In researching and preparing for my interview/conversation on Instagram LIVE with Alabama born Savannah artist, Betsy Cain, I came across this quote by her : “my paintings reference what I know of my own body and what I witness as a dedicated observer of the landscape around me, particularly coastal...
It gives me personal delight to choose this piece to write to you about today. As a curator, I get to make choices, sometimes, based on my own personal taste, my own love as an artist. I am inclined to paint like this bowl is painted. This is my personal...
I am enthralled with this painting. It’s a great size- big enough to make a statement but not looming and visually cumbersome. It’s 29x39” and the two figures and their shapes fill the space so that it is fairly intimate- you are there looking on the scene from a close...
Our piece this week is a painting made by former Maconite, Jim Carson, now of Saluda, North Carolina. It is painted in oil on canvasboard- simply a sheet of primed canvas cloth that has been archivally attached to a rigid substrate, and is 20x24”. Canvasboard is a very well-liked foundation...
“Study in Pathos” is by famed German-born Georgia sculptor and painter, Steffen Thomas. Our piece is a small study that was one of many begun in the 1930s and continued as a theme all the way through until the 1970s even taking form in a large monument. This glazed Georgia...
Just to mix things up a bit from the weeks of realist style paintings we’ve enjoyed- I’ve latched on to this porcelain sculpture by South Korean born artist, Kyungmin Park. We acquired this piece through gifts during the 2013 Emerging Artists exhibit where it was shown. The purchase was...
Eric O’Dell is a long time beloved human fixture of the Macon, Georgia art scene. He is both a practicing studio artist and professor of art at Mercer University (where he graduated and his daughters attend), and has also been an active supporter of our art infrastructure through being a...
This week’s piece I chose from our permanent collection is this skillful and evocative painting of a woman lost in her thoughts while she performs a perfunctory kitchen task; shelling peas. Our painting “Viola” is one of a group of three that were gifted by the artist, Marc Chatov, from...
My selection this week is a brand new acquisition. We received this only in May of this year and accessioned it into our collection at the June Board of Directors meeting. We are excited to have it as it matches another Rouault in our permanent collection- “The Judge,” which was...
This painting is “ Bohemian Family,” painted by Russian born artist, Roman Chatov, in 1968. While Roman’s work lands mostly in realism and representation, he paints from his sensibilities and style and is leaning into modernism. He treats space here shallowly, even though it depicts a room of some depth....
