Brian Phillips
In his own words, Brian has “always been helplessly drawn to the visual aspects of everything I encounter”. His interest is in recontextualizing images to convey intentional and incidental associations and the space that objects occupy and leave vacant. He has had several solo and group shows in the Orlando area.
Bryan Carson
Bryan Carson’s work is derived from the energy and mystery of large bodies of water, in particular the ocean. It represents a stage in between reality and dreams or consciousness and unconsciousness when thoughts are neither fact nor fiction, but seem to be a combination of both. Bryan’s approach has been to depict this middle ground of reality by showing a connection between real, mysterious, and dreamlike objects; showing a transformation between each of these three stages. Bryan focuses on the foundation of drawing while adding layered elements through painting, printmaking, transfers, and other various media. Through this approach and due to the subject matter, the work tends to focus on radial forms that repeat to provide a continuous pushing and pulling movement of objects towards and away from each other.
Particular with works on wood, each wood substrate is carefully chosen so that the natural grain and knots become a part of the overall design representing moving water and/or focal points. Using this visual concept many areas of the wood remain unchanged and what was once negative space becomes the positive space to give way to skin tones and textures of the human form.
Carla Poindexter
Studio Artist and Associate Professor, Carla Poindexter currently teaches intermediate and advanced painting, drawing, and design at the University of Central Florida. Carla’s 25 years of studio work has been primarily in painting and drawing, however she has also explored and created work in still-life photography, etching, book arts and in 2008-09, a nine-minute animated short film, which was selected for official screenings in numerous nationally competitive film and music-video festivals. In addition, she was awarded a commission from the State of Florida, Art-In-State Buildings Program to create an 8′ x 28′ painting on canvas, which is permanently installed in the atrium of the Darden Theatre Auditorium at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management in Orlando. Her fine art exhibition record includes 16 solo exhibitions and numerous nationally and internationally competitive or invitational group exhibitions.
“In all my work, I am attempting to consciously recreate a synthetic world that metaphorically parallels this one. I want my imagery to be strangely recognizable and unknowable at the same time. As I work, characters emerge in spaces with an ominous quality, sometimes a sense of dread and fear, because just like in the real world, this parallel place contains dualities of pleasure and pain, strength and weakness, compassion and tyranny. It can also be a place where miraculous interactions occur. I am interested in things that are obscure interacting in concert with and in opposition to things that are crystal clear. These ideas trigger my motivations to work.”
Robert Poindexter
Robert Poindexter received his MFA from the University of Houston in 1984. While working on his degree at the university, he was awarded a major fellowship to study and paint in Central Mexico from the Museum of Fine Art Houston through the prestigious McNay Foundation. He has held teaching positions at The University of Texas, Permian Basin, Odessa College, Texas, and the Art League of Houston in painting and drawing.
Robert has exhibited in eleven solo exhibitions and a considerable number of group exhibitions. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including Amoco Corporation, Houston, Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, Texas Bank, McAllen, Texas, The Quest Foundation, Quest, Inc., Houston, Coastal Corporation, Oscar Wyatt, Houston, Texas A & M University, Transco Energy Corporation at the Williams Tower, Houston, and the Enron Corporation Collection, Houston.
“The improvisational works in watercolor and ink on paper are my visual poems. They number in the hundreds and hundreds. Sometimes I work in the morning, others are created late at night. If I could write, my words would read like these watercolor paintings, if I could create music, my music would sound like my ink drawings, with all their joy, with all their sadness.”
Doug Rhodehamel
Doug Rhodehamel grew up in Centerville, Ohio and is a graduate of Ohio State University, making him a buckeye. Doug moved to orlando in 1993 and is the guy responsible of all those paper bag mushrooms. Doug uses and excels in many different media, especially discarded and surplus items.
Doug Woods
Bill Tarpley
Tic Bowen
Will Sclater
Will’s work is based on conflicting imagery, often with a heavy dose of sarcasm in an effort to draw attention to social ills. His baroque stylization combined with modern techniques and subject matter create compositions that are both beautiful and haunting overlapped with dark humor.
Gianelle Gelpi
Gianelle’s use of vibrant colors and patterned brush strokes lead the viewer into a soothing daze. Her fanciful characters with their endearing expressions make it challenging to look away.