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Edward Marxen, II - artist and architect
Ed discovered painting while studying architecture at NC State University. His approach to painting is informed by an architectural interest in the genesis of form, space, and tectonics. Fascinated by how things are ‘built’, he seeks to understand the existential nature and structure of irregular forms and resultant space(s). Interpretations reveal primal complexities where systems and sub-systems vie for a place in evolving hierarchies. Emerging environments are composed and crafted into chaotic harmonies of aesthetic
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Patrick Harris - Fine Art Patrick Harris grew up in the Piedmont of North Carolina and has been drawing and painting for as long as he could hold a pencil or brush in his hand. His mother was an art teacher in his youth and he followed and participated in her art classes and developed his love/hate relationship with art at that tender age. Drawing Abe Lincoln and luchadors obsessively, he developed a taste for pop and portraiture, which continues today. He went to several art schools and dropped out of each with a further disdain for art academia. His current work is fueled by the absurdity of and his fondness for the cultural wasteland. He quite literally wants his work to pop. |
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Kendall E. Doub - Fine Art & Photography Kendall E. Doub is a self-taught artist based in Winston Salem, North Carolina. His paintings and photography explore the dynamic relationship between color and abstract design. Works focusing on the artistic elements of color, texture, movement and composition. Through his work Kendall hopes to give the viewer a new understanding and perspective on art and the world around them.
For him creating art has never been a choice made but a compulsion met. |
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Woodie Anderson - artist and designer
Woodie Anderson's mixed-media serigraphs and three-dimensional fiber works have been described as focused, smart and playful. Combining print-making, fiber-work and graphic elements with found fabrics, collage and stitching, her work explores a colorful world of word balloons, elasticized body parts, embryonic faces and playful typography.
Thematically, Anderson's works reflect the influence of 1970s feminist art. Her stylistic precedents include Andy Warhol, poet Kenneth Patchen and punk-rock poster graphics. |
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Millicent Greason - artist and Urban Artware curator
Artist, entreprenuer, and Renegade Ninja Cowgirl, Millicent Greason has been an integral part of the Winston-Salem Downtown Arts Distirct for over a decade. Behind the scenes as often as she is in the spotlight, Greason has a reputation for wearing many hats.
As an artist, Greason works out of her home studio located in the fabulous Ardmore neighborhood. She creates mixed media assemblages which serve as vessels of exploration into her own psyche.Though the process can be painful, the results are often theraputic and purging. Propelled by an acute awareness of the connections we all share, Greason uses found objects to draw on the familiar and creates new worlds for the viewer to explore. Though created with intention, the work is always open for interpretation.
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G. Alex Norwood - artist & curator Bachelors of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1971
Various media: drawings, paintings, commercial design, collage, assemblage, color and black & white photography, plus fabric quilts & banners
Teaching children & adults plus experience curating, reviewing & judging art exhibits Alex grew up in Winston-Salem, NC and it has been his home for most of his adult life. Life as an art student at VCU in Richmond, Virginia from 1967 to 1971 was both turbulent and entertaining. During his 20s and early 30s, Alex collected addresses from New York and Boston to Santa Barbara and Ojai, California. He also lived in Spain, Switzerland and Colorado. Gay culture and politics, meditation and spiritual aspirations, heavy drinking and recovery plus artistic mania have all contributed his evolution. Green is Alex’s favorite color and he paints with 2 inch brushes. |
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Dave Urena - Designer, photographer, traveller, language-er. For as long as I can remember, I've been travelling -- and with it comes the thrill of unknowing; the surprise of the familiar in new clothing. These collages are the souvenir pictures along some of my trips. |
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Clark Whittington - artist and Art-o-mat creator born, march 26th, 1966. grew up in an arts/music infused ranch style house during the 60's & 70's, and was exposed to all sorts of creativity.
during the years 1984-88, attended art school at appalachian state university, boone, nc.
partnered with two other college buddies in 1989 to open a gallery in charlotte called rococo fish. the gallery lasted about 3 years and only a small percentage of the city's population understood the approach. the remaining (much larger) percentage was too afraid to venture into that part of the city. during that time, began making very "hit or miss" art influenced by conceptual artists as well as artists such as robert rauschenberg and keith haring. |
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