JMG is excited to present GEOCHROMA – Barbara Campbell Thomas & Amy Sacksteder

Opening Friday 3.1.24

ARTIST TALK: 7pm

Exhibition runs 2.29.24-4.27.24

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Barbara Campbell Thomas has exhibited her paintings in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC), the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (Virginia Beach, VA), The Painting Center (NYC), the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art (GA), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC), the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC), Ortega Y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Maake Projects (State College, PA), Wavelength Space (Chattanooga, TN) and Hidell Brooks Gallery (Charlotte, NC).

Her work has been written about in Two Coats of Paint, Art Papers, The Coastal Post and BURNAWAY.

Barbara Campbell Thomas attended Skowhegan and is a Fellow of the Yale Summer School of Art and Music. Other residencies include the Hambidge Center, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is a recipient of the North Carolina Artist Fellowship. Barbara Campbell Thomas lives and works in Climax, North Carolina. She is a Professor of Art in the School of Art at UNC Greensboro.

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Amy Sacksteder‘s work explores personal and collective relationships to landscape and artifact. She works across media, most commonly in painting, collage, drawing, cut paper, installation, and ceramics. She has participated in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo and two-person venues include the Ann Arbor Art Center (MI) and University of Michigan Institute for Humanities (Ann Arbor, MI). Recent group venues include Tiger Strikes Asteroid–Greenville (SC); Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY); BasBlue (Detroit, MI); River House Arts (Toledo, OH); and Buckham Gallery (Flint, MI). She has two-person exhibitions in 2024 at James May Gallery (Milwaukee, WI) and the University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS).

Sacksteder has completed artist residencies at SÍM (Reykjavík, Iceland); Takt (Berlin, Germany); The Hungarian Multicultural Center (Budapest, Hungry); and the Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL); among others. In 2012 she was awarded a Gallery-as-Studio Residency and solo exhibition at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work has been featured and reviewed in journals such as The Offing, Flint Magazine, New American Paintings and the Chicago Tribune and has been included in the curated online registries of The Drawing Center, White Columns, and the Flat File 2022 Program at Ortega y Gasset Projects, where she was also highlighted as a 2022 Artist to Watch.

Affiliations include invited membership in the Long Island City Studios (LIC, New York); Ypsi Alloy Studios (Ypsilanti, MI)–a studio dedicated to her ceramic work; and IBIS Contemporary in New Orleans, where she has been a represented artist since 2021. Sacksteder and her family live in Ypsilanti, Michigan, outside of Detroit. Sacksteder works from her studios in Ypsilanti and Long Island City, and is a professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Exhibition runs 3-1-24 to 4-27-24

Online Exhibition through Artsy:
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