Our inaugural offering presents twelve talented artists who have chosen to share their work on Yellowhammer Press, and we are fortunate to have them.

• Michelle Allee began her career as a faux-finish decorative painter, and her interest in textured surfaces continues to guide her work, which largely focuses on feminine imagery.
• Memphis-born Brian Bishop captures unnoticed encounters and memories, relying primarily on encaustic to vividly bring intangible moments to life.
• Michael Brodeur’s work hints at the sculptural, his subject matter consisting of unusual still lifes, both fanciful and macabre.
• Michael Crespo makes eerily sparse use of light, creating a distinctly otherworldly narrative as a backdrop to his subjects.
• Pam Beagle-Daresta’s colorful landscapes give way to her more recent foray into stark expressive figures; authenticity of human expression underpins her collection of subject matter.
• Shadowy equine forms loom large in Phil Garrett’s paintings and prints, providing a window into an ethereal aspect of nature.
• Maury Gortemiller’s lens discovers evidence of the changing South, photographing often ironic objects of cultural nostalgia.
• The bright world of Madeleine Hamilton infuses her whimsical art with vivacious color, imbuing even her wistful cross sculptures with a sense of playfulness.
• Dale Kennington portrays scenes of the public from a distance; her voyeuristic narratives are accentuated by a bold use of large expanses of shadow.
• David Key offers a glimpse of what remains of an increasingly rare form of rural life in his photographs of two brothers, Howard and Herbert; his waterscapes are a departure from that corporeal ruggedness, but both series underscore the relentlessness of nature and time.
• Bonnie Melton makes use of textures and layers to give life to imagery that is vaguely recognizable yet remains intangible.
• The repetitive patterns in Katherine Mitchell’s work are reminiscent of grids, quilts, and even algebraic expressions, while introducing an element of inconsistency to create a tension between the work’s systematic structure and the unexpected defiance of that structure.