Artists

OCCASION

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18″ x 24″ watercolor on canvas $6800

Tong Zhang

Tong Zhang is originally from China but has lived in the United States for several years. He now resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his family. Inspired by daily moments, Zhang’s work aims to present occasions in which affective experience can be fully addressed while still leaving the viewer in a state of unknowing. His practice bridges memory and personal experience with today’s life to raise the question, “what those ordinary moments from daily life could mean?”

Tong’s interdisciplinary practice and commitment to creating these unknown atmospheres have taken him to the United Kingdom, China, and across the United States including exhibitions in Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK; Milk Gallery, New York City; Attleboro Arts Museum, Massachusetts; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He is the recipient of many awards including two The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2017 and 2018, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for Art Residency and two George J. Vander Sluis Award 2016 and 2018 among others. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and China Academy of Art and a BFA from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in China.

HORSE

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20″ x 16″ watercolor on canvas mounted on panel $8000

Tong Zhang

Tong Zhang is originally from China but has lived in the United States for several years. He now resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his family. Inspired by daily moments, Zhang’s work aims to present occasions in which affective experience can be fully addressed while still leaving the viewer in a state of unknowing. His practice bridges memory and personal experience with today’s life to raise the question, “what those ordinary moments from daily life could mean?”

Tong’s interdisciplinary practice and commitment to creating these unknown atmospheres have taken him to the United Kingdom, China, and across the United States including exhibitions in Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK; Milk Gallery, New York City; Attleboro Arts Museum, Massachusetts; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He is the recipient of many awards including two The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2017 and 2018, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for Art Residency and two George J. Vander Sluis Award 2016 and 2018 among others. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and China Academy of Art and a BFA from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in China.

COVERING

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16″ x 16″ watercolor on canvas mounted on panel $6000

Tong Zhang

Tong Zhang is originally from China but has lived in the United States for several years. He now resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his family. Inspired by daily moments, Zhang’s work aims to present occasions in which affective experience can be fully addressed while still leaving the viewer in a state of unknowing. His practice bridges memory and personal experience with today’s life to raise the question, “what those ordinary moments from daily life could mean?”

Tong’s interdisciplinary practice and commitment to creating these unknown atmospheres have taken him to the United Kingdom, China, and across the United States including exhibitions in Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK; Milk Gallery, New York City; Attleboro Arts Museum, Massachusetts; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He is the recipient of many awards including two The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2017 and 2018, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for Art Residency and two George J. Vander Sluis Award 2016 and 2018 among others. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and China Academy of Art and a BFA from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in China.

BOAT

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32″ x 20″ watercolor on canvas mounted on panel $8000

Tong Zhang

Tong Zhang is originally from China but has lived in the United States for several years. He now resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his family. Inspired by daily moments, Zhang’s work aims to present occasions in which affective experience can be fully addressed while still leaving the viewer in a state of unknowing. His practice bridges memory and personal experience with today’s life to raise the question, “what those ordinary moments from daily life could mean?”

Tong’s interdisciplinary practice and commitment to creating these unknown atmospheres have taken him to the United Kingdom, China, and across the United States including exhibitions in Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK; Milk Gallery, New York City; Attleboro Arts Museum, Massachusetts; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He is the recipient of many awards including two The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2017 and 2018, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for Art Residency and two George J. Vander Sluis Award 2016 and 2018 among others. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and China Academy of Art and a BFA from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in China.

AIRPLANE

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20″ x 16″ watercolor on canvas $6000

Tong Zhang

Tong Zhang is originally from China but has lived in the United States for several years. He now resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his family. Inspired by daily moments, Zhang’s work aims to present occasions in which affective experience can be fully addressed while still leaving the viewer in a state of unknowing. His practice bridges memory and personal experience with today’s life to raise the question, “what those ordinary moments from daily life could mean?”

Tong’s interdisciplinary practice and commitment to creating these unknown atmospheres have taken him to the United Kingdom, China, and across the United States including exhibitions in Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK; Milk Gallery, New York City; Attleboro Arts Museum, Massachusetts; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He is the recipient of many awards including two The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 2017 and 2018, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for Art Residency and two George J. Vander Sluis Award 2016 and 2018 among others. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and China Academy of Art and a BFA from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in China.

LETTERS FROM YOU

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5.5″ H x 4.5″ D x 4.5″ W porcelain and steel $1800

Christina Brinkman

Christina Brinkman has been an artist her entire life. She earned her degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and pursued further studies at the University of Rochester’s Creative Workshop, among other institutions. She began her career as a painter and printmaker, specializing in etchings and mixed media prints. Widely exhibited both nationally and regionally, she has participated in numerous solo and juried group shows, earning many awards. Her work is part of public, private, corporate, and museum collections.

In 1984, she published a series of die-cut cards, which quickly gained popularity. Under the name Parrett Paper, these unique designs were sold and distributed worldwide in galleries, museums, and high-end stationery stores.

Her work has been recognized by the Museum of Modern Art, which selected two of her card designs and commissioned her to create an umbrella and a mobile. In addition to her contributions to MoMA, she has designed works in both fine and graphic arts for museums, businesses, book jackets, and institutions.

After selling her card company, she returned her focus to fine art, concentrating on porcelain ceramic sculpture and large porcelain vessels. She has worked in this medium for over 20 years, earning recognition in national exhibitions and winning multiple awards. Her ceramic pieces are part of prestigious museum collections, including the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY.

Brinkman writes:

I am a maker

Guided by touch,

engagement with the material.

Nature, memory and organic form

bring direction and orientation

a celebration of process and rythm.

It tries to be sympathetic with the natural world.

It is usually white,

the absence of color

the sum of all colors.

White reflects

simplicity,

purity,

nakedness,

lightness,

death,

calm

or stillness.

the simple pleasure of makiing

it is spare…

Without the distraction of color,

one considers the outline,

the interior and exterior space,

the proportions and relationships of the form.

The shadows and space around

become an integral part of the work,

the light reflecting surfaces and edges,

the energy of what is and isn’t there.

Making is connecting

the telling of slow stories.

I am never certain of its destination

but

it is often within

the boundaries of the vessel form.

Sculpture

tries to sneak in.

(and it wants to take over).

TEXTURES OF THE LAND

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13.5″ x 13.5″ oil on panel $2500

Linda Fantuzzo spent her childhood in Endicott, NY, where she created images from an early age. In 1968 she went to Philadelphia to study at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1973. She then moved to Charleston, SC, and continues to work full time in her studio near the harbor. The quality of light and the beauty of the architecture first attracted Linda to the region, where she continues to enjoy its vital arts community.

Linda worked non-objectively in various media for over ten years and then chose to return to painting representationally. She has been represented by galleries in the Charleston area since the 1970s, and has enjoyed five solo museum exhibitions in SC and GA. Linda is active in the arts community, having served on panels for the SC State Arts Commission Acquisitions Committee, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Redux, and the Trident Region Arts & Culture Plan. She has served as a juror for several public galleries and was the project director for “Larger Than Life: A Second Story Show”, sponsored by the Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs during the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Linda’s paintings are represented in the collections of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; South Carolina State Arts Commission Collection, Columbia,SC; The Burroughs-Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC; the River Course and Cassique Clubs of Kiawah, SC; the Doonbeg Club of County Clare, Ireland; several other public collections; and numerous private collections throughout the country.

LAST LIGHT

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28.75″ x 28.25″ acrylic on panel $8500

Linda Fantuzzo spent her childhood in Endicott, NY, where she created images from an early age. In 1968 she went to Philadelphia to study at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1973. She then moved to Charleston, SC, and continues to work full time in her studio near the harbor. The quality of light and the beauty of the architecture first attracted Linda to the region, where she continues to enjoy its vital arts community.

Linda worked non-objectively in various media for over ten years and then chose to return to painting representationally. She has been represented by galleries in the Charleston area since the 1970s, and has enjoyed five solo museum exhibitions in SC and GA. Linda is active in the arts community, having served on panels for the SC State Arts Commission Acquisitions Committee, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Redux, and the Trident Region Arts & Culture Plan. She has served as a juror for several public galleries and was the project director for “Larger Than Life: A Second Story Show”, sponsored by the Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs during the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Linda’s paintings are represented in the collections of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; South Carolina State Arts Commission Collection, Columbia,SC; The Burroughs-Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC; the River Course and Cassique Clubs of Kiawah, SC; the Doonbeg Club of County Clare, Ireland; several other public collections; and numerous private collections throughout the country.