CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT THE ART EXHIBITION & ARTISTS:
REBECCA ALSTON
Rebecca Alston is a New York based interdisciplinary artist and architectural designer who is known for her rigorous exploration of color and form, meticulous use of line, and the integration of scientific principles within the visual arts. Her strong foundation has led to the investigation and innovative approaches to experimental mixed media works on paper, canvas, reliefs and space. Her most recent work explores the tension between environmental, social, and political issues.
Alston pursued post-graduate programs for several years at New York University and the professional program at Harvard University GSD. She obtained her BFA from Auburn University and a M.A. in Architecture from Kansas State University, where she was also an Assistant Professor in Environmental Design and Color Theory and Perception.
She also maintains a studio on the Gulf Coast and has lived in London and traveled extensively in Asia. She has exhibited widely in Holland, Japan, and England as well as in Mississippi, Chicago, Kansas City, Washington D.C., and New York City. Alston’s work is in the Permanent Collection of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The MADI Museum of Art, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art and The Mississippi Museum of Art. She was awarded the Bronze Award by the Japanese Government for the Urban Art Plaza she designed in Osaka.
Alston's current bodies of art are dedicated to raising public consciousness. Her series “BioForms” and “Earth's Voice” also address the environmental crisis. These abstract works will be featured in her upcoming exhibition “Elements of Change” in 2019 at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi Mississippi, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry.
Please click on the artwork image to see the
ARTIST PORTFOLIOS
of work included in the current exhibition:
https://www.rebecca-alston.studiowaveland.com
Alston pursued post-graduate programs for several years at New York University and the professional program at Harvard University GSD. She obtained her BFA from Auburn University and a M.A. in Architecture from Kansas State University, where she was also an Assistant Professor in Environmental Design and Color Theory and Perception.
She also maintains a studio on the Gulf Coast and has lived in London and traveled extensively in Asia. She has exhibited widely in Holland, Japan, and England as well as in Mississippi, Chicago, Kansas City, Washington D.C., and New York City. Alston’s work is in the Permanent Collection of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The MADI Museum of Art, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art and The Mississippi Museum of Art. She was awarded the Bronze Award by the Japanese Government for the Urban Art Plaza she designed in Osaka.
Alston's current bodies of art are dedicated to raising public consciousness. Her series “BioForms” and “Earth's Voice” also address the environmental crisis. These abstract works will be featured in her upcoming exhibition “Elements of Change” in 2019 at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi Mississippi, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry.
Please click on the artwork image to see the
ARTIST PORTFOLIOS
of work included in the current exhibition:
https://www.rebecca-alston.studiowaveland.com
MAC BALL
Artist and architect Mac Ball finds inspiration in riverine environments and coastal southern landscapes. Raised along the waterways and marshes of Charleston, South Carolina, he now resides in New Orleans where he has been witnessing an ever-increasing crisis of land loss and environmental devastation. Since Hurricane Katrina, his architectural firm has been rebuilding the City and has focused on sustainable water management. Waggonner & Ball has teamed with experts from the Netherlands to weave stormwater management concepts into urban design initiatives and coastal stormwater projects in Connecticut, Norfolk, Charleston and Houston.
Mac’s love of Louisiana’s coastal landscape and a fascination with the way water alters one's perception of the environment has fundamentally changed his artistic direction in this time of sea level rise. Counterpoised with coastal imagery, a fascination with the source and movement of water that flows to the sea has also born a body of work that is focused on movement and the refraction of light and color that plays upon highland streams.
“Climate change will continue to erode and transform landscapes and waterways, yet Earth will continue to yield magic and beauty throughout this ongoing and inevitable process. My hope is that my work will, for a brief moment, capture the materiality and light, the feel, of this ephemeral threshold in time.”
Please click on the artwork images
image to see the
ARTIST PORTFOLIOS
of work included in the upcoming exhibition:
https://www.mac-ball.studiowaveland.com
“Climate change will continue to erode and transform landscapes and waterways, yet Earth will continue to yield magic and beauty throughout this ongoing and inevitable process. My hope is that my work will, for a brief moment, capture the materiality and light, the feel, of this ephemeral threshold in time.”
Please click on the artwork images
image to see the
ARTIST PORTFOLIOS
of work included in the upcoming exhibition:
https://www.mac-ball.studiowaveland.com
MARJORIE PIERSON
Marjorie Brown Pierson is a visual artist, author and lecturer based in Durham, North Carolina. Her fine art photographs explore the complexity of evolving coastal landscapes, bringing new perspective to environmental issues facing the American South and the world at large. Her work is represented in museum, university, corporate and private collections across the country. She has taught at Duke University.
Marjorie creates painterly fine art photographs that bring new perspective to and appreciation for endangered coastal environments. She uses a selective eye and innovative in-camera techniques to create dream-like visions of endangered wetlands and evolving oceans.
Pierson’s work reflects her fascination with evolving landscapes and our complex relationships with them. Inspired by photographer Richard Misrach and painter Gerhard Richter, she uses color photography, digital collage and mixed media to explore how we experience environmental transformation. Her visual narrative weaves landscapes from her native south Louisiana with glacial fields in Alaska, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and oceans around the world.
Marjorie’s first book, Struck by Nature: Photographs of Bald Head Island, was published in December 2012.
Please click on the image to see the
ARTIST PORTFOLIOS
of work included in the current exhibition:
LINK - https://www.marjorie-pierson.studiowaveland.com
Marjorie creates painterly fine art photographs that bring new perspective to and appreciation for endangered coastal environments. She uses a selective eye and innovative in-camera techniques to create dream-like visions of endangered wetlands and evolving oceans.
Pierson’s work reflects her fascination with evolving landscapes and our complex relationships with them. Inspired by photographer Richard Misrach and painter Gerhard Richter, she uses color photography, digital collage and mixed media to explore how we experience environmental transformation. Her visual narrative weaves landscapes from her native south Louisiana with glacial fields in Alaska, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and oceans around the world.
Marjorie’s first book, Struck by Nature: Photographs of Bald Head Island, was published in December 2012.
Please click on the image to see the
ARTIST PORTFOLIOS
of work included in the current exhibition:
LINK - https://www.marjorie-pierson.studiowaveland.com