Opening September 4th
Collected Variations
Reception 5-7 PM
Opening September 4th
Collected Variations
Reception 5-7 PM
Discover the Works of Bridger Barksdale
With a decade of dedication to his craft, his practice is founded upon a deep respect for the natural world and the ways it can be honored through the disciplines of drawing and painting. At a time when life only seems to move faster, Bridger seeks to imbue a special attention to the overlooked subjects around us.
A First Place recipient of the Mountain Maryland Plein Air Salon in 2023, he was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Rhode Island School of Design where he is currently completing a degree in painting.
Shady Village Hangout
Through syncopated brushworks and bold chromatic clustering, Bosch constructs a visual anthropology of small rural hamlets, where the architecture, shade trees, and everyday gestures of residents cohere into a shared social fabric. In doing so, it elevates this modest public square—people gathering, pausing, passing through—into a lens on collective identity, revealing how rural communities stage belonging, continuity, and civic intimacy through the choreography of ordinary life.
Vineyard Dreams
Through a structured matrix of directional brushstrokes and calibrated chromatic contrasts, this composition organizes the vineyard into rhythmic spatial corridors that guide the viewer toward the architectonic presence of the red barn. The viewer is forced to balance the way it reframes an agricultural landscape as a study in optical tempo—merging plein-air immediacy with a contemporary inquiry into repetition, structure, and the poetics of cultivated ground.
Lake Day
Executed through assertive brushwork and calibrated shifts in light, Bosch situates a lakeside community within a dynamic tension between gestural naturalism and the distilled geometries of human habitation. Its representation lies in how it elevates an everyday shoreline moment into a meditation on place, memory, and the atmospheric possibilities of contemporary plein-air practice.
"A reincarnation of the Renaissance artists ..." La Nazione Magazine, Florence, Italy.
Joseph Sheppard, born in Owings Mills, Maryland, is a celebrated realist painter and sculptor known for his classical technique and expressive realism. A graduate of MICA and Guggenheim Fellow, he taught painting and anatomy there from 1960 to 1975. His public commissions include Baltimore’s Brooks Robinson bronze, the Pope John Paul II Monument, and the Holocaust Memorial, along with murals for the Baltimore Police Department and National Aquarium.
The Ferleman Gallery is honored to host a landmark retrospective celebrating the life and work of Joseph Sheppard, showcasing his enduring legacy as one of America’s foremost realist painters and sculptors.
I want to thank you both for your efforts at my opening. The gallery and it's accomodations are first class. I have shown around America, in Italy, Germany and London. And your gallery is first class.
Joseph Sheppard
Wendel Myers, a former potter and passionate jazz enthusiast, brings a deep appreciation for spontaneity, improvisation, and the beauty of unexpected outcomes to his painting. Inspired by the dynamic interplay of color and form, his process mirrors the essence of jazz—listening, reacting, and creating simultaneously. Much like working with clay and glazes in a kiln, where elements can be influenced but never fully controlled, his approach to painting embraces spontaneity and discovery. His abstract landscapes are rich with personal history, reflecting memories of places he has lived and traveled—from the vast great plains and serene lake country of his youth to the rugged Carolina mountains, sweeping seascapes, the desert Southwest, and the timeless landscapes of Europe.
Abstract Meditations on Memory and Place
Echoes of Light explores the evocative interplay of color, texture, and form, reflecting Wendell Myers’ immersive engagement with the natural and atmospheric nuances of the French countryside.
Chromatic Dialogues: Intersections of Red and Form
Pink and Yellow Flowers
Titled Pink and Yellow Flowers, this exuberant painting merges gestural abstraction with floral motifs, featuring vibrant pink, yellow, and white blooms erupting from a vivid green vessel against a saturated fuchsia background. Energetic splatters and expressive brushwork activate the canvas, creating a dynamic interplay between spontaneity and form. The high-chroma palette and layered textures evoke a post-minimalist sensibility, transforming the traditional still life into an immersive, affect-driven composition that privileges the materiality and movement of paint over strict representation.
Flowers in Purple Pot
Flowers in Purple Pot, is a radiant composition that channels a joyful vitality through its interplay of bold color and kinetic brushwork. Bursting from a rounded lavender vessel, clusters of crimson, lemon-yellow, and blush-pink blossoms pulse with energy against a vivid tangerine background. Myers employs dynamic splashes, drips, and layered pigment to blur the boundaries between representation and abstraction, conjuring a sense of spontaneous movement. Eschewing traditional still life conventions, the work leans into visual exuberance and chromatic intensity, offering an immersive, sensory experience grounded in color, rhythm, and expressive immediacy.
Blue Vase on Green Table
This composition radiates playful energy, with splashes of vibrant red, green, and pink foliage emerging from a cobalt blue vase atop a tranquil green table. The layered textures and expressive splatters create a dynamic interplay of controlled precision and spontaneous movement, evoking a celebratory ode to color, form, and the joy of creation.
Interview with Chuck Fischer & Mark Lester
The Form & Function Exhibit featured an interview with Dr. Thomas Ferleman, Chuck Fischer, and Mark Lester, exploring the balance of beauty and utility in their work. Fischer shared insights on his sculptural designs, while Lester highlighted the tactile artistry of his pottery, inspiring audiences with their creative
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