artists:

john guthrie johnkguthrie.com
using drips to mock stripes, jg has mastered a unique,vibrant and luscious method of painting on canvas.

spencer james spencer james creates contemporary glyphs from common objects and imagery, then asks that the viewer see beyond it -
into the sentimentality of human iconography, the drastic beauty of happenstance, and the subtle invisibility of patina.

jeffrey scott mackenzie  jeffrey scott mackenzie works with discarded, broken and lost items which he collects on
routine walks along railroad tracks and everywhere else. his work suggests traditional geometry but is assembled from irregularly shaped wood and patchwork "canvas",
often glued together by, and embellished with, paint. the work has pagan and/or divinely inspired mandala-esque suggestions, with the accidental aesthetic beauty of a
ritual process or an obsessed grandfather's tool shed. his flatter, more rectangular work reads like a haunted pollack : buried in a landfill, clam baked and then dried in the
desert sun. what emerges from the rags, decayed rope,old wires with brittle insulation and mummified tape is a new manifestation of beauty - arranged instinctively by their
archivist, interpreter and excavator.

tammi j. meehan  tammi j. meehan expresses nameless feelings and emotions in a single blurry line or a shiny wet blob of paint
wrecking up against a black stroke.with a combination of dreamy representation, metaphoric half -imagery and daring patchwork "background" color fields,
the paintings are yummy and playful with forlorn undercurrents. a prolific drawer, tammi went from the path of illustration into the arms of painting after a
freshman drawing assignment at parsons led her to copy a dekooning.from there she moved on to acrylics, then oils. the line is nearly always present in her
work, forming alliances with the paint while playing tricks on it.

todd sinclair todd sinclair paints small paintings that are so carefully executed that the very essence of the paint is celebrated.
his skies, garments and backgrounds are lush with the love for paint of a renaissance master, yet folky in representation. cloudy opaque layers and shiny, varnish-laden details
contain an organic feel that brings out the human side of the holy subjects. his immediacy to make his earlier work meant that some are painted right on top of a kitsch print
within the often garish frame. these earlier pieces have a powerfully spiritual byzantine quality even though the frames seem to have come from a 400 year old greek "house of pizza".