Fine Art
Tom DePree
Holland, Michigan artist Tom DePree spent his formative years in West Africa and had many experiences traveling all over the world. His oil paintings are inspired by Primitivism, Fauvism, and Expressionism.
Nellie Durand
Dividing her time between Michigan and Tennessee textile artist Nellie Durand likes to call her work "ortwork" a reference to a container that seamstresses use to save leftover bits. She incorporates recycled fabric, threads, yarns of all kinds and sheer organza into her pieces. Often these visually rich textiles depict the natural surroundings of her two homes.
Christine Marcus Stone
Michigan artist Christine Marcus Stone works with acrylic paints on Masonite to capture her wistful images of cows, horses, crows and other animal imagery. She is also known for her slightly surreal paintings of dogs- many in party hats or near very large cakes. Recent works also include beautiful abstract colorscapes.
Mary Brodbeck
Since 1998, Kalamazoo artist Mary Brodbeck has specialized in moku hanga – woodblock prints made using traditional Japanese methods and materials. She learned these techniques from Yoshisuke Funasaka in Tokyo, as a recipient of a Bunka-Cho fellowship from the Japanese government.
Jessica Bohus
Originally from the Southside of Chicago artist Jessica Bohus came to the Michigan side of the big Lake to apprentice with Jerry & Kathy Catania at Fiasco Glass in Glenn, MI. As time passed she took the drawings she once did on glass and started creating sculptures with steel wire. She has participated in ArtPrize several times and shows throughout the midwest. She thinks of her work as drawings on air.
Bob Rickard
New Jersey artist Bob Rickard uses a hand-held plasma cutter to carve his designs into aluminum. He then coats the aluminum with other metals, typically copper, bronze, and iron. Each of these metals reacts differently to the chemical patinas and dye oxides with which he finishes his pieces creating surprising colors and patterns unique to his process.
