The Fine Art Of Colored Pencil Exhibit
Aug 12 – Aug 31, 2024
The Syd Blackmarr Arts Center
255 Love Avenue, Tifton
Exhibit Hours
Wednesdays – Sundays
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Exhibit Reception
Monday, Aug 12
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
*This exhibit is FREE and open to the public. Donations are welcome.
Experience the vibrant world of colored pencil artistry! This exhibition showcases the delicate yet powerful work of artists Jeffrey Smart Baisden and Anda Chance. These talented artists are masters of their craft – highlighting the versatility and depth achievable with colored pencils. Join us for a journey through a spectrum of emotions and scenes, meticulously crafted in rich hues and fine detail, celebrating the nuanced beauty of this often-underappreciated medium.
About the Artists
Anda Chance is an award winning artist, receiving recognition in local, national, and international shows for her colored pencil art.
She has received commissions for public projects, publications and individuals. In addition to showing her own work, Anda curates and judges for local and regional art shows, art groups, public exhibitions and individual artists. Currently she works and teaches in her studio in McAlpin. She stays busy with gallery work, teaching workshops and working with local and regional nonprofits promoting the arts.
At Arkansas Technical University, Anda majored in Art and Art Education. She went on to earn a degree in Education at Florida Southern College. She is a Florida Certified Art Teacher and taught art for 16 years in the Florida public school system.
Artist Statement: “My works are an interpretation of images that interest me visually and emotionally. The finished work may be classified within the genre of realism but each completed painting is an altered view from the reference. Rather than create a romantic or over sentimental version, my work reflects the human and environmental interaction on the landscape and found objects. My visual expressions are expressed with pencil and colored pencil, two art mediums that are primarily completed on paper, an art material that I have a passion for. I develop a drawing as I work through the image. Although the process may be laborious to some, it is that essence of drawing that I enjoy. A search for technical excellence is a part of my artistic journey. I keep searching for my next best painting. Working with Colored Pencil is not just a technical achievement but an ascetic and spiritual experience which I find suits my current artistic journey and interests.”
To learn more about Anda Chance and her art, visit her website: https://www.andachance.org/
Jeffrey Smart Baisden, CPSA is an Artist and Instructor. She was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, grew up in the Florida panhandle and graduated from Florida State University with a degree in art education. Following a move to Live Oak, Florida in 1974 to teach high school art, she developed a fine arts program teaching grades 9-12, Advanced Placement and adult painting. Jeffrey exhibited her artwork in regional exhibitions on weekends. Discovering Prismacolor pencils in 1980 as a valuable teaching tool, she began exploring the medium along with her students In 1992, she resigned from public school to devote full time to drawing, exhibitions and teaching workshops Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as twenty-five Colored Pencil Society of America International Exhibitions.
Artist Statement: “I am a treasure seeker in search of treasures that can be arranged, interpreted, and preserved. I am not seeking to record classic beauty, but intimate spaces, discarded items, and a moment in time. I require the viewer look at subjects that are not usually considered common art subjects. I want to take functional utilitarian objects and tell a story or provoke the viewer to respond with his own story. The title of the work is part of the artist’s gift and should spark the viewer’s imagination to go in many directions. I want to take the viewer along as we discover a unique type of beauty often overlooked. My role as an artist is to entice the viewer to look, linger and respond to the subject, the color, textures and details.
Colored pencil as a medium enables me to achieve these results.”
To learn more about Jeffrey Smart Baisden and her art, visit her website: https://www.jeffreysmartbaisden.com/