Metropolitan painting gallery
Kevin Yaun
About the artist
Kevin Yaun (b. 1986) has lived and worked in a variety of places over the past 20 years and now has a studio in Downtown Los Angeles. His transient lifestyle brought him from his hometown in Georgia to living in Colorado, The Netherlands, England, Thailand, Singapore, and California to name a few places. His paintings reflect an intermittent view of home and ask us to picture it as an abstract concept. What do the architectural shapes in space make you feel? Do the distant warm lights of homes reflected in the glass seem inviting or unattainable?
Jacquelin Nagel
About the artist
Jacquelin Nagel was born in 1995 in California and has been drawing and painting since childhood. She received her BA from Loyola Marymount University in 2017 and her MFA from Laguna College of Art and Design in 2023 and currently works in Los Angeles. She explores the relationship between drawing, painting, and photography to present a surreal world based in skillful representation of photo-based figurative works.She often uses a collage like approach and taps into her background as a florist to help piece together her own world. Her figurative paintings revolve around the concept of growth. Since growth is an accumulation of changes it is both beautiful and uncomfortable. She is interested in capturing this duality and expressing how internal emotions can infringe on external environments. She asks, “What exists in reality and what exists in our subconscious?”. She seeks to blur that line and combine multiple realities in a single canvas.
Kesler woodward
About the artist
"I have explored and painted the Circumpolar North for more than four decades, from Hudson Bay in the Canadian Arctic to Alaska, the Bering Sea, and the Siberian Russian coast. For me, the most challenging thing about painting such extraordinary places as Alaska and the Arctic is finding a way of celebrating the beauty and magic of this landscape without mimicking it, competing with it, or trivializing it. I try to make paintings that seen up close are almost completely abstract—all about paint on the surface of a canvas—and from a distance are completely realistic—all about how it feels, rather than looks, to be in the great Northern forest that circles the globe. When people who don’t know my work ask me what I do, I tell them that I paint big abstract paintings that happen to look like birch trees.” .
Glenn Suokko
FLOATING FRAMES
for canvas paintings
About the artist
“My oil paintings reflect the creative responses to how I see and feel. If there is a common denominator in my work, it is the conceptual interpretation of quietude and beauty influenced by the earthly rhythm of my immediate surroundings where I live and work in rural Vermont. I paint with imaginative expression, pleased that others may share an appreciation of similar ideas that are important to my work—tranquility, splendor, and simplicity.”
David Ridgway
About the artist
The work is my interpretation of the local landscape with emphasis on architecture. I paint in oil and prefer highly saturated color and simple shapes to describe the scene. Often the work is from a series that meanders from more to less detail and back again. The San Juan Islands and Skagit Valley in my home state of Washington feature prominently.
Jeffrey Vaughn
About the artist
Vaughn approaches his work with a quiet contemplativeness that reflects the serene aspects of the natural world and reveals the underlying spiritual nature that can be found in the environments he portrays.
His paintings have been published in New American Paintings, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector and reviewed in the American Arts Quarterly and the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Jeffrey Vaughn has been exhibiting his work throughout the United States for over thirty years. His work can be found in numerous public and private collections such as the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC; Anheuser-Busch Inc., St. Louis, MO; Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Louisville, KY; and Kentucky Public Radio, Louisville, KY.
ying Li
About the artist
Born in Beijing, China, Ying Li studied painting at Anhui Teachers University where she was later an instructor. She immigrated to the United States in 1983 and received an MFA from Parsons School of Design. Li’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including internationally at Centro Incontri Umani Ascona (Switzerland), ISA Gallery (Italy), Enterprise Gallery (Ireland), and Museum of Rochefort-en-Terre (France); in New York City at Lohin Geduld Gallery, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, The National Academy Museum, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters; also, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (Haverford College), the James Michener Museum in Doylestown, and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College.
Helen Cantrell
About the artist
"I make oil paintings and also prints, lately big woodcuts. I greatly admire the Bay Area Realist painters of the last century, especially Richard Diebenkorn. I use palette knives and very large brushes from the hardware store, layering and splashing oil paints on until I can get the canvas back to more or less what inspired the image originally. Nature and weather atmospheres, with some sort of human imprint, like suburban houses, or bathers by the sea, are my subjects."
Hilary Eddy
About the artist
In looking at the real world with great attention, in fixing my gaze on reality, reality is transformed into a kind of marvelous dream. I have gradually become passionately attentive to the most ordinary things that constitute the decor of my life. In my paintings I expose a new consciousness which observes and reveals hidden secrets that are there for us for the taking. We can find excitement in our everyday lives, we can see wonders of light reflected, and colours to astound us as we sit at our dining table or in our living room, or as we walk in the garden..
My need to paint comes from that feeling of marvel which I have to share; my heightened awareness and the mystery of my vision.. The world of everyday objects holds surprises for whoever looks at it attentively. The focus of my work is to invite you to share my visions of moments of color and light that may dazzle and delight your senses.
Clarence Morgan
FLOATING FRAMES
for canvas paintings
About the artist
I am interested in an approach to art making that explores the often-conflicted relationship between the decorative traditions in geometric patterns found in other cultures and western modernism. However, the recent paintings, prints and collage-drawings avoid culturally specific subject matter in favor of a more elusive pictorial terrain of contemporary abstraction. Inasmuch, my work attempts to reflect a broader generational curiosity where the familiar and unfamiliar converge.