whimsy & Wander
Opening Reception
Friday, APRIL 28, 2023
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through MAY 27, 2023
WHIMSY & WANDER : MARC BOYSON, PHILIP CARPENTER, AND TREYVIAN DOWELL
We are pleased to announce our third exhibition for 2023 : Whimsy & Wander, a three artist group exhibition featuring fresh works from resident artist Marc Boyson, color pencil artist Philip Carpenter, and introducing multi-disciplinary artist Treyvian (Trey) Dowell. These three artists represent three generations of art educators in our contemporary art world.
Marc Boyson is an Associate Professor of Fine Art at the School of Visual Art & Design, Southern Adventist University in Tennessee. Boyson’s work reveals the cartographic trace through his commutes using memory, invention, and GPS records. Through works on paper, projection, murals, sound and ceramics, he reveals his everyday movement through space.
Philip Carpenter has taught painting classes at the Chastain Arts Center in Atlanta, GA since 1980. For these drawings, Carpenter is expanding his appreciation for portraying the ordinary. Rummaging through thrift store refuses, he finds used dolls and action figures as studies for his portraitures. This collection of nine drawings are a hyper realistic study of simple toys through colored pencils.
Treyvian (Trey) Dowell, a recent graduate of Georgia State University with a BFA in drawing, painting and printmaking is the Art Teacher for The Howard School in Atlanta, GA. Heavily rooted in abstraction and infused with vibrancy of color, Dowell creates each piece as a living sketchbook to capture the unencumbered nature of childhood and simplicity of wonderment.