Trialogue A Selection of New Works by Jennifer Kloth, Linda Risso, And Melissa Sugar

Paintings of Joan Cox

Scooter Parking Only
Sampling of pieces available at the gallery

 

Antique Vespa (2008) Acrylic on Canvas 40x50 $1200	Green Scooter at Cafe du Monde (2008) Oil & Acrylic on canvas 30x40 $1500	Tuxedo Scooter on Red Swirls (2008) Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 30x40 $1200	Lime Green Scooter with Swirls (2008) Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 16x20 $400	Red & Blue Scooters (2009) Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 16x20 $400	Red Scooter (2008) Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 20x20 $400

 

Scooter Tails (2008) Acrylic on Canvas 20x20 $400	Three Handlebars (2008) Acrylic on Canvas 20x20 $400	Scooter Parking (Orange)--(2008) Acrylic on Canvas 40x50 $1200	Scooters Lined Up (2008) Acrylic on Canvas 40x50 $1200	Blue & Green Scooters (2008) Acrylic on Canvas 40x50 $1200	Italian Scooter (2008) Acrylic on Canvas 40x60 $1800

 

 Sample of Jennifer Kloth's Works (click on image for larger view):

Blue Room Archival Inkjet Print 24X30 2008--$450	Red Crate Archival Inkjet Print 24X30 2008--$450

Sample of Linda Risso's Works (click on image for larger view):

 

Deviant Mixed Media 3X3 Piece in 12X15 Frame 2006--$375	Winged mixed Media 3X3 Piece in 12X15 Frame 2006--$375

Sample of Melissa Sugar's Work (click on image for larger view):

Melissa Sugar 2008--$850

Artemis Herber--Threshold 

The following is a sample of Ms. Herber's works.

Lost Space (2006) 36x60 Acrylic on Canvas $2800	Harbor (2005) 36x48 Acrylic on Canvas $1800	Gas Station (2006) 48x60 Acrylic on Canvas $3600

Yellow Pole (2006) 11x9 Acrylic on Canvas $500	Top Level(2006) 36x48 Acrylic on Canvas $2000	Electricity Poles (2006) 30x40 Acrylic on Canvas $1800

Intersection (2006) 48x60 Acrylic on Canvas $4000	District (2006) 48x60 Acrylic on Canvas $3400	Bridge (2006) 30x40 Acrylic on Canvas $2000

Artist Statement & Bio:
Ms. Herber's paintings evoke the passage to time with sparse architectural elements and evocative use of light and unpredictable color. Ms. Herber’s sculpture is comprised of single sheets of cardboard that has been scored and cut into sculptural “walls”  and “smokestacks” that are then painted in coordination with her paintings. 

“Transitory in nature, these lost spaces incorporate driveways, streets, and bridges, driving the viewer in and out of the composition. Therein lies just a moment, a short break before the viewer continues traveling through a distant, deep space, and time.  This vision expresses the character of transitory moments in a world of restlessness and the hurry of mobility.  The emptiness evolves to an artistic concept, where the paintings display a paradox of sorts:  they are filled to the brim with image yet, they depict deserted spaces, devoid of people,” notes Ms. Herber.                                                                                                 

A native of Germany, Ms. Herber has exhibited widely throughout the United States and on an international scale.  Most recently her work was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Art, Inc., and the Luke & Eloy Gallery in Pittsburgh.  Ms. Herber was also a featured artist in the juried “Beyond/In Western New York 2007” at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York.   

(A)Waiting
Portraits of Baltimore's Industrial Waterfront  (November 15th-January 3rd)

The Photography of Andy Herbick (click on image for enlarged view)

Dry Dock Drain 20x30 Edition of 25 Framed Print: $625 Unframed: $450	Three Yellow Cranes 20x30 Edition of 25 Framed Print: $625 Unframed: $450	Anchor [12M] 20x30 Edition of 25 Framed Print: $625 Unframed: $450	Fine Bow 20x30 Edition of 25 Framed Print: $625 Unframed: $450	Runsty Bow 20x30 Edition of 25 Framed Print: $625 Unframed: $450	Sunset Cranes 20x30 Edition of 25 Framed Print: $625 Unframed: $450

Dolphin Tryptych #1 8x14 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Dolphin Tryptych #2 8x14 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Dolphin Tryptych #3 8x14 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Dock at Night 12x18 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Superstructure #1 12x18 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Bow Bulb 12x18 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225

Superstructure #2 12x18 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Anchor [14] 12x18 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Runsted Hull Drains 12x18 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Superstructure #3 6x18 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Ancho [342] 12x18 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225	Four Blue Cranes 12x18 Edition of 50 Framed Print: $350 Unframed: $225

Anchor & Chains 28x42 Edition of 12 Framed: $1175 Unframed: $900	Bow #1 28x42 Edition of 12 Framed: $1175 Unframed: $900	Four Red Cranes 28x42 Edition of 12 Framed: $1175 Unframed: $900	Orange Crane 28x42 Edition of 12 Framed: $1175 Unframed: $900	Anchor [Y] 20x30 Edition of 25 Framed: $625 Unframed: $450	Dolphin Piling 20x30 Edition of 25 Framed: $625 Unframed: $450

How Old is Your Broken Heart-October 4th-November 8th 2008
Works by Lance Rautzhan

Scribble Poet 42x58 SOLD	Leaving Bars 54x46 (2006)Acrylic on Canvas	Blank is the New Black 44x32 (2007)Acrylic on Canvas $900

Cults are for Romantics 56x40 (2007) Acrylic on Canvas $1100	Religious Disco 31x8 Acrylic on Glass SOLD	The Price 56x20 (2008) Acrylic on Wood

The original oil paintings of Ms. Najwa Al-Amin
From Baghdad to Baltimore

Artist Statement
I love colors. They make life brighter. Pablo Picasso said" Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up". Growing up I forgot about the artist me. One day I decided to look deep into my own self for that forgotten artist, I found her, and the artist became my whole being, ever since.
Biography
Ms. Al-Amin is an Iraqi artist living near Baltimore, Maryland. She was born and raised in Baghdad and lived in the capital until the late 1990s. When she was a child, she often traveled alongside her father, who was a university teacher and administrator, to Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon and United Arab Emirates. Ms. Al-Amin graduated from the American High School in Baghdad and later earned an Engineering degree at the University of Baghdad.
One of her mentors is the Iraqi artist, Nathira al-Kuttab, who now lives in Spain. Another mentor was her late father, Mohamed Jasim al-Amin, an Iraqi poet who introduced her to the milieu of art and literature when she was sixteen.
Ms. Al-Amin's medium is oil on paper, board and canvas. The work celebrates a boundless world of images and figures in soft as well as strong tones. "Wars and conflicts left no colors in the Middle East desert's life", she says. "So I put them into my art, to turn sadness into happiness and replace anger with peace." Her paintings express the passion of an ancient culture, and her techniques are as diverse and elegant as the artist herself.
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A Village 40x30 (Najwa Al-Amin) SOLD	A Kite Over A City I & II 15x30 (Najw Al-Amin) $375 per painting(#I-SOLD)	Baltimore 24x36 (Najw Al-Amin) $400

Kids Flying Kites 16x20 (Najwa Al-Amin) SOLD	Magical City 24x36 (Najwa Al-Amin) SOLD	Meadow 40x30 (Najwa Al-Amin) SOLD

Orange Orchards in Dyala 22x28 (Najwa Al-Amin) $475	Riding A Kite Looking Down 36x32 (Najwa Al-Amin $750	Windows I & II 16x24 (Najwa Al-Amin) $600 per painting

 

 

Carlo Van Grieken

Structures of the Past—The Legacy of the Future 
 

“My art comes from the things I see around me; it comes from nature; and it comes from my own background.”

--Carlo Van Grieken 
 

Why towers?  Towers and turrets, for me, have a significance of strength and protection in the built urban environment.  They suggest security, power, and beauty.  This is why we love romantic castles and fortress towns.  This show focuses on my interest of how the structure, movement, and volume of towers and turrets interplay with each other and connect with the intangible sky.
   

The edifice is an inhabited artifact that embodies the beautiful and diverse history as-well-as romanticized past of Baltimore City.  The solid structures are presented as clean, pure forms that are highly textured yet unblemished by time.  They are not sublime, decaying relics of a tarnished memory.  They encourage the viewer to appreciate the deeper, more-meaningful artistry of Baltimore’s architecture.  For me, the clean representations endorse a spirit of potential and promise here.  The connected geometries of the towers and turrets converge to convey an infinite edge that stretches into the blue sky with limitless imagination.  The solid forms appear to grow up from their solid foundations and join the surreal blue.  Perspective is portrayed from the position of one viewer, myself.  The onlooker is invited to participate in this narrative journey. 

Baltimore’s magnificent architecture made this charged impression on me when I first visited this city.  The rich urban fabric appeared extraordinary not by horizontal lines of white-stepped rowhouses, but by the turreted sentinels that stand guard and point upward to a limitless Baltimore sky.  I now live in a Baltimore townhouse with a corner turret.  I find that tower rooms have a connection with infinity because their unlimited views outside and cornerless internal boundaries make a singular connection with the neighborhood and with my own imagination.         

Past Exhibitions:

Merida, Venezuela
Valencia, Venezuela
Yucaipa, California
Guadalajara, Mexico
Redlands, California
Toulouse, France
Riverside, California 

Images of Exhibit (click on images for larger view):

Carlo Van Grieken "The Beginning" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008	Carlo Van Grieken "Study I" Acrylic on Canvas 8"x19"2008 SOLD	Carlo Van Grieken "1900" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x36" 2008	Carlo Van Grieken "Studies II & III" Acrylic on Canvas 8"x19" 2008 BOTH SOLD	Carlo Van Grieken "1820 Turret" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008

Carlo Van Grieken "The Sacred Door" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008 SOLD	Carlo Van Grieken "Red Tower" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008	Carlo Van Grieken "Turrets" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008	Carlo Van Grieken "The View" Acrylic on Canvas 18"x24" 2008	Carlo Van Grieken "Lady In White" Acrylic on Canvas 24"x30" 2008 SOLD

Scott Gelo & Eric Ehlenberger Neon Exhibit

Ventus Scott Gelo	Jellyfish Eric Ehlenberger

Pilgrimage Series Scott Gelo

Interior View	Exterior View