“Soaring” is a mixed-media piece by Lee Glascock. (Image Contributed by In-Town Gallery)
“Motherhood of Giving” by Linda Kerlin combines a carved, wooden Madonna and child with a pine-needle basket, turquoise beads, bamboo and paper birds. (Image Contributed by In-Town Gallery)Five mixed-media artists will be featured in the new exhibit, “Contemporary Mix,” that will open with a reception on Friday, Aug. 3, at In-Town Gallery, 26-A Frazier Ave. The reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m.
“Contemporary Mix” includes work by Sandra Washburn, Lee Glascock, Linda Kerlin, Janice Kindred and Linda Wicksell. The five have created wall art and 3D artwork combining paint, paper, beads, glass, fabric, found objects and other materials.
Washburn, an artist and art teacher in Chattanooga, has taught and collaborated with each of the other artists. Though a painter with many shows to her credit, she does not limit herself to the canvas.
The dramatic wall art of Glascock takes a different direction as she combines acrylic paint with a free manipulation of the surface. Glascock uses various acrylic media and substrates, which she textures with such things as sand or even garnet dust to build a complex surface on which she paints, adding torn hand-colored papers to achieve the complex effects.
Kerlin is a painter who has increasingly turned her attention to working with constructions made with found objects. She particularly likes using antique items she finds, repurposing them in unexpected ways.