New Exhibition
Jan 10th, 2024— Feb 14th, 2024
Jasmine
by Claire Lee
Painting Series
Claire Lee is a highly skilled artist who graduated from Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul. During her studies, she focused on ceramics, wooden crafts, and metal sculptures. After moving to the US, she pursued her passion for ceramics but eventually shifted to painting and drawing on canvas. One of her most notable works is a series of stories called “Jasmine.” These stories can be interpreted differently based on the viewer’s perspective. They revolve around a young girl named Jasmine who has created an unexplored world. Claire hopes that these stories will spark her audience’s imagination and leave them wanting to know more.
Claire’s artistic style is straightforward and easily understood. She favors simple objects over complex machinery and uses plain language instead of confusing jargon. For Claire, art is a medium of communication. She thinks that communication in today’s world is often complicated and prone to misunderstandings. Therefore, her primary goal is to create artwork that viewers can appreciate and comprehend without any extra explanation.
Guardians
by Kate Brogdon
Painting Series
By collecting experiences, images and ephemera, Kate combines them into a variety of visual frames of how we develop our world views, and how that shapes our treatment of each other and our world. She is interested in the environment and how we are changing it. Through photography, collage and painting, she explores ways of thinking the world around and between us. A variety of layers and a mix of media helps to capture the whole of a memory at the time with also a sense of it changing. Combining images in various forms helps the viewer approach a way of multiple seeing, with the idea of capturing fragments or nuances in perception. Visual combinations create shades of meaning to capture the complexities of the world. Often this results in fortuitous juxtapositions and interesting unplanned mixtures, along with changes and bits left over as part of the evolution of thought in the span of the work. In these layers of visuals, are layers of meaning to describe the complexities of the world, sometimes different from where they are viewed.
The Blue Coat
by Jamie Hurst
Painting Series
A woman inspects her coat as she looks at herself and interacts with someone out of view. She wears a blue wool winter coat, hat, and red scarf. The viewer sees her from a third person perspective unaware of her thoughts and concerns, even though we act as her mirror. She is painted without a background suggesting she could be anywhere and yet she is ungrounded with no context.
Jamie shares: “Clothing and fashion carry much meaning: outwardly seeped in cultural context, history, and class, and inwardly as we repeatedly choose our favorite items based on personal preference. I have this blue coat. It fits me perfectly and seems to be warm enough no matter the weather. I’ve worn it through having babies, nursing, and moving internationally. I’ve worn it in times of sadness and joy. This coat and I are on a journey together, it is aging as I do. When I wear it, it brings me comfort and warmth as I venture into the unknown.”
Jamie Hurst is an multidisciplinary artist with a professional background as an art historian at Sotheby’s in New York and The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC. After living overseas for nearly a decade, she now lives and works in VA. She currently works with watercolor, gouache, charcoal, and pastel. More of her work can be seen on her Instagram @Jamie_g_Hurst or on her website at https://www. jamiehursthuis.com/
