Isensee is an NC-born painter. Riad at Whitehot notes his newest at Miles McEniry.
I first blogged about their work early on (2018!), and att I made a note about how Neo-Geo almost ruined abstract painting (Warren has been making work since the 80’s- here is something from 2001) and that to my eye their practice is committed to formalism (writing that his work is too insistent on being seen to be a sign for some conceptual “agenda”).
#warrenisensee
(a few months ago) Jennifer Dudley at Burnaway had some words about Joy’s approach to (what I will call) the architecture of information. If you like the pieces you should also check out Travis and Stanley if you haven’t already. Below is not the work addressed in the article btw ( more here).
#joydrurycox
Saw below during Uproar which featured lots of NC artists like Jane and Carson.
More (her practice is broader than below)
#juliagartrell
is an abstract painter who lives and paints in an old brick school building, vintage 1930. Cote works with contrasts and oppositions: the balance of planned vs. intuitive or spontaneous; of disorder evolving into order; of measured versus rough; of ground and elements; of simplicity (of parts) vs. complexity (of the whole). Below is from the Weatherspoon and is inspired by the colors in a Monarch.
#alancoteart
(from the Weatherspoon) Lucy Bane-known as “Mackey” to her friends-had an early interest in art, but Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Tech) did not offer any classes in the discipline, so she majored in science. Some years later she began studying art again, this time at Woman’s College (now UNCG). Her most influential instructor was Gregory Ivy, founder of UNCG’s art department as well as this museum. Progressive and somewhat controversial, he was known for urging his female students to seek and value freedom of expression. Ivy was Bane’s mentor throughout her student years and beyond.
Ivy (below) was painted in honor of this notable teacher and illustrates Bane’s decidedly abstract style.
#lucymcdonaldmackeybane
#mcdonaldbane
Trained as a painter, artist Jo Sandman went on to create experimental drawings, sculpture, and photography during a career that spanned seven decades. Working with dropcloths acquired from “crusty old house painters who had crusty old tarps,” she created what she called drawings or glyphs-perhaps recalling time she spent at Black Mountain College near Asheville. These stained and splattered dropcloths demonstrate her embrace of unconventional materials and desire to explore abstract shapes to express her concept of a poetically visual language. Below is from the Weatherspoon collection.
#josandman
is one of the artists in Found and Formed at Pullen Arts Center (along with Andrea and yours truly).
#debbiesecan
Has work in Look To The West which should all see and spread the word about (the exhibit brings together the voices and visions of artists from Western North Carolina whose lives and landscapes were forever changed by Hurricane Helene).
#margovaughn
Haywood “Bill” Rivers was born in 1922 in North Carolina. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and the École du Musée du Louvre in Paris. His work saw considerable success, winning the Gretchen H. Hutzler Award, the Baltimore Museum Annual Prize, and Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1948, as well as the John Hay Whitney Fellowship in 1952. Rivers was a co-founder of Galerie Huit in Paris. The cooperative gallery exhibited many American artists including Paul Keene, Edward Clark, and Herbert Gentry.
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Liza Roberts recently wrote (in Walter) about this Clemmons-based painter returned to his craft after a 30-year career in advertising.
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#frankcampion
Gallery C recently brought our attention (posthumously) to North Carolina Artist Anne Wall Thomas, a Southern artist with a Bauhaus Heart.
#annewallthomas
Painting After Art is Dead 