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Brian Mashburn, Jason Mowry, Craww & Jon Ching, by Haven Gallery on Jan 7, 2021 23:34:32 GMT 1, Brian Mashburn, Jason Mowry, Craww & Jon Ching
*All opening receptions are canceled until further notice, but exhibitions are open for viewing during gallery business hours, Wednesday - Sunday, 1-6pm.*
Brian Mashburn, "New Landscapes"
January 16th - February 14th, 2021
*For more information please contact info@havenartgallery.com*
Haven Gallery is pleased to present Brian Mashburn for his third solo show at the gallery entitled, “New Landscapes". “New Landscapes" will consist of fifteen to twenty oil paintings featuring the artists iconic scenery with a noteworthy play on perspectives, both literally and figuratively speaking. The collections focus on unique outlooks certainly lends itself to the shifting of opinions and uncertainty concerning the worlds current climate. Our interconnectedness to each other, and the natural world, has been reiterated more than ever this year, and on a global scale. We have experienced change, adaptation and evolution, both on the micro and macro scales at an unprecedented rate. Mashburn’s work serves to reflect upon this through his use "point of view” and play on perspective, giving us new landscapes in every sense of the word.
“New Landscapes” provides multifarious viewpoints of his traditional compositions. Closer vistas of buildings and civilization can be found in some works, while vast overlooks of the landscape at large provide a connection to Mashburn’s artistic oeuvre and offer us a contrasting means to contemplate the world before us, as well as the worlds within ourselves. His work continues to serve as a reminder that life builds off of the successes and defeats of its past, as well as the cyclical quality of all things. Life subsists and always carries on through its many manifestations and perpetual growth.
ABOUT Brian Mashburn
Brian Mashburn is an American artist based in the mountains of North Carolina. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a BFA in 2002.Brian's work depicts urban and industrial landscapes in close proximity to the natural world. Primarily an oil painter, Mashburn uses narrative and meticulous attention to detail to engage the viewer. His work is informed by everyday observations as well as an interest in history, natural science, and philosophy. Brian lives in Asheville, NC.
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Jason Mowry, "Eternal Return"
January January 16th - February 14th, 2021
*For more information please contact info@havenartgallery.com*
Haven Gallery is pleased to present "Eternal Return", a collection of new work by Jason Mowry. "Eternal Return” is Mowry’s second solo show at the gallery and will include nine gouache and watercolor paintings that present the art of storytelling through dynamic and otherworldly palettes and narratives. Mowry is a visual raconteur whose inspiration stems from the mythologies of antiquity throughout contemporary comics, all culminating into his own personal narratives. A nod to a bygone era and its simpler times are cultivated as the relationships between humans, nature and the animal kingdom are celebrated. Surrealist tendencies reminisce in his dreamy use of color and contortions of verisimilitude as symbiosis and ascension of a higher power of nature are embraced. “Eternal Return” serves as a reminder to return to our instincts and harness our dreams and intuitions. Laced with symbols and reverie, a purer harmony amongst existence in all of its forms is encouraged. The natural dichotomies of life and death are ever present with a grace and reception as the organic cycle of all matter. Mowry’s work prompts us to look to the past for guidance on the present and future, as this former period holds a significant place in our very being.
ABOUT Jason Mowry
Jason grew up between the art museums and comic book shops, combining the rhythms of each to walk the line between formal art and the fantastic. Jason calls Ohio home where he keeps a studio as well as teaches at the Columbus College of Art and Design.
Inspired by the stories he reads, and the people and times that surround him, Jason's work blends myth, personal narrative, and symbolic imagery to speak to the larger collective narrative.
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Craww, "Woven"
January January 16th - February 14th, 2021
*For more information please contact info@havenartgallery.com*
Haven Gallery is pleased to present Craww for his second solo show at the gallery entitled, “Woven. “Woven" will consist of nine oil paintings that metaphorically chronicle the passage of life and time for all living things. Poetically painted passages and interconnectedness grace each composition as the artists quintessential females dance and twist à la the Mannerism period, fluidly amalgamating with their environments. An acceptance of the phases of life, spaces we fill and leave, and relationships we create, are highlighted in Craww’s inclusion of the natural world as well as imagery of death and relic. Time in all forms is nodded to as a motif to connect us to the past, present and future, and serve as a reminder of the interconnectedness of all living things, even after passing.
ABOUT Craww
Artist and habitual doodler Craww lives and works just outside of Sheffield, on the edge of the Peak District.
His work plays with the beauty to be found in contradictions and ambiguity - life and death, beauty and decay, strength, fragility, the interplay between conflicting and complementing forces of nature.
It's an ongoing exploration of a natural world, where his muses are surrounded by flowing lines and natural forms, and where he works to uncover their ambiguous connections and hidden narratives.
Each piece is a story, or an aspect of an unfolding story that writes itself as he works on it. What has happened? Who are these people? What is their story? He aims to create work that is open to interpretation, asks questions and invites involvement rather than providing answers.
Craww's work creates narratives that are drawn from the beauty to be found in contradictions and ambiguity - life and death, beauty and decay, strength, fragility, the interplay between conflicting and complementing forces of nature.
Weaving together imagery drawn from the natural world, classical architecture and sculpture, the nine new paintings create a world full of intrigue, drawing together different threads of a narrative that explores our connections with nature, the relationships we build and the spaces we create in our passing.
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Jon Ching, "Sacrosanct"
Januuary 16th, 2021 - February 14th, 2021
Haven Gallery is pleased to present Hawiian born artist Jon Ching for his first solo show at the gallery entitled, “Sacrosanct”. "Sacrosanct" will consist of eight new oil paintings that reflect Ching's affection and reverence of the natural world. Growing up in Hawaii, and now living in California, the vast beauty and majesty of his surroundings continually serves as inspiration for his life and art. Ching’s paintings are a harmonious enosis of nature’s kingdom. A poly symbiosis of all organic beings is a major theme as animals, fauna, fungi and crystals, magically and resplendently defy the natural order and are canonized accordingly.
In describing his this collection, Ching notes:
"In Sacrosanct, a word defined as being too important to be interfered with, I envision the divine manifested in nature. These sprites, deities and divine creatures each have their own idiosyncratic domains of which they nurture and protect, keeping the balance of the vast interconnected web of life. My portraits offer a glimpse of their majesty and the magic they possess."
Each composition reflects its own unique world that focuses on what the artist refers to as "fauna creatures". These beings are a reflection of the Ching's ideals and an amalgamation of all organic life representing the intrinsic divine nature in each organism. Painted with regal compositions and monarchally lush palettes, each work captivates and appears to hold all the knowledge of the universe. The sitter is a sacred and ascended entity confronting the viewer through the use of captivating palettes and compositions, and reminding us of the magnitude of all life, big and small, that we humbly share our lives and planet with.
Artist Statement:
I believe nature is divine. Nature’s power is unmatched and directs the course of our lives. It provides everything we need to survive, indeed thrive. It has unending knowledge and answers which we have always strived to understand yet can hardly comprehend. The miraculous is a common occurrence in nature, true magic hidden in plain sight. It is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Nature is god.
Though many religions, past and present, envision god in human form, to me, it seems unlikely that the creator, or creators, of this planet and the universe would resemble us. There were lineages of lifeforms that have come and gone eons before we arrived; we are too new on this ancient rock for god to resemble us. No, the physical manifestations of god must look like the other creatures that evolved and found their balance in our interconnected world before us, creating the beautiful world we inherited. Indigenous peoples know this. They know that the world didn’t start with us and that our teachers, ancestors, our gods, were the natural world.
In Sacrosanct, a word defined as being too important to be interfered with, I envision the divine manifested in nature. These sprites, deities and divine creatures each have their own idiosyncratic domains of which they nurture and protect, keeping the balance of the vast interconnected web of life. My portraits offer a glimpse of their majesty and the magic they possess. The creatures that emerged in this new series of oil paintings are an evolution of my flauna creatures (mixing elements of flora and fauna) adorned with flourishes of embellishments to elevate their presence to godliness.
Nature is god and we need to worship her once again. We have been neglectful in our offerings and taken our sacrament undeservingly without reciprocity or penance. To continue is to test the patience of the divine, surely to our detriment. To worship again, we must first see again and rekindle our relationship with nature. Rather than seeing a resource from which to extract, we must revere for the life it offers and sustains. Through these paintings I hope to reveal a mere speck of the prodigious eminence of the divine natural world. With a new vision of our indigenous understanding, we can close this chapter of neglect and consecrate a new sacrosanct harmony with nature.
ABOUT Jon Ching
Jon Ching grew up steeped in natural beauty on the island of O’ahu, Hawai’i, which formed the foundation of his deep fascination with the natural and wild world. A self-taught painter, Ching’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. While dedicated to the minute idiosyncrasies of flora and fauna, Ching’s work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth. His work is often driven by his personal desire to find balance between the human and natural worlds, exploring themes of symbiosis and searching for connections, physical and metaphorical, across nature’s kingdoms. Ching’s ultimate hope is to inspire love and admiration for the universally unique beauty and intrigue of our world.
Brian Mashburn, Jason Mowry, Craww & Jon Ching
*All opening receptions are canceled until further notice, but exhibitions are open for viewing during gallery business hours, Wednesday - Sunday, 1-6pm.*
Brian Mashburn, "New Landscapes" January 16th - February 14th, 2021 *For more information please contact info@havenartgallery.com* Haven Gallery is pleased to present Brian Mashburn for his third solo show at the gallery entitled, “New Landscapes". “New Landscapes" will consist of fifteen to twenty oil paintings featuring the artists iconic scenery with a noteworthy play on perspectives, both literally and figuratively speaking. The collections focus on unique outlooks certainly lends itself to the shifting of opinions and uncertainty concerning the worlds current climate. Our interconnectedness to each other, and the natural world, has been reiterated more than ever this year, and on a global scale. We have experienced change, adaptation and evolution, both on the micro and macro scales at an unprecedented rate. Mashburn’s work serves to reflect upon this through his use "point of view” and play on perspective, giving us new landscapes in every sense of the word. “New Landscapes” provides multifarious viewpoints of his traditional compositions. Closer vistas of buildings and civilization can be found in some works, while vast overlooks of the landscape at large provide a connection to Mashburn’s artistic oeuvre and offer us a contrasting means to contemplate the world before us, as well as the worlds within ourselves. His work continues to serve as a reminder that life builds off of the successes and defeats of its past, as well as the cyclical quality of all things. Life subsists and always carries on through its many manifestations and perpetual growth. ABOUT Brian Mashburn Brian Mashburn is an American artist based in the mountains of North Carolina. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a BFA in 2002.Brian's work depicts urban and industrial landscapes in close proximity to the natural world. Primarily an oil painter, Mashburn uses narrative and meticulous attention to detail to engage the viewer. His work is informed by everyday observations as well as an interest in history, natural science, and philosophy. Brian lives in Asheville, NC. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jason Mowry, "Eternal Return" January January 16th - February 14th, 2021 *For more information please contact info@havenartgallery.com* Haven Gallery is pleased to present "Eternal Return", a collection of new work by Jason Mowry. "Eternal Return” is Mowry’s second solo show at the gallery and will include nine gouache and watercolor paintings that present the art of storytelling through dynamic and otherworldly palettes and narratives. Mowry is a visual raconteur whose inspiration stems from the mythologies of antiquity throughout contemporary comics, all culminating into his own personal narratives. A nod to a bygone era and its simpler times are cultivated as the relationships between humans, nature and the animal kingdom are celebrated. Surrealist tendencies reminisce in his dreamy use of color and contortions of verisimilitude as symbiosis and ascension of a higher power of nature are embraced. “Eternal Return” serves as a reminder to return to our instincts and harness our dreams and intuitions. Laced with symbols and reverie, a purer harmony amongst existence in all of its forms is encouraged. The natural dichotomies of life and death are ever present with a grace and reception as the organic cycle of all matter. Mowry’s work prompts us to look to the past for guidance on the present and future, as this former period holds a significant place in our very being. ABOUT Jason Mowry Jason grew up between the art museums and comic book shops, combining the rhythms of each to walk the line between formal art and the fantastic. Jason calls Ohio home where he keeps a studio as well as teaches at the Columbus College of Art and Design. Inspired by the stories he reads, and the people and times that surround him, Jason's work blends myth, personal narrative, and symbolic imagery to speak to the larger collective narrative. ____________________________________________________________________________ Craww, "Woven" January January 16th - February 14th, 2021 *For more information please contact info@havenartgallery.com* Haven Gallery is pleased to present Craww for his second solo show at the gallery entitled, “Woven. “Woven" will consist of nine oil paintings that metaphorically chronicle the passage of life and time for all living things. Poetically painted passages and interconnectedness grace each composition as the artists quintessential females dance and twist à la the Mannerism period, fluidly amalgamating with their environments. An acceptance of the phases of life, spaces we fill and leave, and relationships we create, are highlighted in Craww’s inclusion of the natural world as well as imagery of death and relic. Time in all forms is nodded to as a motif to connect us to the past, present and future, and serve as a reminder of the interconnectedness of all living things, even after passing. ABOUT Craww Artist and habitual doodler Craww lives and works just outside of Sheffield, on the edge of the Peak District. His work plays with the beauty to be found in contradictions and ambiguity - life and death, beauty and decay, strength, fragility, the interplay between conflicting and complementing forces of nature. It's an ongoing exploration of a natural world, where his muses are surrounded by flowing lines and natural forms, and where he works to uncover their ambiguous connections and hidden narratives. Each piece is a story, or an aspect of an unfolding story that writes itself as he works on it. What has happened? Who are these people? What is their story? He aims to create work that is open to interpretation, asks questions and invites involvement rather than providing answers. Craww's work creates narratives that are drawn from the beauty to be found in contradictions and ambiguity - life and death, beauty and decay, strength, fragility, the interplay between conflicting and complementing forces of nature. Weaving together imagery drawn from the natural world, classical architecture and sculpture, the nine new paintings create a world full of intrigue, drawing together different threads of a narrative that explores our connections with nature, the relationships we build and the spaces we create in our passing. __________________________________________________________________________ Jon Ching, "Sacrosanct" Januuary 16th, 2021 - February 14th, 2021 Haven Gallery is pleased to present Hawiian born artist Jon Ching for his first solo show at the gallery entitled, “Sacrosanct”. "Sacrosanct" will consist of eight new oil paintings that reflect Ching's affection and reverence of the natural world. Growing up in Hawaii, and now living in California, the vast beauty and majesty of his surroundings continually serves as inspiration for his life and art. Ching’s paintings are a harmonious enosis of nature’s kingdom. A poly symbiosis of all organic beings is a major theme as animals, fauna, fungi and crystals, magically and resplendently defy the natural order and are canonized accordingly. In describing his this collection, Ching notes: "In Sacrosanct, a word defined as being too important to be interfered with, I envision the divine manifested in nature. These sprites, deities and divine creatures each have their own idiosyncratic domains of which they nurture and protect, keeping the balance of the vast interconnected web of life. My portraits offer a glimpse of their majesty and the magic they possess." Each composition reflects its own unique world that focuses on what the artist refers to as "fauna creatures". These beings are a reflection of the Ching's ideals and an amalgamation of all organic life representing the intrinsic divine nature in each organism. Painted with regal compositions and monarchally lush palettes, each work captivates and appears to hold all the knowledge of the universe. The sitter is a sacred and ascended entity confronting the viewer through the use of captivating palettes and compositions, and reminding us of the magnitude of all life, big and small, that we humbly share our lives and planet with. Artist Statement: I believe nature is divine. Nature’s power is unmatched and directs the course of our lives. It provides everything we need to survive, indeed thrive. It has unending knowledge and answers which we have always strived to understand yet can hardly comprehend. The miraculous is a common occurrence in nature, true magic hidden in plain sight. It is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Nature is god. Though many religions, past and present, envision god in human form, to me, it seems unlikely that the creator, or creators, of this planet and the universe would resemble us. There were lineages of lifeforms that have come and gone eons before we arrived; we are too new on this ancient rock for god to resemble us. No, the physical manifestations of god must look like the other creatures that evolved and found their balance in our interconnected world before us, creating the beautiful world we inherited. Indigenous peoples know this. They know that the world didn’t start with us and that our teachers, ancestors, our gods, were the natural world. In Sacrosanct, a word defined as being too important to be interfered with, I envision the divine manifested in nature. These sprites, deities and divine creatures each have their own idiosyncratic domains of which they nurture and protect, keeping the balance of the vast interconnected web of life. My portraits offer a glimpse of their majesty and the magic they possess. The creatures that emerged in this new series of oil paintings are an evolution of my flauna creatures (mixing elements of flora and fauna) adorned with flourishes of embellishments to elevate their presence to godliness. Nature is god and we need to worship her once again. We have been neglectful in our offerings and taken our sacrament undeservingly without reciprocity or penance. To continue is to test the patience of the divine, surely to our detriment. To worship again, we must first see again and rekindle our relationship with nature. Rather than seeing a resource from which to extract, we must revere for the life it offers and sustains. Through these paintings I hope to reveal a mere speck of the prodigious eminence of the divine natural world. With a new vision of our indigenous understanding, we can close this chapter of neglect and consecrate a new sacrosanct harmony with nature. ABOUT Jon Ching Jon Ching grew up steeped in natural beauty on the island of O’ahu, Hawai’i, which formed the foundation of his deep fascination with the natural and wild world. A self-taught painter, Ching’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. While dedicated to the minute idiosyncrasies of flora and fauna, Ching’s work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth. His work is often driven by his personal desire to find balance between the human and natural worlds, exploring themes of symbiosis and searching for connections, physical and metaphorical, across nature’s kingdoms. Ching’s ultimate hope is to inspire love and admiration for the universally unique beauty and intrigue of our world.
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