Carole Southall Artwork on Display at Kent Public Library

                                                                         Mission Ranch
                                                                            30" 36" Oil

CAROLE SOUTHALL

Wilton, CT 

Carole Southall’s most important influences came from her youth in Texas and Missouri, especially the landscapes, and the storytelling artists such as Thomas Hart Benton and Peter Hurd. She studied printmaking with iconic WPA artist Jacob Lawrence at the University of Washington in Seattle where she earned a BFA, and a Masters in Art History. She works full time as Executive Director of Franklin Street Works, a contemporary art space focused on social justice, and lives with her architect husband in Wilton, Connecticut.

                                                      

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Carole Southall

8 Freshwater Lane

Wilton, CT 06897

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CELL 203-722-8914

Lisa Ameijide Artwork on Display at Kent Public Library

Artist Statement:

Ever look at fuzzy photos and see other things? It's sort of like staring into the clouds. I was looking at old experimental photos from the early 1900's and thought, "those people look like they are caught in the fog." I immediately started thinking of stories to go with the blurry photos and decided to do a series involving people walking through an unidentifiable, misty background? Each one would tell a personal story only known to the viewer. 

I used to look at paintings in museums and I would not look at the titles the artist provided. First, I would come up with my own interpretation and then eventually look to see what the title was. More often than not, I was disappointed with this "concrete" description. 

Labels are sometimes not needed and my work, other than the main title of Mist Walkers, doesn't need any more influence by me on what you see and how you want to think about it. That's the fun part. You can make these scenes anything you want. 

Chalk pastels are edgeless, indefinite and loose and so lend themselves to a misty scene with mysterious surroundings and all of this has lead to the creation of the Mist Walkers.

What story did you create for these paintings?

Lisa Ameijide

Bill Prickett Artwork on Display at Kent Public Library

Bill Prickett Artist Statement

I focus a great deal of attention on the relationship between color, time, motion and subject matter and regard my photographs as interactions and intersections.

In 2nd grade I noticed the color comics were printed out of register by mistake. At that point I discovered how the primary colors were supposed to overlap and blend together...but didn't. That would become the start of a lifelong fascination.

As a student, I loved the 70s album covers because they expressed the artist and music along with their interactions and journeys throughout their world.  The photography, graphics and color communicated everything...story, mood, emotion...tone. The album cover was the billboard and "home page" of the day.

  

Though I studied film and photography it was the Beatles and Rolling Stones that were the most absorbing. Steichen, Picasso, Godard and Rodin taught me aesthetics while John, Paul, Mic and Kieth taught me energy and style. My brain did the rest.

Over the course of the last decade’s technologies, my work has addressed it's surroundings both physical and non physical…always considering what gets put on social media as important as what is put on a wall. What goes into a frame is as important as what goes into a framework.