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Free Parking
for bidders @
Whitaker St. Garage
Trolley's
will run from gallery to gallery. The top three bidders for each work
of art will be invited to attend a final private auction after 8:00pm. Let the FUN begin.
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 Valentine ArtHop/Auction
Please join the five galleries of SavFADA (Savannah Fine Art Dealers) for an ArtHop/Auction on Friday, February 12th from 5:30 to 8:00pm for a Valentine Event to remember. Bring your sweetheart for an evening full of art, music, and chocolate! Member galleries will feature an auction of artworks donated by a small group of prominent Savannah artists
for sale to benefit the Savannah Children's Choir. All other gallery sales will also benefit
the choir with a portion being donated to this lovely choir. The top bidders on each donated piece will be invited to an exclusive reception
in a newly restored Savannah home to conclude the event and to pick up
their art.
Featured artists for this special event are:
Michael
Carnahan, Ray Ellis, Julio Garcia, Doug Grier, Scott Griffin, Peter
Keil, Kiril Jeliazkov, Marcus Kenney, Jan Clayton Pagratis, Lori Keith
Robinson, Jean Claude Roy, Cedric Smith, Dan Smith, Bryan Stovall and
Gerome Temple.
For more information please visit:
www.savannahchoir.org
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Gerome TEMPLE
 We are very pleased to present to you the exquisite work of Gerome Temple. While his work may be lovely in pictures, the detail of each piece is truly astonishing when viewed up-close. Temple's illustration series; Antiquity & Technology showcases a blend of architectural and mechanical nonsensical function, resulting from time spent studying, exploring, and wandering the historical Industrial Revolution site in the Black Country of England. His pen and pigment drawings come forth from a world where antiquity meets crude but futuristic technology, in an era where there is no distinction between man and machines, as though they are one intricate intertwined compounded entity - each carrying out their duty while incorporated into one carefully balanced society. _________________________
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John OLENYIK
Born and raised in Long Island, NY and having held various careers in the fine and commercial arts for over 17 years, John Olenyik chose to make Savannah his home and painting his career. It is Savannah and the southern landscape that inspires and informs John's work. "I find myself drawn to painting the Sea, especially waves.....I explore the structure, form, and light of ocean waves breaking on sandy beaches." In his Wave Series, his hyper-realistic renditions could easily be mistaken for photographs and, although they may be a fresh and modern take of a moment captured in time, John also manages to capture the transient nature of water within that moment. His seascapes leave the viewer with a sense of having been to the ocean, felt the sea and, tasted the salt in the air. Olenyik works with a very structured approach to painting; he starts with an outline drawing in pencil, then he tones the surface gray and slowly adds black and white to build up values, and finally applies layer upon layer of color. He constantly refines the image, correcting and adding more detail with each coloring stage. Consequently, the viewer understands each painting (and each wave) more intimately, right down to every bubble in an effervescent crush and each reflective speckle of light that dances on the breaking crest of a wave. _________________________
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Ikeda LOWE
The term "collage" was coined by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early 20th century from the french word coller, meaning to glue. During that time, many artists began experimenting with materials in a new way by incorporating papers and other found tidbits into their paintings. By the early 1920's, artists such as Kurt Schwitters began using collage as a major art medium. Max Ernst said of collage, "Collage is the noble conquest of the
irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in
appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them." Likewise
it could be said that it is an art of connecting disparate
parts to create order from difference, and assemblage is an activity of
the mind projecting the super-normal into the organization of junk.
We are delighted to feature new pieces of Ikeda Lowe's sublimely abstracted landscapes that are
inspired by her beloved homeland, Japan. She has created these new collage works by using boldly patterned Japanese papers, threads, and oil paint on panel. The vibrant new works have compositional lines and colors that are reminiscent of her ever-popular iridescent watercolors. Both bodies of work are luminous and Asian inspirited but more importantly, beautiful to view.
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Chroma Gallery
31 Barnard Street,
Savannah, GA 31401
on Ellis Square
912.232.2787
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