Peripheral everyday visual information like product design and advertising graphics can sometimes provide a much need jolt of visual inspiration. The art and design for LP records and old comic books remains a long-term source of inspiration.

-Derrick Buisch

COLOR CHART CAT

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas over Panel

24 x 24"

I want my work to provoke a sense of mystery and ecstasy and a slight tremor of fear – all at the same time. Simultaneous pure joy and terror – maybe the equivalent of a sudden optical rollercoaster drop…visual levitation.

-Derrick Buisch

I think about Color everyday…it is a constant riddle. I think about color the way an addict thinks about whatever particular chemistry ails him/her. Color is a daily joy and consistent set of new & old conundrums.

-Derrick Buisch

WONDER EYE

Oil on Canvas

30 x 24”

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JASON ROHLF

The one thing I can count on in defiance of my intent and regardless of how hopeful my expectations, each attempt will undergo many revisions as I participate in the creation of a piece. With the end result ideally being the cumulative effect of the whole and not just working toward the outermost layer. Like a recalled memory once obscure things, hidden elements from the pieces past will form an essential role on the surface; often as relief, while the most hard fought details will likely earn a swift opaque top coat as a result of each days fits and starts.

-Jason Rohlf

OUTWARD

Acrylic on 3 Linen Panels

24 x 55”

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In my paintings, combinations of shapes, patterns, and textures serve as a kind of syntax; rigidly composed blocks filled with patterns of geometrically precise stripes form shifting relationships as their colors and spatial orientations coexist with and resist one another.

-Ben Grant

Each application and its resultant visual effect carries echoes of everyday material objects such as fabrics, custom cars, game boards, and carnival rides.

-Ben Grant

UNTITLED #301

Mixed Media on Canvas over Panel

26 x 47”

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RICHARD TAYLOR

Color is intuitive. I pick a starting point with any piece and the palette grows from that starting point.

-Richard Taylor

WINDOW 1

Aluminum, Enamel Paint, Varnish

33” x 51”x 3.5”

I find inspiration in music, mainly in jazz and classical music. There is a structure to music that I relate to the structure of my artwork. More tangibly, I find inspiration in the shapes of found objects, which you will find quoted in some of my pieces. Certain events from my life also inspire my work, and I make reference to specific moments in some of my work.

-Richard Taylor

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T.L. SOLIEN

MAN ON PATH

Acrylic on Canvas

31 x 23”

Painting, for me, Painting is a fluid discipline for recording the totality of my reactions to what I have confronted, on every level, while I have been, in a variety of manifestations, alive. Painting is primarily a method of internal deliberation, conducted openly, and often against one’s better judgement.

-T.L. Solien

NIMROD’S PATH

Acrylic on Canvas

31 x 23”

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HIDE AND SEEK

Oil on Canvas

47 3/4 x 44”

I strive to create intense, even and stunning color relationships that are balanced by form and texture into a controlled elegance. The challenge here is to create a vibration in the work that energizes it without separating.

-Michael Hedges

The application of the media to the painting surface is of utmost importance to me. The paint is applied with great bursts of energy, creating a surface, if I am successful, that is supercharged with texture and color.'

-Michael Hedges

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I look at my approach to painting as opening myself to forces of creativity that are caught rather than conceived by me. I am a conduit of sorts. I don’t stand before a subject and copy it. I breath it in, consume it and let it flow through of me onto canvas.

-Terrence Coffman

My paintings are often called abstractions, they are not. They are the non-objective landscapes of my inner being, my attempt to move into a greater reality.

-Terrence Coffman

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I work with molten glass and the colors associated with my processes often filter what I see.  My color selections are often gleaned from art history or natural observations.  Assembling different hues, tones, and tints into one piece that is perfectly balanced becomes a daily obsession.

-Jeremy Popelka

BLUE CELL

Brown Murrini Glass

9 x 6 1/2 x 3”

My blown glass originally was inspired by many centuries of Italian Glasswork that used a mosaic like process called murrini to create geometric surfaces.  My investigations into traditional tapestries and textiles led to some color and element directions.

-Jeremy Popelka

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CLARENCE MORGAN

I simply react and intuitively respond to the surface using color. Color is important to some degree but it also plays a supporting role in composition, drawing and how I read pictorial and spatial dynamics two-dimensionally.

-Clarence Morgan

Painting is an event that happens over time. If it’s about anything it is about the experience of engagement--nothing more and nothing less.

-Clarence Morgan

BEYOND THE PALE

Graphite, Acrylic Ink, Pen, Watercolor on Paper

22 x 30" - 27 3/4 x 35" (framed)

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