Shain Gallery Exhibit at Ballantyne Resort

Ballantyne Resort offers an exclusive exhibit from Shain Gallery, one of the finest contemporary art providers in Charlotte. Located on the mezzanine level at the resort, Shain Gallery’s captivating display represents a variety of styles and technique featuring local, regional and nationally recognized artists.

The exhibit is available for public viewing daily from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
All art on display is available for sale by calling 704-334-7744 or visit the concierge desk for inquiries.

Collecting Tip:  If you are interested in re-selling a painting, contact the gallery that you originally purchased it from or a gallery that represents that artist because they have developed the clientele for that particular artist.

Artist Biographies

ALICE WILLIAMS, FEATURED ARTIST OF THE MONTH

At first glance, one might categorize the art of Alice Williams as post-impressionist, but it would be unfair to confine her career to one genre. True, she is interested in color and light as Bonnard and Vuillard were, but in addition, she is just as fascinated by good composition and canvas narrative. Her paintings show the influence of having grown up surrounded by fine art. Living and painting in Europe for five years, she had the opportunity to study the masters as she frequented museums, especially the Louvre and the Musee d’Orsay, which were within walking distance of her Paris home. She also spent years studying under such well-known painters as Chatov, Shank, Kinstler and portraitist Green. A prolific painter, her brushstrokes denote the bravado of a master and her experience shows. Her remarkable versatility of subject matter, her use of dynamic color and the beautiful effect of chiaroscuro present in her paintings are just a few of the many qualities that make her easily one of the most recognizable and sought after painters in America today.

VERONICA CLARK

New works by North Carolina artist, Veronica Clark will be exhibited in a one-woman show at the Shain Gallery.  The exhibit will be on view from September 19 through October 2, 2008. 

Born in Sussex and growing up in the English countryside, Veronica has lived and studied in London, Paris and Florence.  Since 1981, she has resided in the Carolinas.  Most recently she spends time between Charlotte and a family farm in Chester, SC where her studio overlooks fields with cows which are often the subject of her paintings.  Horses, dogs, chickens and geese also provide much inspiration, as do the animals she meets on her travels.

Veronica completed two weeks at the American Academy of Equine Art in Lexington, Kentucky, studying under Lesley Humphrey. She has also attended workshops with George Strickland, Scott Burdick, Steve Early and Dawn Emerson.   

Veronica has exhibited and won awards in local and regional shows, with work in collections across the United States and in Europe.  Recently, Veronica had her work accepted in the American Academy of Equine Art, a juried show in Lexington Kentucky, and in 2008, she was the official artist for Charlotte’s Queens Cup Steeplechase.

JANE SCHMIDT

Inspired by abstract expressionists, Jane Schmidt uses the subject of landscape to explore the edge between abstraction and representation with an emphasis on the expressive use of color. Using decisive brush marks, Schmidt commingles vibrant colors to create a visual experience for every viewer.

Schmidt earned a Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University and has many accolades to her credit. She was chosen 2005 Emerging Artist by Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine, and selected to exhibit at 2007 Florence Biennale, Florence Italy. The Florence Biennale is a premier world art event where artists from around the world are chosen by a panel of art critics and historians to exhibit and compete.

CHRISTY KINARD

Christy Kinard displays a natural talent that has been evolving since childhood. While she has had formal training at both Atlanta College of Art and Savannah College of Art and Design, her style is a unique and self-defined expression of her southern roots. Her paintings are in both private and corporate collections across the Southeast United States and Europe, including computer giant I.B.M. At the young age of twenty eight Christy Kinard has over twenty five shows to her name, many have been one man exhibitions.

Her work has been published in numerous magazines and books including Southern Living, Atlanta Homes Book, S.W., and N.W. magazines, Piedmont Review and several articles in Birminghams Post Harold and Black and White.

STEPHANIE NEELY

Stephanie Neely’s work primarily features flowers, as they represent one of her true loves in art and life.   Influenced by the work of Joseph Raffael, Stephanie Neely paints exclusively with Senneliers, which enhance the rich colors and buttery textures.

A Charlotte resident, Neely earned a Master of Arts from Loyola University of New Orleans, a Juris Doctorate from the University of North Carolina and a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Horticulture from North Carolina State University.  A Signature member of The Oil Pastel Society, Neely has won awarded and her work is featured in numerous exhibitions, including Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston Salem Chamber of Commerce and Davidson County Community College “Opposites Attract” Exhibition.

HENRY BARNES

Atlanta artist, Henry Barnes captures European and Southeastern landscapes with his original use of color and light. His unique blue/green palettes seem to defy possibility by reading warm and cool at the same time, resulting in an unmatched serenity and a distinct and instantly recognizable style.

His success in translating light into various times of day or night is always a great source of interest for all. With numerous solo shows, Barnes has been collected by many notable private and corporate collections such as Bell South and Wachovia.

JIM CHAPMAN

Jim Chapman has been a working, exhibiting, and award-winning artist since the 1970's, when he studied in the southern Appalachian mountains of North Carolina with Warren Dennis, William Dunlap, and Noyes Long, as well as with John Groth of the Arts Students League in New York City.

He has traveled widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia, working in the media of painting and photography on commercial projects for Crown Publishing, the North Carolina Department of Tourism, and a number of private commissions. In 1985 he assisted Christo and Jeanne-Claude on their Surrounded Islands project in Miami, Florida.

AMY DOBBS

As a young artist, Amy Dobbs has had an impressive first fifteen years in the art world. Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1970, she has studied in the US and Europe and now makes her home in Nimes, the South of France, where she moved in 1995. While in high school, she received the Congressional Award for High School Art Students as well as the A.J. Fletcher Scholarship to study art at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C.

Dobbs works in oil on either linen or wood panels that she prepares with a rabbit skin gesso and paints "live" in front of the subject believing that "nature is our best teacher." Dobbs is a formidable realist painter, equally skilled in landscape, still life and portrait with an extraordinary ability with color.

STEFANIE LIEBERMAN

Stefanie Lieberman is an award winning painter and graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has received numerous painting awards for her landscapes as well as being the recipient of the Nantucket Painting Residency awarded by the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States including the prestigious Biggs Museum of American Art in Delaware. Her paintings are among the collections of the Rome Council of the arts, Rome, GA , The American Kennel Club, New York, NY as well as numerous private collections, both nationally and internationally. She is currently represented by Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia, Anne Irwin Fine Art in Atlanta, GA, Principal Gallery in Alexandria, VA and The Shain Gallery in Charlotte, NC. She was recently a featured artist in American Art Collector magazine. Stefanie travels extensively to find subjects for her work. She currently works and resides in Philadelphia.


MARILYN SIMANDLE

Her watercolors, acrylics and oils have earned the honor of over seventy-five one-woman shows in thirty years of painting. She has been featured in many different publications including, Southwest Art, International Artists, Watercolor Magazine and Orange County Illustrated. Her warm paintings are created by working with a light source that brings color to life while creating contrast and depths in the shadows.

Simandle’s originals are widely exhibited in corporate and private collections including those of Burt Reynolds, Senator John Garamendi, and The Trump Collection in New York. She has been featured in many prominent magazines with several covers to her credit.

RAFAEL VICENTE

Rafael Vicente is a highly acclaimed artist from Brazil. He constructs paintings of boats in shipyards and in ports.

Rafael denies them sky or sea, and imposes silence to compel the viewer to the boats workmanship. Extending parts in the painting, Rafael makes them grow indefinitely, and at the same time allowing them to sail.



CONNIE WINTERS

Connie Winters has emerged as a strong influence on the art scene in the Southeastern United States. Citing the work of classic French Impressionists as an ongoing source of inspiration in her own artwork, Winters naturally gravitates to France, particularly the rural regions of Provence and Dordogne, as locations for her landscapes.
Winters travels to France each year, crediting the provincial lifestyle she experiences there with giving her a renewed sense of spirituality and desire to create her detailed and vibrant landscapes. Her approach to the canvas is that of active observer, intent on recording the interplay of color and light as it unfolds in each scene. Through her energetic interpretations of nature and local color, Winters uses the canvas to convey her own enthusiasm to the viewer.

DARREN YOUNG

Darren Young began his formal art studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting. In 1998 Young was the recipient of a Graduate Scholarship to Indiana University at Bloomington, earning his Master’s Degree.

In 2001, Young was honored with the “Best of Show” award in “The All Colorado Art Show”, from the Curtis Center of Arts & Humanities in Denver. His work is featured in numerous public and private collections including Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC.

CHAS FAGAN

Chas is a nationally recognized landscape and portrait artist as well as a sculptor.
A Yale graduate, Chas's commissioned pieces include a portrait of Barbara Bush for the White House, sculptures of Neil Armstrong for Washington DC and President George H. W. Bush for the city of Houston and, in the works, Ronald Reagan for the city of London, England. His highly collected landscape and still life paintings were recently featured in a museum retrospective of his work in Pennsylvania.

After an international search in June of 2008 Chas Fagan was commissioned by the May 20th Society, leading a community wide effort to produce a statue called The Spirit of Mecklenburg on the Greenway in Uptown Charlotte. The sculpture will be a heroic size monument of Captain James Jack, a mythical figure in the annuals of Charlotte Mecklenburg history. Jack volunteered to deliver The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence in 1775 one year prior to Jefferson's more famous document.

Shain Gallery located in the heart of Myers Park in Charlotte, NC, has been on the forefront of the Charlotte art scene, since opening their doors in 1998.  Shain Gallery represents many regional and national artists.  Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 10 am to 5 pm.  For more information, please contact the gallery at 704.334.7744 or visit our website at www.shaingallery.com