PAST EXHIBITIONS
WITHIN YOUR REACH
Larson Shindelman &
Mckinna anderson
Curated by Maria L. Kelly
SEPTEMBER 14 - OCTOBER 19
Image: Larson Shindelman
StILL LIFE
Jurell Cayetano
Curated by Lauren Jackson Harris
AUGUST 3 - SEPTEMBER 7
Image: Jurell Cayetano, The Infamous PSP, Die cut, gouache on paper mounted on wood.
The summer invitational
Curated by Maria Bruckman and Jacob O’Kelley
Our annual summer exhibition showcasing a wide variety of ceramics, textiles, and craft-based work.
MAY 18 - JULY 27
Image: Jennifer Wrae, Offspring, Porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 2023
Hasani Sahlehe
Day
2023 Edge Award Exhibition
Edge Finalists: Caleb Jamel Brown, Jurell Cayetano, In Kyoung Chun, and Timothy Short
MARCH 30 - May 4, 2023
Image: Hasani Sahlehe, 16 Voice, Acrylic and acrylic gel on raw canvas, 2023
clearing: a fertile Exhale
Hannah Ehrlich
Curated by Emerging Curator Makeda Lewis
FEBRUARY 16 - MARCH 23, 2023
Image: Hannah Ehrlich, The Exhale, Cotton, wool, rayon, bleach, house paint, 2023
Akin to realism
Melissa Huang and Christina A. West
Curated by ShowerHaus (Abigail Justman and Jacob O’Kelley)
JANUARY 12 - FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Image: Christina A. West collaboration with Melissa Huang, Figure #1, Life cast plaster, video projection, 2023
LITTLE THINGS
Curated by Maria Bruckman and Jacob O’Kelley
Our annual holiday, small works exhibition!
NOVEMBER 10 - JANUARY 5, 2023
Image: Hannah Adair, Window III (wing), cyanotype, conte, graphite, pen, and ink, 2022
RE:FOCUS
MELISSA ALEXANDER, STEPHANIE BROWN, NATRICE MILLER, & TERRA COLES
Curated by Dr. Fahamu Pecou
SEPTEMBER 15 - OCTOBER 27, 2022
Image: Melissa Alexander, Building Blocks, digital photography, 2022
Night’s Hand on your shoulder
DOUGlas BAULOS
Curated by Lisa Alembik
AUGUST 4 - SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Image: Doug Baulos, Hanging Eclipse Shroud, upcycled/found cloth, thread, natural dyes, photographic emulsion, 2022
The Summer Invitational
Curated by Maria Bruckman and Michelle Laxalt
Our annual summer exhibition showcasing a wide variety of ceramics, textiles, and craft-based work.
MAY 26 - JULY 28, 2022
Image: Linda Hall, Pink Fall, fabric, paint, beads, and papier-mâché, 10 x 15 x 20 inches
Taylor janay
it was wildly evident
2022 Edge AWARD Exhibition
With Finalists Caleb Jamel Brown, Amie Esslinger, Nneka Kai, and Jason Sweet
APRIL 7 - MAY 12, 2022
Image: taylor janay, it was wildly evident (video still), 2022
STORYTELLER
Mona cliff, sanaz haghani, & ato Ribeiro
Curated by Jacob O’Kelley and Abigail Justman of ShowerHaus
FEBRUARY 24 - MARCH 31, 2022
Image: Mona Cliff, Conjured Topography (detail), 2022, various Preciosa seed beads, maple wood, beeswax, copal resin, pine rosin, thread, 109 x 21 x 1.5 inches
untangling a little word
Rosa Duffy & Y. Malik Jalal
Curated by Logan Lockner
JANUARY 13 - FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Image: Y. Malik Jalal, Wrought & Searing #3 (detail), 2021, cast iron, carbon steel, bronze braising, glass, archival print of found photo, 19 x 13.5 x 1.25 inches
little things
Curated by Michelle Laxalt and ShowerHaus (Abigail Justman and Jacob O’Kelley)
NOVEMBER 18, 2021 - JANUARY 6, 2022
Image: Jenny Jisun Kim, Landscape Rock Series, 2019, acrylic, enamel paint, paper clay, sumi ink, and watercolor, dimensions variable
Private nature
Emily Bivens, Mo Costello, Emily J. Gómez, Eric Mack, Katy Malone, Justin Rabideau, Dayna Thacker
Curated by Teresa Bramlette Reeves
SEPTEMBER 30 - NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Image: Emily Bivens, Pigeon Vision, 2017, video, monitor, telebinocular
the mud at our feet
Sarah Nathaniel and Komikka Patton
Curated by Makeda Lewis
AUGUST 19 - SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
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Image: Komikka Patton, Follow the thread, unravel the Tapestry, so I can see how it is made, and why it landed in my lap, 2021, collage, various papers, vellum, India ink, and gouache.
THE 2021 SUMMER INVITATIONAL
Curated by Maria Bruckman, Sara Santamaria and Michelle Laxalt
Our annual summer exhibition showcasing a wide variety of ceramics, textiles, and craft-based work.
JUNE 3 – AUGUST 12, 2021
Image: Isys Hennigar, River Voice, 2020, stoneware, china paint, decals.
DANA HAUGAARD
That breeze just keeps blowing over me
2021 EDGE AWARD EXHIBITION
With Finalists Davion Alston, Fredrik Brauer, Eleanor Neal and Saige Rowe
APRIL 10 – MAY 20, 2021
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Image: Dana Haugaard, You can just sort of hear the house sounds and your hair is swirling, 2021, spray paint, grease pencil, colored pencil, ink Audiograph drawing on paper, 34 x 34 inches.
MICHAEL JONES
$H!T THAT AMERICANS LIKE: RIOTS & RALLIES, PARADES & PROTESTS
Curated by K. Tauches
FEBRUARY 27 – APRIL 1, 2021
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Image: Michael Jones, Our Gods are Not the Same (detail), 2021, mixed media including found furniture, tile, spray paint, glitter, and acrylic, 4 x 3 feet.
RICHARD SUDDEN
FORCES OF NATURE: SYMBOL, EDIFICE, RITUAL
LITTLE THINGS 2021
Curated by Michelle Laxalt and Maria Bruckman
DECEMBER 3, 2020 – JANUARY 7, 2021
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Image: Patrick Di Rito, Paradise, 2020, archival pigment print, 11 x 11 in.
MARÍA KOROL
NIGHTWORK
2020 EDGE AWARD Exhibition
With Finalists: Larkin Ford, Michael Jones, Dianna Settles and Jason Sweet
OCTOBER 10 – NOVEMBER 19, 2020
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Click here to listen to the Artist Talk by María Korol
Image: María Korol, Actividad Diurna (Daywork), 2020, oil pastel on board, 12 x 16 in.
The 2020 summer invitational
Curated by Karen Tauches and Michelle Laxalt
JUNE 25 – SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
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Image: Jaime Keiter, Reunion 3, 2020, handmade ceramic mosaic, 26 x 20 in. (detail)
Randy Jones,
Esteban Patiño
,
Pete schulte
GEOFORMS
Curated by Rebecca Dimling Cochran
FEBRUARY 20 – APRIL 2, 2020
The artists in this show have each developed a unique vocabulary of abstraction, expressed with different types of materials and forms of mark-making. Through theme and variation, they explore the nuances of their chosen materials and push their select vocabulary to speak in new and interesting ways.
Image: Randy Jones. One Anomaly, 2011, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 in.
Andrew Catanese, Kylie Reece Little, Lily Reeves
ANThropocene
Curated by ShowerHaus
JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The world has undeniably moved into an age of dramatic geological and environmental change. The unofficial title for this new Earthly epoch is Anthropocene. The three artists who base their work in ideas of reconnection, consumption, and repurposed materials—reflect the dawn of this new age.
Image: Lily Reeves. Suncatcher 1, 2018, acrylic mirror, argon filled glass, landscape, hardware. Made while in residence at the Takoja Institute.
Little Things 2019
Curated by Marianne Lambert
NOVEMBER 14 – DECEMBER 22, 2019
Our annual exhibition of small works by local artists.
Image: Ashley Terpstra, Birds in Flight (detail), 2019, cut paper, 8 x10 in.
by christina Price Washington
White Balance
Curated by Karen Tauches
In conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography
SEPTEMBER 26 – NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Christina Price Washington, known for her photographic abstractions and theoretical investigations, explores alternative interventions in light values, who determines them, and how they are mediated in contemporary printed methods. Working in between traditional black and white processes and the contemporary digital frontier, Christina creates photographs that document subtle tonal variations that can be found within the plain, bright light of day.
trevor reese
ORANGE
Curated by Karen Tauches
AUGUST 15 – SEPTEMBER 21, 2019
Artist Trevor Reese transforms the Gallery with an immersive installation as he contemplates how contemporary culture commodifies objects, images, art, and design.
the 2019 Summer swan invitational
Curated by Michelle Laxalt, Jiha Moon, and Carson Keith
MAY 30 – AUGUST 8, 2019
Now in its ninth year, this year’s Invitational is unique in that it was orchestrated by three co-curators—Michelle Laxalt, Jiha Moon, and Carson Keith. The artists display an extensive range of aesthetic and material approaches, and their work is unified by the fact that each artist engages, somehow, with the notion of “craft.” Much of the work oscillates between high and low materials, tight and loose forms, refined and irreverent surfaces. The wide spectrum of materials and concepts in this exhibition blurs the outmoded distinction between art and craft.
Image: Wesley Harvey, butt to butt vessel
Curtis Ames
less than more
2018-19 emerging Artist Award
With Finalists Robert Chamberlin, Krista Clark, Sonya Yong James, and Christina Price Washington
Curated by Karen Tauches
APRIL 11 – MAY 16, 2019
less than more is the fruit of Ames’ scholarly and creative research on concepts related to effort, achievement, and expectation. less than more deliberately generates uncertainty by presenting works that are left purposely unresolved, prompting viewers to grapple with the complicated response of desiring more while accepting what is in front them.
Image: The Best Things in Life Are, 2017, found video, 00:01:13
addison adams, chris deriso,
and nico marulanda
Paint like dreaming:
Curated by Karen Tauches
FEBRUARY 21 – APRIL 4, 2019
Dreams are the language of the unconscious mind, unique to each individual. The Swan Coach House Gallery presents an exhibition of three emerging artists who process their waking lives through a prolific free-flow of imagery. Each demonstrates a painting and drawing practice that acts like dreaming, mixing abstract and literal elements into distinct personal styles of expression.
Image: Addison Adams, Untitled, 27” x 22,” 2018
aRIANNA khmelniuk and wihro kim
Phantoms and soft time
Curated by Iman Person / Qualia Projects
JANUARY 10 – FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Phantoms and Soft Time investigates the margins of reality, memory, and longing through the work of Arianna Khmelniuk and Wihro Kim.
In the words of Iman Person, founder of Qualia Projects: “‘Phantoms’ can suggest a slip in the familiar rootedness of our existence—an uncanniness that extends toward, and beyond, our subconscious. Through painting, video, and scent, both artists awaken relationships between the viewer and the work.”
Little Things 2019
Curated by Marianne Lambert
NOVEMBER 15, 2018 – JANUARY 4, 2019
Our annual winter exhibition showcasing hundreds of small works made by emerging and established local artists, priced for the holidays.
Image: Ann Stewart
david baerwalde and alex martinez
Cover-UPs: collaborative photography
Curated by Karen Tauches
SEPTEMBER 26 - NOVEMBER 7, 2018
This collaborative project by artist David Baerwalde and fashion photographer Alex Martinez is presented in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2018. Presented are altered photographs which have been torn, taped, and repaired after the removal of the original subjects. Martinez provides out-takes from his professional photo shoots, which are then printed for Baerwalde to work with in a collage-like manner.
junco sato pollack
Meditation in space and time
Curated by Marianne Lambert
AUGUST 16 – SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
This exhibition presents Junco Sato Pollack’s Sky Cloud and Kinhin series. These series are inspired by the Zen spiritual practice of Sutra chanting and internalized stitching as meditation. “When extended over time, stitch-by-stitch and layer-by-layer, these actions transform into artwork depicting a complete universe, micro- and macro- energy fields, and the mindscape,” states Pollack.
The 2018 Summer Swan invitational
Curated by Karen Tauches
MAY 31 – AUGUST 10, 2018
The Summer Swan Invitational has been a popular annual exhibition at the Swan Coach House Gallery since 2011, selling art that is beautiful, usable and affordable. This year's exhibit has a new curator, Karen Tauches, who incorporates a few favorite participants from the past and adds some fresh, new blood.
Featured Image: Robert Chamberlin
Andrew Boatright
be not afraiD
2017-18 Emerging Artist Award
With Finalists: David Armistead, Wihro Kim, Julianne Trew, and
Vanessa Brooke Williams
APRIL 12 – MAY 17, 2018
In Be Not Afraid, Andrew Boatright exhibits a sculptural installation in which he presents his first ever work of life-size, figurative sculpture. Departing from his use of abstract gestures and forms, this new approach directly expresses the personal and theological underpinnings latent in his previous work.
Through the image of the crucifixion, Boatright focuses directly on the archetypal Christian image of suffering and humiliation. His present work gives focused attention to the idea of “self-emptying” as a means to new life. Therefore, the giving over of life at the moment of death is, paradoxically, the means through which new life is given.
The title of the show is meant to provide viewers with a hopeful lens through which to view the work, and an affirmation of the radical power of powerlessness. Boatright’s sculpture is a contemporary take on historical imagery where the marginalized, oppressed and weak are symbolically present in the broken body of Jesus.
Beyond Words
Curated by Hope Cohn
FEBRUARY 22 – APRIL 6, 2018
Art is a visual language. Its aim: to communicate. BEYOND WORDS explores how artists combine images and words to produce thoughts and feelings not generated by either alone. There is a space between the two that offers possibilities and inspiration to the artist where words are a catalyst for visual expression. Combining written text with images has a long history in art. This exhibition pushes the boundaries for viewers accustomed to finding meaning in visual images and for artists who use words as inspiration, commentary, design and poetic dialogue.
ARTISTS: John Beadles, Jessica Caldas, Marcia Cohen, Bethany Collins, Craig Drennen Jason Francisco, Mary Stuart Hall, Ruth Laxson, Christine Mi, Michael David Murphy, Sarah Nathaniel, Esteban Patino, Lesley Ann Price, Lauri Stallings + glo, Karen Tauches, John Tindel, Larry Walker
RECONSTRUCTIONS
Curated by Karen Tauches
JANUARY 10 – FEBRUARY 16, 2018
A group exhibition reflecting an urban landscape under heightened development.
ARTISTS: Joe Bigley, Evelyn Breit, Krista Clark ,Derek Faust, Meta Gary, Katie Hargrave, Chakura Kinard, Spencer Maxwell, Rusty Miller, Aaron Kagan Putt, Trevor Reese, Martha Whittington, Zena Zakanycz
lITTLE tHINGS 2017
Curated by Marianne Lambert
NOVEMBER 16 – DECEMBER 30, 2017
Hundreds of small, collectible works by a wide range of emerging and established artists from the community, just in time for the holidays.
BETH LILLY
KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING
Curated by Marianne Lambert
SEPTEMBER 28 – NOVEMBER 08, 2017
This mid career retrospective of Beth Lilly’s photographic projects reveals her dark humor as she tells stories about the past and speculates on humanity’s future.
yANIQUE nORMAN, eLEANOR nEAL,
AND cOSMO wHYTE
P.O.V.
Curated by Marianne Lambert
AUGUST 17 - SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
An exhibition of three up and coming Atlanta-based artists. They each present a different ‘point of view’ relating to issues of race, gender, migration and cultural belongs.
Image: Eleanor Neal
tHE 2017 sUMMER sWAN iNVITATIONAL
Curated by Marianne Lambert
JUNE 1 – AUGUST 4, 2017
The gallery turns into a craft-oriented “shop” for the summer with a wide assortment of textiles, hand-made sculptural work, and vessels produced in clay and other mediums
Kellie Romany
2016-17 Emerging Artist Award
With Finalists: Chris Chambers, Travis Dodd, Rachel Garceau, and Nick Madden
APRIL 6 – MAY 20, 2017
“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” –James Baldwin
INNER SPACE
A PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION
Curated by Joe Tsambiras and Marianne Lambert
FEBRUARY 23 – MARCH 31, 2017
This exhibit features the works of Tsambiras and five other printmakers: Jason Murphy, Katie Ridley-Murphy, Bo Orr, Sasha Schilbrack-Cole and Dorothy Stucki.
Image: Dorothy Stucki
JESS JONES / LILLIAN BLADES
MIXED USE / GAUDI JU-JU
Curated by Karen Tauches
JANUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Presented are two solo shows in one! Both contemporary artists JESS JONES and LILLIAN BLADES are highly informed by the traditions of Quilting and Craft. Jones cares for and completes quilts left at thrift stores around Atlanta. Blades conjoins the spiritual with the vernacular in an intense “architecture of objects.”
LITTLE THINGS 2016
Curated by Marianne Lambert
NOVEMBER 10 – DECEMBER 30, 2016
Hundreds of Small, collectible works by a wide range of Emerging and Established Artists from the community, on sale for the Holidays.
PETER BAHOUTH
VENT
Curated by Marianne Lambert
SEPTEMBER 29 – NOVEMBER 2, 2016
The stereoscopic landscapes and portraits in “VENT” are a photographic response to the heat and pressure felt today on a personal, political and planetary level.
AMIE LAUREL ESSLINGER &
LAUREN PETERSON
SYSTEMS
Curated by Marianne Lambert
AUGUST 11 – SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Esslinger and Peterson’s work explores how art can decode and/or create networks based on our natural and social worlds. Esslinger takes inspiration from the intricacies and logic of the cellular world of plants, seeds and human body. Peterson uses consumer artifacts and the detritus of contemporary society to create systems which translates materials into work of art.
Image: Amie Laurel Esslinger (left), Lauren Peterson (right)
THE 2016 SUMMER SWAN INVITATIONAL
Curated by Marianne Lambert
JUNE 2 – JULY 30, 2016
An exhibition and sale of glass, ceramics, fiber, and handmade objects by both established and emerging artists from Georgia. This year curator Marianne Lambert will feature the work of the Bermans, a reknowned family of Georgia potters–Rick, Jennie Ashcraft, & Jorie.
KELLY KRISTIN JONES
GRAY SPACE
2015-16 EMERGING ARTIST AWARD WINNER
With Finalists: Dustin Chambers, Antonio Darden, Pastiche Lumumba,
Vanessa Brook Williams
APRIL 14 – MAY 26, 2016
Image: Kelly Kristin Jones, Plastic sheeting, installed to protect and manage detritus at construction sites, allows for a new photographic representation of the landscape.
ALEJANDRO AGUILERA
SERIOUSLY FUNNY
Curated by Marianne Lambert
FEBRUARY 25 – APRIL 8, 2016
Humor has long been a part of the culture and character of the Cuban people and is used as a form of coping with their oppression. The images in this exhibition are amusing and reflective rather than mocking or ironical. They are tools of communication that Aguilera produces everyday since leaving his homeland.
PROJECTION
Curated by Karen Tauches
JANUARY 14 – FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Viewers were invited to experience the fascinating differences between photographic prints and video. This exhibition took place at the Gallery and the Historic Swan House at The History Center. Gallery Artists: Morgan Alexander, David Baerwalde, Benita Carr, Amanda Greene, Courtney Egan, Jody Fausett, Audrey Hynes, Sarah Hobbs, Bill Orisich, Christina Price Washington, Jessica Scott Felder, and Steffen Sornpao.
LITTLE THINGS 2015
Curated by Marianne Lambert
NOVEMBER 12, 2015 - JANUARY 6, 2016
Featuring hundreds of small works by established and emerging artists from the Southeast!
NAKITA DUNCAN, RYAN NABULSI, SPENCER SLOAN, CHERISTINA PRICE WASHINGTON and ANGELA WEST
BUT IS IT PHOTOGRAPHY?
Curated by Marianne Lambert
SEPTEMBER 24 –OCTOBER 30, 2015
Exhibition ranges from camera-less images created by chance to chemically-activated and manipulated Polaroid film.
Image: Spencer Sloan
HEATHER GREENWAY & STACIE ROSE
ABSTRACTION X 2
Curated by Marianne Lambert
AUGUST 13 -SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
Exhibition reflects two Atlanta artists who approach abstract painting in significantly different ways.
Images: Heather Greenway (left), Stacie Rose (right)
THE 2015 SUMMER SWAN INVITATIONAL
Curated by Marianne Lambert
JUNE 4 – AUGUST 5, 2015
Our fifth annual Invitational showcasing a wonderful array of pottery and handmade objects created by artists from Georgia and the Southeast.
AMANDINE DROUET
PLASTIQUE
2014-15 EMERGING ARTIST AWARD WINNER
With Finalists: Jessica Caldas, Chris Chambers, Henry Detweiler,
and Chantelle Rytter
APRIL 16 – MAY 27, 2015
Amandine Drouet produced an entire body of work made from this disregarded material; All of it gathered locally from her neighborhood and friends. Aware of plastic’s negative impact on the natural environment, the artist hopes to raise awareness and encourage attitudes of re-use.
MEMBER & FAMILY EXHIBITION
MARCH 26 – APRIL 10, 2015
Featuring: Carolyn Carr, Carolyn Caswell, Shannon Candler, Grady Clinkscales, Grady Clinkscales Jr., Betty Edge, Mary Croft Ferguson, Greg Ferguson, Jean Glenn, Wanda Hopkins, Dixie Purvis, Karen Tauches, Ansley West Rivers.
FAF 50TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 20, 2015
Presented were images and texts regarding the gifts the Forward Arts Foundation gave to various Atlanta Art Insititutions since its inception (High Museum, Michael Carlos Museum, Botanical Gardens, Beltine, MOCA GA, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Etc). Additional information was provided about the Orly Crash and the connection between the Forward Arts Foundation and the High Museum.
LUCINDA BUNNEN
A COLLECTION OF COLLECTIONS
JANUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 20, 2015
This exhibition is the second in a series of three that honor the work of Atlanta photographer, philanthropist, and art collector, Lucinda Bunnen. Beyond her interest in collecting art, Bunnen is a prodigious collector of many things. Presented here were a series of 27 photographs that she created which assemble and document some of her many collections.
LITTLE THINGS 2014
Curated by Marianne Lambert
NOVEMBER 13, 2014 – JANUARY 2, 2015
This annual exhibition is The Swan Coach House Gallery’s most popular event! The walls are covered with a wild assortment of artworks on sale for the holidays, in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, fiber, and ceramics. Collect small works by Atlanta’s most important artists, as well as discover new emerging talent.
BOJANA GINN
RECODE. PLAY. LOOP.
Curated by Marianne Lambert
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 – OCTOBER 31, 2014
Reflecting on the concept of DNA as a code of life, Ginn explores the idea of drawing as code. Her multimedia installation reveals the process of repetition and mutation, by which drawing is recoded into sculpture, sculpture into drawing, drawing into video, and installation into photography.
PAM ROGERS
TERRA FLORA
Curated by Marianne Lambert
AUG 13 – SEPT 19, 2014
Roger’s nature-based work is strongly influenced by Botanical Illustration, Art History and Anthropology. Paintings, drawings, sculpture and installation of botanic imagery are conceptually based on the deconstruction of relationships, events, and personal moments. Her work examines the relationships between people, plants, and place.
JAYSON NILES
ANAMALIS
Curated by Marianne Lambert
JANUARY 9 – FEBRUARY 21, 2014
Addressing the animal kingdom and beyond, each “anamalis” is made of materials such as found fur and wood, which were collected over time and later assembled into mixed media sculpture.
LITTLE THINGS 2013
Curated by Marianne Lambert
NOVEMBER 15 – JANUARY 5, 2013
13th year of our holiday exhibit, the walls of the gallery will be filled with over 300 little works of art crated by 115 participating artists.
EMERGING ARTIST AWARD
15YR RETROSPECTIVE
Curated by Marianne Lambert
SEPTEMBER 26 – NOVEMBER 2, 2013
This retrospective exhibition celebrates the 15th Anniversary of the Forward Arts Foundation’s Emerging Artist Award with an exhibition of work by each of the past award winners.
JOE TSAMBIRAS
PORTL
AUGUST 22 – SEPTEMBER 21, 2013
Through detailed etchings and stained glass objects Tsambiras creates a mythic world filled with imagery from medieval references, science fiction, classic fairy tales and contemporary culture.
THE 2013 SUMMER SWAN INVITATIONAL
Curated by Marianne Lambert
JUNE 6 – AUGUST 10, 2013
Our third annual Invitational with selections that include finely crafted functional pottery to serving and decorative pieces. In keeping with current design movement toward the use of color, there is a strong focus this year on brightly painted and colorfully glazed ceramics.
BORN
WABI SABI
2012-13 Emerging Artist Award Winner
With Finalists: S. Andre Keichian, Kevin Byrd, Romy Maloon
and John-Paul Floyd
APRIL 18 – JUNE 1, 2013
BORN embraces tenets pf Wabi Sabi, a traditional Japanese notion of beauty. He lets the materials he finds be his guide, crafting abstract art forms from carefully assembled fragments of cracked and weathered wood, tarnished and rusted materials and discarded time-worn objects.
THE PRICE IS RIGHT 2013
Curated by Marianne Lambert
FEBRUARY 28 – APRIL 6, 2013
An exhibit that is structured to showcase (and sell) the art of some of the region’s ‘artists to watch'.’ It includes combination of artwork by both emerging and more established artist – all selling for under $1,000.
Image: Allyson Cummings
TOM VENTULETT
SEARCHING FOR BEAUTY
Curated by Marianne Lambert
JANUARY 10 – FEBRUARY 23, 2013
As an architect, Tom’s design focuses on creating spaces that are sensitive to a program, efficient, exciting and dramatic. His floral paintings gives him an opportunity to be free from constraints of architecture and freely explore the qualities of beauty while focusing on fluid color, texture, patterns and iridescent translucency that sunlight provides .