Hart received her BFA from NYIT and is a distinguished recipient of various honors and residencies including a 2007 Chair Person Fine Arts Award for excellence in her art practice and graduating summa cum laude, the 2018 Mass MoCA Masters of Abstraction Workshop in Residency, and is currently showing at Hollis Taggart for 135th NAWA anniversary. Her current work focuses on recording audio narratives from women in her community. Hart employs principles from traditional Japanese painting methodology, audio, and digital technologies to create intimate shared spaces. These spaces hold meaning, value, community, and dignity. She explores the role of storytelling in peace and conflict narratives, human interactions, social practices in historical and generational perspectives and considerations.
Born in Woodside, Queens, New York, Susan’s youth was involved with school, art and family. In 1971, she married and moved to New Jersey.
Opening her own ceramic business in 1979 enabled Susan to work with ceramics, porcelain, stoneware and clay, for over 25 years. When she sold that business in 1984, she began working for the Department of Defense as a Technical Equipment Illustrator, working on intricate technical illustrations and digitals.
Susan earned her Associates Degree in Graphic Design in 1997, from Sussex County Community College, Newton, New Jersey. In 2000, she earned a BFA Degree from William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, and in 2005, Susan achieved a MFA Degree from William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey.
Susan’s interest for photography began 30 years ago in 1990, and it has slowly grown to a passionate obsession. Susan studied with some of her favorite photographers: Robert Farber, Ralph Gibson, George Holz, David Horton, Douglas Kirkland, Mary Ellen Mark, Robert Maxwell, Elizabeth Opalenick, Phil Perkis, Platon, Ernestine Rubin, Robin Schwartz, Joyce Tenneyson, Jock Sturges and Michael Zweibel.
Her photography work involves metaphors and moods and emotions. However, her color photography depicts the delicate images of flora, cloud formations and landscapes
Leslie Hamrick is a figurative, mixed media artist who embraces exaggerated forms, strong lines, and texture. Her gestural line work belies her contemplative approach, guiding the viewer through her methodical process. Earning a BFA from the University of Kansas and an MA in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Leslie practiced as an art therapist for several years before raising her family. Coming back to her own art as an empty-nester, she uses pieces from her past to inform current work, incorporating old artwork and narratives into her collages. She embraces the physical act of making art as a therapeutic outlet, focusing on process as much as the end product.
Penny has been involved in artistic and creative endeavors for as long as she can remember. She has painted off and on for decades, but it wasn't until her youngest child went to college that she started painting full-time. Penny holds a B.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and has studied at Richmond College in London, England. Throughout these experiences, Penny has cultivated a lifelong appreciation for and skill in the creative arts.
Originally from Massachusetts, Penny enjoys painting a variety of subjects from New England, and also gathers inspiration from her travels abroad. Her paintings span a broad range of styles, from street scenes in Boston and New York done in oil, to colorful acrylic abstracts. Penny's collections also include seascapes, and inspired florals.
Now living in South Carolina with her husband, the 'low country' offers beautiful ocean scenes and a relaxed pace of life which inspire their own unique artistic projects. Faith, Family and Friends are the pillars of Penny's life.
Laura McRae Hitchcock was born in Augusta, Georgia and graduated from Agnes Scott College with an art degree. While she has lived in many places in the US from the East coast to the West coast and back, her home is the South where she lives and works in her studio on a barrier island near Charleston, SC. Laura uses a variety of media including oils, acrylics, cold wax, gouache, charcoal, pencil, and pastel to make her marks and create color passages that build upon each other. Translucent and opaque layers dance and play on the canvas in much the way Nature and Spirit do the same in our lives.
Laura’s award winning paintings have been exhibited in national juried shows, as well as in group and solo exhibitions. Her work has received international recognition, winning the BoldBrush Competition for Abstract and The Camelback Gallery Award of Excellence, and the nationally recognized ArtPop Billboard Program. She has been the recipient of several grants, most recently the Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant made possible through the South Arts Program. She has participated in public art projects, most notably a mural for the Charlotte Mecklenburg County Courthouse in North Carolina. Her art is featured in the book, 100 Love Notes by Hyong Yi and she is currently working on a book of her own. She has enjoyed several artist residencies in Ireland and is looking forward to another in the summer of 2022.
Susan Irish is an American abstract painter and environmental advocate known for her bold and energetic scenes of nature. Each of her distinctively frenetic landscapes carry subtle signs of creeping industrial blight. To appreciate their beauty is to grapple with one’s own role in their decay. Susan works primarily in oil and cold wax. She believes art making is integral to the human spirit and should be fostered and celebrated. She is an internationally known and award-winning artist. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, and California. Susan Irish has paintings in permanent collection with Pinnacle Financial Partners, SC.
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Because she was an architect in her career life, Carson's design process builds upon her knowledge of the history of art and architecture. In her studio, she awakens her heart, flourishes her creative spark and spontaneously plays with color. Every time she got laid off from her architecture jobs, she picked up her paintbrush and has painted seriously for years, winning awards in venues in the United States and internationally.
Retired business woman, married, one son. Native New Yorker, Member Salmagundi Club 17 years. Volunteer on several committees, house, program and COGAP (Coast Guard Art Program) Member Salmagundi Photographers Club.
I was born in Lima, Perú of and raised in Northern Italy. After graduating from high school, I moved to Los Angeles where I studied interior design at Skadron school of Business.
My work has been seen in numerous exhibitions in South Carolina and beyond. Selected exhibitions include (2024) - Coming up a solo show at Circle Pack Gallery, Charleston; 135th Anniversary Year of NAWA, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York; (2023) - 701 CCA South Carolina Biennial, Columbia, SC; Shanghai International Paper Art Biennial, Guangzhou, China; Piccolo Spoleto Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC; 36th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA; 2022 - ArtFields2022 , Lake City, SC; Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, SC
Carol Larson is a self-taught mixed-media textile artist designing both narrative and abstract work. Her solo exhibits include Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA; National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY; San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA; Park National Bank Gallery, University of Cincinnati Clermont College, Batavia Township, OH; Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR and LHUCA Art Center, Lubbock, TX
As a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, her work is in the corporate art collections of James Irvine Foundation in San Francisco, CA; Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Santa Rosa, CA and John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, CA. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.
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