Kathy Hofmann

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These quiet, intimate paintings recall the work of the Barbizon painters and Luminist style of the Hudson River School. Inspired by the rural surroundings of her childhood, Kathy Hofmann paints with an intense focus and a lifelong passion for the family farmstead. While soaking in the atmospheric haze of the sunlit fields surrounding her, the artist feels the friendly and familiar gaze of cows following her every move.

Kathy Hofmann's work glorifies the Wisconsin landscape while simultaneously and subtly evoking a eulogy to such a seemingly idyllic landscape under threat of modernization. With an MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Kathy Hofmann's exquisite works of art have earned her many awards and high praise.

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George Shipperley

Based on years of observation of the natural world, George Shipperley merges memories of nature with his imagination to create a vision all his own. The artist applies multiple layers of oil pastel and occasionally employs a sgraffito technique to the work, creating expert layers of colors and forms. The finished works reveal poetic compositions rooted in realism and finished with the immediacy of abstract expressionism. 

A native of Illinois, Shipperley studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and Aurora University. His works are in public and private collections throughout the United States.

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Jeanette Pasin Sloan

Jeanette Pasin Sloan's paintings, drawings, and prints display technical feats of virtuosity. Pasin Sloan works primarily in still lifes, which she describes as, “between realism and abstraction, knowing and unknowing, and order and disorder.” Her work’s main focus is not the objects that she paints, but the reflections in the objects. These reflections take on their own life, subverting both genre and style, infusing the traditional genre of still life painting with highly abstract tendencies. Closely-cropped, and set in carefully manipulated compositions, the subject matter of Pasin Sloan's work takes second stage to its formal intensity. Pasin Sloan’s work seeks to depict a world of harmony and order, despite the knowledge of chaos.

Pasin Sloan is meticulous when it comes to planning her work and cites it as, “highly designed.” She spends “weeks, and months,” at a time planning compositions in her head before she arranges it in real life. Using the natural light that comes into her studio, Pasin Sloan takes numerous photographs of her compositions, each with a slightly different angle and view. Using these photographs, Pasin Sloan synthesizes her work, hunting for the patterns she envisioned in her mind for weeks, before transferring them to her canvas, bringing her vision to life.

Jeanette Pasin Sloan was born in Chicago in 1946. She graduated from Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York, and received an MFA in graphic arts from the University of Chicago. In 1977, Pasin Sloan began a long relationship with Landfall Press in Chicago, which she cites as “the most significant thing to happen [to her] as an artist.” Since then, Pasin Sloan has become an artist of both national and international regard having her work featured in prestigious institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.

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