{"title":"currently exhibiting","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ballard-lavett-baglady","title":"Ballard, Lavett, (Bag Lady)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bag Lady\" by \u003cspan\u003eLavett Ballard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 1\/2 ft x 3 ft\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e m\u003c\/span\u003eixed media collage \u003cspan\u003eon wood panel, 2017\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(c\u003c\/span\u003eollage with digital paper, painted \u0026amp; applied to reclaimed wood fencing)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/3941\/files\/7dd0c9_331e5ced5af546ce9d5e0983e9236402_large.jpg?v=1529950900\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 2px 8px 5px;\" width=\"201\" height=\"295\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy process in approaching each story I tell with my fence shrines, is by first researching the subject matter I am looking to visually narrate. Whether it is a conversation of class, racial or gender identity or educating the viewer to a historical period. My main aim is to elevate those portrayed as icons, royalty or even Saints by preserving and retelling their stories of survival, struggle, or achievement with a folkloric twist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn my work, I have touched on the lost African ancestry of those in the photos by adorning their faces with tribal markings, regal accessories, precious metallic tones, and a color palette that is often associated with royalty in different parts of the world. I let my collages float among shadows and galaxies to regain the power they lost during their past enslavement. 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His artworks have been featured in exhibitions at the Arnika Dawkins Gallery, The Columbus Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, David C. Driskell Center, the Charles H. Wright Museum; Syracuse University; the African American Museum in Dallas, TX; Houston Museum of African American Culture, the Marietta Museum of Art, FL; Clark Atlanta University Museum, the University of Arkansas Library and Liberty Bank Trust Company in New Orleans, LA. 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He builds a sense of mystery and charisma into each sculpture. Through his pieces, Nash achieves his goal of integrating expression, complex symbolism and sophisticated aesthetics to yeild striking embodiments of the human soul and sensuality.\u003c\/span\u003eBorn in the late 40's in Akron, Ohio, Woodrow Nash is the product of sanctified churches, 1950s television images, and black inner city neighborhood schools run by predominantly white middle-class educators. 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Now in his early 60’s he\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewas very fortunate to have had mentors such as Karl Benjamin and Frederick\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHammersley in the mid 80's. Being in the presence of such noted painters impressed on\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehim the importance and responsibility of being true to one's own vision.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"By speaking clearly in a non object idiom, the goal is to make art that reflects modern\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eday life. My process consists of layering spontaneous random marks that are\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003esometimes completely obscured. 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The task as he sees it is to translate these thoughts into painting, to convey\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethe aesthetics of his experiences in a positive manner. These visual conversations\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003escream out a sense of risky adventure, a collision of shapes and colours which create\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethe surface tension essential to animating his abstracts, creating a visual debate. The\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003estrength in these works is in the artist's understanding of color, balance and simplicity.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn his previous body of work, \"Manhattan Series\", Downs recalls when he first moved to\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNew York in the mid 70's. Emotions of the average person were on a much more\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eintense level as far as fear, crime and the overall lack of beauty in the city. For Downs,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethis was an opportunity to experience firsthand the gritty and raw energy to be used in\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehis paintings to come. This body of work is his attempt to recreate the tension,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e movement and color of that era. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDowns has been painting professionally for over 40 years and has exhibited nationally\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eand internationally. 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In response to the ambition and power of the art historical and contemporary figurative work, I impart sensitive and emotionally rich works that add to my own experiences. I bring to my figurations a probing element of paper-making and collage. I tend to work large-scale and enjoy layering the surface, informing the structure and emanating a stream of consciousness of sorts. I describe an inner dialogue towards my subjectivity, using text and journal entries, as well as metaphorical imagery. The paintings are active in exploring different modes of working that offer a hands-on approach to molding the material. The impermanence of life and its creations are an engrossing enigma within my paintings and therefore I attempt to augment presence. Through the representation of my immediate surroundings, relationships, memories, thoughts, and sentiments I provide them with importance and influence. 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He builds a sense of mystery and charisma into each sculpture. Through his pieces, Nash achieves his goal of integrating expression, complex symbolism and sophisticated aesthetics to yeild striking embodiments of the human soul and sensuality.\u003c\/span\u003eBorn in the late 40's in Akron, Ohio, Woodrow Nash is the product of sanctified churches, 1950s television images, and black inner city neighborhood schools run by predominantly white middle-class educators. 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At a young age he was fascinated by the illustrations in children's books and the colorful images in comic books. He started drawing on the back of his tests in elementary school and was soon drawing on any material that he could find. He finally decided to become an artist after reading about the life of Romare Bearden in high school. In 2003, Jamaal graduated with a BA in Communication Arts from East Carolina University.  While in school he won the 2002 JOSA award for drawing and 1st Place in Graphic Design for the Rebel Magazine, the annual ECU student art awards magazine.  In 2004, Jamaal moved to Atlanta where he now resides with his wife and two children. He has worked doing graphic design work for Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. and Spoken Magazine. His fine art painting has been displayed at the Art on 5 and with the Mano-a- Mano art show. In 2013 after seeing a screen printing demo at a local art store, Barber started experimenting with printmaking and has made it his focus. 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