News on the New- by Tim Faulkner

Here at Tim Faulkner Gallery we have always emphasized the importance of promoting local art. Anyone who has been in the gallery knows that the bulk of the wall space here is filled with the best this city has to offer. That being said however, I would like to take the time to introduce you to some of the amazing names that have joined the gallery from around the country. We at the gallery are proud to inject the local art market with work by Don Luper ( Sedalia MO),  Rachel Meuler ( New York NY),  Gary Chapman (Birmingham AL),  and Coby Cox (Lafayette LA)

Don Luper began his formal training at State Fair Community College in Sedalia MO. He completed his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute, and went on to the University of Missouri to obtain his MFA. After graduate school, he returned to Sedalia as an instructor at State Fair Community College where he continues to work today.

Don’s near life-size drawings are jaw dropping! These pieces are charcoal on paper and they simply dominate a room. The viewers eye is drawn to them instantly and you can clearly see the thought process as it happens; “Is that a drawing?” …Why, yes it is! 

Don Luper "Mexican Skirt" 40x60inces

Gary Chapman has spent the last 18 years teaching Painting and Drawing at all levels at The University Of Alabama at Birmingham. His resume is so impressive it hurts! Gary has over 40 solo exhibits to his credit all over the United Sates as well as showing extensively in Europe. He has received numerous grants and fellowships for his work including a 1996 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting from the Southern Arts Federation and a 2002 and 1994 Individual Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. His work has been reviewed extensively and is published in over 20 catalogs and books including the # 3, 16, and 52 Editions of New American Paintings. His work has been purchased for the collections of the Birmingham, Huntsville, Jule Collins Smith, Mobile, Montgomery, Wiregrass, Meridian, University of Mississippi Museum, FSU, and Ogden Museums of art as well as many corporate and private collections throughout the country.

We are VERY fortunate to have 3 pieces here at the gallery and we will have more work from Gary in the near future!



Gary Chapman "Flyboy" 31x43 inches

 

Rachel Meuler is a multidisciplinary artist working with drawing and painting as well as sculpture and installation art. She received her MFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase in 2001 and has been living in New York City ever since. Her work has been featured in many galleries in New York, and Boston, as well as Berlin, and Sienna, Italy.

                                                          

Rachel stretches paper over canvas frames and creates these wonderfully absurd morphed characters using gouache. The result is almost like documentation that might have been discovered in the notes of H.G. Wells “The Island of Dr. Moreau”. The work has also been published in several publications in the New York area. These are great pieces that are already getting an enormous amount of attention.

Rachel Meuler "Running Buckskull" 8x8 inches

Coby Cox  is a painter currently living in Lafayette,LA, A few years ago local painter Damon Thompson gave me a book for my birthday called “ Constance-A Collection of 40 New Orleans Artists”. It documents the aftermath of Katrina and where some of the cities more prominent artists ended up after the hurricane. Several months ago Margaret (my gallery director) and I were looking through this book and found Coby’s work. On a whim we contacted Coby and now we have 4 of his drawings on display in various places here at the gallery. Coby’s drawings are fantastic examples of masterful mark making. They are simple and to the point, as well as eye-catching and humorous.  They are works that get that 2^nd and 3^rd look because they deserve it.

Coby Cox Untitled

What we find especially impressive about the new additions to the space is that while so many people complain about the local market and express a desire to leave it (and that’s the same wherever you go), its talent like the above artists that want to be included in the Louisville art scene.

All the Best!