan Plusch is part of a generation of artists who were still children at the time of the fall of the USSR; consequently, he was marked by these sudden sociological and economic changes in the early 90s. His work bears the marks of these changes, from dearly regained freedom of speech to the people and their relationship with society, whether it is of alienation or of liberation. However, Plusch’s work goes further than mere sociological observation. He reinterprets the art history and tackles the norms of social realism–in particular those of monumental sculpture—and integrates them into his paintings. Comfortable with all mediums, working with sculpture as well as painting, Ivan Plusch is a diverse artist delivering work that fits thoughtfully within Post-Soviet art. Playing with the image of a happy future but from elements of the former communist regime, Plusch questions, the relationship between man and his environment. READ MORE
LEE MATNEY
BENJAMIN ROUSE
CHRIS WAGNER
Nicole M. Santiago holds a BFA in studio art from Indiana University and an MFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the College of William and Mary, where she teaches life drawing, drawing, color theory, and 2D design. Santiago exhibits widely. She has shown in well over 100 group and solo exhibitions during her career. She is a member of Zeuxis and affiliated with First Street Gallery (New York, NY), where she shows often. Her works have been included in many art publications including The Artist’s Magazine, Art New England, INPA (International Painting Annual), and Fine Art Connoisseur. READ MORE
STEVE PRINCE
OLEG DOU
OLEG DOU
NICOLE SANTIAGO
BRIAN KREYDATUS
BRIAN FREER
GEORGE PAPPADAKIS