Chapman & Bremner: March-April NWACC

We took the quiet roads
© 2011 Megan Chapman & Stewart Bremner
Mixed media on canvas, 30x40" 
$1,350 

  

 I thought I would find you here

Megan Chapman & Stewart Bremner

March 1st – April 30th, Peterson Auditorium
Shewmaker Global Business Development Center

NorthWest Arkansas Community College. 

Bentonville. Arkansas

Statement

I thought I would find you here presents works by Megan Chapman and Stewart Bremner, in their first official collaborative exhibition. Including selections created by both artists as individuals, the heart of this show is comprised of a series they painted together, during an intensive period of creativity in May 2011.

Megan from Fayetteville, Arkansas and Stewart from Edinburgh, Scotland, had been following each other's work and corresponding for over a year, before Stewart came to visit Megan. The pair were excited to finally have the chance to work together.

Each collaborative painting in this exhibition contains characteristics of both artists, merged together to create something new and more complex. The initial response to these works has been favorable and several are held in private collections.

Punctuating the exhibition are the artist's individual paintings, which demonstrate the similarities in their visual languages and were created both before and after this unique collaborative experience.

Artist's Bios

Megan Chapman

Megan was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She received her B.F.A. in painting from the University of Oregon. She has shown her work over the past fifteen years in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington State, Washington D.C., Philadelphia PA, as well as overseas in Liverpool, England and most recently in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work has appeared in various publications and is held in numerous private collections nationally as well as internationally.

Stewart Bremner

Stewart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stewart has been showing his work for ten years in galleries throughout Scotland, as well as more recently in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Stewart came to the attention of audiences in Northwest Arkansas after his exhibitions and artist's residency at the Fayetteville Underground in 2011.

 A strange currency
©2011 Megan Chapman & Stewart Bremner
Mixed media on canvas 40x30"
$1,350

 Beneath the silence
©2011 Megan Chapman & Stewart Bremner
Mixed media on canvas 30x24"
$800

Find my certainties
©2011 Stewart Bremner
Mixed media on canvas 16x20"
$425

Just
©2011 Stewart Bremner
Mixed media on canvas 16x20"
$425

 One small spark
©2011 Megan Chapman & Stewart Bremner
Mixed media on canvas 16x20"
$425

 That moment of clarity
©2011 Stewart Bremner
Mixed media on canvas 16x20"
$425

Through the times
©2011 Stewart Bremner
Mixed media on canvas 16x20"
$425

 We communicate through static
©2011 Megan Chapman & Stewart Bremner
Mixed media on canvas 30x24"
$800

  Diving Within
©2011 Megan Chapman
Mixed media on canvas 30x40"
$1,350

  Falling into Sound
©2010 Megan Chapman
Mixed media on canvas 40x30"
$1,350

For more information about this exhibition please email Megan Chapman at megancha@gmail.com or the curator on site Eric Smith at ESMITH@nwacc.edu. The exhibition should be available for viewing during the normal business hours of the college, but it is a good idea to call before visiting to make sure the auditorium isn't in use. Click here for directions.