ARTvision Atlanta 2009
Online Benefit Featuring Art, Music, Gifts, Books & Photography

"artists reaching through" ~ Benefiting Positive Impact

ARTvision Atlanta 2009
Online Benefit Featuring Art, Music, Gifts, Books & Photography

"artists reaching through" ~ Benefiting Positive Impact

ARTvision Atlanta 2009
Online Benefit Featuring Art, Music, Gifts, Books & Photography

"artists reaching through" ~ Benefiting Positive Impact

ARTvision Atlanta 2009
Online Benefit Featuring Art, Music, Gifts, Books & Photography

"artists reaching through" ~ Benefiting Positive Impact

"Milk Anyone?" Marks Alexis Vear's Return to ARTvision

After offering and selling “A Cabo Cow” to Toni Ross Weir for last year’s ARTvision, Alexis Vear does a bit of a sequel turn with “Milk Anyone?”

This piece is an 8x10 canvas surrounding by a large mat in a ornamental gold frame. “Milk Anyone?” is offered for a donation of $
600. More photos to follow, but for now, check out the two-image photoshow.

Alexis also will be offering jewelry and a signed CD. Stay tuned!


Final Header Up... No. 3 of 3

Our final header has been loaded. Enjoy!

Here’s the image breakdown, left to right (those active on the site are linked):

• “
I Want it Now” by Will Pollock. A door in France with a beautiful purple hue. (Custom framed photo on art paper)
• “
Moments that Matter” by Kimber Herndon & Will Pollock. An embrace between two soon-to-be-married gents. (Mixed-media on slotted-edged steel)
• “
Oia Sunset” by Greg Davis. One of three in a series. (Oil on canvas)
• “
Legadema Surveys her Territory” by Rob O’Connor. A world-famous leopard named Legadema takes a break in Botswana. (Framed photography)

Additional info on these to follow.

To view all images in ARTvision’s 2009 header gallery,
click here. Or have a look at the slideshow below:

Two Mixed-media Pieces Embody ARTvision's Year of Collaboration

(ATLANTA :: 18 Dec. 2009) - Kimber Herndon, our copper-artist extraordinaire, has taken two of my photographs and turned them into unearthed treasure.

HRH” is a shot of my treasured pup Triscuit as she sat in the morning sun one day. I was working on something else, and she jumped into the line of the rising sun on the living room chair, on her own - which, actually, should surprise no one given her predilection for attention. (more)

And “Moments that Matter” comes to ARTvision by way of the wedding of Bill Brennan and Jim Verraros - an event I attended and shot with my D80.

Lots of great images came out of that event, this one included. Kimber took inspiration from the photo to create this imposing piece - which is the interpreted photo painted on canvas mounted on perforated steel. (
more)

HRH” is offered for a donation of $200. “Moments that Matter” is offered for a donation of $595. -WP


Keeping ARTvision & Positive Impact All in the (O'Connor) Family

(ATLANTA :: 17 Dec. 2009) - When you’re floating down Canal du Midi in the beautiful south of France, you can close your eyes and just dream.

And dream we did. As fate would have it, four ARTvision artists -
me, Rob O’Connor, Sara O’Connor and Rebecca Shirkey-Sloan - were on the boat living the dream and planning world domination. (Oh wait, that was last week’s episode of Family Guy).

Seriously though, there was an artistic flow of energy on the vessel that was palpable but as yet undefined... until now. (Two subjects were also on hand giving us lots of inspiration as we drifted and chugged down the canal.)

Let’s start with Sara “Muffy” O’Connor, who joins ARTvision with “Bridge Over the Canal du Midi” - a scene that spoke to her enough to snap pictures of it with brother Rob’s camera. She painted from that picture. (more)

Bridge Over the Canal du Midi” is offered at $95. For more, visit Sara’s artist page. More O’Connors to follow, including Rob, cousin Rebecca and subjects Mama Jean and Anna Catherine. - WP

Greg Davis Rejoins ARTvision with A Trio of Paintings

(ATLANTA :: 16 December 2009) For someone who has been painting for friends and family as a hobby for years, Greg Davis started off his first exhibition last year with a bang... selling two pieces.

The Gloaming” was a mysterious and complex meditation on a marshy green abstract form; and “Autumn ’08,” a reminder of how vibrant the season change can be in the imagination.

This year, Greg offers up a 10”x10” trio of paintings, all oil on square canvas, that are riffs on familiar abstractions. They are offered individually for $
100 each, or as a trio for $275. (read more)

Welcome Back Brenda McMillen to ARTvision

(ATLANTA :: 14 December 2009) If there could be a “veteran” of ARTvision after four short years, Brenda McMillen would be it.

She’s sold at least one piece each and every year we’ve been doing this. “
Heart” sold to John Nickolas in 2006 for $295; “Eternal Sunshine” to David Osborn for $225 in 2007; and “Stand Strong” and “True Colors” sold to Tom Andrews and Positive Impact for $150 and $100, respectively.

When you do that math, Brenda has raised nearly $800 cumulatively over those four years. Please join us in congratulating Brenda on her success!

This year, Brenda offers two more stunners for our beloved beneficiary,
Positive Impact - both involve the Chinese character for “Love.” Titled simply “Love,” the piece is a beautiful, oil-on-canvas in a muted, matte black frame, offered at $175.

Her second piece is a thick-and-chunky yet still diminutive box-gallery canvas, painted on all sides, entitled “
Faith, Hope, Love.” The piece includes a bold, fire-red front with light-cream colored sides. The corresponding Chinese characters appear on the front and either side, right and left. This piece is offered at $195.

For more, please visit
Brenda’s artist page! I think we should already give a shout-out to Brenda for ARTvision 5 in 2010, don’t you think? - WP

ARTvision Offers: "Ladies of a Certan Age" and "Just Before Rush Hour..." by Mary Pollock

(ATLANTA :: 11 December 2009) - One retro, the other abstract. Both beautiful.

And they both come from my mother, Mary Pollock, as donations to ARTvision 2009 for the benefit of Positive Impact. Please consider both of these in your holiday giving! (
see both picture slideshows)

With a bachelor’s from Skidmore College (my alma mater) and a Fashion Illustration concentration at Parsons School of Design, my mother is a returning artist from last year - and is sister to the late Betsy Weedon. (read more)

Both of these pieces were custom framed with archival glass and matting by Rose Squared in Decatur. “
Ladies of a Certain Age” is offered at $800. “Just Before Rush Hour” is offered at $2,000. - WP


ARTvision Offers: "Ladies of a Certain Age" by Mary Pollock

Vintage glam is back! Check out Mary Pollock’s “Ladies of a Certain Age” below - purchase these fine ladies for $800.

This piece is mixed-media with custom framing by (former ARTvision Artist) JD Isaacs at
Rose Squared Gallery & Framing.


Watch as "Old Structures" Crumble... And Brenda Knosher Returns to ARTvision

(27 November 2009 :: ATLANTA) Starting with “Birth” in 2006 and then “Potential Pierces Possibility” in 2008 (which together raised nearly $800 for charity), Brenda Knosher returns to ARTvision 2009 with “Watching the Old Structures Crumble” - an intricate, moody piece that captures the mystery of imagination.

“Structures” is presented with acrylic, gold leaf, specialty paper and other materials to capture a textured, nuanced feel. The piece is set in a silver-leaf frame and (like all ARTvision pieces) has full hanging hardware.

“Watching the Old Structures Crumble” is offered to ARTvision buyers at $
500. For more on the piece and its frame, see the Slide album below. A full photo show of this piece is coming soon.