Studios:
 
Downtown

1.  WILSON HUGHES Studios
    117 W. Campbell Ave.
    540-529-8455
    Suzun Hughes
    John Wilson
   

2. Three Studios
     110 W. Campbell Ave
     540-529-1340
     Ann Glover
     Cathryn Hankla

     Steve Mitchell
     Diane Patton
     C. J. Phillips
     Pat West

      Calvert Lafollette

3. Studio Art Annex
    209 First Street
    540.460.2903
    Brian Counihan

4. 110 B Kirk Avenue Studio
     540-314-8874
     Ann Bondurant Trinkle  

5.  208 Fourth Street SW Studio
     540-460-9968
     Ed Dolinger


Raleigh Court and
Grandin Rd

6. 2242 Westover Avenue Studio
      540-904-2828
      Mary Bullington
      Gina Louthian Stanley
      John Wiercioch

7. 2602 Grandin Rd. SW
      540-989-7708
       Sherrye J. Lantz
 

South Roanoke     

8.  Fitzpatrick Studio
     2306 Richelieu Ave
     540-345-7887 
     Eric Fitzpatrick
    

9. 429 Cassell Lane
    540.342.8185
    Lucy Hazlegrove
    Alison Hall

10.  3250 Avenham Ave SW
     540-985-0263
     Barry Wolfe
     Winn Ballenger    
     Nan Mahone Wellborn
     Jamie Nervo

11.  MJ Burtch Studio
       3296 Somerset Street
       540-345-9316
        M. J.  Burtch
        J. Gail Geer
       Tom Lawson       

 

Open Studios of Roanoke
10th Annual Tour
Roanoke, VA

April 24 & April 25, 2010
Saturday 10 a.m - 5 p.m
Sunday Noon - 5 p.m.

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Key to my collages and paintings is a physical, often percussive rhythm, fluid line, and vibrant color. I love visual saturation—I strive to give my viewers so much to see in any one piece that they must take it in gradually, over time. At the same time, my job is to create a pleasing visual order out of the chaos. My pleasure as an artist lies in turning interesting accidents, ambiguities, and coincidences into a kind of musical phrasing, complete with harmony and dissonance.

My figurative work often comes to imply a narrative, sometimes with biblical, mythic or allegoric overtones. Sometimes I make direct allusions to Bible, Greek myth, or fairytale; more often the reference is only semi-conscious, imported from the ancient art and literature I have studied for years.

My collages are made up of what I call “dress material”--I create hundreds of paintings on paper each year, many made specifically to cut up and collage with—and I keep in my studios 4 big bins and various small ones filled with this stuff which I sort through continually, seeking the right bits. These pieces build by accretion, until a whole emerges made of many different bits, each with its own texture, color, and feel. Some of these pieces, paved with this material, become virtual paper mosaics.

So my process, like that of most artists I know, is a little obsessive-compulsive. Usually I start more or less arbitrarily, with a few marks on a piece of paper, canvas or wood, or a few scraps thrown down against a painted surface. I work primarily by trial and error— each piece I work on requires its own process, which evolves along the way, akin to a new game to which I add rules as I go. I slow down more and more as a piece comes together, changing areas—sometimes radically—as need or intuition dictates. Only when a piece achieves an over all sense of spritely rightness, do I stop.

Honors and Awards

The Paul Ostaseski Memorial Award, Sidewalk Art Show, Roanoke, VA 2009
Best in Show, Sidewalk Art Show, Roanoke, VA, 2008
The Antsey Hodge Advertising Group Award for Excellence in Design, 2007
Awards for Mixed Media, Sidewalk Art Show, Roanoke, VA2007, 1998
Award in All Mixed Up: A Mixed Media Exhibition. The Sawtooth Gallery, Winston Salem, NC 1995

Listed in Who's Who in American Art, 1995

Artists:

Winn Ballenger
Mary Boxley Bullington
Mary Jane Burtch
Eric Fitzpatrick
J. Gail Geer
Ann Glover
Lucy Hazlegrove
Tom Lawson
Steve Mitchell
Jamie Nervo
Diane Patton
C. J. Phillips
Gina Louthian Stanley
Ann Bondurant Trinkle
Nan Mahone Wellborn
Barry Wolfe

Guest Artists:

Brian Counihan
Ed Dolinger
Alison Hall
Cathryn Hankla
Suzun Hughes
Calvert Lafollette
 Sherrye J. Lantz
Pat West
John Wiercioch
John Wilson
     

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