Fresh A.I.R. Gallery

12/01/2022

Attention Artists in Recovery, if you haven't submitted for the 2023 exhibition season, we'd still love to hear from you. The link to submit is on our website and in bio here.
Thank you!

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11/30/2022

We are excited to announce our next exhibition!

WOLF GIRL:
FLIGHT, FIGHT, FREEZE
By MARIANA WEFLEN .art

Wolf Girl: Flight, Fight, Freeze will be on display at Fresh A.I.R. Gallery's SEEN Studios (#21 Chromedge Studios 289 W. Walnut Street, Columbus, OH, 43215) from December 9 to January 20, 2023. The artist’s opening reception will be held on Friday, December 9, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm during the art districts festivities. Meet the artist Mariana on Friday, Dec. 9 and join us for light refreshments and holiday cheer :)

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"Warmth"
Wolf Girl Part Three: Freeze, page 1
Gouache and ink on bristol board
14 x 11 in.
2017

11/14/2022

Thank you to all our artists, sponsors and supporters of the Art of Recovery 2022! It was wonderful to see all of you and enjoy an evening of art, music and recovery!

11/12/2022

Former OSU player Harry Miller honored at Art of Recovery auction

Great coverage from last night’s big Art of Recovery 2022!

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A former Ohio State football player was honored Friday at the annual Art of Recovery Art Auction. Harry Miller received this year’s Recovery Award, which recogni…

11/12/2022

Wonderful evening supporting mental health and recovery!

11/11/2022

Thank you to all our supporters of the Art of Recovery fundraiser benefitting Fresh A.I.R. Gallery. We look forward to seeing you at the Columbus Museum of Art tonight!

11/11/2022

Hope to see all of you tonight at CMA for the Art of Recovery! 6:00 general admission. Tickets are still available and Bidding for the silent online at bidpal.net/aor2022. Live art auction and awardee Harry Miller! Don’t miss it!

11/10/2022

Art of Recovery silent auction bidding is happening now for one more day. Check out link in bio.

11/09/2022

Our featured Artist MahLeah Cochran says "I feel things deeply; I often ponder the state of humanity, the struggles of our world and the outlook for our collective future. My art is an expression of my emotions, thoughts and passions. I express myself outwardly on canvas in color and texture. This is deeply gratifying for me as it allows me to share with others, my innermost feelings.

I choose to use acrylic paints for its quick drying time. This enables me to create layers on canvas. This helps me demonstrate complexity. I use everyday kitchen items, recycled cardboard and many other tools to create original forms and textures in my art. I enjoy the journey of painting new pieces. There is a thrill of discovering what my work will yield next. It's what keeps me engaged.
I paint to inspire, challenge, and calm the soul.

ART OF RECOVERY SIGNATURE PIECE IN LIVE AUCTION

Beneath the Surface
Acrylic on canvas
30x 30x 3"
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11/08/2022

Henry Hess is a Franklinton based artist who began working from his Chromedge studio at the age of 14.

Despite living his entire life in the new millennium, his tastes are decidedly 20th century. Through mediums of paper, canvas, wood, paint and marker he brings to life hundreds of classic movie scenes and characters.

His process begins with endless hours of viewing. His obsessive watching of movies, such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Wizard of Oz, and Marry Poppins, occurs in many stops and starts. He watches a scene over and over, studying a set detail or costume. When he sets out to draw or paint, he will create an entire contour of the figure in black, and then finish the line details within. The figures are typically facing forward, rigid in their posture. Hess will then bring the figures to life with color. They are more than characters to Hess they are friends who infuse him with a passion to create.

His fervor to craft a new world for himself is not dictated from the outside, but rather from within. Hess has created small, medium and life-sized illustrations and is rarely constrained by size. His largest piece to date was a 100-foot commissioned billboard, Fabulous Franklinton. He has exhibited his work in 13 solo and 42 group exhibitions since emerging into the Columbus art scene.

14 x 1 x 11"
Paper, pen, marker
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11/07/2022

www.southeasthc.org

Get your tickets to the Art of Recovery in person event! Friday Nov 11 at the Columbus Museum of Art!

11/05/2022

I had a passion for figurative painting early in my life. My tools are oil and watercolor to capture moods and gestures of people. Several patrons have told me that that is what attracted them to my work.

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New Hairdo
watercolor on paper
18x 14
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11/04/2022

Fundraising Powered by OneCause, creator of BidPal

Today is the first day of the online silent auction! Create your account and bid on over 90 pieces of original artwork.

11/03/2022

Lisa Parks Godfrey is inspired to paint subjects that resonate with her on a personal level. As a representational artist, her favorite subjects are still life paintings that remind her of time spent with people close to her. She also enjoys painting images of her family and farms that have deep meaning to her family history. For this reason, each painting is in essence a testimony of life. Her entry point to painting began as an art collector, but her passion for creating art really began while working with children and adults with developmental disabilities in various art programs. Lisa has always admired painters who dedicate themselves to the artist’s journey. She hopes her work brings joy and color to the lives of others.

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Santa Cruz Persimmon
Oil on panel
20x20x1/2
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11/02/2022

Marilyn has been making jewelry for 20 years! She takes great joy in making things that others enjoy wearing. She makes comfortable and fun pieces made of silver, vintage beads, and vintage Swarovski. She sometimes combines them with each other and with copper, brass, glass, tin, and bottle caps!

She works at her home studio and The Cultural Arts Center. Although Sherrie Gallerie has closed, she is still represented by Sherrie Hawk.

Murano glass pendant and earrings
Glass, rubber neck wire and silver clasp.
About 6 inches square
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10/31/2022

"Take it! Take a, take another little piece of my heart now baby..." -Janis Joplin.

Artist Kirsten Bowen is an Ohio born artist living and working in New York. She is a scholarship graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design, and was a gallery owner in Bexley Ohio between the years of 2004-2007. Her two solo museum exhibitions include the Coral Springs Museum of Art in Florida and the Evansville Museum of Arts History and Science in Indiana. Most recently she was featured in a 2 person exhibition “When Nature Speaks” with Karen LaValley at Capital University’s Schumacher Gallery throughout the spring quarter. She was the New Albany Symphony’s artist in residence for 2007-2008 and 2017-2018. Her work is in many corporate and private collections in the US and abroad.

She is represented by the Feldspar Gallery in Savage Maryland, Apropos showroom in New York City, Paula Estey Gallery in Newburyport Massachusetts, the Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland, and the Rumjahn Gallery in Evansville Indiana, and C.Parker Gallery in Greenwich CT.

The goal of my work is to combine literary expression and visual art, thereby adding a transformative dimension to painting. The literal content includes quotes, lyrics, poetry and more, and the style and technique are uniquely hers, and considered a form of fresco secco.

Janis Joplin
48 x 48"
Venetian plaster

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10/29/2022

Artist Sean Wang has lived in Ohio for 35 years and has attended this program many times. He will be painting live at the Art of Recovery 2022 for the live painting demonstration.

Ballerina
Oil
20x18'"
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10/28/2022

Karen LaValley
“My inspiration as an artist comes from my desire to create work that is authentic. My paintings reflect the world around me, with the intention of portraying the pure beauty found in imperfection. A field of weeds and flowers, a desert landscape off the beaten path, an unkempt garden, are some examples of subjects that incorporate the dichotomy of what I seek to paint.
This is also exemplified in my process, where I begin each work with a rough sketch and a more muted palette. As I begin to work into the whole composition, I am able to more precisely isolate the focal point. It is my intention to paint the whole composition at once, in order to capture the true essence of the scene. As I am nearing completion, I begin to paint with bold color and thicker paint. I hope that in the end, my work communicates my belief that it is through imperfection that we find what is true and good.”



Homestead
oil/canvas
24x30"
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10/27/2022

Art of Recovery online auction preview is now open! Click on the link in our bio to visit the website and view all the work!

10/27/2022

Artist Ryan Orewiler Orewiler.art says this piece is a detail from a vision I had during his first reiki session by White Canvas Bodywork. There were also other animals in his vision - a bear, dragon and a calm gray wolf.

The meaning of the white tiger has always intrigued people. Symbolizes spiritual enlightenment, extraordinary strength, and unwavering courage. White tigers were revered by ancient Indians as symbols of bravery, strength, war, resolve, intuition, and clairvoyance.
Website URL www.orewiler.art

Tiger Eyes
Mixed media
24”x36”
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10/26/2022

Congratulations to the 9 artists whose fabulous works will be featured in the live auction at the 2022 Art of Recovery Gala! After two rounds of jurying by our 3 community jurors, we could not be more thrilled to showcase these extremely talented artists while supporting mental health and substance use disorder advocacy and awareness at our highly anticipated annual fundraising event.

Thank you to our esteemed jury members Greg Lestini, partner at the law firm of Bricker & Eckler LLP, Lynette Santoro-Au, Executive Director of ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists, and Jenifer Fraioli, Chief Healthcare Officer at Southeast Healthcare.

For the Live Art Auction, you must be in attendance to bid on these works on the evening of November 11th, for which tickets are available for purchase (link in bio). All other donated works, a whopping 89 total, are available in our silent auction which will be available for preview soon with silent online bidding beginning Friday, November 4. All proceeds benefit Fresh A.I.R. (Artists In Recovery) Gallery.

Live Auction Artists include:
Shawn Augustson, Janine Crum, Mah Leah Cochran, Dan Gerdeman, Antonio Gonzalez-Garcia, John Fadley, Paula Long, Adrian Sibley, Brenden Spivey,

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10/26/2022

(Noah Lint) is a florist, a musician (Dean Bip on Spotify or Amazon music) and a stained glass artist who lives in Clintonville.

Find more of his visual work on ImPerfectglassworks on Etsy.

"Rose"
Stained glass
8 inches diameter
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10/25/2022

Justin Frehs is a guy who loves to paint. Have spent my entire life drawing and painting for people. It’s been my passion since I could hold a brush. Love to create bold, vivid, unique paintings that push my mediums to their absolute limits. I try to create art that looks great up close, and from a distance.


“Blind Ambition”
Watercolors
12 x 16"
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10/24/2022

Southeast and Fresh A.I.R. Gallery are pleased to announce Harry Miller as this year's Recovery Award Recipient at the Art of Recovery event Nov. 11. Tickets are on sale now through our website southeasthc.org

Harry is a student at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and a former Ohio State football player. He made national news earlier this year when he announced that he was medically retiring from football. Before he retired from football in the spring of 2022, Harry played in 22 games during his first three seasons with the Buckeyes, and he started seven games at left guard for the Big Ten and Sugar Bowl champion Buckeyes in 2020. While playing football, Harry made it a point to use his platform to help others. He was named one of 22 members of the 2021 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. He earned the honor for is dedication to community service and the positive impact he has made on the lives of others. Harry is currently a senior at Ohio State majoring in mechanical engineering. His motto is “Dum Spiro Spero - While I breathe, I hope.”

10/23/2022

FRED FOCHTMAN
I am an oil painter, art restorer and painting instructor living in Columbus, Ohio. As a painter, I am interested in working from observation. Lately I have been painting quite a bit in the urban areas north and west of downtown Columbus. I focus my process on the measured arrangement of simplified shape and color within a composition. The subject matter that I seek out is often unremarkable but still contains the essential design elements that are important to me. “Franklinton View, East” was painted last year in the rapidly changing Franklinton neighborhood, west of downtown Columbus. Due to construction and urban decay, this painting and others from the neighborhood capture a view of the historic community that is quickly changing.

Franklinton View, East
Oil on paper laid on panel
9” x 12”


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10/22/2022

The Purple Tornado
Acrylic on Panel
16x12 Inches


My mother's grandparents were Slovak immigrants who lived a traditional Eastern European life. They owned a large cattle farm in western Pennsylvania and from a young age I worked there doing chores and bailing hay with my cousins through many hot summers. Part of my youth was spent with my father in central Ohio. We lived in a rural area and my many relatives there were Appalachian transplants who were steeped in Appalachian tradition. During this time I labored outdoors, working with family and neighbors on area farms.
While attending Youngstown State University where I received my BFA, I spent a great deal of time at the Butler Institute of American Art. I was privileged to study original works of the Hudson River School and Regionalists such as Charles Ephraim Burchfield and Thomas Hart Benton. These works closely aligned with my life experiences and shaped my artistic vision.
I am represented by Fresh A.I.R. Gallery and my work can be found in many collections, including Columbia Gas corporate collection and Bricker and Eckler's Law collection.

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10/22/2022

Fresh AIR Gallery is featured today on Out N About Columbus! Catch us again tomorrow ABC 6.

10/21/2022

CHRIS LUCAS
I capture the energy and and intensity of colorful urban life with my use of color & light.

In The Wizard of Oz remember how you felt when the movie turned to color – that’s how I feel when I paint. I find art fascinating because it gives you the ability to actually see what someone else is thinking. After my kids were grown, I began painting in oils and acrylics. I have taken classes at CCAD, and classes with artist Michael McEwan who really broadened my perspective and abilities. I am a member of the German Village Art League. I was born in Columbus, Ohio, I live in German Village where I also have my studio.

"The Mercy Lounge - Nashville"
Acrylic
24" X 24" X 1.5"


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