Past Shows!

Past Shows!

annual Studio Artists show

The 3rd Annual Guardian Studios’ Artists Exhibition features the work of the talented artists that create work out of Guardian Studios. Our creative community of over 40 artists are painters, photographers, fashion designers, film directors, sculptors, muralists, art therapists, stylists and ceramic artists. Come celebrate the gallery’s second anniversary and tour our fantastic studios.

Exhibiting Artists
Haylee Anne, Angela Bortone, AnnaLee Burnstein, Jessica Caldas, Felicia Castro, Dionna Collins, Karen Dade, Amanda Davisson, Jennifer Diaz, Jena Dost, Amber Enadeghe, Sally Eppstein, Larkin Ford, Hannah Ghafary, Nina Gonzalez-Rubio, Karen Graffeo, Emef Griffin, Joe Hadden, Jessica Helfrecht, Patrick Icart, Tree Lyiness, Jen Malave, Petie Parker, Kieta Poole, Carolyn Propst, Lily Smith, India Starke, Mecsaiel Solehman and Maisie Thompson

Haylee Anne

Larkin Ford

Echo Contemporary Art presents After the dust settles, a collaboratively curated exhibition by artist collectives Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) and Berlin, Germany’s Frontviews. Opening July 12, 2024, the exhibition will feature drawing, installation, painting, sculpture, textile, and video that grapples with questions regarding the human condition and our response to ego. In an era of geopolitical tensions, After the dust settles examines the aftermath of metaphorical eruptions–political, social, or ecological–exploring humanity’s response when given the opportunity to begin again. After such a seismic shift, will more fertile soil be left behind upon which a society can grow? This group of international artists will present a response to these questions and choose to go through the destruction instead of escaping it. 

Featuring over 30 artists, After the dust settles will present the intersection of American-European relations through visual conversations presented by artists from both collectives. Constructive dialogue across borders is crucial for fostering connections beyond nationality, and this exhibition offers representations of concepts that connect us all. 

Artists from Frontviews and TSA GVL will be in attendance at the opening reception on July 12 6 pm- 10 pm. Artist talks will occur during the exhibition; dates to be announced.

Currents

After the Dust settles

Currents is a group exhibition featuring installation, photography, and paintings by Georgia-based artists Roberto Rafael Navarrete, José Ibarra Rizo, and Aineki Traverso. Each artist reflects upon their personal experiences, creating works exploring themes of introspection, futurism, and community. Navarrete’s spiritual installations, Rizo’s sentimental imagery, and Traverso’s abstracted scapes invite viewers to invest time in thoroughly reflecting upon the messages and meanings within the works and decisions the artists made.

Collections

Petie Parker

Collections by Petie Parker explores an interplay between the Catholic faith and Black American culture, delving into the intersection of spirituality and contemporary identity. Parker’s goal is to navigate the complexities of this juxtaposition, weaving together symbols, iconography, and narratives that reflect both reverence and rebellion. In this dialogue between tradition and modernity, he aims to provoke thought, evoke emotion, and ultimately, challenge perceptions, inviting viewers to contemplate the layers of history, belief, and experience that shape our collective consciousness.

This Means Nothing

Sarah Nathaniel

Sarah Nathaniel works in the subjects of  line, repetition, text, and context through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. Self-imposed rules and boundaries are applied in-process to concentrate the focus of the work on the importance of simplification and structure, and to further investigate the contextual significance of content, objects, and viewer interaction. Nathaniel’s newest body of work in THIS MEANS NOTHING is a compilation of recorded words and phrases said in intimate settings and in conversations with friends and strangers that have been collected since 2013. Some from humorous conversations, others from personal moments of reflection. All worth recording. 

Reprise: For Da Folks

Timothy Short

Reprise: For Da Folks is a collection of visual odes to Timothy Short’s loved ones. Each work is a separate, imaginative meditation on the people and places that buttress his identity and formulate his reason for creating. These works speak about Short’s Blackness intimately - “how I was born into a wealth of energy and communal power. My painting practice is me harnessing that power for the visual construction of havens of Black solidarity.” Short hopes to contribute to the long tradition of Black figurative artistry and painting by centering the lives of people close to him within his work. Predominantly as an oil painter, Timothy venerates those people by detailing and embellishing their experiences within spaces familiar to them and thus familiar to Black folks everywhere. 

Zesty

For the past three years, ten women have worked side by side in the studio and nurtured each other’s ceramic practice and creativity. Zesty features the ceramic work of Cameron Cegala, Gina Evanzia, Sally Eppstein, Chaice Garner, Nela Handac, Jessica Helfrecht, Katie Lebel, Erin Malone, Karissa Miller and Kim Muhlheim. The Zesty exhibition will include sculpture and functional pieces.