MAC Holiday Art Show
Join us Friday, December 2nd from 5 to 7 PM for the opening reception of the MAC Holiday Art Show.
The show is a combined show of our MAC Artists Collective, as well as a sampling of other artists who have shown at MAC in 2022.
The Artists
MAC Artists Collective: Amelia Cain, Carol Lee Hannon, Carol Wade, Carrie Barcomb, Charley Parker, Cheryl Schlenker, Diane Mont, Elizabeth Breakell, José Sevillano, Katey Carlis, Laurie Doran, Matiko Mamaladze, Merle Weismer, Patricia Danzon, Rick Prieur, Shannan McConnell
Guest Artists: Dori Miller, Juliet Rossi, Maryanne Buschini, Michael Williamson, Robert Reinhardt, Sarah Baptist, William Timmins
Michael Williamson
Michael currently is a Senior Instructor of Adult Education at the Barnes Foundation. Most recently he has taught Matisse and Color, Order and Invention, Color Theory, Watercolor of Paul Cezanne, Charles Demuth, and Paul Klee. Michael taught Studio Art and Art History at Germantown Friends School for many years and held other teaching and administrative positions at independent schools in the Delaware Valley and California.
Michael is a graduate of Yale University and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Robert Reinhardt
Robert Reinhardt is a Philadelphia artist/educator/curator whose artwork actively explores his love of nature versus man-made structures and patterns through photography, painting, and mixed mediums. With degrees from Tyler School of Art and University of the Arts, Reinhardt has taught at Germantown Friends School, St. Georges School, The Philadelphia Senior Centers, and the Fleisher Art Memorial. He actively exhibits in national and local galleries, juried exhibitions, and is represented in many public, corporate and private collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art. View Reinhardt’s works at robertreinhardtart.com
Cheryl Schlenker
Cheryl Schlenker, a resident of Media, is an award winning painter whose works have been displayed in local and international juried exhibitions.
Artistic statement: Schlenker mixes various media to enhance the individual properties of each one, and finds joy in compositions that suggest realities through abstracted shapes.
Charley Parker
Charley Parker studied painting at The Pennsylvania Adademy of the Fine Arts, and currently teaches painting and drawing at the Delaware Art Museum and the Delaware College of Art and Design.
Parker paints in gouache, oils and casein. He paints in a direct, representational style, inspired by the beauty he sees in light and nature.
Laurie Doran
Laurie Doran, artist, arts educator, for her these two roles are intertwined each influencing the other. She lives in Media, works in Philadelphia and exhibits locally and globally.
Much of Doran’s work is created on an iPad. The iPad provides a mobile studio allowing her to create where ever or whenever. Her work is very diverse, some realistic, some totally abstract, and some telling stories. Doran hopes that the viewer is drawn in by composition and color, and in the process finds connection.
Dori Miller
Dori Miller is a contemporary artist, oil painter and papermaker. She is a mind’s eye whisperer representing the unobserved, finding gold in the wounds of imagined spaces. Why unobserved? We cannot “see” because we look out, when we should be looking in and we are so easily distracted.
Her artworks are slow, love letters that transport us along the lifeline of our desires, through veils of experience and behind our own scenes. Speaking in the visual language of the subconscious, she invites us to stay awhile. Such ethereal works yearn for a solid, foundation. With a nod to the ancestors, the paintings begin with a mix of oils, linen, copper nails and hand made paper.
Diane Mont
Hello my name is Diane Mont and I started taking art lessons when I was very young and into my teenage years—also continued into my adult years. One of my strengths is using color expressively. Lately, I have been expanding into still life. I am very attracted to light and cast shadows. I use the skill of perspective, adapting to a style with realism with a touch of my own creativity. I like paying attention to detail. I concentrate on looking at my subjects as shapes. Working from very general to specific and then detail. I rarely use saturated colors. I mix my paints playing with warm and cool colors.
Carol Wade
Today, my painting style is impressionistic, contemporary, and loose. I experiment with different styles. I like to show spontaneity and interpretation with good composition. I usually use acrylic paint and sometimes mixed media, such as paper. Some of my work may include type in stencils or collage in order to add interest and texture.
Sarah Baptist
Sarah Baptist is known for her plein air urban landscape oil paintings, but is expanding into urban abstraction also. Sarah is a self-taught artist, but growing up with an Art History Professor who was also an Artist impacted her greatly.
Painting full time since 2014, she has won numerous awards, most recently Best of Show at Rivertowns Plein Air in Marietta, PA this spring. Sarah has been a featured artist in Plein Air Magazine.
Katey Carlis
My work is exploratory, so naturally forms and styles evolve over time. Despite this, a central theme in all of my work is the expressive power of color. For me, rich colors elicit deep feelings, luminous lights move the soul. As for process, lately all of my work has been subjected to intense cycles of creation and destruction. All the paintings featured here have histories of large scale transformations. Some conceal multiple layers of paint with wildly varying (now hidden) compositions, others have been winnowed down the essentials through a revelatory removal of paint.
KateyCarlisArt.com and on Instagram @kcarlisart.
Carol Lee Hannon
Carol Lee Hannon is a mixed media artist who hails from Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been shown in New York and Philadelphia as well as on the runways of Michael Kors, Vera Wang, Calvin Klein and alice+olivia.
Having spent the first decade of her career in textile design, Hannon’s love for color, texture and pattern is apparent in much of her work. Her most recent pieces explore the realms of identity, movement, and form.
Eliizabeth Breakell
A lifelong student of painting, Pennsylvania native Elizabeth Breakell works primarily in oils. With a background in scientific and technical illustration Elizabeth has softened the edges of her subjects and infused them with light.
Studying with regional and national artists such as Christine Lafuente, Donna Cusano, Frances Galante and others over the last fifteen years has rounded out Elizabeth's training. Her plein air landscapes capture the essence of a day whether a cornfield, a coastline or brightly blooming treeline. Stories unfold through her interior scenes, sunlight filtering through the sheers, blocks of light on the floor, the viewer is transported through her images.
J Rossi
Expressing a positive attitude and a certain amount of whimsy in her mixed media paintings, J Rossi’s current work includes collage with other aqueous media on paper and canvas. Her work has been influenced by contemporary artists Bill Scott, Denise Regan, Jordy Kerwick, Nancy Barch, and Annie O’Brien Gonzales and her choice of subject, materials (paint, vintage and handmade papers, object), color, and composition combine to produce well thought out ‘happy’ paintings that Rossi believes “expresses my optimism in a world that has a screaming need for it."
She paints in the Abstract Studio at Community Arts Center in Wallingford. She has exhibited locally and has been awarded prizes for her paintings.
José Sevillano
José Sevillano finds photographic moments everywhere in life. A ramble in the woods, a derelict building or strangers on the streets. He hardly ever photographs an object, a face or a scene. His photos are not of something in particular but about something. He hopes to evoke a captivating emotion that will speak to the viewer.
Carrie Barcomb
The paintings of Carrie Barcomb celebrate and honor the grandeur of the outdoors. Throughout her canvas, she uses color and light to create dynamic movement to capture the ever-changing seasons. Sweeping, expansive views evoke a sense of expansiveness and a spiritual connection to the world. Her award-winning paintings are included in collections in America and Europe.
Amelia Cain
Amelia Cain studied photography and art education at Tyler School of Art. Cain hand applies photo-sensitive emulsion to watercolor paper or fabric before making UV exposures with handmade negatives or natural materials. Combining digital photography with a 19th century printing process, Cain’s cyanotypes bridge the past and present.
Patricia M. Danzon
My passion for fine art photography is inspired by the natural world. The camera enables us to see through new and creative lenses. I am drawn to eclectic subjects, both realism and abstraction. The common theme is use of light, line, texture, color and mood to show beauty. I print my own images, using all archival materials.