About the Artists

Hampton Boyer

Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Hampton Roads, Hampton Boyer layers bright, geometric forms to create his figurative paintings and collages. He juxtaposes inspiration pulled from African folklore and literature with his own experience as a contemporary artist. The flow that he achieves through his artistic practice fills his work with reverberating energy and intimate emotion. He has exhibited in numerous group shows and solo exhibitions, including one at Omni Gallery in London (2023). He also had a piece recently acquired by the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA.

Carolyn Case 

Carolyn Case uses rich patterning and intense colors to convey a spiritual and psychological experience. Based in Maryland, Case has travelled extensively to Iran and Egypt, incorporating Middle Eastern textiles into invented landscapes. Establishing texture through varied, layered line work, she allows aggravated strokes to form strange plants and ombre urns, collaged against a pointillist sky or indiscernible figure. Her indiscriminate use of color and compiled symbols intentionally muddles distinctions between East and West, Earth and Space, Physical and Spiritual. Recently, Case has begun to incorporate ceramics into her work. The idea came from the need to frame her pastels and not liking how the pastels looked in a conventional frame. The ceramic work has now evolved with the pastels shrinking, the ceramics growing, and the combination morphing together. Case received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University and Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute, College of Art (1994, 1997).  She is the recipient of fellowships from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Maryland Institute of Art and Vermont Studio Center, as well as a residency from the Kanoria Art Center in Ahmedabad, India. She has exhibited at the Katzen Art Center, the Corcoran Gallery, Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.  She currently lives in Baltimore where she teaches painting and drawing at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Tori Cherry 

Tori Cherry is an artist based in Charlottesville, VA. She is a former Aunspaugh Fellow (2021-22) at the University of Virginia (CLAS’21) where she double majored in Cognitive Science and Studio Art. Her paintings and drawings inspired by her loved ones, her surroundings and herself serve as sites for personal documentation, reflection, and connection. Through figurative and still life work, she highlights the paradoxical uniqueness and universality of quotidian experience. When she is not painting, she works as Welcome Gallery Manager for New City Arts Initiative’s Welcome Gallery space in downtown Charlottesville.

Kevin Ford

Kevin Ford is interested in intense looking. Using a combination of delicate brushwork and loose airbrushing, he blends the languages of Spanish still lifes, cartoons, and color field abstraction to bring a sense of historic urgency to overlooked, everyday objects. Kevin received his BFA in Painting from Boston University and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale. His work has been included in solo exhibitions at 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, TX, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY, Semiose Galerie, Paris, FR, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY, and Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN. Kevin’s work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, ME, Inman Gallery, TX, Reyes Finn, MI, Casey Kaplan, NY, The Islip Art Museum, NY, Tops Gallery, TN, and elsewhere. He has attended residencies at Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Chateau d’Orquevaux, Champagne-Ardenne, France, and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. His work has been featured in V Magazine, included in the book Artists II, published by Steidl, and has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, and other publications.

Lou Haney 

Lou Haney creates paintings of domestic spaces that employ nostalgia as a means of temporary escape from the corrupt and chaotic realities of present day life. Using oil, acrylic, fiber art, and mixed media, she explores themes of memory, yearning, and femininity to evoke tension between fantasy and reality. Born in Decatur, Alabama, Haney received her BA from Rhodes College in Memphis and her MFA in Painting from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. Haney has attended MacDowell as well as the Vermont Studio Center. In 2022, she was a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA.. Haney was the recipient of the Mississippi Art Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows in California, Virginia, Massachusetts, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky and in over 70 juried group exhibitions. Haney’s work was shown at the Spring/Break Art Fair in New York City in 2022, 2023 and 2025.. In 2024, Haney had solo shows at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA and Spectrum Fine Arts in Seattle, WA. Most recently, Lou’s work was featured in a solo exhibition at IA&A Hillyer in Washington, DC and One Rivers School of Art and Design in Hartsdale, NY. Haney currently teaches Studio Art and Art History at Piedmont Virginia Community College, Sweet Briar College, and Buford Middle School. The artist lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Jack Kenna 

Jack Kenna (b. 1994 in Durango, CO, USA) is a visual artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Working across painting, drawing, and sculpture, his work often depicts or directly incorporates found images, objects, and text amongst highly considered and unconventional compositions looking at impermanence, perception, and everyday life with humor and playfulness. Kenna is represented by Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, where he will open his second solo show with the gallery in the fall of 2025, and has recently exhibited work in group exhibitions at Harkawik in New York City and Plan X Gallery in Milan. He received a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2019.

Andrew Leventis 

Andrew Leventis makes meticulously detailed oil paintings of contemporary vanitas, a motif popularized in early still life in which food, flowers, and other perishable objects represent the fleeting nature of life and the passing of time. Often he utilizes objects reflecting his queer identity. Leventis received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and an MA in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from the American Academy of Art, Chicago. He has exhibited internationally at museums and galleries, most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland (2024); Novilla, Berlin (2023) the Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC (2022); the Venice Arsenale, Italy (2021); and York Art Gallery, UK (2021). Leventis’ work is represented by SOCO Gallery. He lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sylvio Lynch III

Based in Richmond, Virginia, Sylvio Lynch III is a contemporary realist artist.  Including the practice of traditional portraiture, still life drawing, and sketching via graphite, charcoal and colored pencil, Lynch creates hyperrealistic expressions of the ordinary. His influences include the illustrations of Norman Rockwell, the historical legacy of American architecture, popular culture, as well as the legacy of pioneering hyperrealist painters such as: Robert Bechtle and John Salt, and Barkley Hendricks.  In addition, Lynch is ever inspired by the technical discipline of architectural sketching and draftsmanship. Lynch holds a PhD in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University and a M.A. in American Studies from the University of Alabama.  From academic rigor in these fields as well as architecture, Lynch creates from his observations of the built environment, and the decadence of otherwise ordinary people, places, things, and forms.

Nick McPhail 

Nick McPhail is a Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor using renaissance techniques to consider the peripheral mundanity of urban life. Born and raised in Laingsburg, Michigan, Nick attended Michigan State University where he studied painting and ceramics, graduating with a BFA in 2006. Since then, he has maintained a consistent practice that has evolved to rely on personal observation and photography as the basis for his intuitive compositions. Recent solo exhibitions include: Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA (2023); Massey Klein in New York (2023); Amélie Maison d’Art in Paris (2022); Ochi Projects in Los Angeles (2020); Untitled_1983 in Geneva (2019); and Holiday in Los Angeles (2018). He has completed residencies at Untitled_1983 in Geneva (2019); Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho (2019); and 100 West Corsicana in Corsicana, Texas (2018). He is a 2023 Hopper Prize Finalist and in 2017 he was awarded a grant to attend a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. His work is in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and beyond.