Fresh Air

Welcome to Fresh Air.   Showcasing 6 different perspectives on the world outdoors.   This exhibit will be running till the end of May.

Dylan Strzynski is a Michigan artist whose mixed media work combines drawing, painting and influence from his background in printmaking. He is inspired by the woody marine landscape of the north where he grew up and the area surrounding his home in rural western Washtenaw County. Focusing on landscape and vernacular architecture, his work addresses concerns about the environment and poverty by telling stories characterized by mystery and subtle humor.

Hope Olson is a painter and mixed-media artist based in Holland, Michigan. Her art celebrates home, community, and slow, old-fashioned living. The compositions and colors of Hope’s abstracted still life and landscape paintings are inspired by her long-held affection for interior decorating, historic architecture, old country villages, and early 20th century art. Hope particularly borrows from the sensibilities of the Fauvist art movement, which emphasizes strong marks and colors that magnify mood and compel curiosity.  She earned a B.S. in Interior Design from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourb

onnais, Illinois, and also focused her college coursework in studio art and marketing.

Rachael Van Dyke is a mid-career artist.  She is an avid traveler with an upcoming residency with Cill Rialaig Arts Center in Ireland. She has participated recently in residencies in the historic town of Tusa, Sicily with Officina Stamperia del Notaio and on the remote island of Isle Royale in Lake Superior with the United States National Park Service. Van Dyke’s residencies have also included Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy, Le Jardin Botanique, in Marnay sur Seine, France, TICA with the Art Institute of Chicago, and Les Tasis located in the Ardeche Valley of Southern France. She is also a Fulbright Memorial Fund teacher recipient to Japan. Van Dyke has had solo art exhibitions with the Forest Hills Fine Art Center, the Power Center of Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, MI and the University of Michigan Hospital Gifts for Art program. She earned her MAE at the Kendall College of Art and Design and has worked 14 years as an art and design educator for all grade levels including adjunct instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.  Rachael Van Dyke has participated in numerous public presentations and adult workshops including talks on art and creativity, art and the spiritual, and on how space and place influence a body of work. Van Dyke also engages in social activism through artmaking. The Future People, the design team of Van Dyke and her husband Cameron, currently is exhibiting work on tour with the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Anne kindl’s pastels have been featured in three Breeders’ Cup commemorative editions andKeeneland and Kentucky Homes & Gardens publications. She has installations in public and private art collections including Buffalo Trace Distillery, The Kentucky Theatre, St. Joseph Hospital and University of Kentucky Medical Center. She has had her work featured in films for Indie and Lifetime Movies. She was awarded the 2016 Best in Kentucky artist by the Lexington Art League. Anne’s recent work has been selected to be in the Pastel Journal’s 20th Pastel 100 and the 33rd International Pastel Societies Juried Exhibition.

Virginia Kretz has been a member of the Athena Society for over 40 Years.  She is most known for her soft guache landscapes and lavish use of greens and blues.  As a premier Toledo based artist, Virginia has won countless awards and high praise  among landscape art collectors, traditional art lovers and beyond.  Kretz’s work continues to be a staple at Fuller Art house and the traveling Athena shows throughout the area.

Cody R. Winter was raised within the small farming community of Riga, Michigan; a place where life progressed at a slower pace and the bucolic, Midwestern scenery was never too far away. Growing up, he was considerably fascinated by the arts, which was the foremost influence on choosing his major upon entering Lourdes University. After graduating in 2015, he would begin his career within the art world; always striving to be surrounded by his craft he would continue to create while being employed at the River Centre Gallery. His premier inspiration continues to be the work of the old masters, in particular: Martin Johnson Heade’s sublimity, George Inness’ intrigue, Frederic Edwin Church’s verisimilitude, and Claude Monet’s sense of color being his greatest influences.