Exhibitions at Laney Contemporary

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CLERESTORY
Abel Macias, Ben Tollefson, Betsy Cain, Hasani Sahlehe, Katherine Sandoz,
Namwon Choi and Trish Andersen
JUNE 18 - AUGUST 29, 2020
Hasani Sahlehe, Hurry back and bring the sun, 2020, acrylic, latex, and oil stick on canvas, 58” x 45”
Savannah, GA (June 15, 2020) - Laney Contemporary is pleased to announce our Summer 2020 group
exhibition entitled Clerestory. Clerestory windows, found high above eye level, at the highest level in a
building, allow for brilliant color, light, and fresh air to flood in. They open up and amplify enclosed
spaces. Rainbows of light enter and swirl around a previously darkened space. They can be understood
as metaphors for enlightenment and truth. The word ‘story’ hidden in clerestory also connects with
narrative; to tell one’s story is to bring light and color to a dark space. Color, in the form of paint, stain,
brush, gouache, tincture, fiber, or luminosity – to name a few – is essential to the works gathered in
Clerestory. It is often the first; the most noticeable element of any work of art. It has the capacity to initiate
dialogue or to inform the entire story. In other words, color, in all forms, has narrative power. Color and
light can also enhance or manipulate an existing image, transforming its relationship to truth and fiction,
re-shaping perception.
This exhibition, available both in the gallery and online, gathers a chorus of visual narratives that
emphasize color, light, and fresh air in a time of heavy hearts, indoor cloistering, and worldwide grief.
Clerestory is hopeful. It brings together artists whose work recognizes the enlightening power of artistic
experimentation with color and light. It’s a reminder that the studio is a place for the practice of new ways
of thinking, on a daily and personal basis, with the power of collective affect. It’s about color’s ability to
involve the artist and the viewer within the intellectual and creative process. Each of the seven artists
included in Clerestory engages color for different reasons, producing formal and personal narratives that
emphasize the chromatic spectrum as driver of content. Through word play, metaphor, and a meeting of
creative voices, Clerestory reminds us that color and story – light and narrative – are starting points for
solutions.
Clerestory also recognizes the important role that artists play in changing “a moment into a movement.”
Each artist and the gallery will donate 10% of sales from this exhibition to the artist’s organization of
choice.
About Laney Contemporary Fine Art
Laney Contemporary specializes in photography and contemporary art from both emerging and
established artists with a focus on artists in and around the American Southeast. With over two decades
of experience, the gallery represents outstanding talents of the area’s dynamic, contemporary art scene.
Gallery hours and contact information:
Tuesday - Friday, 11-5

Saturday, 11-2
and by appointment
Phone: (912) 438-4442
Email: info@laneycontemporary.com
Address: 1810 Mills B. Lane Blvd, Savannah, GA 31405
Artists Biographies:
Abel Macias
Abel Macias (BFA, Illustration, SCAD, 2002) is a painter, illustrator, builder, art director and visual
problem-solver. After 15 years of living and working in New York, New York, he now lives and works in
Los Angeles, California. With a knack for repurposing commonly used material and objects, he creates
curious, playful interiors, illustrations and art objects. Macias’ work is rooted in Mexican folk art and
influenced by nature and everyday objects, combined into an uplifting clash of color and pattern.
Ben Tollefson
Ben Tollefson (MFA, Painting, SCAD, 2014) lives and works in Savannah, Georgia. He worked at The
Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and in 2011 moved to Savannah to pursue a painting degree while
working as a director at Non-Fiction Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in the city’s Thomas Square
neighborhood. He currently serves as the Associate Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art. In this role, he
has curated solo exhibitions by Lily van der Stokker, Wendy White, Shoplifter, Wong Ping, Lee Bul,
Christopher Chiappa, and others. Tollefson has exhibited his work in solo and group shows in Alaska,
Georgia, Virginia, Washington, D.C, and Wisconsin. His work was most recently presented in the group
show Another Body for Myself in Savannah in 2020.
Betsy Cain
Betsy Cain (BFA, Painting, The University of Alabama, 1972; MFA, Painting, The University of
Alabama,1976) was born in Tuscaloosa, AL on the University of Alabama campus and grew up in
Fairfield, Alabama. Cain accomplished formative undergraduate work at Auburn University and Instituto
Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
After the culmination of a national grant through The Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, New
Mexico in 1981, Betsy and her husband David Kaminsky, a photographer, moved to Savannah, Georgia.
For the past thirty-nine years she has maintained an independent studio practice in Savannah and has
exhibited widely in Savannah, Atlanta, and New York. Her work is held in many corporate collections,
including Coca-Cola USA, King and Spaulding, Alston Bird, Price Waterhouse and Cooper, and Chemical
Bank, NYC.
Cain has work in several museum collections, including The High Museum in Atlanta, The Macon
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA, The Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, and The Roswell
Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. She has been awarded the Macon Museum’s Bowen Award 2018
for Artistic Excellence and the Georgia Women in the Visual Arts, Governors Award.
Hasani Sahlehe
Hasani Sahlehe (BFA, Painting, SCAD, 2015) is a multidisciplinary artist. His practice consists of abstract
paintings, installations, and performances that explore memory, migration, and the supernatural.
Significant exhibitions of his work include, Banana Republic at SCAD Museum of Art, What a Kallaloo at
the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and NADA Miami. His work has
been published in Art Papers, New American Paintings, and Burnaway. He has been
awarded the SCAD Alumni Atelier, MINT Leap year residency, and the Hambidge Residency
for the Arts and Sciences. His work has been collected by Michael Rooks, curator, High
Museum of Art, SCAD, and numerous international collectors. Sahlehe currently serves as the
teaching artist at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA.
Katherine Sandoz
Katherine Sandoz (MFA, Illustration, SCAD, 1997 and MFA, Painting, SCAD, 2005) is a multi-disciplinary
artist and visual strategist. Her paintings, fiber works and illustrations often feature and are inspired by
Savannah’s people, waterways and landscapes. A professor of illustration at SCAD from 1997–2005, she
has been living and working in Savannah since the mid-1990s. Sandoz is a frequent collaborator with
artists practicing in many disciplines, an advocate of public art and a champion of upcycling and
repurposing. Her most recent commission includes a large-scale suspended sculpture and site-specific
painting for the Jepson Center for the Arts, Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia.
Namwon Choi
Namwon Choi (BFA and MFA, Traditional Korean Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, 2002; MFA,
Drawing and Painting, Georgia State University in Atlanta, 2014) is an artist based in Savannah, GA. Her
work has been exhibited at the New York City Korean Culture Center, the Los Angeles Korean Culture
Center, Aqua Art Miami, the National MFA Wet Paint Biennial Exhibition in Chicago, and at The Museum
of Contemporary Art, Georgia in Atlanta. Her work in the New Connections exhibition at the Korean
Cultural Center in Washington D.C. was reviewed in the Washington Post. Her recent solo exhibition, In-
Betweenness, showed at Gallery 72 in Atlanta, Open Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, and Artist Homes
Gallery in Berlin, Germany. She is currently a professor of Foundation Studies at Savannah College of Art
and Design.
Trish Andersen
Trish Andersen (BFA, Fibers, SCAD, 2005) is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Dalton,
Georgia, "The Carpet Capital of the World.” Andersen's initial attraction to the process of tufting, a
process most frequently used in carpet manufacturing, was a means of reconnecting with her roots.
Years after attending the Savannah College of Art and Design and moving on to live and work in
Brooklyn, New York, she began using the medium in an examination of the notion that a thing or a way of
being can run in our blood, that perhaps by observing the characteristics of personal origin and
establishing commonality and community around those that reverberate in the present, one may be able
to begin unearthing the elusive authentic self. Trish currently lives and works in Savannah, GA.
katherine sandoz
iris no. 1, 2020
water-based media on canvas
30 x 30 in (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
KS-118
$3,600
katherine sandoz
untitled (kee no. 1), 2020
30 x 40 in (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
KS-120
$4,200
katherine sandoz
tidal creek no. 1, 2020
30 x 30 in (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
KS-121
$3,600
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katherine sandoz
waterlilies, 2020
30 x 30 in (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
KS-124
SOLD
Namwon Choi
Blue Distant (Configuration 2), 2020
gouache on panel
6 x 60 in (15.2 x 152.4 cm) NC-6
$4,000
Namwon Choi
Blue Distant (Configuration 1), 2020
gouache on panel
6 x 60 in (15.2 x 152.4 cm) NC-10
$4,000

Namwon Choi
Blue Distant (17 vanishing points), 2020
gouache on panel
40 in diameter
NC-7
$4,500
Namwon Choi
Blue Distant (fifteen cubed), 2020
gouache on wooden box
15 x 15 x 15 in (38.1 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm) (total height
60 in)
NC-8
$12,000
Ben Tollefson
Dancing to the Same Song, 2020
oil on canvas
40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
BT-1
$2,500

Ben Tollefson
Make a Day of It, 2020
oil on canvas
18 x 14 in (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
BT-2
$700
Ben Tollefson
Spotlight (Hairography), 2020
oil on canvas
18 x 14 in (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
BT-3
SOLD
Ben Tollefson
Until You Love Me, 2020
oil on canvas
18 x 14 in (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
BT-4
$700

Ben Tollefson
What Becomes a Legend Most, 2020
oil on canvas
18 x 14 in (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
BT-11
Auctioned for Charity / SOLD
Hasani Sahlehe
Prelude, 2019
acrylic collage, installation, wooden structure
36 x 36 x 38 in (91.4 x 91.4 x 96.5 cm) *varies
HS-2
$2,000
Hasani Sahlehe
Self Portrait, 2019
acrylic, oil, and pencil on oil paper
30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
HS-3
Framed
$1,400

Hasani Sahlehe
Your tears are just temporary, 2020
acrylic on canvas
14 x 11 in (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
HS-4
SOLD
Hasani Sahlehe
Hurry back and bring the sun, 2020
acrylic and oil stick on canvas
58 x 45 in (147.3 x 114.3 cm)
HS-5
$4,000
Betsy Cain
midnight marsh, 2020
oil on yupo paper
48 x 24 in (121.9 x 61 cm)
BC-180
Framed
SOLD

Betsy Cain
midnight water, 2020
oil on yupo paper
24 x 48 in (61 x 121.9 cm)
BC-181
Framed
$3,400
Betsy Cain
water, water, 2020
oil on cutout panel
48 x 60 in (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
BC-182
$7,000
Betsy Cain
residual red #1, 2020
oil on canvas
30 x 30 in (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
BC-183
$3,300

Trish Andersen
many windows to the radiant unknown, 2020
mixed yarns
47 5/8 x 67 5/8 in (121 x 171.8 cm)
TA-1
$7,800
Trish Andersen
Here, there, and evereywhere 1, 2020
mixed yarns
24 x 24 in (61 x 61 cm)
TA-2
$1,600
Trish Andersen
Here, there, and everywhere 3, 2020
mixed yarns
24 x 24 in (61 x 61 cm)
TA-3
$1,600

Trish Andersen
mixed yarns
24 x 24 in (61 x 61 cm)
TA-4
$1,600
Trish Andersen
mixed yarns
24 x 24 in (61 x 61 cm)
TA-5
$1,600
Trish Andersen
Ebb and flow, 2020
mixed yarns
48 x 60 in (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
TA-6
$7,000

Abel Macias
Quilted Hills
oil on panel
16 x 20 in (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
AM-2
$3,500
Abel Macias
Waterfall Rock
oil on panel
16 x 20 in (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
AM-1
$3,500

Blanche Nettles Powers
Rooney 3, 2020
oil on linen
42 x 32 in (106.7 x 81.3 cm)
BNP-4
$6,000

Webster, 2020
oil on linen
42 x 32 in (106.7 x 81.3 cm)
BNP-3
$6,000

Apple, 2020
oil on linen
18 x 16 in (45.7 x 40.6 cm)
BNP-5
$2,800

Hill, 2020
oil on linen
18 x 16 in (45.7 x 40.6 cm)
BNP-6
$2,800

Bottoms, 2020
oil on linen
54 x 42 in (137.2 x 106.7 cm)
BNP-10
$9,000

Waller-Bridge, 2020
oil on linen
18 x 16 in (45.7 x 40.6 cm)
BNP-7
$2,800

Sciamma, 2020
oil on linen
42 x 32 in (106.7 x 81.3 cm)
BNP-2
$6,000

Alcindor, 2020
oil on linen
42 x 32 in (106.7 x 81.3 cm)
BNP-1
$6,000

Ifill, 2020
oil on linen
54 x 42 in (137.2 x 106.7 cm)
BNP-9
$9,000

Hittman, 2020
oil on linen
54 x 42 in (137.2 x 106.7 cm)
BNP-8
$9,000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STRUCTURE OF COMFORT
JUNE 18 - AUGUST 29, 2020
Webster, 2020, oil on linen, 42” x 32”
Savannah, GA (June 15, 2020) - Laney Contemporary Fine Art is pleased to present Structure of
n exhibition of recent work by Savannah-based artist Blanche Nettles Powers. The exhibition is
Comfort, a
on view from June 18th to August 29th. A reception will be announced for early August.
Process-based, semi-monochromatic paintings explore the dichotomy of intention and accident, through
the action of painting, with the goal of comfortable resolution. The title of this exhibition has been
appropriated from Katharine Kolcaba’s theory Taxonomic Structure of Comfort, also known as Comfort
Grid. This theory is a means to assess and provide comfort to hospitalized medical patients. The grid is
composed of “Type of Comfort” (relief, ease, and transcendence) and “Context in which Comfort Occurs”
(physical, psycho-spiritual, environmental, and sociocultural). (Kolcaba)1 The exhibition title is in reference
to the comfort that caregivers provide during our current unprecedented time of Covid-19. The title also
correlates to the grid structure of fabric. Swatches of fabric and images of handwoven carpets are used
as reference material, as an entry-point into the paintings. Thin layers of oil paint are applied and
scrubbed into the surface, emphasizing the irregular weave and nubby texture of the linen. Layers of paint
1
Kolcaba, Katharine. “Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory.” Nursology, Nursology, 9 Sept. 2018,
nursology.net/nurse-theorists-and-their-work/kolcabas-comfort-theory/. Accessed 25 May 2020.
are wiped away and new layers applied. Initial marks, made with rags, brushes and pours, rise to the
surface and intertwine with fresh marks. In time, a new warp and weft emerges. Early phases of the work
are no longer visible, however the painting holds the memory. Surfaces of the paintings are thin and
translucent like aging human skin. Drips and pools of paint on the edges reveal bits of history. Each work
is in vertical portrait format, mirroring the stance of the viewer. The larger paintings of this series are
human scale, inviting one to enter the space and to reflect in meditation.
The structure of fabric is understood by the artist as a metaphor for community or society. Individual
threads come together to form the whole. Nettles Powers associates fabric swatches with childhood
memories of her mother, endlessly engaged in sewing projects. As a result, textiles have an inherently
feminine connotation for the artist, rooted in memory. The titles of the paintings are names of women of
note, who have come to her attention during the period of making the work, as a record of time. Some
names are fictional characters, from novels or films, while others are women from current events,
journalists, literary artists or musicians. These paintings are essentially about the role of visual art as part
of the provision of comfort for any viewer, so often a pleasurable experience. The pleasure through
resolution of process is also apparent, as the tension between intention and accident, eventually reveals
an unanticipated comfort through repetition, structure, pattern, and association.
Bio
Blanche Nettles Powers resides in Savannah, Georgia where she earned an MFA in painting, from
Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work has been included in numerous group and solo
exhibitions, including solo shows at Kim Foster Gallery in Chelsea, New York, and at Savannah College
of Art and Design. Juried exhibitions include Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, Savannah
College of Art and Design, and ArtFields in Lake City, South Carolina. Nettles Powers is the recipient of
several professional awards including Jentel Foundation fellowship, Vermont Studio Center artist grant,
Studios at Mass MoCA artist grant, and Anderson Ranch Art Center presidential fellowship. Exhibitions of
her work have been featured in The Week Magazine and MutualArt Magazine.
About Laney Contemporary Fine Art
Laney Contemporary specializes in photography and contemporary art from both emerging and
established artists with a focus on artists in and around the American Southeast. With over two decades
of experience, the gallery represents outstanding talents of the area’s dynamic, contemporary art scene.
Gallery hours and contact information:
Tuesday - Friday, 11-5

Saturday, 11-2
and by appointment
Phone: (912) 438-4442
Email: info@laneycontemporary.com
Address: 1810 Mills B. Lane Blvd, Savannah, GA 31405

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Blanche Nettles Powers

Blanche Nettles Powers

1810 MILLS B LANE BLVD. | SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31405

Blanche Nettles Powers

Blanche Nettles Powers

1810 MILLS B LANE BLVD. | SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31405

Blanche Nettles Powers

Blanche Nettles Powers

1810 MILLS B LANE BLVD. | SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31405

1810 MILLS B LANE BLVD. | SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 31405

Blanche Nettles Powers

Webster​, 2020, oil on linen, 42” x 32”

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Webster, 2020, oil on linen, 42” x 32”