Sophia Belkin uses dye painting, embroidery and textile collage to create dynamic compositions that reference natural processes. Her work is inspired by the lush, teeming, swamps in the Gulf South and the wetlands in the Mid-Atlantic. The paintings explore the interconnectedness of the environment and consider verdant futures for our ecological landscape in the face […]

HEMPHILL is pleased to share the exhibition, RUSH BAKER IV: Landscapes.  Rush Baker IV’s abstractions interleave the visual ephemera of Civil War-era photography, maps, and print media with layers of pigment, resin, and plaster in a collision of translucent and solid materials. Underlying Baker’s plastic surfaces is visual data sourced from depictions of the Civil […]

BENNY ANDREWS & MELVIN L. NESBITT JR., LEON BERKOWITZ & WAYSON JONES, FRANCIS CRISS & KEVIN MACDONALD, JOSEPH MILLS & SHAUNTÉ GATES, NORMAN LEWIS & ROBIN ROSE, ALMA THOMAS & JULIE WOLFE, OTHO BRANSON & RURI YI A current approach in contemporary interior design mixes styles with selections of diverse types of art, highbrow and […]

Sophia Belkin’s lush and verdant paintings implore the viewer to look closely at the artist’s material exploration and references to nature that are direct and abstract.  Collaged from fabric that is stained, dyed and digitally printed, the various components of the paintings are joined with embroidered seams that mimic the veining on the underside of […]

Painters intuitively start with ideas about color. Less obvious and equally as important are the various reductive or additive strategies the artists apply. No prior subject is referenced, no personal content shared, and there is nothing to interpret, only the painting's physical presence exists. Each artist develops a unique method for the creation of works […]