Alicia Chatham
Alicia creates canvases which pull the viewer in deep beneath the surface into contemplation. Her playful images and dreamlike landscapes combined with her skilled use of darker color palates gives the viewer the sense that he or she has slipped subconsciously into something otherworldly. Her work suggests a unique distinction between the lightness of her playful images and the dark environment her figures and forms posses.
Alicia was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1974 and moved to South Carolina at a young age. She attended the university of South Carolina and the University of North Carolina where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in oil painting.
Brian Hibbard
Brian's work is varied and reflective of what he has done and where he has been as an artist. He takes what is personal to him, translates that into his art and gives the viewer a wide range of compositions to admire within his body of work. For Brian, the human figure is a powerful form in his own art and others' art, which he believes stems form his study of art history. He enjoys the challenge the human figure poses to properly catch the proportions, shadows, lines, facial emotions and body language.
The striking horse pieces entered his collection when he and his wife lived in Colorado and New Mexico. Brian began painting them because they "captured the spirit and feeling of where [he] was then." The landscapes of these Southwest areas caught his artist eye as well because of the "high contrasts with the shadows of the mountains on the valley's soil."
Unique materials are what gives the colors within Brian's painting a distinctive look. In Greensboro, he work as an assistant to sculptor John Gallucci which inspired him to begin using a variety of materials on his canvases. Liquid asphalt is a material he often uses in his paintings to create darker elements. He uses ground copper, brass or powered bronze in acrylic or oil mediums to create rich coppers and browns. He also creates some of his work using a two-part epoxy resin which he can drip oil-based mediums into. This process can change patterns over the course of eight hours, and he can manipulate the materials while they work to create a truly individual effect on his canvases.
Meghan Henley
Megan is working in the fashion industry by day and painting by night. Many of her paintings are abstract compositions which include brightly colored fabric swatches. Megan's love of fabrics lead her to re-designing vintage or thrift store clothes. Her combination of color, movement and texture give her canvases a sartorial element which are reflective of her talents as an artist and fashionista.
