JENNIFER WEIGEL
The Hunt
The Hunt
The Hunt and Crossing Over
Jennifer Weigel is a multidisciplinary mixed-media conceptual artist. Weigel utilizes a wide range of media to convey her ideas, including assemblage, drawing, fibers, installation, jewelry, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and writing.
JACK BORDNICK
Facing it Together
Facing it Together
“My sculptural imagery is a reflection of my past and present forces and included in the imagination of life’s stories. They represent an evolutionary process of how all of life’s forces are interconnected.”
website: www.jackbordnickstudio.com
NERS NEONLUMBERJACK
Whose Bones are These?
Whose Bones are These?
"We have made great attempts to separate ourselves from the natural world. Only venturing into more wild areas when we choose. Of course, nature is still all-encompassing all the while. Dead things often frighten or disturb us. Removing our language in ways to limit our insecurities with what dead animals we eat, what dead trees we live under, and what animals we displaced or eradicated to call places home. Working on bone is one mere layer of paint away from the source. Taking our guard down to enjoy the beauty of the forms, and hopefully to start a reconnection of thought about what and why the work came to be.… Whose bones ARE these?"
Ners Neonlumberjack was born in a tiny town in central Indiana in 1986, graduating from Herron School of Art and Design with degrees in Painting, Sculpture, and Art History in 2009. socials: @neonlumberjack
JAKE QUICK
Lake Retreat
Lake Retreat
“Lake Retreat combines 480 individually cut 2x2 blocks of wood into a mosaic, recreating an aerial view of our cove. By using larger mosaic pieces, it is much more abstract, which, in my mind, makes it more special that my family and I can identify the uniqueness of what we see out the window every day.
I cut the blocks with a miter saw, sanded five sides, and then burned them on a metal sheet with a handheld butane torch. After counting blocks for each color, I sprayed them with acrylic, keeping the grain visible. The bevels add visual depth and complexity by randomly arranging their direction. All the blocks are the same, except the one representing our house which was cut to match the roof profile. This project was a present for my wife's birthday.”
Jake is a surgeon from Missouri who operates mainly on humans and occasionally on art and home improvement projects.
DONALD PATTEN
Master Paintings in Covid Times
Master Paintings in Covid Times
“Almost overnight, COVID-19 has changed the way people interact with each other and with our own bodies. In the past, significant painters, the old masters, would depict historically significant disasters that happened to them as a way to cope.”
Olympia on a Zoom Call (2022) references Olympia by Édouard Manet from 1863.
Café Terrace at COVID Capacity (2022) references Café Terrace at Night by Vincent van Gogh from 1888.
The COVID Card Players (2022) references The Card Players by Paul Cézanne from around 1894 or 1895.
The COVID Nightmare (2022) references The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli from 1781.
Mask Gleaners (2022) references Gleaners by Jean-François Millet from 1857.
Donald Patten is an oil painter, illustrator, and graphic novelist from Belfast, Maine. He is currently a senior in the BFA program at the University of Maine. web: donaldlpatten.newgrounds.com/art
