What is your concept of Paradise? Is it a place, or a state of mind? Artist Marjorie Brown Pierson explores this question in Immersion, a new exhibition of fine art photographs. Marjorie Brown Pierson is a visual artist, author and lecturer based in Durham, North Carolina. Her fine art photographs explore the complexity of evolving […]
My paternal grandfather was orphaned as an infant in New York and shipped south on an “Orphan Train.” Both he and his wife died when my father was quite young. I grew up in New Orleans, wondering about my ancestry, steeped in colorful stories of the past. I’ve always been drawn to photographs from the […]
Clark Derbes uses carved and poly-chromed wood to materialize conceptual art of the highest caliber. These sculptures-of-paintings-of-sculptures explore multiple genres and approaches. The optical effect of the carved–out bas-relief sculpture is immediate and profound, while the rough-hewn surfaces and delicate handling of paint seduces the viewer. The work joins american folk/outsider art traditions with the […]
Memory Logos is a new group of paintings and drawings that explores notions of invented memory and iconic imagery between the mid 19th century and now.