Please join Linda Matney Gallery and Jeffrey Whittle for the opening reception of Both Sides Now featuring paintings by Whittle and the sculptural works of Crisha Yantis.

Jeffrey Whittle is an artist, educator, curator and runner living in Athens, Georgia. 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. In 2004 he was invited to be an Artist-in-Residence at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain and recently he was selected 100 UNDER 100: The New Superstars of Southern Art by Oxford American Magazine. He teaches studio courses at the University of Georgia and is the Gallery Director of the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA.

Crisha Yantis grew up mostly in Olympia Washington. After many years in Seattle she relocated to Athens Georgia where she received her BFA in Ceramics at the University of Georgia. Her time in Georgia included working on clay sculpture, enjoying the southern community of clay workers, watching rainstorms, and dodging mosquitos. She completed her graduate studies in ceramics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she spent summers enjoying the amazing bike trails and splendid cloud filled skies of Lincoln. She just relocated to Gunnison Colorado where she is navigating several new roles including - making a new body of work in clay, learning printmaking, balancing life as a new mother, and teaching part time for Western State Colorado University.