- November 28, 2024
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In an effort to bring a little more color into our world, the Studio A Project is hosting their first ever exhibit as a group.
Founded just over a year ago, the group of 14 artists came together to try their hand at experimental creativity in a setting of constructive — but always well-intentioned — criticism.
"There are times where I'm feeling kind of insecure about where I am," said Kathy Kurke, "and I get a group hug. We always help each other feel a little better. A bad painting doesn't make you a bad painter."
Nancy Hagood
Painting Experience: 20 years
Favorite Mediums: Mixed
Former Career: Legal Secretary
"I started at a young age. I lived in New York City, and thought it was so cool to be an artist. I painted a picture that captured the emotion of a young woman giving her baby a kiss for the first time."
Carson Kapp
Painting Experience: 20+ years
Favorite Mediums: Acrylic and watercolor
Former Career: Semi-retired architect
"Once I made a self portrait that was 4 feet long and 5 feet wide. It's gigantic and in your face."
Babz Lupoli
Painting Experience: 10 years
Favorite Mediums: Oils and collage
Former Career: Elementary school teacher
"The mermaid. I usually struggle with figures, but she showed up. I wasn't drawing or painting her, and my teacher said 'Look closely. There's a figure there.' And I saw her and at the bottom weren't feet, but flippers. I called in 'The Current,' because a mermaid swims in her own current like people do. Sometimes we swim against our current and that's when life gets screwed up."
Barbara Perkins
Painting Experience: Eight years
Favorite Mediums: Acrylic and charcoal
Former Career: Worked in the healthcare department for the University of Kentucky
"I did one called 'Halloween Mayhem,' with black and white faces that looked like Picasso. It was so weird. I loved it."
Jan Reeder a.k.a. "The Paper Queen"
Painting Experience: 10+ years
Favorite Mediums: Collage
Former Career: Bookkeeper for a doctor's office
"I cut out these little people from paper and stick them all over the collage. I love people."
Irma Sue Stofsky
Painting Experience: Three years
Favorite Mediums: Watercolor and acrylic
Former Career: Elementary school teacher
"The most meaningful thing I've ever painted was my hands behind my Sabbath candles."
Kathy Kurke
Painting Experience: Three years
Favorite Mediums: Acrylics and collage
Former Career: Chief counsel for the NASA Langley Research Center
"I did a painting of a military man saluting, and when I was done, I realized I had him saluting with his left hand. So I wrote the name "courage" backwards on the pocket, and now I call it 'Reflection of Courage.'
Karen Ann Patton
Painting Experience: 45 years
Favorite Mediums: Acrylics and pastel
Former Career: Raising kids
"My piece 'Celestial Garden' was printed in a book. I've got it framed in my living room."
Shirley Pittman
Painting Experience: 53 years
Favorite Mediums: Acrylic
Former Career: Computer programmer
"We lived in Alaska, and I painted a lot of beautiful scenery there."
Rickie Stofsky
Painting Experience: Three and a half years
Favorite Mediums: Multi-media acrylic
Former Career: Television news producer for NBC in New York and founded The Food Network
"Now I'm relaxed. I'm a color person. It's all very instinctive to me."
