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#creativelife #artistblog #galleryblog #memphisartist #abstractlandscapes #jamesmaygallery #12questions #creativelife #artcurator #oilpainting #susanmaakestad Susan Maakestad: BIO: For several decades Susan Maakestad has painted abstracted landscapes empty of human activity but filled with brilliant color and recollected light. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an ArtsAccelerator Grant from ArtsMemphis and direct purchase awards from the UrbanArt Commission in Memphis. In late 2021 she completed a large scale public art commission at Memphis International Airp ..read more

#artistblog #creativewisdom #galleryblog #12questions #artistlife #encausticart #contemporaryart #artsy Kaylee Dalton lives in Elkhart, Indiana and graduated with a degree in fine art and painting from Ball State University. She went on to study with the late Walter Darby Bannard under a full-scholarship for a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Her work has been exhibited throughout the country including, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis and Miami. Kaylee was chosen from hundreds as one of the 2017 and 2018 Hoosier Women Artists honored by the Indiana State ..read more

#artistblog #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #symbolism #jamesmaygallery #kassandrapalmer #creativelife #wisconsinartist #artgallery #curator #12questions #artistlife Artist Bio Kassandra Palmer (b. 1991) was born in Fairfield, CA and raised in Green Bay, WI. She earned her B.S. in physics from Santa Clara University (2013) and her MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Iowa (2018). She has exhibited nationally, and most recently had solo exhibitions at CVA Wausau (2023); at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2020); and at the Overture Center for the Arts (2020). Palme ..read more

#artistblog #galleryblog #jamesmaygallery #jaronchilds #artistlife #andrewwyeth #dailyinspiration #benshahn #wisconsinpainter #artgallery #maryoliver #susansontag #elainescarry Born in Waseca, Minnesota Jaron Childs is an artist living and working in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. His paintings and drawings of the natural world have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the U.S. and Europe. I make paintings and drawings of the natural world based on my own photographs and direct observation. They range in finish from gestural studies to the photorealistic. Drawing on ..read more

#contemporarysculpture #artistlife #artiststudio #artistblog #galleryblog #jamesmaygallery #kimmatthews #sculpture #creativelife #wisdom Biography Kim Matthews makes nonobjective drawings and sculpture in various media. The frequent use of accretion to develop her works evolved from practical concerns—the need to be productive with little available studio time—and spiritual ones, as repetition is evocative of the mantra meditation that structures her daily life. The recipient of a 2010-2011 Jerome Fiber Artist Project Grant, Ms. Matthews exhibits in nonprofit and commercial venues throughout ..read more

#artistblog #artistlife #galleryblog #creativewisdom #jamesmaygallery #artsy #coldwaxmedium #abstractpainting Bio and Artist’s Statement: My artistic identity began as a child, with my father who was a serious amateur photographer. Together we would walk the woods looking for subject matter and later watch those captured images emerge magically from the developer solution in the darkroom. We would discuss the merits of the photos, both with an eye to what it communicated as well as its technical proficiency. Often he would give me books on artists he enjoyed. In my early 20s I backpacked f ..read more

#fumageart #fumage #emergingartists #wisconsinartists #artistblog #galleryblog #artistlife #creativelife #inspiration #jamesmaygallery Ally Wilber is a Wisconsin artist who likes playing with fire. Her mediums of choice range from charcoal and oils to insects, soot, and gold. Ally works as Executive Director for the artist nonprofit, Wisconsin Visual Artists. She is passionate about providing support and opportunities for artists throughout the state. Statement I am currently interested in dichotomy and relationships between the beautiful and the unsettling; evocative imagery which both ..read more

#realismpainting #fineart #jamesmaygallery #artistblog #galleryblog #milwaukeegallery #artistlife #creativelife #waterpainting #shoreline I paint places I love. The buildings, the street corners and shorelines are just place markers for memories that I share with special people in my life. I enjoy taking in my surroundings and imagine painting them. These paintings are my connections to the past and an unbreakable bond to my work. I paint with Minwax wood stain and a Dremel, it is a process that is mine and mine alone. My paintings look like traditional paintings from a distance, but upon ..read more

#artistblog #galleryblog #creativewisdom #encausticpainting #12questions #creativelife #jamesmaygallery #artiststudiod #inspiration #animalsinart Kristen T. Woodward received her BFA in Printmaking from Syracuse University, and her MFA in Studio Art from Clemson University. Her mixed media paintings combine painting and print processes, and often utilize found materials. Woodward is currently a Professor of Art at Albright College, teaching painting, printmaking, and team-teaching cross-disciplinary courses on Latin American graphic art, and gender and the visual arts. Currently, she is col ..read more