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A native of north-west Pennsylvania, where he still resides, Thomas McNickle is surrounded by Amish neighbors and a landscape that has inspired his work for decades.

Tom’s exceptional technical ability has been evident since he first began painting in his teens. An intrinsic feature of his painting is the Zen philosophy of rapid execution. Approaching each painting in a meditative state, McNickle relies on complete and relaxed concentration for the layering of direct, spontaneous strokes of color. The power and individuality of these brushstrokes transforms archetypal motifs of land and sky into unique and personal images.

Tom is a member of the American and National Watercolor Societies and his work has been exhibited in over fifty museum and gallery exhibitions including a mid-career retrospective at the Butler Institute of American Art. His work can be found in numerous permanent collections including the Butler Institute of American Art, the Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, Vero Beach Center for the Arts, Kansas State University, the Mint Museum, among others.  Tom is sought after for large-scale corporate and private commissions. He has also taught landscape workshops coast to coast in the United States and internationally.

Robert Kushner, who emerged in the early 1970s as a performance artist, is well known for his richly textured and opulent paintings of flowers, which have been his main concentration since the late 1980s. The artist says, Gold leaf made its way into my paintings, and my subject matter began to shift from figures to flowers and plant forms…Japanese influences slumbered and meshed with other sources for a few years. However, as a counterbalance, Matisse, Bonnard, Klimpt, O’Keefe and Demuth remained (and still remain) important sources for me.

Robert Kushner has exhibited extensively, and his work can be found in the collections of many prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Tate Gallery in London and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Ida Kohlmeyer (1912-1997) was a matriarch among American artists, achieving international acclaim without leaving her native New Orleans. Although she did not begin painting full time until she was in her mid-thirties, Kohlmeyer’s work has been represented in well over 100 solo exhibitions, including a major retrospective at the Mint Museum of Art. Her work is in the permanent collections of over 80 institutions including the High Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Ida Kohlmeyer’s joyful abstract paintings and sculptures reflect the spirit of New Orleans and her long fascination with folk and primitive art. Based on her own developed alphabet of various organic and geometric shapes, the works transpose Kohlmeyer’s passions and delights into compact, colorful and celebratory images.

Kim Keever photographically captures colliding, billowing colors into soft yet explosive choreography, creating imagery as beautiful as it is technical. Trained as an engineer, Keever uses precision and innovation to compose his photographs, utilizing a strategic dispersal of specially prepared pigments into a 200-gallon aquatic tank, creating dynamic, random movement confined with the glass walls. After photographing through the glass, Keever crops the images to achieve the desired compositions. In this process dualities emerge: the images exist in a space between chance and control, between explosiveness and grace.

A recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, Keever, had been honored with numerious exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. His work is in the permanent collections of the Mint Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, Microsoft, Bank of America and Philip Morris.

Raul Diaz was born in 1952 in Cordoba, Argentina, where he continues to live and produce his art. Although Diaz studied architecture, he could not avoid the overwhelming call within himself to be a painter. Self-taught as such, he has emerged as one of the most prominent artists in Argentina. Raul Diaz has held shows all over South America and is included in numerous major collections.

Clamp’s deeply personal images are influenced by simple yet poignant childhood memories. The commonplace toys and objects featured in his paintings are artifacts gathered in the process of recollecting childhood experiences, particularly the hours spent with his beloved grandfather, amidst his grandfather’s collected “treasures” and tools. The objects are meaningful to the artist and to his execution of both content and the carefully executed textures within the paintings. The viewer is invited to bring his or her own personal history to the narrative that unfolds within each painting.

A native of Leesville, South Carolina, Christopher Clamp received his BFA with a concentration in painting from Winthrop University in 2001. He was recently honored by being included in the prestigious biennial Re-Presenting Representation at the Arnot Museum in Elmira, New York. He has also been honored with inclusion in the 2001 South Carolina Triennial at the South Carolina State Museum.

The long and rich tradition of marine painting in the United States manifested itself especially in northern New England, along the coasts of Massachusetts and Maine. William Partridge Burpee, a master of marine painting, held a long career which encompassed a stylistic and thematic development which first reflected the early Luminist traditions of Lane and the more heroic Naturalism of Winslow Homer’s Prout’s Neck paintings. Far more than a follower of these celebrated artists, Burpee was a painter who went on to explore both Tonalism and Impressionism at the end of the 19^th century, responding to the impact of the work of James McNeill Whistler and to the strong presence and interest of French and American Impressionist paintings in Boston. Burpee was a member of the Lynn Beach Painters, a group working en plein air along Boston’s North Shore from 1882-1890s. While depicting nearby scenes of beaches, marshes and fisherman, he became particularly successful and won widespread praise for capturing the moods of the sea in paintings and pastels.

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1911, Romare Bearden had achieved a stature known by few artists during their lifetimes by the time of his death in 1988. He was, and still is, considered America’s greatest collagist and was thus honored by receiving the National Medal of Arts in 1987 from then President Reagan. The artist’s works are in the permanent collections of most every major American Museum including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrospectives of Bearden’s art have been organized by the Museum of Modern Art, the Mint Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum in Atlanta, and for the Council for Creative Projects.

Throughout his life, Bearden depicted many rituals and social customs of twentieth century rural Black America. The images of spiritual ceremonies, baptisms, and burial, industrial hardships, musical arrangements and daily life have become the themes that critics and collectors most frequently associate with his work. Visually and emotionally stimulating, Romare Bearden’s collages and prints are beautiful to behold and fantastic to contemplate.

Born in Elloree, South Carolina, Jesse Redwin Bardin became nationally recognized for his evocative abstract paintings that seem to glow from within. His paintings tend to be primarily monochromatic, dealing with elemental concepts, contemplation and activity.

Bardin was the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the South Carolina Guild of Artists in 1958, the Ford Foundation Purchase Award in 1960 and inclusion in the American Federation of Arts, 50 Artists – 50 States traveling exhibition. In 1982, the Columbia Museum of Art launched a career retrospective. Bardin’s work can be found in museum collectors including the Mint Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Gibbes Museum among others.

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