Market Gallery is featuring the work of three new members in September: Tracy Budd, Vera Dickerson and Gina Louthian Stanley. Also showing is current member Rod Adams.
Rod Adams is stepping outside his preferred medium of watercolor in a big way with a 10 feet by 6 feet western mural, a commission that will eventually find its home in Ohio. As a Featured Artist he’ll give us a taste of this wall mural with large watercolor and oil paintings.
Tracy Budd is featuring recent acrylic paintings inspired by her travels to the Maine Coast. She is influenced by light and shadow and she works to translate her ideas and subject matter into an altered atmosphere. With each new painting that Budd creates she considers, “Am I creating a sophisticated surface, that best portrays my ideas? For me, it’s all about the surface.”
Vera Dickerson’s art work is a personal expression containing something of her hand and mind. She looks beyond simple picture making to put emotional connections in her art. Her work is a mix of watermedia and artist-created collage papers. Dickerson notes, “After years of academic training as an artist, and subsequent teaching, I now find great pleasure in combining this with the joy of new places and people.”
Gina Louthian Stanley’s new work is themed “Nature Prevails”. She explores color harmonies and surface textures through subtle changes in color, composition, method of application and surface preparation. Her primary medium is encaustic. As she notes, “No matter how hard we try to control, engineer, modify, or change events and circumstances, tangible objects, and even emotions, ‘Nature Prevails’.”
The Market Gallery, a regional artists’ cooperative, is open 10 am to 5:30 pm Tuesday – Saturday. And is located at 23 Salem Avenue, Roanoke, VA 24011, the corner of Wall St and Salem Ave in Roanoke’s historic downtown market.
For additional information call The Market Gallery (540) 342-1177 or visit www.marketgalleryroanoke.com
