SLAF Community Public Art Collection
Our Public Art Collection is a permanent collection of art which has been purchased at the Art Fair. This unique art collection is offered to organizations at no cost and perpetually tours a variety of public locations such as schools, libraries and community centers.
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2019 Collection Purchases
Chicago, IL / Photography
Girl on Sink
Essentially, I am a storyteller… and the job of any great storyteller is to communicate in a way that both will engage with the audience and ignite their imagination. My photography, which I affectionately describe as Film Stills of an ever-evolving narrative, is themed in the spirit of nostalgia where personal experiences, insights and cultural stances are reflected. This work is meant to empower and inspire, serving as the creative pulse behind the work.
Louisville, KY / Ceramics
Teapot, Alice In Wonderland
For more than ten years my work has been focused on Miniature Teapots. The teapot form continues to challenge and fascinate me. The work shown in this gallery is the result of over a decade of evolution in color, design and form. I invite you into that place.
In many ways, this parallels my attitude towards clay: it requires poking to awaken it. One must push the limits, test waters, search, prod and explore its many boundaries.
Austin, TX / Mixed Media
Kaleidoscope
Mark and Carol Reynolds use a variety of woods in their beautiful kaleidoscopes, including natural cherry, bubinga, mahogany, curly, burled and Birdseye maple, padauk, burled walnut, rosewood, and many others as they can get them. veneer, exotic hardwood, front surface mirror systems, and oil filled object chambers.
Bedford, IA / Ceramics
Turtle with Spikes
In the late 1960’s I became fascinated with the large Nuoc Mam pots of the Mekong Delta….brown and heavy, sitting stoically in the hot sun, brewing their pungent fish sauce.
Later, at Northwest Missouri State University, I was exposed to the bold clay work of professor Russ Schmaljohn and the beefy storage vessels of the likes of Bernard Leach and Ken Ferguson. The solid foundations and strong shoulders of those potters’ work provided solace at a time our country was rife with unrest and uncertainty.
Marquette, MI / Woodworking
Totems
I create carved wood panels and objects made from sawmill waste with both hand and power tools. The wood is often worked green then allowed to warp and crack as it dries. I paint or burn the surface then sand back to emphasize tool marks. The lines and textures carved in the wood are abstractions from the natural environment. I primarily work within squares, rectangles and grids; exploring relationships between the organic carving and the machined lines.
Altoona, PE / Painting
Chesapeake Avenue
These are oil pastel drawings on stretched canvas or on board. My choice of materials allows me the flexibility of painting but with the tactile nature of drawing. The patterns and textures of the water surface, as well as the endless color variations of reflected light are wonderful sources for using color, line, and the calligraphy of drawing.
Raleigh, NC / Mixed Media
Michael J. & The Big Chill
After over 25 years as a professional illustrator, Amy started making robots to fill the time between illustration jobs. Now, it’s her passion, as it combines two of her favorite pastimes; making things and shopping. She scours flea markets, basements, internet auctions, and scrapyards for cool old junk. Amy then solders and bolts the pieces together to create sturdy, one-of-a-kind sculptures, never to be duplicated.
Dardenne Prairie, MO / Mixed Media, Painting
Among The Trees
This composition allowed me to work with a wildlife subject of two deer walking in the woods in the shadows of the trees. I was also exploring multiple perspectives. As I was painting, I was dissatisfied with how I was depicting the ground. After several layers of paint, I somehow figured out the abstract patterning to represent the fallen leaves and carried it over to the trees and figures to unify the composition.
Duluth, MN / Glass
Galaxy Vortex & Anemone Exhibit
I find inspiration in the palette of the outdoors and often try to emulate this in glass. I enjoy the medium itself and the act of working with glass in its natural state. In its molten form, glass loses its fragility, and becomes something I can control. By shaping, stretching, and blowing I bring it to life. New colors are constantly emerging and the thrill of working new colors or new techniques keeps me coming back for more.
Tampa, FL / Etching
Rosy Visitor
I have always been fascinated by birds; their beauty and ability to fly. My interest in art began at a very young age; using crayons on the walls in my grandmother’s house. She probably was not too happy about that. I studied art history and printmaking in college. Though I started working as an electrician in my early twenties, I knew it was temporary. I wanted to be an artist.
Pisgah Forest, NC / Painting
Before the Storm
Brian Kuehn is an award-winning graphic designer and artist in a variety of media. He has worked extensively with pastels, pencils, watercolors, collage and digital art. Brian’s work has been displayed throughout the country at high-end juried shows. His studio is located in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina, near the town of Brevard.
Chicago, IL / Glass
Red Three Piece Relish Dish
My pieces begin as a mass of molten glass pulled into long thin rods. These rods contain a series of concentric circles built from thin layers of color and can only be seen when snipped into a bit and turned on end. Hundreds, sometimes thousands , of these cross sections are individually arranged on a kiln shelf then fired to become a dingle surface. Each piece is extensively cold worked for a satin finish and fired again for the final shaping.
Minneapolis, MN / Glass
Glass Prism
Andrew Shea strives as one of the premier glass artists of the country, to continuously provide a continuity of creativity, quality, and excellence in every piece. Every piece is handmade, and unique within its own right. Andrew’s work has been displayed in galleries and shows all over country, and is renowned for such signature pieces as his perfume bottles, fish, and vases.
Hannibal, MO / Ballpoint Pen Artistry
The Perpetrator
Fueled with the inspiration of music and the nostalgic memories of my turbulent teenage years, I’ve tried to utilize my self-taught techniques, cultivated from urban doctrines, in an effort to create art that evokes an honest & hopefully profound emotional experience. My recent artworks are surreal creations of ballpoint pen drawings on Mylar film, with additional accents of color created from pencils, pastels, charcoals and a drizzle of watercolors.
Woodland Park, CO / Glass
Clear Vase
Using the most difficult techniques to make truly original & contemporary art. We merge colors to create a feeling within, making your heart race like an addiction, The kind of beauty that never gets old.
DeLand, FL / Mixed Media
Foom!
Most of my art is created with acrylic paint that I apply by hand, using rollers, air brush or sponge, on the reverse side of clear acrylic glass using a stencil technique. I then float the painted clear layer over a second painting or digital collage done on a panel of white styrene. This creates a multi-layer effect giving the finished piece a unique juxtaposition of shapes, shadows and colors.
Elizabeth, IL / Pottery
Vases: Red Triangle, Yellow square, Blue circle (Three Bottles)
The clay vessels of Eshelman Pottery order and dignify human life. Clarity is given to simple forms by contrasting glazed and unglazed surfaces. Paul’s developing artistic interests were directed along practical lines as he grew up in Iowa.
What is shown? Small format geometric bottle holds a few flowers from the garden.
Olympia, WA / Batik
Spring in his Step
Her narrative batiks are expressions of her own experiences, often tinged with nostalgia as she explores her past, her role as a mother, and literally sews stories together with ancestral threads. Her pieces explore the emotive landscape that we inhabit. The imagery, patterns, and faceless stick figures represent her life as well as invite the viewer to bring their own story to the pieces with the hopes of sparking conversation and connection. Primarily self-taught, Lisa has been working with the medium of batik over 25 years, pushing the boundaries of a craft into an art.
Austin, TX / Drawing
Ancient Pot
While many artists draw with an emphasis on lines, I use light and shadow—contrast—to delineate surfaces, much like a painter uses color. In that respect, my approach to drawing is more like painting. The only lines visible are those used to portray a texture in my subjects. They’re very rarely, if ever, used to separate one surface from another.“ “I am constantly challenged because there are no limits. There is a purity of subject and a power in black and white that cannot be matched.
St. Louis Park, MN / Photography
Relic 33-918
I create abstract architectural collages, using my digital photos of architecture to construct imaginative forms that fuse multiple perspectives in my oil paintings.
Chandler, AZ / Silkscreen
Bird Seed
We are printmakers, whose emphasis is serigraphy or screen printing. All our work begins as pencil sketches, and then each color is a hand-cut stencil. We still employ the traditional methods of screen printing, meaning it’s all handmade, no computers, or automatic presses. The screens are coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, allowed to dry. Then, the stencils are taped to the screen and exposed to ultra-violet light. Each color is printed in layers one at a time, and there are as few as seven or eight colors to over 60 per image.
Kansas City, KS / Photography
People Matter
With my Street Photography, I explore our common humanity through the people and places around us all. ‘People Matter!!’ This photograph is street photography in sepia that has been digitally printed on watercolor paper.
Belleville, IL / Mixed Media
Reverse Painted Glass
My current work consists of reverse painted mixed media behind glass panels. Various glass and acrylic paints, inks, pigments, and resin are utilized and applied in a reverse order technique using the glass as my canvas. Vivid colors and art deco patterns influenced by nature comprise the body of my work. The glass not only provides depth and dimension but also appears to glow when illuminated. Letters and images are painted in mirror image so they are correct when viewed from the front side. Details are painted first rather than last as in an ordinary painting.
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Chicago, IL / Photography
Vespa & Bellagio Apertivo
I employ a special photographic technique called multi-row panorama. Each image is a combination of about hundred shots in a grid layout stitched together. It takes me about an hour on location to make a single image and then about a week to post-process it in a digital darkroom. My images tell a story. They speak about me, my values, my hopes, my ambitions, and ultimately what I deem worthy of your energy and attention. It reveals, intentionally or not, what I really think about the world around me.
Perkinston, MS / Drawing
Sea Oats, Triptych
It’s what lies beneath the waters surface, a brewing storm, or the movement of the shifting dunes. This is what I find so mysterious about the natural landscape. Throughout my adventures to these places I am drawn to their vast and sometimes overwhelming expanse, you can almost feel its beating heart under your feet. Capturing this feeling can sometimes be very challenging. My work as an artist is to offer a glimpse to the viewer of what I am experiencing at the time.
2018 Collection Purchases
Daphne, AL / Mixed Media
No Name
“Each piece is hand carved from a 12 lb black artistic tissue paper simply using an exacto knife. leaving a 2" black border I then float the piece between glass and frame.”
Saint Louis, MO / Drawing and Pastels
Unblind Justice
“Alison Bozarth is a St. Louis based illustrator and traditional artist. Occasionally filled with whimsy and consistently thought provoking, her detail focused pieces embody the individualistic wonder of personality and the demons we struggle with.”
Austin, TX / Drawing and Pastels
Live Oak
“Realism in graphite pencil, approached as paintings...emphasizing light, shadow & texture over lines. Often presented in a contemporary format on archivally sealed, cradled panels. I always try to push the expected boundaries of the medium of pencil.”
New Florence, MO / Photography
Wired Donkey
Natural light photography. Using premium photo paper or 100% cotton canvas & archival inks. These images are part of my Heritage Breed Series, focusing on old fashioned breeds of farm animals, many are endangered.
Louisville, KY / Ceramics
Autumn Marble Tea Pot & Green Jewel Tea Pot
"What is so exciting about looking at a sleeping tiger? Nothing. But if you take a stick and poke at it, you will remember that tiger for the rest of your life!" This is part of a conversation I once had at the Minnesota Zoo. In many ways, this parallels my attitude towards clay: it requires poking to awaken it. One must push the limits, test waters, search, prod and explore its many boundaries. For more than ten years my work has been focused on Miniature Teapots. The teapot form continues to challenge and fascinate me. The work shown in this gallery is the result of over a decade of evolution in color, design and form. I invite you into that place. I feel blessed to be able to pursue the life of a potter -- especially when it requires poking the sleeping tiger...
Ashtabula, OH / Glass
No Name
My work is hand blown and carved glass. First, the pieces start in the hotshop, formed from molten glass in multiple colored layers. Once cooled, I carve through those layers to create new edges and textures inspired by geology and topography.
Bloomington, IL / Painting
Landscape
My artwork uses a wide range of media to cover a diverse subject matter. I began my landscape series in 1996. My hope is that each image will "speak" to the viewer and evoke emotion. I am truly passionate about the visual beauty of the natural world.
Hudson, WI / Glass
Birds & Purple Willow Leaves
Our handblown and sandblasted glass vessels are the result of 35 years of working together. We draw inspiration from the wetlands surrounding our home and studio, capturing the essence and spirit of this place.
Summerfield, NC / Painting
As a landscape painter using the medium of watercolor I do multiple miniature studies on site. From these studies I do more involved works in my studio. I do multiple washes, lift and dry brush to create volume, depth, light and atmosphere.
Arlington, MA / Mixed Media
Sculptural Wood & Felt
Sculptural, impressionistic wall pieces created with hand made felt, paint and hard woods.
Vandalia, MO / Photography
Girlfriend She Try Kill Me
I build miniature sets in my studio in which I place and photograph my free range chickens. The sets are constructed from seasonal and current objects in life, which references a particular time of year.
East Windsor, NJ / Fiber
One of a kind wearable art coats and jackets, made from natural fibers such as wool, cashmere, silk and linen. I employ a collage technique of piecing together a variety of patterns, colors, and textures into wearable art.
Monticello, GA / Mixed Media
Josephine
Aaron Hequembourg lives with his wife and four children on a c.1815 farm in Georgia. His work is produced from salvaging materials from sharecropper houses and engraving and painting onto the materials.
Wentzville, MO / Mixed Media
Hoarder
My work is meant for preservation. Looking back on small, ridiculous moments I hope to preserve these pieces of time in each work. I want my work to be honest, humorous, and visually appealing by experimenting with color and surface.
Fort Collins, CO / Photography
Limited edition photographs from medium and large format negatives.
Saint Peters, MO / Painting
Francis Bacon
My creativity springs from a sense of fascination with people and a delight in life. Faces and color dominate both my oil painting and clay sculpture.
Chicago, IL / Photography
Stairs & Tiki
With a 50 yr old film camera and battery powered colored lights, I shoot 10-30 min exposures in dark city corners. Through my lighting, these stark places instead become beautiful, inviting and fanciful. The large negatives are scanned and the final photos are ultrachrome inkjet prints.
Lithonia, GA / Painting
Boy With Bucket
Ronnie Phillips is an award winning artist, photographer and educator. Phillips began as a freelance photographer in Los Angeles, his hometown, and progressed from having over 100 photographs of celebrities published in magazines such as TV Guide, Essence and Ebony Magazines to developing his own unique take on art photography. Expanding his talents, Phillips took up painting and injected new possibilities into his work with mixed media. His works now are acrylic paintings embedded with his award winning photographic accents.
Saint Louis, MO / Mixed Media
mm119
Ink, acrylic, chalk, paper, pencil, Letraset, etc. on cradled board (Many works include my personal notes and drawings from sitting in various hotels and bars, or those my loved ones deemed fit to contribute).
Augusta, MO / Glass
Glass Vase
All of my pieces are made using traditional European glassblowing techniques. I have been inspired by mid-century Italian and Scandinavian design as well as by nature. Every piece I make is entirely produced at the furnace using only molten glass.
Chicago, IL / Ceramics
4 Small Wall Balls
Hand built, carved, and painstakingly glazed ceramic sculpture and wall sculpture. Drawing on architectural influences, fabric design & modern ceramics, these elements mix to create Modern Artifacts.
Bondurant, IN / Painting
Splash 10
Work is influenced by skateboard graphics and graffiti. I work in acrylic, charcoal, and spray paint on wood finished with lacquer.
Greenville, NC / Drawing and Pastels
Ballerina III & Push Daddy Push
I sketch my subject with hard pastel, then I fill in the details with layers of soft pastel on sanded paper. My pastel paintings are a way of telling a story about the subject's optimism, introspection, their innocence, wisdom, grace & complexity.
Previous Purchases
Lake Worth, Fl / Jewelry
Sculpture and texture are the most important elements that inspire my work. Because I work in a combination of high karat gold and sterling silver, I employ a patina finish on the work to further accentuate the textures and to add depth to the sculptural form. There is a richness to this type of finish. My jewelry and sculpture are fabricated, insuring that each piece is one of a kind.
Edwardsville, IL / Ceramics
My artwork, an amalgam of vessel and industrial artifact, is full of irony—handmade replicas of man-made objects, soft clay renderings of hard metal objects, aged and important reminders of a once powerful age. The oil and gasoline cans represent the machinery that once threatened to devalue the work of human beings. Now they seem just like the hard working humans they served –stoic, dignified, straightforward, but worn out. The usefulness of machines in their original states is limited as the products of progress. I have taken the aesthetic and political ugliness out of industry, reminding everyone that change can be both hurtful/traumatic and positive/healing. Once again underscoring the power of area to uplift the human condition. By firing the oil and gas cans in my anagama wood kiln, I am convinced that instead of merely heating the clay, the flame and ash have the capacity to alter and enhance my clay cans.
Hampshire, England / Glass
I grew up surrounded by glass. As a child I recall being the kid with the largest marble. My dad was a glass maker as was his. This tradition stems back at least six generations. For me working with glass is a part and parcel of this family history. It is a romance with a material as sharp as a knife and as fragile as a rainbow. Yet while I value the past and its tradition, I look to the present and the future possibilities favor my inspiration. For me the work I produce is a physical manifestation of an exploration. The pieces are about the qualities of discovery and rare moments of magic. They are discoveries on a journey without road maps. Art takes us to these places, places where no airplane can fly.
St. Louis, MO / Ceramics
This teapot cannot hold or pour tea. It is made of two sheets of clay. When the clay is wet I put different textures into the clay with any tool or object I like. When the clay gets hard enough to support itself, I attach the two sides together and fire it in a kiln, to about 1200F. Then it is all white and similar to a flower pot. I then paint it with acrylic paint and color on top with crayons, colored pencils, and more paint. Finally, I spray it with a clear fixative so the color stays on. I hope you can see how much I enjoy creating my artwork.