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Fine Art
Fine Art by Diane Hanson
Diane Hanson, originally from West Concord, MN, graduated from the Minnesota Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, MN. She earned a BFA in painting from Boston University School for the Arts in Boston, MA and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Previous awards include Best in Show for Forum 35’s 2010 Art Melt, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Fulbright Grant (Miguel Viciguerra Grant) and Travel Grant to Italy, Artist Assistance Fellowship Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Leo Chestler Contemporary Visual Arts Award, a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and a residency at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Ms. Hanson was a juried artist at the ArtCenter/ South Florida in Miami Beach from 2004-2006 and a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex from 2014-2015. Ms. Hanson currently lives and works in Miami, FL
Fine Art by Richard Jolley
Richard Jolley’s works often focus on natural subjects like birds, dogs, plants, and the human form. Even though he is a skilled master at various techniques for creating glass sculptures, Jolley says he hopes to disguise the techniques used in the finished works. “I want the work to feel free, not labored over. I want it to not reflect the tedium of life.” Richard Jolley has participated in over 65 solo exhibitions across the country, as well as in Japan and Europe. Since 1973, the artists’ work has been extensively collected both privately and by public institutions. Found in over 33 public collections, notable establishments including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass, Knoxville Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, and the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Richard Jolley has additionally been honored for his art through a variety of awards, commissions, and invitational workshops in Tennessee and abroad.
Fine Art by Andrew Saftel
Andrew Saftel, born in New Bedford, MA in 1959, earned his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981. From there, he continued to hone his skills by displaying his abstract colorful pieces in galleries across the country, largely in the Southeast. The layering of Andrew Saftel’s paintings is geological, a build-up of thoughts, emotions and physical interactions buried in layers of paint. Only the surface is visible, but everything underneath influences what the surface eventually becomes. Saftel uses color to represent time, the spectrum representing its change as the day moves on; this cyclic nature creates an atmosphere of hope and reassurance.
Fine Art by Brad Sells
Brad Sells first learned to throw clay at the Appalachian Center for Crafts, a satellite campus of Tennessee Technological University, where he earned his B.S. in psychology. His artistic path shifted when he carved a bed frame from cherry wood for his home—an experience that revealed his true medium. Sells’ career gained momentum when his work was awarded Best in Show in a competition juried by renowned furniture maker Sam Maloof, whom Sells counts as a role model. His pursuit of new materials and inspiration led him to South Africa in 2007 and Hawaii in 2009, where he explored exotic woods and regional traditions. Guided by the grain and texture of the wood itself, Sells shapes fluid, sculptural forms that celebrate the natural knots, lines, and contours of each piece.
Fine Art by Denise Stewart-Sanabria
Denise Stewart-Sanabria was born in Massachusetts and received her BFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She has lived and worked in Knoxville, TN since 1986.
Sanabria paints both hyper-realist “portraits” of everything from produce to subversive jelly donuts. Her anthropomorphic narratives often serve as reflections on human behavior, exploring humor, irony, and cultural commentary through unexpected subjects. In addition to her still-life works, she creates large-scale installations and drawings, further expanding her dialogue between the ordinary and the surreal.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and is included in numerous public, corporate, and private collections.
Fine Art by Maggie Taylor
Maggie Taylor was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1967 was honored as the Crown Bearer for the May Queen at Hathaway Brown School. She went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Yale University before pursuing graduate study in photography at the University of Florida, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts.
For the first decade of her career, Taylor worked primarily with a camera and traditional film, producing still-life images composed within her studio and garden. In both 1996 and 2001, she was awarded the State of Florida Individual Artist’s Fellowship in recognition of her artistic achievement. In 1996, she made a pivotal shift in her practice, turning to digital technology and adopting the flatbed scanner as her primary tool. By arranging objects directly onto the scanner’s glass surface, she developed a singular method of image-making that retains photographic qualities while expanding into the realm of digital collage.
Taylor’s work has been acquired by numerous prestigious institutions, including the Art Museum at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; NationsBank, Charlotte, NC; and the Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ, among others.
Fine Art by Graceann Warn
Graceann Warn is an American artist whose paintings and assemblages explore excavation as both process and metaphor—an ongoing act of uncovering, covering, and revealing. Born and raised in New Jersey, Warn earned her degree in landscape architecture from Michigan State University and later pursued a Master’s at the University of Michigan, where her formal training in landscape architecture and classical archaeology continues to inform her work’s structure and sense of place. A pivotal encounter with an exhibition of Mark Rothko’s final paintings proved transformative, prompting her to devote her life fully to art. Since 1985, Warn has maintained a full-time studio practice, exhibiting and collecting work nationally and internationally. Drawn to palimpsests, scarred walls, and vestiges of thought, her quiet yet complex works evoke fragmented histories and elusive meaning, inviting viewers into a porous landscape where time, memory, and language intersect. She lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband, Geoff.