Tyler Bingham

Silver City, NM 2024

Sculptor

Michael Metcalf

While much of his laminated wood and bronze work relates to smooth fair curves, he also pursues technical innovations, and unique processes for creating his graceful forms – his current spline and stone sculptures use his patented process. Metcalf’s sculptures reveal investigation into form with both organic and geometric surface transitions. All of these works explore the relationship between curves and how a combination of simple curves creates a complex form, which evokes tension, movement, and beauty.

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Houston, TX 2024

Painter

Elizabeth Depew

She is deeply interested in the history and the process of painting as a part of the meaning and concept of her work. The contrast between contemporary life and a medium that connotes history, ancestry, space, and time is very exciting to her. She finds this to be the most thrilling part of making paintings in this technologically advanced culture.

Current Exhibition In the Studio Her Website

Cliff, NM 2024

Architectural Designer, Builder, & Author

Michael O'Harrow

His adobe structures bring to life his myriad vernacular philosophies. He has transitioned from moulding adobe bricks into purchasing them. Through emphasizing and considering the natural enviornment of the site, he utilizes sculptural tendencies when transcribing architectural plans into homes. With over a decade spent living in and traveling around Asia, he couples eastern and western philosophies, cultivating an exhilerating marriage of forms. Often belittling the use of concrete, aside from the slab, he has proven over and over again, the strength of local clay and sand, form timeless bonds.

In The Studio

Hurley, NM 2022

Sculptor & Painter

Barry Namm

He considers himself a sculptor but has also taken sculpture techniques and tools to create paintings. When he works in stone, usually basalt, his number one objective is to show the beauty of the stone. He attempts to contrast the different textures and surfaces inherent in the media. An example is putting a highly polished surface next to the skin or rind of the stone which has been oxidized for thousands of years contrasting a highly machine surface against a natural ancient one.

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Silver City, NM 2022

Luthier & Musician

Scott van Linge

He headed off in a direction different from nearly all modern builders, who copy traditional scalloped bracing. Parabolically shaped braces, when balanced to just meet the forces exerted by the strings, no longer dampen the surface where they are glued. The gracefully curved shapes actually vibrate with the soundboard as they distribute energy from the bridge. The entire top and back (save for the neck area) are allowed to vibrate, and the instrument seems to come alive in your hands. Current thinking as to where sounds are created in a guitar is as follows: draw a line down the center of the top; because the high strings anchor to the right side of the bridge, the right side of the top makes the treble, and the left, the bass. It is my contention that each note reaches a resonance with a specific ring on the top, much as a drummer's cymbal has a specific pitch. Given uniform thicknesses, the smaller the cymbal's diameter, the higher the resonant pitch, and vice versa.

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Silver City, NM 2022

Interdiscipinary Artist

Jasper Eyrich-Bingham

Figurative artwork has been an interest of his that he has invested little time to explore. However, he;s found it to be the most effective way \to convey emotion to a viewer or communicate emotions in general. It doesn’t feel like a weakness expressing emotion through his artwork. Emotions can be a fuel for his creative endeavors, rather than a distraction.

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Silver City, NM Deceased

Painter

Dan Davidson

Daniel isn’t particularly impressed with the I Ching as a divination text – he doesn’t believe it will tell you the future. But he does believe that if you go to it with a real question, something you want answered, you will find an answer. He says it brought him back to representative art, in fact it brought him back to figure painting. The experience was tremendously liberating. It’s like, having found himself set loose in a trackless desert, he managed to map the world on a frame of trigrams, so he could navigate it. He says art history can be analyzed into 3 primary styles: the mimetic art of the western figure painting; the calligraphic art of the Chinese landscape, and pure abstractions of the Islamic tradition. He says any painting can be placed somewhere within that triangle, either as a pure example of one of the primary styles or as some mixture of them.

In The Studio

Houston, TX 2024

Current Trials and Errors

I'm back on multiple paths, hoping for a merger, an intellectual umbrella of identity.

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