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Victoria Schon
- oil
Email:
vschon@msn.com
Visit:
www.VictoriaSchon.com
Victoria discovered her true love, oil painting, later in
life. As a University of Michigan graduate in Art
History, her broad training and understanding of classical
art and architecture, as well as her travels throughout
Europe and Japan, have been the basis of her particular
sense of aesthetic, which translates into a quiet and
refined beauty. She has painted primarily still life in the
time-honored tradition of the old masters' style of
Chiaroscuro, but more recently has changed her focus to
include landscape painting. She currently is exploring a
more painterly quality in her work that is more playful and
loose, impressionistic, and more reflective of her own
personality. Plein air landscape painting and observing
nature provides her with fresh experiences that provide the
springboard from which she can further develop as an artist.
Victoria
is
represented by Daisy Lake Art Gallery in Dexter.
Pictured: The Baroness, Oil on
Canvas, 30 x 24
Lynda K. Schumacher - colored pencil; graphite
Email:
lynda schu@yahoo.com
Mary Schuman
Email:
owatonna@aol.com
Elizabeth R. Schwartz
- acrylic; mixed media
Email:
ers1@comcast.net
Visit:
www.SchwartzFineArt.com
Following a
successful career as an attorney and judge, Elizabeth
turned to painting in 1990 and soon received local,
national, and international awards for her art. She is
drawn to the visual complexities and textures of the natural
world, both the serene and the tumultuous. Her paintings are
abstract - inspired by nature, but not of nature -
consisting of impressions, interpretations and memories. Her
process is spontaneous and unplanned, and this approach
keeps her engrossed and excited about painting. She uses a
paint brush in bold, sweeping strokes or a palette knife to
create complex textural layers which conceal and reveal the
work underneath the surface. This interplay of the image,
the surface, and the history of the work as it evolved
allows the viewer to experience the paintings on many
levels. Elizabeth's work is exhibited in galleries and
private collections.
Pictured:
Arboreal 2,
Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 48
Dawn M. Sgriccia - oil
Email:
dsgric@sbcglobal.net
Visit:
www.DawnSgricciaArt.com
Dawn's paintings are created from both
actual settings and imaginative space. She uses bold colors,
lavish brush strokes and strong contrasts to express an
emotional experience. Her newest body of work (the
Concert Series), takes an in-depth look at concert goers
and their distinctive and expressive spirits. This award
winning
artist earned a BFA from the University of Michigan
and studied in Florence, Italy, and her artwork can be seen
at the Majestic Cafe in Detroit, MI in September 2008
and at the Sweetwater Cafe in Ann Arbor, MI in
January 2009. Dawn is currently a Board Member of Ann
Arbor Women Artists (Historian).
Pictured: Mohawk Flame,
Oil on Hardboard, 24 x 20
Joy Shannon - photography
Joan Shields
-
acrylic;
drawing
Email:
joanps1401@aol.com
Born in Detroit, Joan studied drawing with
Ference Erdele, who thought that students should study
drawing for seven years before picking up a paintbrush! Joan
studied with Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League
of NY where she had the Bridgman Memorial Scholarship.
Her work includes painting in oil and acrylic, drawing in
various mediums and printmaking. Joan has lived in Ann Arbor
for some fifty five years and has exhibited in the Ann
Arbor Women Artists shows for about thirty, winning
First Place twice and First Place at the Scarab Club,
Detroit in 2006.
Pictured: Midwest Terrain,
Acrylic, 24
x 30.5
Sally Silvennoinen
Email:
tapusilvenn@yahoo.com
Alida Silverman
Email: alidas@comcast.net
Delilah Smith - oil; watercolor
Email: artbydelilah@aol.com
Visit:
www.ArtByDelilah.com
Leslie Sobel -
digital and
encaustic
Email:
LAS@lesliesobel.com
Visit:
www.LeslieSobel.com
Leslie Sobel grew up in Chicago and moved to
Southeast Michigan in 1980. She received her BFA from the
University of Michigan School of Art in 1983. She has
also done masters degree work in Interdisciplinary
Technology at Eastern Michigan University. Her work
is focused on climate change and how people mediate their
environments. She is one of the founders of the Art
Alchemists, a collective of artists who use digital
technology in some aspect of their art making. Her current
work combines digital photography, including her own
photomicrographs, and NASA's public domain images from the
International Space Station, with encaustic and collage
media. She exhibits her work frequently in national,
international and regional exhibitions.
Pictured: Blue + Silver, Sky + Water,
Encaustic, Aluminum Leaf and Digital Imaging on Panel, 6" x 6"
Carol Spahlinger - pastel
Email: seaspah@aol.com
Alayne Speltz
Email: alaynespeltz@aol.com
Judith Spike - watercolor
Email: jll3kw@provide.net
Arly Spink - watercolor
Email:
arlyspink@aol.com
Stephanie Staley
Email:
stephpaints@hotmail.com
Sandy Steed -
watercolor; monotype; pastel; gouache
Email:
taosmtn@mac.com
Toni Stevenson
- acrylic; oil; pastel; watercolor
Email:
spiritlakefarm@earthlink.net
Visit:
www.ToniStevenson.com
Toni started making art early in her life.
Her father had encouraged her as a child; he had hopes of
her achieving the fame of his cousin, Michigan artist Guy
Palazzolo. Although self-taught, she has focused on this
goal throughout her life, spending several years studying
figure drawing and painting at Macomb Community College
and the Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association in
Michigan. Painting outdoors each summer is one of her
passions, as she attempts to capture the light and mood of
the moment. Her desire is to have her paintings evoke a
memory or recollection of someone or someplace in the
viewer's eyes.
Pictured:
First Ride,
Acrylic,
20 X
26
Cynthia J. Stewart
- pastel
Email:
dhaefner@umich.edu
Cynthia's
interest in creative activities has been life-long. After a
career in nursing, public health and academe she has had the
chance to develop her interest in drawing and painting. Her
particular interest has been working with pastels in an
attempt to capture the colors and moods of sky and sea.
Cynthia's formal education in art has been at the
University of Michigan and Washtenaw Community
College, in addition to private tutoring. Her "previous
life" education was at Syracuse University (BS in
Nursing) and the University of Michigan (MPHM PhD).
It was during the time that she held a faculty position at
the University of Hawaii - Manoa Campus that she
became fascinated by color in the natural world. Repeated
trips back to the islands reinforced that fascination which
influences her work.
Pictured:
Steam Plume at Dawn, Pastel, 20 x 28
Pamela Stoddard -
acrylic; mixed media/collage
Email:
pamela@classicalcarpentry.com
Jayne Stoudmyre
- picture framing
Email: studs97@hotmail.com
Mary Paul Stubbs - acrylic
Martha
Sullivan - painting; collage; sculpture
Email:
mjsulli2000@yahoo.com
Rosie Sunday
- acrylic; pastel
Email:
rosiesunday@usa.net
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Nancy Tasker -
watercolor;
ink; collage; mixed media
Email:
nankelee@gmail.com
Doris H. Terwilliger
Email:
dterwilliger@att.net
Dorothy (Dottie) Thorne -
watercolor
Email:
dlsthorne@sbcglobal.net
Terry Titus
- pastel
Email:
cjat@umich.edu
When Terry was
a child, her father urged her to draw, draw, draw. With that
as her basis, she later went on to study sculpting with
renowned sculptor, Ivan Mestrovic. One of her early stone
carvings was selected for a national sculpture exhibit at
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the
years, she's worked primarily in clay, but also in stone,
wood, welded steel and bronze. More recently, while living
in Mexico, she devoted her time to drawing with pastels,
being influenced by the art of Henri Matisse, Ben Nicholson,
Milton Avery and Richard Diebenkorn.
"Each piece is
an adventure in color and form, and I find it exciting to
work with the figure - to feel its tension, and to become
one with it. My aim is not to be shocking or simply
different, but to present work that is completely
comfortable and has a timeless quality."
Pictured:
Streetcar to Dubrovnik, Pastel, 18 x 24
Judy Tomer -
fiber/fabric;
drawing; acrylic; watercolor; paper; books
Email:
4gilbert@gmail.com
Caroline M. Tonsor - pastel; oil; watercolor
Pat Truzzi -
mixed media
Email:
ptruzzi@comcast.net
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Libby Uher
Email:
luher@umich.edu
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Caron Valentine-Marsh
- watercolor; acrylic; oil; encaustic; printmaking;
photography; digital art
Email:
caron@aaobserver.com
Madeleine Vallier
- watercolor
Email:
mbvallier@aol.com
Madeleine's lifelong interest in art
eventually led her
to watermedia with all it's free-flowing
quality. In
her work, she attempts to form a strong interplay of
space, color and shape to create abstract pattern
throughout a realistic statement.
Madeleine studied with various
U of M and EMU professors. She took numerous workshops and
studio workshops with well known artists and masters. Her
work has been in many juried shows including the
Michigan
Watercolor Society and has received numerous awards. She
led the
Chelsea Painters for thirteen years, and is a
past president of the
Ann Arbor Women Painters. Her
work is features by Rockport Publishers in
Flowers (1992) and
Floral Inspiration (1997). She is
represented by the
Chelsea
Gallery in Chelsea, Michigan.
Pictured:
Sicilian Ballade (detail), Watercolor,
28 x 34
Tanja Van Der Voo -
pastel; acrylic
Email:
tvandervoo@comcast.net
Corinne Vivian
- mixed media; collage
Email:
cvivian@comcast.net
Visit:
http://corinnevivian.blogspot.com
Corinne Vivian is an artist who loves to
experiment with color, design and medium. She started out in
oils and has now moved to a variety of mediums: watercolor,
monoprints, mixed medium and collage. Her landscape monotypes
have received recognition in local shows. Lately her interest
has been in mixed medium, combining poured watercolors with
photo transfers. She studied art at Washtenaw Community
College and Eastern Michigan University and has
attended many workshops. She is a member of the Ann Arbor
Women Artists and has exhibited in many of their juried
shows. This year one of her paintings was on the cover of Art
Showcase Magazine.
Pictured: Child of God,
Mixed Media,
11 x 8.5
Josie Vogt -
watercolor
Email:
josievogt@comcast.net
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