Food For Thought
March 6 – April 27, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday March 15, 2024
Green Door Art Gallery presents our newest art exhibit, Food For Thought, a celebration of the beauty and complexity of food, and the places and ways we interact with it. The exhibit features oil paintings by Cynthia Hamilton, Chloe Seyer, Michelle Streiff, and David Yates, and laser cut bamboo and batik fabric jewelry by Elsa Taricone. The artwork will be on display and available for sale March 6 – April 27, 2024
Cynthia Hamilton - Oil Paintings
My love of travel has allowed me to capture the landscape as well of the people I encounter along the way, creating works that have been exhibited in various shows throughout the United States, as well as privately in many homes across the country. These works have been juried into the Best and Brightest Competition in Scottsdale Arizona, the Greenhouse Gallery’s Salon International, Laguna Plein Air Painters Competitions, the prestigious Oil Painter’s of America Western Regional, many California Art Club shows, American Women Artist’s shows, Artists of Distinction at the Santa Barbara Museum, and many shows at Waterhouse Gallery. I have competed in numerous Plein Air Competitions across the country, and am a member of Oil Painters of America, California Art Club, the Portrait Society of America, American Women Artists, and the American Impressionist Society.
I have a BS in Education from Eastern Illinois University, two BFA’s and an MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, (Illustration, Fashion Illustration, and Painting) and was an art director and computer graphics animator for Electronic Arts and Crystal Dynamics, working on PC, Sega and Nintendo platforms in the early days of video game development.
Chloe Seyer - Oil Paintings
In the way that poetry expresses stuff that’s too complicated to be explained, art, I think, expresses stuff that’s too simple to be explained. Every painting I’ve ever done has meant the same thing: “Look. Look at this.”
It sounds dumb when I say it like that– in words. What I intend to get across in my work isn’t a statement as much as it’s a gesture, a pointing-at of what we don’t always pause for. Diner food or city signage or grocery store daisies: “Look at that. That is worth looking at. Look.”
Michelle Steiff - Oil and Gouache Paintings
My intention is to invite viewers to look closer and see the sacred in our everyday lives.
The purpose of my artwork is to encourage further exploration and contemplation of the strength, fragility and beauty of the natural world, and our human relationship within it.
David Yates - Oil Paintings
David Yates is an oil painter with over 20 years of experience. He has participated in over 100 juried and invitational exhibits, receiving several awards for excellence.
Select exhibitions include:
- Art St. Louis, “XXXIX, The Exhibition” (St. Louis, MO), Best of Show Award
- Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, “28th Cedarhurst Biennial” (Mt. Vernon, IL), Best of Show Award
- Art St. Louis, “Honors Awards 2017” (St. Louis, MO)
- Art St. Louis, “Creatures” (St. Louis, MO), Award of Excellence
- Art St. Louis, “Honors Awards 2015” (St. Louis, MO)
- Art St. Louis, “Good and Evil” (St. Louis, MO), Award of Excellence
- St. Louis Artists’ Guild, “Prints, Drawings & Pastels Exhibition (Clayton, MO), Honorable Mention
- Northside Art Association, “Annual Grumbacher Awards” (Florissant, MO), Best of Show
This series of paintings features large portraits of whimsical birds in complex environments. While each work has a central theme, the imagery leaves room for interpretation. The meaning can vary for each viewer based on their own personal experiences.
Elsa Taricone - Laser-cut Bamboo and Batik Fabric Jewelry
I enjoy designing and creating jewelry that is truly one of a kind and full of endless design possibilities. Designing is one of my favorite parts of the process. I often sit down with one idea which typically leads to additional designs I feel inspired by. The designs I create are laser cut in bamboo and then paired with a complimentary, hand cut batik fabric that peeks through the design cutouts. I feel it is much more than just picking a pretty piece of fabric, where some fabrics pair much more successfully with certain bamboo designs, and finding just the right piece of the fabric design is a must.
