Beverly Baker

“Baseball; numbers, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10; Ladies, necklaces, earrings, necks, cologne, Poocat, Bill – wears good cologne, Mia – puppy dogs, going to church. Ladies that smell good; ring, “My Love”. I like ink because it’s black. ABC, brown eyes. Ladies that are blonde & they smell good, watch TV: Scooby Doo! Chocolate cake & chocolate eggs, cookies, M&M, yogurt & spoon; CHOCOLATE! Clothes, pretty paint, pink, eyeshadow, brown eyes & shirts, kitty cats, “my house and Poocat”, pudding & Cool Whip, chocolate bunnies & eggs, 2! Jelly Belly jelly beans, lips & makeup, ghosts, witches & “Trick or Treat”; prefers drawing big instead of small. Damsels in Distress, “My Love” – heart, sleep/snore; Meryl Streep is an angel.” – BB
Beverly Baker begins and ends her work with her name and a scaffold made of ink pen swoops. She layers long, curving lines -- like airplane trajectories -- and compact scribbling until the paper is swallowed up in a swirling, swooping, plunging, pitching whirlwind of jet, coal, ebony, black bean, and licorice. In 2014, Beverly contributed to the Outsider Art Fair in NYC, had a solo exhibition at the Drawing Now Paris show, and shown in several group shows at locations including christian berst art brut Paris and NYC. She’s been an artist at Latitude Artist Community since its inception in 2001.
photograph by Katelynn Ralston
www.katelynnraeralston.com

Bibliography:

Christian et Elisa Berst, rentree hors les normes 2012, découvertes et nouvelles acquisitions, galerie christian berst, Paris, 2012.

Everything # 4, catalogue d’exposition (2 septembre-25 octobre 2011) Londres, The Museum of Everything, 2011.

David Minton, “Her Art Disproves Her Disability”, The Lexington Herald-Leader, December 2002.

Jennifer Worley, “Paintings Speak for Local Woman”, The Woodford Sun, August 2002.

Rich Copley, “Keeping An Open Mind”, The Lexington Herald-Leader August 2000.

David Minton, “6 from Minds Wide Open art center”, The Lexington Herald-Leader, August 1999.

American, contemporary.
Born 1961, Versailles, Kentucky.

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Norma Barnes

A tiny spitfire with a love of nature, Norma Barnes’ body of work exists as a microcosm of the American South full of kooks, fruits, flowers, twitchy creatures, and witchy women. Her portraits, landscapes, and still lifes throw conventional artistic traditions out the window with something as simple as switching up the orientation of the paper; however, Barnes still utilizes the drawing medium basics: pencil, ink, and watercolor paints. This particular collection of pieces is just a glimpse at the delightful lineup of neighbors and strangers, sprawling wildflower fields, and creepy creations that make up her imaginative world.

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**Eric Blythe**

Eric Blythe is a natural-born storyteller and often shares tales about his friends, his family, and his observations of the world through his energetic drawings and deliberate & thoughtful poetry. His drawing process involves careful consideration of what fancies him at the moment and with graphite, colored pencil, or ink and pen, he scratches his thoughts out onto the page until it is a full and vibrant scene with colorful characters and background merging together. He has shown and sold work in multiple locations in Lexington, KY.
Photograph by Katelynn Ralston
http://www.katelynnraeralston.com/

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JB

JB enjoys creating 3-D art using papier mache.

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Della Bullens

“Chicken! Pudding! Coke! Blue, orange, pink, yellow. Oh, Peapod. Yeah, Mama!” - DMB
Della Mae Bullens’ universe consists of the simple pleasures in life: food and friends. She represents herself and her world through a meld of Technicolor mandalas and stained glass window drawings that feature the occasional chicken or two hidden in the gates and frames. She typically uses washable markers and sharpies, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. She’s shown in several group shows in Lexington, KY.

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Burdine,%20Calista.jpg — Calista Burdine

Calista enjoys beading and coloring adult coloring books.

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Mary Burton

Mary enjoys coloring and music.

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Abbot Cada

Abbot is an extremely friendly and outgoing member of Latitude. He loves to express himself and share ideas with his friends. He enjoys yoga and participating in group projects and collaborations. He is experimenting with different art techniques and mediums to find what best suits his creative style.

Walker Campbell

Walker enjoys all things Star Wars and is inspired by pop culture movies like the DC characters. He enjoys music and physical activity. He likes to recreate light-sabers and other props from movies and comic books. He is interested in cinema arts and script writing.

Adrainne Cotton

Adrianne enjoys working on collaborative projects and coloring.

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Nancy Covert

As a traveling nature-lover, Latitude artist Nancy Covert is an expert in creating various landscapes, ranging from the rolling hills of Kentucky to the painted deserts in the West. Using oil pastels helps Covert to properly convey the bold colors she witnesses in nature. Weather plays a large role in Covert's life and therefore a large role in her art. In many pieces one can see the skies range from a blue, summer sky to a gray, rainy day.

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Victoria Denney

Victoria likes to unwind in the creative atmosphere of the studio. She can often be found working on intricate coloring sheets or relaxing outside. She enjoys trying new things and has a knack for various crafts, especially with yarn and textiles. She likes to create latch hook art to share with family and friends. She is a outgoing person who loves animals, friends, and family.

Steven Elliot

A contemporary gastronome and greeting card enthusiast, Steven Elliot’s intuitive brushwork and use of color culminate into multifaceted garden landscapes with planes and patches of bright colors, garnished with numbers, playful columns, and selections of recipes from cookbooks. His fearless manipulation of materials – acrylic paints and washes, sharpies and colored markers, cray pas, watercolor, and polycrylic – made apparent in these works, exemplifies his skill and invites the viewer to take a peek at his colorful personality.
photograph by Katelynn Ralston
www.katelynnraeralston.com

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Paul Fiehrer

Paul Fiehrer works predominately with watercolor and acrylic paints. One of Paul’s unique painting techniques is applying thick brushstrokes across paper. Furthermore, each painting possesses an aura—manifested through Paul’s color choice. Though his works are considered abstract, each color combination reveals an impression of a landscape. Interestingly his color palette reflects the various stages of sunlight (daybreak, sunset, or twilight). This is something similar to the painting approaches of the Modern Art masters, Rothko and Monet.

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Mary Fields

Mary Fields uses energetic compositions of planes of color to paint radiant auras with metallic, iridescent, and highly-pigmented watercolor, filling the entire sheet of paper with pulsating, swirling energy. She loves adult coloring books and her favorite color is yellow.

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Mary Sue Hurley

She is "Daddy's little monkey" and she always will be! Mary Sue Hurley is a talented fabric and papier mache artist who loves to recreate the jungle. Though monkeys are her favorite animals, Mary Sue also loves to make cheetahs, bears, cats and dogs.

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Erik Krieg

Not only is Erik Krieg a gifted artist, but he is also a talented musician. When he isn't painting or drawing, Erick plays the drums and the guitar for his peers.
Erik is a natural storyteller and he loves sharing his stories through his art work. Each piece possesses vibrant and expressive shapes and colors. Erik loves to paint John Deere tractors and Pink Floyd album covers.

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Martin,%20Gabriel.jpg — Gabe Martin

Gabe enjoys creating art using writing and creating objects like gloves, a cane, and masks.

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Terrance Martin

Terrance M. lives in Lexington Kentucky. He is passionate about art, technology and bowling. He uses his artistic abilities to express his emotions and share his passion for his work. Much of Terrance’s work is from his imagination. He creates imaginative and abstract characters full of bold colors and thick lines.
When asked what inspires him to create artwork Terrance said… “I am inspired by my emotions. Its helps me to get my anger out. It is a form of anger management for me. I also want to sell some of my work to make money.”

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Susan Miller

Books, Vicki, and food are just a few things that inspire Latitude Artist Susan Miller. Miller uses oil and chalk pastels, colored pencils, markers, cardboard, and paper to create bold lines and ovals. The generated shapes then verve into different positions in the composition. Miller ensures that she has several options available to her in terms of materials and sources by having various tools and references at the ready.

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Natalie Montogmery

“I draw marsupials& old people. Younger and old. I like to draw kangaroos especially because I like marsupials – because they have pouches: koalas, wombats, Australian animals. Old people, wrinkles- lines in the face and skin, because they live for a long time. I like drawing senior citizens because they walk with a cane. Because they’re retired. I like to draw bathrooms & people using the toilet and shower. Perspective/anime bathroom, U-turn plumbing. Big eyes. I like anime people more than real people. I like to draw young people: infants, toddlers, children, young teens, adults & nudes. I like to draw kitchens, building, indoor/outdoor & vehicles. Planet Earth & space.” – NM
Anime, not to be confused with Western cartoons, captures Natalie Montgomery’s attention like nothing else (except drawing). She’s inspired by stills and fan art of shows like Naruto and Full Metal Alchemist, but it’s the anime style: bright colors, dark outlines, cel shading, and succinct lines, that incites her to create the work you see in her portfolio. Natalie has shown in a few gallery shows in Lexington, KY and has work in private collections.

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Neville,%20Thomas.jpg — Thomas Neville

Thomas enjoys beading. His beads are used in many of the studio's group projects.

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Maddison Parsons

Maddison Parsons is a Latitude Artist known for her unique color choices and high energy, which reverberates onto her pieces. Parsons layers materials on top of one another to create cell-like designs and portraits inspired by music, movies, her home life, and pop culture. Her subjects are mapped in the middle of a composition so that the eye does not wander and focuses solely on the center.
photograph by Katelynn Ralston
www.katelynnraeralston.com

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Meg Pike

As a former Lexington Holler poet, Latitude Artist Meg Pike continues to write poetry. She draws inspiration from people she has read about or met, her own life experiences, surroundings, and nature. Pike uses pen or pencil not only compose poems, but also to actualize portraits of imaginary or physical beings.
photograph by Katelynn Ralston
www.katelynnraeralston.com

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Ralph Reynolds

“Have you ever gone camping with a group of Canadian bounty hunters who go to bed at 9pm?” and other hypotheticals revolving around hilarious, absurdity hijinks and survival without our creature comforts, are common conversation starters for Latitude’s very first artist and raconteur. Ralph Reynolds remains a contemporary Aesop, weaving impersonal breaking news into stories and scenarios that make you stop and think. Taking bits of history and contemporary events, Ralph layers his stories into something wholly personal and lets a transformation happen to his audience as new connections are formed to the tales he’s spinning. He’s a walking performance piece whose two-dimensional, essentialist marker drawings exist as road maps for his tales. Armed with a stack of paper which he quickly exhausts, Ralph engages his audience by calling out names, using hand gestures, and holding up his art pieces all the while challenging our perceptions and interpretations. At the end of the trip, he brings us to a final destination: our acknowledgement of the possibilities.
photograph by Katelynn Ralston
www.katelynnraeralston.com

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Whitney Reynolds

Whitney enjoys coloring and working on group projects.

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Doug Robertson

As a child, Latitude Artist Douglas Robertson lived on a farm, inspiring most of his work. Robertson’s work resembles Dutch folk art with its clean lines and rural subject matter. Colored pencils are used to create lightly colored barns, farmhouses, skies, and fields on thick, white paper, sometimes protruding through the background.

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Shearer,%20David.jpg — David Shearer

David enjoys music and drawing.

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Polly Swift

Polly Swift’s mixed media drawings feature flat, rich landscapes complemented by her signature imagery: essential and timeless architecture. Through the use of bold, often primary colors and distinct line, Swift transports the viewer into benevolent spaces where an orange sun is always shining, the sky is perpetually blue, and the grass is green. Often, the entire background is saturated with lively hues leaving only chosen structures unadorned with color. The flat perspective, devoid of scale, encourages flowers to tower to the height of buildings and trees in these fantastical landscapes. Swift often includes a building or two, but keeps her architectural elements sparse as they pale in comparison to nature.
photograph by Katelynn Ralston
www.katelynnraeralston.com

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Kenny Taylor

John Deere, Harley Davidson, Wolf Men, and Michael Jackson are some of Kenny Taylor's sources of inspiration. Taylor explores his hyper-masculine world through making wooden John Deere sculptural tractors, painting wolf-men, and decking himself in JD paraphenelia.
photograph by Katelynn Ralston
www.katelynnraeralston.com

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LaFaithia Turner

LaFaithia Turner's work moves to a pulse of its own creation. Bright shapes and colors facilitate a tactile exploration of material and texture. Through an abundant usage of materials including paint, colored pencil, and cray pas, texture is built with Turner's ample strokes. Line plays a predominant role in the work's composition and movement as they intersect and cross one another.

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White,%20James.jpg — James White

James White is a quiet and independent artist who prefers to tell his stories through visual manifestation. Thoughts constantly race through James’ mind, demanding to be released. In order to expose these thoughts, James applies thick brush strokes with several pigments. The glowing, swirling nature of his brush often portrays an energetic landscape—similar to Van Gogh’s use of line in his masterpiece, Starry Night. Sometimes, James will hide human figures within the compositions; usually hidden behind a tree or bush.

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Chris Wilhoit

With inspiration from superheroes, pop stars, and local sports, Latitude Artist Chris Wilhoit is able to create unique, one-of-a-kind pieces. Pops of bold colors mix with geometric and organic shapes sometimes filling an entire composition and sometimes focusing on one, condensed area. Fresh markers and thick acrylic paint are Wilhoit's primary materials to actualize Wilhoit's chosen subjects.
photograph by Katelynn Ralston
www.katelynnraeralston.com

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Jessie Dunahoo.jpg — Jessie Dunahoo

**(August 6, 1932 - May 14, 2017)**
The captivating, octogenarian raconteur Jessie Dunahoo assembled quilted panels into what he called “shelters” ranging from single tapestries to sprawling room-sized forts. He made his sculptures from petroleum plastic bags and various bits of fabric, using them to share his many autobiographical and fictional stories. Dunahoo utilized his sense of touch (and occasionally his senses of taste and smell, for inspiration) because he was both sight and hearing-impaired. He loved guiding interested folks through his shelters and recounting the tales associated with them.
photograph by Katelynn Ralston
www.katelynnraeralston.com

Experience Jessie's creative process by clicking the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCAH6go0-YU

Professional Summary:

Selected Exhibitions

2008 Folk Art Takes a New Form, Artsplace Gallery, Lexington KY

2008 Solo Exhibit Andrew Edlin Gallery NYC

2007 Group Exhibit Jones Art + Design, Lexington, KY

2007 Installation Woodland Arts Fair, Lexington, KY

2005, Rasdall Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington

2005, 2003 Rasdall Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY

2005 Featured Artist, UK Sanders Brown Series On Aging, Lexington, KY

2003 Featured Artist Successful Aging for People with Disabilities Conference, University of Kentucky

2003, 2000 Shearer Gallery, Transylvania University , Lexington KY

2001 “Strung Along” (performance/installation based on Jessie Dunahoo installation with Mecca) Mecca, Lexington, KY

Media:
2008 Featured Artist ABC Television "Extreme Home Makeovers"

2008 Featured Artist "Bernson's Corner" Fox TV affiliate, Louisville

2007 "Blind Ambition" 'W' Weekly, Lexington , KY

2003 Fox 56 News "Personality of 2003" video

2000 Lexington Herald- Leader “An Impressive Touch of Genius”

2001 “Strung Along” (performance/installation based on Jessie Dunahoo installation with Mecca) Mecca, Lexington, KY

Selected Collections

Latitude Artist Community
Institute 193, Lexington
Mayor Jim Gray, Lexington

Kuntz, Jac, "60 WRD/MIN Art Critic Lori Waxman Visits Institute 193 in Lexington", Burnaway, March 27, 2017.

Stern, Julian, "Mapping the Senses: The Tapestry of Jessie Dunahoo", Brut Force, December 14, 2016.

Isaacs, Barbara, "An Impressive Touch of 'Genius' Jessie Dunahoo," Lexington Herald-Leader, November 22, 2008.

Clark, Robbie, "Blind Ambition," W Weekly, August 2, 2007

Other publications

http://copiousnotes.bloginky.com/2010/06/12/latitude-celebrates-10-years/

http://www.blurb.com/b/860686-latitude-artist-community

http://brasstea.blogspot.com/2009/06/jessie-dunahoo.html

http://artbeatlexington.com/tag/jessie-dunahoo/