Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center

Artist In Action 2016

Gallery Show & Sale – March 18-April 17, 2016

Annmarie After Hours Opening - Friday, March 18, 2016, 6-9pm

A gallery show & sale featuring works by the participating 2016 Artists In Action will take place March 18-April 17, 2016.  

The Art of John A. Schaffner & J. Luray Schaffner

This dynamic Southern Maryland artistic couple hosts a show in the Mezzanine Gallery.

This exhibit has been extended to March 6, 2016!

Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - Friday, October 23, 2015, 6-9pm

Exhibit Juror:  Mary Savig, Curator of Manuscripts, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

For many artists, the words of writer Wendell Berry ring true - “if you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.”  A sense of place can be an essential element in artists’ creative life, and frequently informs their subject matter, materials, style, approach, studio location, and more.  Whether it be ones childhood “primal landscape,” full of memories of home and family, or the pull of a dramatic landscape, or a connection to a particular place based on historical and cultural events, geography calls to the imagination.   As the world shifts to a focus on the virtual, how has this impacted artists’ work?  Has it resulted in a weakening of a sense of place, or has the meaning of place simply adjusted to this new reality?  This exhibit invites artists to explore this issue from either or both sides, and to celebrate what place means to them.  What informs your work?  A physical location or a virtual world?  Do you know “where you are?”  
 

Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - Friday, August 7, 6-9pm (adults only)

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

An artist texturing paintings with earth, and an artist creating sculptures with clay. These processes are being employed both to create connections with nature and to express universal conditions common in life’s journey. A painter and sculptor playing dirty – it’s an obvious synergy.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Rob Brownlee-Tomasso, Painter

Bio
Taking inspiration from architecture, history, and nature, as well as depicting highly stylized conceptual characters, Rob Brownlee-Tomasso creates texture studies done in mixed media. Often on irregularly shaped canvases and sometimes as multiple canvas installations, the acrylic medium or gesso is applied with a mixture of sand, earth, or other materials to achieve a coarse surface. It is common for earth to be taken from a specific location that is the subject matter of that particular work. Rob Brownlee-Tomasso has pursued art since childhood. At age ten he attended The Barn Studio of Art in Millville, NJ, majored in fine art in high school, and earned a BA in design from Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Maryland and Virginia, and his work resides in several private collections

Alice Yutzy, Sculptor

Artist Statement:
CLAY… I love its smell, its sensuous plasticity.  The creative process is governed by an intuitive form-based focus using the tactile manipulative quality of clay to express symbolic meaning within each piece.  The sculptures are described as nonobjective biomorphic forms. The variety of themes expressed are based upon an acknowledgement and expression of many universal human conditions common in life’s journey.  My hope is that these pieces will convey a sense of peace and tranquility to the viewer, resulting in a uniquely personal experience for each person.

Bio 
Alice M. Yutzy, born on October 7, 1948 in Baltimore, MD spent her formative years living in Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia.  From an early age Alice had an avid interest in art with drawing as one of her favorite pastimes.  Graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in art education Alice taught art in the public school system for 39 years.  The last 24 of those years Alice was very fortunate to teach what she loved: ceramics and sculpture at the high school level.  Alice earned her MFA in studio art with a concentration in ceramics at Towson University in 2007.  Alice lives with her husband Dee on 6 ½ wooded acres in rural southern Maryland.  Their grown children, Brianna and Woody, have both chosen careers in education.  An avid nature and animal lover, Alice enjoys her two cats and riding her lovely new horse Chippy.  Although her primary chosen media is clay, she has also worked in plaster, wood, stone, mixed-media, cast cement and lightweight concrete.  Currently Alice works as a part time professor at the College of Southern Maryland teaching introductory ceramics and ceramic sculpture.  Alice continues to evolve, allowing her artwork to be an expression of her inner self.