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Our Talented Artists
Bruce Anders * Janice Campbell Jay Hall Carpenter Jack Ellis * William Girard * Yuri Yoshio Hayashi Carol Hess * Douglas Kingsbury * Paul Nguyen Emily Page * Joel Tea Peggy Wattenbarger
Bruce Anders
Bruce Anders, an accomplished glass artist and abstract painter, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 2002 from Fairbanks, Alaska via Cleveland, Ohio where he learned the craft of stained glass. His first solo show was in 1993 at the Plate and Palette Gallery in downtown Fairbanks. Other shows include a 1994 exhibition at Lambda Rising in Washington, DC and, in the same year, at the Celsius Gallery in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Between 1988 and 1995 exhibits included a number of juried national and international shows including the "A Contemporary American Glass" show at the Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington and "The Glass Equation" exhibit at Signature Gallery in San Diego, California. In October, 1995 one of his stained glass windows was selected to for an exhibit at the Hazleton Art League Juried Exhibition in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Other exhibitions of note include "Pride and Prejudice", his first international juried art exhibition held at the East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida, and "Earth, Fire and Fibre XXI", a touring exhibition that began at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, and traveled the state throughout 1997.
Public commissions include a stained glass window at the "Juneau Time Capsule" at the Federal building in downtown Juneau, Alaska. This window will be on display for the next 100 years, as the public looks through it to see other items in the capsule scheduled to be opened in 2095.
Numerous awards include the Eclipse Medallion Award at the 1994 Fall International Art Competition in Vancouver, British Columbia and an Alumni Honors Scholarship from the Glass Program at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. Other distinctions include the Juror’s Choice and the Viewer’s Choice Award at the "Interior Artisans XI Juried Art Exhibit" in Fairbanks and the "Postcard Project Book" a book of postcards awarded by the Visual Arts Committee, Fairbanks Arts Association.
Janice Campbell
If you have a love for photo-realism, the work of Janice Campbell will captivate your imagination. Using the glazing technique, Ms. Campbell transforms photography into beautiful watercolors.
Her natural talent was enhanced while studying at the Art Institute of Atlanta where she majored in Fine Arts.
Born in Scottsborough, Alabama, Ms. Campbell began a modeling career in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to Florida in 1973, and later formed her own modeling agency. Since then, she has developed a sought-after expertise in the area of professional make-up artistry specializing in video and film production. But, her love of painting has never been far from her heart.
In recent years, Ms. Campbell has set out to perfect her style and technique. She transforms her photography into colorful, light-filled works that express a sense of harmony and energy.
Regionally recognized, Ms. Campbell is the recipient of several awards including Best Still Life Watercolor and Award of Achievement at the Florida Blooming Arts Festival. She exhibits her works at many juried fine arts festivals throughout the greater Tampa Bay area. Fiorini Gallery and Frame is proud to be the exclusive gallery representing her fine art in the Tampa Bay area.
"Summer Magnolia"
"Showy Hibiscus With Rustic Pot"
"The Last Rose"
Jay Hall Carpenter
Jay Hall Carpenter
"Motel Wall" - Bronze Relief
"Time's Passage" -- Bonded Marble
"Joan Figure Study" SOLD !
"Slot Canyon" Series
"Foot Series"
For twenty years, Jay Hall Carpenter toiled as Sculptor of the Washington National Cathedral designing more than 500 carvings that adorn the gothic, limestone building ultimately becoming the Cathedral’s first Sculptor-In-Residence. Mr. Carpenter's interest in photography began in 1976 as a way to document his sculpture work on the Washington National Cathedral. In college, he studied with master photographer Roman Vishniac and began to hone his skills in fine art photography. In 2001, he switched from 35 mm to medium format and opened his first studio dedicated exclusively to photography. His work has widespread recognition and is displayed by the State Department, the Smithsonian Institution, Canterbury Cathedral and the New England Medical Center. In addition to many American churches, his clients include the West Point Military Academy, the Washington Theater Awards, and the State of Maryland. Before the age of thirty, Mr. Carpenter was elected to the National Sculpture Society. His twenty-seven year career includes many commissions and recognitions. Most recent commissions include an eight-foot bronze of Maryland State Comptroller Louis Goldstein, on display in the state capitol. In September, Mr. Carpenter’s latest creation — a life-size bronze and granite sculpture of Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog — was unveiled as the centerpiece of the Jim Henson Memorial at the University of Maryland. Mr. Henson was a student at the university in the 1950's. After a national search for sculptors, Saint Anne’s Catholic Community in Barrington, IL commissioned Mr. Carpenter to create its twelve-statue program, Community of Saints and Holy People. These powerful, near-life-size interpretations of historic and modern saints adorn a dramatic new worship space. Mr. Carpenter’s education includes study at Pratt Institute and The Catholic University of America. He has served as sculptor’s assistant to Master Sculptor Frederick E. Hart, working on Hart’s major projects for the Washington National Cathedral, and the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington, DC. Additional distinctions include his tenure as Artist-in-Residence at both the Wesley Theological Seminary, and The Catholic University of America. Mr. Carpenter has taught at the Art League School in Alexandria, VA, and Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. His sculpture has been compared to the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin known for his passionate designs and thought provoking works.
Nationally acclaimed, his sculptures and drawings are exhibited in fine art galleries throughout the United States and here in St. Petersburg, FL at Fiorini Gallery and Frame. View additional works at www.jayhallcarpenter.com which may be acquired through our Gallery.
Carol Hess
"Harvest Pie" by Carol Hess
"Harvest Leaves" by Carol Hess
"A Mixed Bag" by Carol Hess
Carol Hess
Also a resident of Historic Kenwood, Carol's most recent recognition includes both a Purchase Award and an Award of Merit from the 2003 Temple Terrace Art Festival. Carol's expertise is polymer clay.
“I can spend hours working with polymer clay without realizing the entire day has slipped away," says Carol who has had the creative “bug” since she first started sewing at age seven. A year later she won her first juried award at the County Fair where she entered a hand sewn jumper. Sewing remained her passion for many years. Ms. Hess is also proficient in many forms of needlework, quilting, knitting and other fiber arts.
"After a year of looking for some excitement in my creative life, polymer clay showed up, and I have rediscovered my passion," says Carol whose background also includes watercolors and other forms of artistic expression.
Jack Ellis
Jack Ellis was born in Tennessee and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts. He worked in New York City as a graphic artist designing books and magazines while displaying his original artwork in local galleries. During the late 60's, Jack and his wife Judy relocated to Greece where he lived and painted for an extensive period. They moved back to the Northeast in the early 70's, eventually moving his family to Florida in 1980.
His works are mostly combinations of colored ink and collage. He is, perhaps, best known for his "icons," highly detailed portraits executed in colored ink, sometimes with collage. The largest of the icons, "The Labyrinth", measures 40"x60" and took approximately one year to complete.
He achieves great depth of luminosity by applying color in layers often utilizing as many as seven layers to produce the desired result. He continues to produce pen-and-ink works, often black and white surrealistic still life extrapolated from everyday studio objects. His more whimsical works may portray fat-bellied Mexican pots with jeweled collars, a bevy of frogs scrambling over twining flowers, or both.
Regionally recognized, Mr. Ellis holds scores of juried awards, among them Best of Show at the Mainsail and Gasparilla Art Festivals. He also holds First Place honors in Graphics at the Winter Park Festival and the Festival of the Masters. His works have been displayed in more than a dozen exhibits and area galleries during his extensive career. Fiorini Gallery and Frame is proud to exhibit the works of this well known local artist.
"If Owls Could Draw"
"Upside Down"
"Ayios Elias"
William Girard
Artist William Girard
"Head Of A Woman"
"Dawn In The Ravine" SOLD !
"A Caprice Of Figures" SOLD!
"Javanese Fantasy" SOLD!
Oscar Wilde once wrote, "the telling of beautiful untrue things is the proper aim of art." Most of our century does not begin to approach this aim. Either due to a lack of imagination, or to the belief that art should strive for other less fantastic aims, contemporary artists have largely abandoned the pursuit of gorgeous depictions. William Girard is the rare exception. His art fulfills Wilde's aesthetic tenet, offering us visions that are exaggerated yet beautiful, believable, and "untrue."
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Girard begins oil painting in 1955 without the benefit of formal instruction. His natural talent results in a solo exhibition at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit in 1960.
In 1968, Mr. Girard begins his teaching career at the Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts, now the Center for Creative Studies. Successive years feature blends of abstract and natural forms culminating to a sold out solo exhibition at the Habitat Gallery. In 1980, he is designated Professor of Painting at the Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts.
Numerous painting and sculpture commissions follow, culminating with his sabbatical exhibition at the Center Galleries in 1990 which included the autobiographical abstract Halloween.
Mr. Girard's frame of subject matter and historical reference is remarkably vast. Greek mythology, Christianity, Eastern thought, Western literature, and centuries of art history are mixed and matched to form new combinations. The resulting artworks explore a broad spectrum of experience - from apocalyptic scenes with avenging angels to depictions of harmony and lusty pleasure. Works such as Acteon and Pandora explore the potential wrath of the ancient Greek gods. In more affirmative works, such as Man In Harmony With Nature, Girard's celebration of life is candid and unqualified. His combination of reality and fantasy make potent our own real lives and bring an interesting perspective.
Nationally acclaimed, Mr. Girard is also widely recognized as an expert in classical fine art restoration.
Yuri Yoshio Hayashi
Mr. Hayashi’s road to recognition began in 1993 winning first place in the juried show “Creative Youth In 1993” sponsored by the U.S. Twelfth Congressional District Competition. Other first place juried shows followed including the Manatee Community Arts Center and the Center Place Fine Arts Association.
Local commissions include St. Petersburg’s First United Methodist Church. Additionally, he has exhibited in group shows at St. Petersburg's Museum of Fine Arts and the Tampa Museum of Fine Art. Early recognition includes his design of the Gibbs High School yearbook for the 1993-94 acedemic year.
The Florida International Museum chose Mr. Hayashi's images of the 9/11 disaster as the entry exhibition to the museum's 9/11 retrospective in 2003.
His academic background includes a full scholorship at St. Petersburg Junior Collage. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Ringling School of Art and Design in 2000 where he majored in printmaking and painting.
Mr. Hayashi’s focus is sculpture and intaglio printmaking including drypoints, lithography and seriographs. His expertise extends to encaustic wax painting and picutre frame restoration.
Yuri Yoshio Hayashi
"Aquatic Graffiti"
Douglas Kingsbury
Doug Kingsbury has been captivated by the beauty of the human figure, as expressed through visual art, since childhood.
An Ohio native, Mr. Kingsbury holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Arts from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. Intrigued by their program to unite artists and computer scientists to develop computer-generated imagery, he worked with the Computer Graphics Research Group of the Ohio State University. There he received his Masters’ degree specializing in Computer Animation.
Over the last 19 years, Mr. Kingsbury was devoted to a career in computer animation, specializing in color and lighting. He’s received numerous awards for his 3D animation in cartoons, television commercials and broadcast networks. Among his more notable projects are: the adaptation of Little Miss Spider for Rosie O’Donnell; the stereoscopic ride films Corkscrew Hill for Busch Gardens- Williamsburg; and The Amazing Spiderman for Universal Studios in Orlando. Additional works include the televised 3D character animation, The Incredible Crash Dummies, an Emmy-nominated opening animation for CBS Sports NCAA Basketball, and one of the earliest 3D character animations ever produced, Snoot and Muttly. All the while, he continued to pursue his passion to study the human figure through part-time classes, figure drawing co-ops and summer workshops. He has studied with many notable artists including Priscilla Treacy, Robert Liberace, Joel Rudnick, Frank Morgan, Cyd Wicker and Dale Redpath. Determined to perfect his talent, Mr. Kingsbury is currently devoting himself full-time to the study of classical realist painting at The Atelier in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mr. Kingsbury’s work is meticulous with a sense of purpose. Fiorini Gallery and Frame is proud to exclusively exhibit his fine art in the Tampa Bay area. Visit www.douglaskingsbury.com to view more works which may be purchased through the Gallery.
"Joe On Stool"
"Dan With Ladder"
"Morning Mist" Stowe, VT - SOLD!
Paul Nguyen
A resident of Saint Petersburg, FL, Mr. Nguyen earned his BA at the University of South Florida where he majored in Visual Mass Communications with a concentration in photography, and minored in Studio Art. Distinctions include the Dean’s List in 2003. He is also a member of the Asian-American Journalists Association.
He recently won Third Place at the Tampa Area Professional Photographers Association for 'Story Telling Book' and was awarded 'Excellance in Photography' presented by USF St. Petersburg Journalism Department.
Professional distinctions include Photo Editor at the USF campus newspaper The Crow's Nest, and freelance work at The Bradenton Herald, The Gulfport Gabber Newspaper and The Florida Catholic Newspaper.
Fiorini Gallery and Frame is proud to display the works of this young up and coming artist!
"Cave" $125.00 Color Photography
"Limestone Bay " $125.00 Color Photography
"Sapa" $125.00 Color Photography
Emily Page
"Cherry Branch" Oxidized Copper
A California-born, Virginia-raised artist, Emily Page began experimenting with different brushwork and palette knife work, scraping and overlaying, from the very beginning of her interest in art. She honed her skills and graduated with honors, receiving a BA in visual arts from Wake Forest University.
"I learned to work in a number of mediums, including sculpture and photography," Ms. Page says, "but my passion has always been painting." With such an expressive style, Page points to a wide array of artists as her inspiration, including Edgar Degas, Artemesia Gentileschi, Lucien Freud, Eva Hesse and Robert Maplethorpe.
At Wake Forest, Ms. Page had the distinction of becoming the first student chosen by the school to have her thesis project purchased. Upon graduation, she moved to Washington, D.C. and taught at the prestigious Sidwell Friends before moving to Florida where she has added metal to her artistic interests. The artwork shown here is copper with household chemicals applied to oxidize an image and create a patina. Polyurethane is then applied to prevent further oxidization.
Ms. Page now lives and paints in St. Petersburg, FL. Fiorini Gallery and Frame is proud to display the works of this fine artist.
"Dragon Fly" Oxidized Copper
"Seascape" SOLD !
Joel Tea
"The Hare" SOLD !
"Shell Hunt"
If you are intrigued by works that use a traditional or classical theme as a starting point and then look beyond it for a line of tension or a thread of interplay, the sculptures of Joel Tea will entice you. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he attended the University of Utah and studied Biology and Mathematics in the Honors Program. His sculptural career began by managing the foundry of noted Western bronze sculptor Edward J. Fraughton. In 1978, he moved to the East coast attending the Fudakis Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied under Evangelos Frudakis. More studies followed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts culminating in an apprenticeship with sculptor Charles Parks, former President of the National Sculpture Society. In 1979, he started his own foundry in Ashland, Delaware where he met his wife Suzanne, an artist of textiles and needlework. His interests are the sculptural juxtaposition of characters and their interaction in the world. The expression of an idea with a subject and theme, emulating the story line of a novel, is the relevant point. The difference is the medium is sculpture. Mr. Tea was elected a Professional Member of the National Sculpture Society in 1991 and is a member of the American Artists Professional League. His works have been exhibited in juried exhibits in New York, Boston, St. Louis, and other East coast cities. Nationally acclaimed, Mr. Tea’s sculptures are displayed worldwide. His works can be viewed throughout Europe, in addition to the Brandywine Valley and Philadelphia area as well as here at Fiorini Gallery and Frame in St. Petersburg, FL.
Peggy Wattenbarger
"Blue Vase"
"Big Suede"
Born in Bethesda, Maryland, fiber artist Peggy Wattenbarger worked 25 years as a mathematician, computer programmer analyst and constituent affairs specialist, before retiring from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as the Director of Graphic Arts.She now resides in Tampa, Florida and has quilted since 1975.
The 1996 American Craft Counsel show in Tampa, Florida marked Ms. Wattenbarger’s first exhibit at a juried fine arts show.A string of awards has since followed.Among them are Awards of Merit at the Mainsail Arts Festival, the Dunedin Art Harvest and the Temple Terrace Arts Festival.She was a featured artist at the Tampa Orchestra Designer Showcase House in 1999, and most recently was the featured solo artist at the Synthesis First Union Center 2000 exhibit.
Her talents go beyond quilting. Ms. Wattenbarger teaches her trade at area galleries and was featured locally on Daybreak, Channel 10’s morning television show.All her works are original designs, as she develops the quilt patterns used in her fiber art.Gicleé prints of her works are also available.Her fiber art has been featured in many newspaper and magazine articles.
Regionally recognized, Ms. Wattenbarger exhibits her original works at area shows and here at Fiorini Gallery and Frame. Private commissions are welcome.
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