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Six - work by Amy Bautz, Deb Douglas, Coby Ellison, Maria Marshall, Carolyn Palmer and Gary Passanise
Amy Alton Bautz is an artist working with paint, photography, and the computer. She holds degrees in photojournalism and studio art and has been a professor for studio art at Saint Louis University for ten years. Her work is
held in several private collections and has been shown locally, nationally, and internationally.
Coby Ellison is an artist and musician born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1968. The past six years his work has been exploring faux historical relationships and coincidences that occur with positions of power, divinity, conquest, faith,
and the ever-changing iconography of good and evil often through a lens of a heavy metal or a fantastic art aesthetic titled "The Babylon Report". His work has been exhibited in numerous venues including The Yerba Buena Art Center in San Francisco, Ampersand International Arts in San Francisco and Paris, Western Front in Vancouver, B.C., and The Wichita Art Museum. Ellison received fine art degrees at Kansas State University (B.F.A. 1990 and M.F.A. 1996) and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture on full-fellowship. He lives and works in Saint Louis, Missouri, with his wife, two cats, and their Chihuahua.
Deborah Douglas received her Bachelor of Arts from Truman State University (Northeast Missouri State University) in 1988 and Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 1991. Since that time she has taught both Art History and Studio Art. Deborah is currently a full time faculty member in the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Saint Louis University. Past exhibits have included the Duane Reed Gallery, the Sheldon Art Galleries, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, and the Open Studios Tour sponsored by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Her work has been featured in New American Painting vols.41 and 23 (nee Touhill). She has had reviews in publications including the Kansas City Star, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Intermission Magazine, the Riverfront Times and the Beacon. Her work deals with the juxtaposition of color, pattern, and form. By placing seemingly disparate imagery and mark making together within the confines of the picture plane, Deborah creates relationships and meaning that speak to her on a personal level. Images are derived from the ideas of a nostalgic past, of longing, and of loss, of high and low art and from objects and ideas close to the artist. Deborah's work can be viewed at debdouglas.com.
Maria Marshall creates dense worlds and portraits surrounded by voids in order to push "all this everything" back to facilitate an intimate experience with the situation. She collects, draws, and collages the fragments from the
mundane to the extraordinary that construct who we are as individuals. The images range from large gestures to carefully detailed moments to produce sprawling portraits. She illustrates individuals' simultaneous histories and
events that have led to our current situation. Maria Marshall graduated with a BFA from Webster University in 2008 and continues to show her work in the St. Louis area, including a solo exhibition in 2009.
Carolyn Palmer is a painter, sculptor, and photographer who received her BFA from Webster University in 2008. Carolyn has showed at Three Sinks in Webster in 2007, Metropolitan Gallery in St. Louis 2008, and received a travel
stipend from the Santos Foundation to New York in 2008. Carolyn received the Say Yes to Art Scholarship in 2008. Also, she was involved in the St. Louis studio tour in 2009 and 2010. She is currently working in St. Louis in the
Hanley building. Her paintings and sculptures are investigations of the interior versus the exterior of the home.
Gary Passanise received his BFA in Painting Drawing from Webster University in 1977 and his MFA in Painting Drawing from Southern Illinois University in 1981. He is the receipent of numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994, Pollack Krasner Foundation New York City in 1989, Creative Artist Project MAC in 1989, Ford Foundation Award in 1981. He currently serves as Professor, Director of Painting at the Leigh Gerdine College of Art at Webster University and is the Executive Director for the Santo Foundation.
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