Marla Beyer
Get to the Point
Acrylic
$675
There's beauty in the balance of the logistic + rational versus the creative + spontaneous. Sometimes my left brain reminds my right to simplify and to "get to the point" when I'm caught up in painting. Sharp contrasts and a minimal color palette compliment this agave's naturally Mid Century Modern vibe. This adventurous painting has already traveled solo to San Francisco to be a part of a Minted photoshoot for their mural and limited edition art collection.
Keenan Dailey
Hypernaturals - Earthly Tomb
Digital
$250
Hypernaturals is a series of work that reflects on the dark energy of nature. The piece Earthly Tomb speaks to the ever altering shape of reality, and nature's ability to continually adapt.
Clara de la Fuente
Colorado Mountains
Acrylic on Canvas
$499
Organic lines provide a sense of flow while the fluorescent and saturated colors complete this vibrant representation of the Colorado mountains. The composition evokes a sense of calm happiness and the joy of surrounding oneself in nature.
Lori Fuller
Naptime!
Colored Pencil
$150
As a kid, we moved around a lot due to my father’s job. We never had any animals due to our many moves, but our neighbors often did. One of our neighbors had a dog named Bowser that the whole family loved. Every day after school, Bowser would meet us at the fence in the neighbor’s yard, wag his tail and bark with excitement to see us. He made us feel loved and at home at a time when we rarely knew anyone in our new school or town except our next door neighbor.
I drew this dog with warm memories and a little sadness. We were only in that town for less than a year and never saw Bowser again after we moved. I like to remember him still in our neighbor’s yard, welcoming us every day we got home from school.
Barbara Rogers Houseworth
Flying Kites
Oil on board
$913
Barbara Houseworth lived in Urbana from 1954 until her death. The haunting aspect of her paintings and drawings, like her most private thoughts, were rarely shown or shared with anyone, including her family. In the 1970s, she secretly stored away her entire collection until it was discovered many decades later by her daughters.
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Steve Kysar
Hidden Realm of Digichromus
watercolor, pastel, graphite
$1,200
From the Bernard(body of water) series of macrophotography and painting/drawing medium with the thematic character named "Digichromus" as a protective entity of the pure elements of nature/forms revealed through the artist's sensibility to heat, light , sound, atmosphere, kinetics, et al.
Weiss Lancaster
Vacuuming Up Summer
Decolored Digital Print on Metal
$500 (To Benefit 40 North)
In Central Illinois, the harvest represents a change in our landscape even more profound than the change of seasons: blue skies and vast fields of green and gold stretching to the horizon are reduced to grey skies and dark earth in the blink of an eye. But as a successful harvest portends the cold and dark soon to be upon us, it also creates the blank slate of a future yet to be written.
Durango Mendoza (1945-2020)
From End to Beginning (or The River)
Assemblage: wood, chamois, photos
NFS
“….We are all assembled by Nature and experiences.
As such, we become assemblers as well.
Much is possible when change is embraced.
Coincidence becomes choice.
Choice becomes purpose.
Purpose gives life to that which is valued.”
– Durango Mendoza
Patricia Monigold
Ashlee, from the series The Art of Timing
Oil on Canvas
$1,200
I wanted to portray this beautiful lady surrounded by rough textures and hard surfaces. Ashlee is a member of the great group of First Responders who serve Urbana Champaign.
KTKannibal Acrylics
Memorial
Acrylic on Canvas
$400
Memorial is an inspiration of grief, painted the day I was informed of my beloved therapist’s sudden and untimely death. After hearing the news, it felt like something inside of my heart was collapsing. My partner encouraged me to do what I could, and to try and transform my pain into something healing and beautiful. And so, I painted Memorial, to honor Becky, a woman who dedicated her life to helping others heal their hearts and minds. A beautiful, colorful, shining person, whom I will always cherish deeply.
Hua Nian
Ice Skating
pen & ink
$300
Rendering the detail has never been my intent; with the great contrast of black and white, the lost and found lines, especially the deliberately omitted ones, I hope I have provided just enough clues for viewers to stretch their imagination and create their own - a vision that is better than mine.
Sheila Parinas
Weeping Cherry at Japan House
Ink on paper
$500
A change in context taught me this lesson in resilience. Being a nurse in these times, solitary walks and sitting with nature allows me to decompress. I decided to capture this quiet moment sitting with a tree using pen and paper on April 22, 2020, while the numbers were rising and everything was starting to shut down.
Sheila Parinas
Almost A at the Rose Bowl
Ink on paper
$500
This continuous line drawing of a live local band illustrates how we are all connected through music. Like music, lines are able to capture small wonderful imperfections and make them beautiful. Each experience is a life lesson.
Shannon Batman Percoco
Gardenia
Acrylic
$475
Gardenia was inspired by my love for floral abstraction, layering, and color. Echoing the daily challenges of life- experimentation with a variety of palettes and flowers has led me to focus on a more formal and peaceful solution.
Claire Pritchard
“If life gives you lemons, make landscapes: an imaginary place”
Watercolor collage
$100
This is part of a 3 painting series made with failed watercolor experiments (aka lemons). I wanted to use my practice to show that everything can be beautiful or useful if you look at it in a new way.
Ralph Roether 3
Ship of Eyes
Canvas Print
$200
A fun doodle of a spaceship with over extending eyes flying through the atmosphere.
Original artwork was created/drawn on a bar napkin with a marker. It was then scanned into the computer and color palette was applied.
Veronica Schuchart
Staggered
Acrylic Paint
$120
This piece reflects the chaotic feel of having to choose where you land and which path to choose. Each house is different yet they all look the same to show this.
Gregory Stallmeyer
Nexus
resin and automotive paint on Plexiglas
$1250
This piece has been in process for over three years and comes from the search for the connection between the spontaneity of the fluid process and deliberate fine line work. The many layers of resin and paint combined with the line work create a depth in the painting that makes it feel like you could step into it.
Lyosha Svinarski
Follow Up
silver gelatin print on fiber paper
$300
Mohan Tracy
Spring in Winter
Silk and cotton fabric, acrylic paint
NFS
The fabric was machine appliqued and quilted, then enhanced with paint and hand embroidery. A phalaenopsis orchid blooming in January in my kitchen window inspired this piece. It had not bloomed in months, so it was a happy surprise. It emanated color and light and a sense of wonder at the unpredictability of beauty.
Rachel Weber
Perception
Acrylic & Ink on canvas
$500
The motivation for this piece began last year during the lockdown and my perception of the world from the inside looking out. My goal was to use shape and color to show the coexistence of chaos and peace.
Sarah Wisseman
Portal
acrylic on canvas
$350
This painting was inspired by studying our fluorite (Illinois’ State Mineral) specimen mounted on a light table. With the light on, the crystal reverses positive and negative, so the crystal appears concave instead of convex. It reminded me of a doorway to a cave or inner space, the kind of refuge we all sought during the pandemic.
Charles Wisseman
Broadway Bricks
mixed media
$400
Cross-sections of 20 salvage bricks from the Urbana Broadway street repaving. There are distinct batches, but each brick has a unique history of mixing, firing, and wear. Celebrating and preserving the inner beauty of common, little-noticed things around us.
Nigel Yin
Sunshine State
Oil on canvas
$100
Do you enjoy nature? Does your kid love NASA? Then come on down to the Sunshine state!
Disclaimer: Sunshine state does not cover accidents from alligator attacks, wildfires, bug bites, hurricanes, sinkholes, Florida man assaults, riots, riptides, being crushed by a manatee, super bowl celebrations gone awry, or anything that happens in Miami or the Ybor district. Visit at your own risk.
Hua Nian
Duet
pen & ink
$400
Rendering the detail has never been my intent; with the great contrast of black and white, the lost and found lines, especially the deliberately omitted ones, I hope I have provided just enough clues for viewers to stretch their imagination and create their own - a vision that is better than mine.