Grayson Chandler, Migrations, 2024, Watercolor, Gouache, and Acrylic on paper 30 x 22 Inches, $3,100

WORKS BY STEVE PRINCE ARE FEATURED IN THE PORTRAIT OPENING SEPTEMBER 14 AT MATNEY GALLERY WITH ADDITIONAL WORK AT CURRENT MIDTOWN

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Steve A. Prince is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and he currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary. Prince received his BFA from Xavier University of Louisiana and his MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from Michigan State University.  Prince is a mixed media artist, master printmaker, lecturer, educator, and art evangelist. He has taught middle school, high school, community college, 4-year public, and 4-year private, and has conducted workshops internationally in various media. 

He has worked with several churches of various denominations across the nation spreading a message of hope and renewal philosophically rooted in the cathartic nature of the Jazz Funerary tradition of New Orleans.  To Prince, art media is like languages to a linguist as he adeptly tithers between two-dimensional and three-dimensional artistic practices while working with virtually every age bracket and multiple ethnicities.  He is represented by Eyekons Gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Black Art in America in Columbus, Georgia, and Zucot Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. Prince has created several public works including an 8’ x 8’ mixed media work titled “Lemonade: A Picture of America” at William and Mary commemorating the first 3 African American resident students in 1967 at the college, a 15’ stainless steel kinetic sculpture titled “Song for John” located in Hampton, Virginia and a 4’ x 32’ communal woodcut titled, “Links,” commemorating the 400thanniversary of 1619 and the first documented Africans at Point Comfort (Hampton, Virginia.) 

Prince has received several honors for his art and scholarship including the 2010 Teacher of the Year award from the City of Hampton and he is a 2020 recipient of a VMFA (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) Grant. Prince has shown his art internationally in various solo, group, and juried exhibitions. He has participated in several residencies including Artist in Residence at Segura Arts Center at Notre Dame University, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, Maryland, the Atlanta Printmakers Studio, and the University of Iowa to name a few. 

Steve Prince, Hallelujah Anyhow, 2021, Linoleum, 36 × 24 in | 91.4 × 61 cm, Edition of 40

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Steve Prince, Tezra: Reparation Groove, 24 x 36 inches, linocut on paper

JEFFREY WHITTLE’S WISTERIA AND FIREFLIES NOW IN A PRIVATE COLLECTION. A NEW PAINTING DEPICTING ATHENS ARTIST JEREMY AYERS WILL BE UNVEILED IN THE PORTRAIT SHOW OPENING SEPTEMBER 14

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Jeffrey Whittle in his Studio by Dennis Harper

NEW JILL CARNES PRINTS RELEASED. HER “POLAROID” PORTRAIT OF JEFF MANGUM WILL BE UNVEILED AT THE PORTRAIT SHOW ON SEPTEMBER 14.

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Jill Carnes’ work has been shown in diverse locales including Athens, Asheville, Atlanta, Austin, and New York City and in exhibitions alongside Lonnie Holley, Thornton Dial, Clementine Hunter, Bill Traylor, Howard Finster, Mose Tolliver and Jimmy Lee Sudduth. Jill Carnes' artistry is a vibrant tapestry of color, pattern, and innovation. Her paintings and drawings have adorned the album covers of bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel and cd inserts for projects featuring R.E.M., Indigo Girls, Madonna, Vic Chesnutt, Victoria Williams, Pearl Jam, Garbage, Kristen Hersch, Soul Asylum and Hootie and the Blowfish. Her work has been exhibited in the Georgia Museum of Art in association with the Elephant Six Collective, a group of American musicians that gave rise to numerous prominent indie bands of the 1990s, including the Apples in Stereo, the Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, of Montreal, and Circulatory System. Her contributions have also been featured in esteemed publications like Rolling Stone and Creem and projects for Sony Music. Jill’s talents extend beyond visual art; she also captivates audiences musically as Thimble Circus, incorporating whimsical instruments like the toy piano and trombone kazoo into her performances. Michael Stipe included Jill’s name in an art piece in his 2021 book of photography.

Jill Carnes, Tree of Life, 16x20 and 11x14. Call (757) 675-6627 for a link to this work or email us at curator@LindaMatneyGallery.com

Michael Stipe with Jill Carnes, 2024

BILLY MARTIN

Artist statement. I make modern mixed media photographic images of pop culture.by a means of simplfied forms and techniques which allows the viewer to digest the complexity of the image. Hopefully the photographic narrative challenges the way the work is perceived.

Billy Martin, 2024

REBECCA SHKEYROV IN PARIS

Rebecca Shkeyrov is an artist who discovers vibrant colors and geometric structures in figures and spaces. Using a formalist approach to image-making, she explores surreal narratives, self-identity, and personal relationships in her work. READ MORE

BENJAMIN ROUSE

Benjamin Rouse is an American artist known for his evocative works examining entropy, illusion, and personal acceptance. A self-taught artist, his imagery is strongly influenced by the iconography and rituals he experienced within the Mormon temple as a child. 

  Utilizing mirrors, water, and illusory compositions, Rouse achieves surreal imagery entirely through analog techniques— a practice he describes as "outsourcing to nature." For this reason, he is as much a technical innovator pushing the boundaries of ordinary material as he is an artist in pursuit of sincere, creative expression. READ MORE

Pictured: Coleman Barks by Benjamin Rouse

Benjamin Rouse, Silo, 2020, Silver gelatin print, 10 × 14 in, 25.4 × 35.6 cm.

Blind embossing by Benjamin Rouse from his recent ATHICA residency

APPOINTMENTS CONTINUE FOR THE LANDSCAPE AT CURRENT MIDTOWN

Jill Carnes, Jeffrey Whittle, Michael Ross, Brian Freer, Christine Debastiani, Billy Martin, Luther Gerlach, Iris Wu 吴靖昕, Eizabeth Mead, Brian Kreydatus, Lee Matney, Joseph Podlesnik, Kristin Skees, and Abigale West

CURATED BY LEE MATNEY

LOCATION:

CURRENT MIDTOWN APARTMENTS

221 Monticello Ave, Williamsburg VA 23185

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Works shown by Jeffrey Whittle, Michael Ross, Brian Kreydatus, and Brian Freer at CURRENT MIDTOWN

THE LANDSCAPE AT CURRENT MIDTOWN

FEATURING BRIAN FREER AND MICHAEL ROSS WITH OTHER MATNEY GALLERY ARTISTS. NEW WORKS BY JILL CARNES AND JEFFREY WHITTLE

Curated by Lee Matney

LOCATION:

CURRENT MIDTOWN APARTMENTS

221 Monticello Ave, Williamsburg VA 23185

Pictured: Michael Ross, Magnolia Forest, Oil on canvas, 44x60

Michael Ross grew up in Norway and Finland, moved to Maryland as an adolescent, and graduated with a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Maryland in 2000.  Before moving to Athens, Georgia, where he finished his MFA in painting at the University of Georgia in 2016, Ross attended artist residencies in Norway, Iceland, and West Africa, and lived for several years in San Francisco.  He has shown his work in galleries around the country, and is featured in the permanent collections of the University of Georgia, the Washington, DC Department of Transportation, and in numerous private collections in the United States and in Europe.  In his work, Ross explores the interplay of the human, natural, and mythical worlds in a manner that emphasizes emotional and sensory experience.  Ross continues to work out of his studios in Athens, Georgia, and Bethesda, Maryland. 

Works shown by Lee Matney, Jill Carnes, and Jeffrey Whittle

BRIAN FREER

Pictured Brian Freer’s Reverse Perception in Barely South Review. LEARN MORE

Brian Freer was born on September 16, 1973, in Chicagoland, where he was introduced to art and photography at an early age, thanks to his grandparents’ enthusiasm for the medium. His academic journey took him to Virginia Commonwealth University, where he pursued studies in literature and biology. Although not officially enrolled in the photography department, Brian utilized the university’s lab, embodying the spirit of a “presumptive student.”

Before venturing into publishing and creative agencies, Brian worked as a programmer and graphic arts software integrator in the newspaper industry. In 2005, he founded “Health Journal,” a regional monthly print magazine. In 2010, Brian established Tusk Creative Agency, serving as its creative director.

ELIZABETH MEAD

Mead’s sculpture and drawings have been exhibited across the U.S. as well as in Iceland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Portugal, Australia, and England. She has designed more than two-dozen theatrical productions including work with the internationally acclaimed, Tony award winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune. She has had over two-dozen solo exhibitions and her sculpture and drawing have been included in more than fifty group exhibitions.

A recipient of the Japan/US NEA Creative Artist Fellowship (2002-03), Mead spent six months living and working in Japan. Mead has received recognition for her work in theater by the Dallas Theater League (1998) and the Theater Communication Group/NEA Designer Fellowship (1997, 1998). Mead attended the Ecole Internationale de Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France (1995). She was awarded a work-stay residency at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York (1992). Mead was awarded a Nes Artist Residency (2009) in Skagaströnd, Iceland, where she examined experiential aspects of landscape and the ways environmental cues connect us to the world.

JEFFREY WHITTLE

Jeffrey Whittle is a figurative painter living in Athens, Georgia. His mediums include oil on panel/canvas and mixed media. Whittle’s recent paintings explore beauty, love, and an expansive sense of time, By juxtaposing the ephemeral (flowering plants) with the infinite (star-scapes) my desire is to represent of both day time and night time simultaneously as well as the eternal/fleeting temporal experience.

He received his MFA in Painting from Cornell University and his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He has been the recipient of numerous artist’s grants, residencies, and awards.  Jeffrey Whittle teaches studio art courses at the University of Georgia and has a long association with Italy and coastal Maine.

LUTHER GERLACH

Photographer Luther Gerlach works in a variety of historical photographic processes, highlighting the role of constraints in creative production and the hand-made, tactile connection between the artist and his work. Known for nude portraits and urban scenes of downtown LA in his early career, more recently Gerlach has pioneered the re-emergence of plein air wet plate collodion landscapes. His work distills detailed images of the natural world, particularly the trees, seaweeds, and grasses of Southern California, to emphasize pure light and line, endowing his images with a subtly abstract quality.

Luther Gerlach was born in Blayne, Minnesota in 1960. He apprenticed with Brett Weston in Carmel and Hawaii in the 1980’s, before learning the wet plate process which he still works in today. Gerlach has led lectures and demonstrations at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles since 2001. He has exhibited at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Ventura Museum of Art, the Schaknow Museum of Fine Art, Miami, the Denver Art Museum, and The Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe. Selected permanent collections include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Michael G. Wilson Centre for Photography, among other

LEE MATNEY

Pictured: Lee Matney, Robert and Shani, 2007

Lee Matney, a native of Richmond, VA, has over 25 years of experience in the art world in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and elsewhere. His gallery specializes in developing thematic group shows and collaborative art projects with international and American artists. The gallery also offers consulting for investment art; with a focus on quality and service, Linda Matney Gallery provides an excellent resource for contemporary art lovers everywhere. Specialties include Southern art, Art Rosenbaum, Southern photography, Virginia colleges, and Texas art.

Lee Matney, Michael Ross, 2022

Olga Tobreluts, Dollar, 2014-2015, Oil on Canvas, 77 9/10 × 74 in | 197.9 × 188 cm

Olga Tobreluts, Heart, 2014-2015, Oil on Canvas, 77 9/10 × 74 in | 197.9 × 188 cm

on view at Tradition, 700 Thimble Shoals Blvd #100, Inquire

OLGA TOBRELUTS
PRESENTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH DEBORAH COLTON GALLERY

Born in 1970 in Murino, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, Olga Tobreluts now lives in St. Petersburg and has studios also in Berlin, Germany, and San Tagliamento, Italy. An accomplished artist who works with photography, video, painting, and sculpture, Olga is a pioneer of the digital art movement in Russia and has belonged to the Neo-Academism group of artists in St. Petersburg since 1994. Olga has had numerous solo museum exhibitions worldwide, including in Belgium, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Singapore. Moreover, Tobreluts has been shown by American favorites like Tony Oursler and Cindy Sherman, in addition to countless other well-known international artists.

Her works have been exhibited at prestigious institutions such as the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Modem Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts in Hungary, the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the Ostende Museum in Belgium, the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, and numerous others. Her works have been acquired by significant art institutions including the MoMA, New York, the State Russian Museum, the Ludwig Museum, Budapest, the Bornholm Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, the Baron Von Stieglitz Museum, St. Petersburg, Groningen Museum, Netherlands, the Ibsen Foundation, Oslo, Germany Women ArtMuseum, Bonn, and V & A Museum, London.

IVAN PLUSCH

PRESENTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH DEBORAH COLTON GALLERY

Ivan Plusch (born in 1981) is a young artist from the rising Russian scene, part of the Nepokorennie group (“The Unconquered”) based in St. Petersburg. He studied in various art schools, such as the State Academy of Art and Design, the Roerich Art School and the PRO ARTE Institute. Ivan Plusch is part of a generation of artists who were still children at the time of the fall of the USSR; consequently, he was marked by these sudden sociological and economic changes in the early 90s. His work bears the marks of these changes, from dearly regained freedom of speech to the people and their relationship with society, whether it is of alienation or of liberation. However, Plusch’s work goes further than mere sociological observation. He reinterprets the art history and tackles the norms of social realism–in particular those of monumental sculpture—and integrates them into his paintings. Comfortable with all mediums, working with sculpture as well as painting, Ivan Plusch is a diverse artist delivering work that fits thoughtfully within Post-Soviet art. Playing with the image of a happy future but from elements of the former communist regime, Plusch questions, the relationship between man and his environment.

Ivan Plusch, Effect- Series, 2018

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Jill Carnes, Piano

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STEVE PRINCE

Steve A. Prince is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and he currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary.

Pictured: Hallelujah Anyhow, 2021, Linoleum, 36 × 24 in | 91.4 × 61 cm, Edition of 40.

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SYNESTHESIA

This captivating showcase explores the harmonious interplay among diverse elements of taste, sight, and sensation, weaving together the realms of painting and plated cuisine. The exhibition is designed to evoke memories and comfort, drawing upon echoes of heritage and personal recollections of extraordinary meals and remarkable restaurants.

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Location:

SATÉ, A New American Experience

694 Town Center Drive, Newport News, VA 23606

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Phone number

(757) 330-2299

Pictured: Kyle Fowlkes with Royal Herd by Brian Freer

About Chef Kyle Fowlkes

Saté: A New American Experience in the heart of City Center is led by the culinary creativity of Chef Kyle Fowlkes.

Chef Kyle's journey into the world of gastronomy began with his grandmother, who instilled in him a profound love for the culinary arts. They worked side by side in the kitchen, nurturing his passion from a young age. This enduring connection to his culinary roots has been the driving force behind his commitment to creating unforgettable dining experiences.

A distinguished graduate of the esteemed Johnson and Wales University, Chef Kyle brings a fresh perspective to the culinary world, infusing Southern, Asian, and New England influences into every dish he crafts.

A FOCUS ON ART ROSENBAUM

Art Rosenbaum, 1938-2022, was born in Ogdensberg, NY. He was a painter, muralist, illustrator, collector, and performer of traditional American folk music. He earned his MFA in Painting at Columbia University and has worked in France on a Fulbright in Painting; he also held a Fulbright Senior Professorship in Germany. Among his exhibitions were the New Orleans Triennial and the Corcoran's 41st Biennial of American Painting, and his works are in many collections, including the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Columbus (GA) Museum, the Georgia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art. A major retrospective, “Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum,” was mounted at the Georgia Museum of Art in 2006. He has executed mural commissions at the UCLA School of Law, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Russell Special Collections Library, both at the University of Georgia. His solo show in 2000 at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York was reviewed in Art in America.