Featured Artist: Jen Kring

This is Jen Kring's latest piece, a portrait of JR Caines. Jen has been experimenting with her mixed media leanings and tackling portrait drawings, paint and wax. Quite a challenge. After finding the right components she arrived at her latest work. She's used a style of icons with her figure using Greek text. And you're just going to have to come out to our Clothesline Show to ask her yourself what it says and how she pulled it all together. Come and pick Jen's brain about her findings and feelings in her latest work.

Statement

Here's a rough draft of our press release/statement:

A collective of some of Chattanooga’s most intriguing women artists will display fine artworks for public viewing on May 18th and 19th at the home of Laura Pettit at the foot of Look out Mountain. The event will showcase a variety of different mediums and styles to fit an assortment of varied tastes. The art aficionado will have the opportunity to enjoy everything from abstract expressions to photography to finely detailed figurative painting to illustration-style images.
The format of a clothesline art show traditionally offers fine quality art in simple presentation mats rather than full frames. This permits artists to sell their works at affordable prices and the buyers to frame the artwork in any manner they prefer. In addition, the participating women artists in our group appreciated the irony of the historic association of women, housework, laundry and using a clothesline contrasting with their role of women who make art to display in a clothesline format art exhibit. These women are employed, some are wives, some are mothers all are busy people. Yet their passion is to make their art. This passion is the seed of Laura Pettit’s vision to organize and host this inaugural art event. She wants to provide a venue for viewing and selling the art of a wonderful variety of woman art ists in our community other than in a gallery setting.
The artists are Linda Thomas, Lauren Leutwiler, Maria Cardillo, Laura Pettit, Diane Reed, Cathy Collier, Katie Ward Knutson, Jen Kring, Kelly Ann Wilkes and Mary Ferris.
Don’t miss this opportunity to chat with the artists or add to your own art collection. The exhibit will be open for viewing Friday, May 18th, from 11-7 and Saturday, May 19th, 11-4 at the Victorian home of Laura Pettit, 113 Ochs Highway, Chattanooga, TN 37409. Hors d’oeuvres will be served.
questions email Laura at bluesailstravel@gmail.com

Contradictions & Collaborations

I went and saw two of my professors from Chattanooga State in an art show last night. It was called Contradictions and Collaborations. Mike Holsomback's style pretty much defined how I started to paint and it is eery how our styles continue to be the same. I talked to Mike about what he used for his most recent work. I was curious about the spray paint. And in typical Mike style he said, "It's the special kind of spray paint I get at Lowe's." Also he made sure that the oil based spray paint went with the oil paint and the waterbased went on the waterbased paint. Wisdom. This is an excellent show. Ken Paige's work is amazing with all the masking he did for some crisp tight edges. My husband didn't believe me when I told him Ken taped off everything, but I swear, there are some seriously complicated cuts. They received money from Allied Arts for this show, and the work is wonderfully collaborative. Check it out at The Gallery in Red Bank. am also reminded of another teacher of mine, Lauren Leutwiler who is doing alot of dogs lately. Mike always paints his black and white dog, and Lauren's style of painting pooches is very similar. Come see her dogs painted on mylar at the Clothesline Show, May 18&19.

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