Bonnie MacLean (B)

Bonnie MacLean was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1961, received a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, moved to San Francisco, California, made a series of rock and roll posters for the Fillmore Auditorium, and then studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, the San Francisco Academy of Art, and the California College of Arts and Crafts, Mexican Extension. In 1972, returned to the East Coast and settled in Bucks County.


"Gypsy" oil/canvas, 34" x 38"


"Pink Slip" oil/linen, 30" x 28"


"Wood Hat" acrylic/board, 24" x 26"


"Bromelaid" acrylic/board, 24" x 26"

Exhibitions:

Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Posters Show, NY, NY National Council of Jewish Women, Cherry Hill, NJ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F.
Rock Poster Art Show, San Francisco, CA
Rutgers University National Drawing Show, Camden, NJ
Phillips Mill Art Exhibition, New Hope, PA
Beaver College, Regional Drawing Show, Glenside, PA
Princeton Gallery of Fine Arts, Princeton, NJ
NJ State Museum, Artlease and Sales Gallery, Trenton, NJ
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Gentle Winds Gallery, Doylestown, PA
Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Princeton Art Association, Princeton, NJ
8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Annual Pastel Exhibitions, Pastel Society of America, New York, NY

Art New York, International Art Fair of Contemporary Art, NY, NY Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sales and Rental Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA
Robruso's Art Masters Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Bucks County Council for the Arts, Doylestown, PA
Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
George School, Newtown, PA
Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, TN
Fifth Annual Group Exhibition, "Safety in Numbers", a Symphony in Contemporary Art, Old English Pine, Lambertville, NJ 1999
"Recent Paintings", One-person show, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJ, 2000
6th Annual Group Exhibition, "ken-'tem-pe-rer-e 2000," Old English Pine, Lambertville, NJ 2000

Permanent Collections:

Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Pictures Department, Philadelphia, PA
Hard Rock Cafe, Orlando, FL

Emily Thompson (B)

The Strawberry Letter 23 series: Stained Window - acryslic & oil on mylar & paper - 9.5 x 10 - $425

Emily Thompson is a graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. From there she became an art director for the in-house advertising department of Bloomingdale’s Home Furnishings Division. At the same time she freelanced as an illustrator and graphic designer. After establishing a substantial client base, she left Bloomingdale’s and worked as a freelance editorial illustrator and graphic designer full time out of her own studio in New York up until 1999. To this day she has a successful career doing both working out of her studio in Bucks County, PA.

Emily is also an award winning abstract artist. Her recent works showcase her great sense of design and color. She works in acrylics along with other mediums. “Acrylics dry fast so they’re great for layering. You can do so much with them.” She adds graphite, pastel, oil sticks, dry pigments and powders. The metallic ones being a favorite! “A piece can go through many phases then all of a sudden it’s done. That’s the beauty of working in abstract.” Emily loves working on the heaviest, roughest paper she can find as well as masonite and canvas .

She is influenced by deKooning and other favorites like Richard Diebenkorn and Mark Rothko. She is also excited by her discovery of the wonderfully talented abstract artists of Bucks County. “We are so used to seeing the traditional works of the Bucks County Impressionists, that we overlook the great non-representational art that is out there. There is a great group of artists in the area that influence me so much.”

Her work can be seen at Sabine Rose Gallery and the Freight House in Doylestown, as well as in group shows around the area.

Visit www.ethompsonstudio.com to see more of Emily’s work.

215.766.3892
thompsonstudio@comcast.net

Alan Hines (B)

Munich Air Disaster 1958 - 24 x 24 - collage on board - $900

Alan Hines has studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Keiko Miyamori, with Pat Martin, and with Barbara Lewis. Some recent exhibitions include: The Woodmere Art Museum, Sabine Rose Gallery, the Ellarslie Open XXIII at the Trenton City Museum, and with Artsbridge (at this year's "Annual Regional Juried Show" at Prallsville Mills and "Works on Paper" at Riverrun Gallery). At the Phillips' Mill 75 th Annual Exhibition, he was awarded The Hughes Award To An Artist Exhibiting At Phillips' Mill For The First Time. He is the author of a novel, Square Dance, which he also adapted for film. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Interrogation of Michael Crowe, which won a Peabody Award in 2003. He lives in Solebury.

"My work usually begins with shapes from nature. Often geologic or geographic features suggest these shapes. Sometimes they may be signs that nature left behind, such as wind-worn trees or jagged and uneven rocks - or man-made artifacts, such as stone circles. They evolve into compositions in which texture is the primary subject.

I am interested in the way textures merge, collide, and overlap... the way layers build up and wear away. I use all kinds of paper - handmade - ephemera - discarded packing materials - trash - weathered ads and notices I rip from plywood 'Post No Bills' walls that enclose construction sites in New York and Los Angeles."

Alan Fetterman (B)

"Alan Fetterman, a Bucks County native, is recognized as a leading force continuing the Bucks County art legacy today. As a Kay Scholar in Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, he has traveled extensively abroad and in South America to find a cultural and global aesthetic to his art and life.

As a regional artist, Alan has won numerous awards, and has had 12 solo exhibitions and over 70 group shows in the last fifteen years. As well, he has had multiple exhibits in Carmel, California and South America. His work is collected throughout the United States and abroad."

"In my opinion, Alan Fetterman is the most prominent landscape painter working in Bucks County today. He is the Edward Redfield of our day. As an artist, Alan is driven, almost spent in being emotionally true to his life experience. Although the entirely self-taught artist didn't pick up a paintbrush until he was 35, his artistic presence has already left an indelible imprint on the comtemporary generation of Bucks County Artists."

Libbie Soffer (MC, ML)

Artist Statement:
"art as journey

my art making is an internal journey with external souvenirs

on my trip I carry a soup pot for serving up memories, sensations, and responses to the world around me

a few of my traveling companions are Kiki Smith, Leslie Dill, Anne Hamilton, Richard Tuttle, Eva Hesse, Anne Truitt, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Jay DeFeo

you will always find in my suitcase:

family photo albums bolt of muslin
sewing needles carpet thread
scissors bag of clay
brushes Caran D’ache pencils
heavy sketch paper Elmer’s glue
oil sticks x – acto knife
straight pins 6” ruler

with my suitcase, soup pot, travel companions, and public radio, I travel to incredible places…there’s always room for guests on the journey."


Acting within the context of my assumptions, 2006, paper, hair, wood, thread, 108" x 32" x 4"


Adaptation of submission to circumstance, 2006, silk, linen, thread, pins, 80" x 16" x 24"


Anonymous under shelter, 2005-2006, stoneware, paper, silk, 9" x 29" x 42"


Balancing intuition and sensory information, 2006, board, paper, thread, wax, 26" x 74" x 3"


Emotional telepathy, 2004-2006, board, paper, muslin, pen, 39" x 39" x 2"


Imposing order on matter, 2006, cast plaster, oxides, 87" x 35" x 12"


Obsessive sieving of history, 2006, silk, linen, thread, pins, 55" x 55" x 3"


Risks of love, 2005-2006, copper, brass, patina, 24" x 16" x 11"


Understanding the map, 2005, muslin, marker, wax, brass, 15" x 60" x 4"

Nic Coviello (Philadephia)

"My work is motivated by the life affirming activities of creating visual responses to the lines, forms and rhythms of the physical world around me.

I combine new and traditional technologies, often on the same multilayered image, as a way to replicate the observations, thoughts and recollections that drives the work. This multi-layered process helps me to find personal ways to regenerate visually the ephemeral and graphic qualities of found objects (relics) and random sights that capture my attention and provide those prized moments that follow a new discovery.

Finding and collecting plant-life debris, from natural or planned shedding, and bringing new life to its form, mimics in a simple but profound way, the extraordinary gift of life (a cadaver kidney transplant) that will forever repurpose my artmaking."

Recent work done with ink, gouache and acrylic on paper:














Champagne Series, Acrylic on aluminum, 22" x 27"



nic@niccoviello.com
nscoviello@verizon.net
www.inliquid.com

Virginia Batson (Philadelphia)

"Virginia Batson works in a range of media including organic mixed media sculpture, installation, abstract works on paper, video, language-based works, and artist’s books. The conceptual and poetic strength of her work can be attributed to her creative writing experience, while her extensive background in dance and yoga has honed the sensual, physical materiality that imbues her work and is inherent in her experimental art-making process.

Recently, Batson has created a body of work from her own body's residue (hair, fingernails), using glue as a skin to soak up texture and pattern from the skin of her body. The new organic systems that arise are saturated with the potency of once-living cells, and echo natural and aesthetic forms. Now in progress, The Craving Project investigates cravings recorded by the artist and members of the public. The artist uses the craved substances as sculptural material and incorporates individuals' descriptive language into the objects.

Virginia Batson was born in New Orleans in 1974 and currently lives in Philadelphia, where she received her MFA from The University of the Arts in 2002. She exhibits her work nationally, and her artists' books are in university and museum collections in New York and Philadelphia."















mail@virginiabatson.com
www.VirginiaBatson.com

Laura Kicey (MC, ML)

"These photographs depict my recollections of the richest moments of the beautiful and the ignored I have encountered in my travels, whether that is an evening walk around Ambler, a flight to the opposite coast, or a drive in central PA with the intention of getting lost. I marvel at the way time, history and nature reform structures and lives, and the secrets and stories forgotten objects can tell.

In my explorations, I seek out the literal or figurative underbelly of places and things. Often the unseen is the most telling and sensitive. Back alleys and abandoned places draw me in. The things I see in these places where I most likely should not be, I take out of their realm and ask the viewer to see what has been missed. I prefer to use what I encounter as I find it, making visual order of chaos by giving new context to what I have singled out.

As a graphic designer, my interest and careful study of color and space has been
developing over the years; in my photographs, I reapply those ideas to the world as I see it. My post-processing work is used less to distort or invent, rather more to recapture the feelings of the moment, by altering the color. I prefer to restrict myself to one or two dominating colors in a composition to enhance and orchestrate the mood. The goal of every image is to create an experience that invokes all the senses as intensely as when I capture what is before me." -Laura Kicey

Recent digital photographs:

















American artist Laura Kicey, born in 1977 is a photographer and digital mixed media artist who has exhibited her work in galleries on the east coast and in online group exhibitions. Her work is held in a number of private collections.

Kicey was educated at Kutztown University and holds a BFA in Communication Design (something we have in common). She currently works as a graphic designer in Ambler, PA.


Upcoming shows:
Mugshots Coffeeshop and Juice Bar
joint show with Dustin Fenstermacher.
Februay 2007, Philadelphia PA.

Small Works, group show, December 2006
Muse Gallery, Philadelphia PA

Her photos can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kicey
Her website is here: http://laurakicey.com/

Emily Brown: (MC, ML, B)

Elegy (triptych), 2003, Ink on paper, 161.5 x 99.5 inches







"One of the Philadelphia area's most distinguished painters, Emily Brown first became known for her traditional landscapes. Many of these focused on her observations of the natural world around her in the Philadelphia region, or the green, hilly country of Waldo County, Maine, where she has spent most of her summers since 1966.

In the last ten years her work has undergone a dramatic evolution, as her attention shifted to earthy 'still lifes' incorporating to such mundane subjects as the compost pile in her back yard -which caught her eye one afternoon while she was painting the plants and flowers nearby. 'It struck me as uniquely sensuous and varied-a profoundly physical, immediate situation,' Brown says of the compost pile. This seemingly ordinary feature of her domestic landscape where, as she says, 'change is constant,' seemed to her to reflect the ephemeral nature of own our lives.

Brown's most recent work has a dramatically different look, in part a result of her move to an indoor studio, where she says, 'season and weather would no longer control my working habits.' The studio environment opened up choices as to subject, scale and working methods. 'I shifted to black-and-white to experiment, where tone and texture are potent elements,' Brown says. She became particularly attracted to ink drawings, whose execution she describes as 'fast and chancy …there is no turning back.' Her large-scale, ethereal drawings of trees and water focus less on the specific, physical details of the land, but rather become a meditative study of its natural forms and rhythms.

'Rather than simply recording the world around her, Brown's landscapes reflect her personal journey as a woman and an artist,' Senior Curator Brian H. Peterson says. 'This evolution grew out of her sense of creative exploration and restlessness, but even more from her own experience of dealing with such universal issues as aging, grief, and freedom.'"


Hill, Chester Springs, 1979, Oil on linen, 21 x 34 inches


At the River's Edge, 1998, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches


Jet Trail, 1992, Oil on linen, 18 x 30 inches

www.emilybrown.net

Carol McHarg (MC, ML)

Local artist:

Artist Statement
"My recent paintings address two powerful forces that shape the global environment – geology and modern engineering/land development. These works reflect my background as a landscape architect and employ my knowledge of ecology, design, cartography and of the impact of designers and developers who disregard the forces of the natural world. This narrative is embodied not only in the subject matter, but also in the style and materiality of my work. I combine symbolism with reality, perspective with flatness and an exaggerated configuration of nature overlaid with an artificial reconfiguration of the landscape. In 1982 I wrote a book titled Nature’s Design in which I explained how to design successful and fitting landscape environments using the principles and forces of nature."









"Carol S. McHarg has a studio in Philadelphia near Washington Square and commutes to New York weekly to teach landscape design at Columbia University. She has had exhibitions worldwide including those at Brad Cooper Gallery, Florida and The Pennsylvania Academy of fine Arts, Philadelphia. Her work is in several collections in Italy and the U.S. She is the author of the best selling book Nature’s Design, published by Rodale Press, in which she explained how to design with nature.
The recent works of Carol McHarg push the boundaries of contemporary landscape painting. She expresses her history and ideology as a Landscape Architect and at the same time moves the history of art onto a new plane. These powerful paintings look at ecology, design, cartography and the impacts of engineers and designers to question what is natural and what is not.

This narrative is embodied not only in the subject matter, but also in the style and materiality of the work. The artist combines symbolism with reality, perspective with flatness and an exaggerated configuration of nature overlaid with an artificial reconfiguration of the landscape. She questions what is natural and what is man made in the world at large and in the painting itself."

PO Box 778
Unionville, PA 19375
tel: 610-347-0311
e-mail: csmcharg@hotmail.com