Come view new paintings by Sharon Lapin during the month of July at our Inman Park location. Sharon’s current installation focuses on the Wild West featuring bold images of cowboys and horses in vivid color with contrasting black ink for a graphic visual experience.
Shown here: “Rodeo” 38″x48″
Acrylic and ink on canvas
Inman Perk Gainesville welcomes:
Nephesh
Tell Me A Story: Finding Your Way Through Abstract Art
“Artwork allowing for inner exploration and to encourage sharing with others to promote community.”
by Rachel Q. Landers
June 2009 @ Inman Perk Gainesville
More about Rachel:
Rachel Q. Landers earned a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, with a concentration in Scientific Illustration from the University of Georgia in 2006. She currently lives in Gainesville, Georgia.
Rachel’s artwork, by moving away from realism, acknowledges that viewers bring a lexicon of experience and concurrent emotion to a painting. She would like her artwork to encourage discourse – facilitating storytelling and a sense of community. This holds a significant place in her art and philosophy.
Tying together aspects of life and nature with spirituality, Rachel creates mystery, in essence – pos sibilities. When creating her art, she feels it is challenging as well as freeing to accept change and adapt to what emerges. By layering perhaps unusual combinations of shapes and colors which contrast and resolve, her work represents life with its undulating tensions– and sometimes surprising beauty. She wishes to broaden her outlook visually as well as in day to day interactions. It is an optimistic process.
May 2, 2009 at 6:30 P.M. at the Gainesville Square!
Nate Currin
Take a Listen: www.natecurrin.com!
Nate Currin is a singer/songwriter who uses music to tell stories about life, love, and other emotional circumstances that affect us all. Nate blends contemporary folk, blues, acoustic rock, and radio pop styles into a singer/songwriter feel. Having shared the stage with many big names in the music industry, Nate is familiar with the big-time stage and what it takes to succeed.
Hailing from the north Atlanta area, Nate plays shows all over the southeastern U.S. from Florida, to the Carolinas, and occasionally even ventures to California to play the west coast. His following has grown through MySpace and other online music portals, and Nate has been featured on several music websites, online articles, and newspaper publications.
Atlanta-based artist Betsy Shank will be featured at Inman Perk Coffee’s Gainesville location during April and May.
Betsy Shank
I believe there is something very unique and beautiful existing within us all. It is through the freedom of creativity that I find a new sense of what is within.
For me as an artist, the creative process is a simple and direct meeting with my heart. It is also a mysterious connection between my hands and the creative energy that moves me to paint. When I paint it is a celebration of this partnership, which is often expressed on the canvas with bursting colors and a variety of texture. Joy is the core of what I find when I create. I connect with something very alive and this becomes tangible to me immediately when I work. I enjoy using my fingers in addition to my brushes. This is how connected I feel when I create.
The beauty of nature and the wonderful diversity of creation have always been a great inspiration to me. This awareness is often explored in my paintings. I believe there is a union present among all life. I find the true beauty of art is discovering it within and beyond the very self. I think we can be living love and living color for each other. What we carry within us is a part of our own unique light of existence. I want to share this with others in a beautiful way. Through art, my hands become my living heart. This is why I paint.
Thank you for exploring my painting world. I hope my paintings have found a home within your heart.
Inman Perk was awarded a Golden Nail Award for our renovations efforts of our new Gainesville Square store.
From the Gainesville Times:
[The Ettingers] opened Inman Perk Coffee on Washington Street about six months ago and has found a niche in downtown.
“We completely gutted the place and tried to make it as green as possible,” Ettinger said. Some of the materials were reused, while others such as the bamboo wall panels are environmentally friendly.
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