Show Season 2002-2003

Show schedule coincides with Gallery Crawl Fridays 

Michael J. Lynch and Marilyn Simandle.

“Colorado and California Impressionists.” 

Friday September 6  6-9pm

(Show through September 30) 

Shain Fine Art is proud to announce representation of Michael Lynch, one of the finest contemporary landscape artists in the U.S. Growing up in Chicago provided frequent visits to the Chicago Art Institute where he was inspired by Sargent, Chase and Cassat. While studying art, Lynch secured an airline position that exposed the aspiring artist to international museums and galleries, and artists from around the world. Since 1978, Lynch has resided in Denver, CO which offers unlimited possibilities of landscape compositions. His sophisticated yet sensitive work evidences the artist’s keen understanding of his environment. Corporate collections include Hughes Aircraft, American Express & Deloitte. Lynch is represented by the Gerald Peters Gallery of NYC and Sante Fe and is member of the Chelsea Arts Club in London.

  Marilyn Simandle is an internationally recognized and oft- published California artist who has earned numerous awards and the honor of over sixty one- woman shows. Simandle’s street scenes and landscapes and interiors are inspired by trips to Europe and the Southeast. Her compositions are uplifting, filled with harmonious color, depth, warmth and vitality. A retrospective of this American Impressionist painter is entitled “Marilyn Simandle - Contagious Enthusiasm.” Collections include The Trump Collection, Senator John Garamendi and Burt Reynolds. Simandle is a signature member of Oil Painters of America and Plein-Air Painters of America, and has authored three coffee table books.  

Andrew Braitman 

“American Landscape -Contemporary Nostalgia”

(Artist will be present) 

Friday October 4 6-9pm

(Show through October 31) 

“There is something so exquisitely beautiful about man’s disappearing marks on the landscape. Regardless of how we assert ourselves on earth it is always growing over and ameliorating our efforts” -Andrew Braitman.  “American Landscape-Contemporary Nostalgia” invites the viewer to appreciate the world as  we know it today while reflecting on changes occurring within the features of the American landscape. Braitman is an artist of national stature with one-man and group shows from Santa Fe to Chicago to New York, and abroad from Holland to Brazil. He was chosen by Nancy Reagan as one of America’s Leading Artists which includes Andrew Wyeth and Frank Stella. Andrew Braitman is synonymous with “the artist who teaches artists” since founding the only professional private teaching studio in Charlotte in 1995. With endless credentials and an enviable career as a professional artist, Braitman is a fixture within art circles of artists and collectors.  

William Jameson

(Artist will be present) 

Friday November 8  6-9pm

(Show through November 30th) 

If William Jameson based his art career solely on one-man exhibits, his show schedule would spin heads. Since his first show in 1973 in Columbia SC, Jameson has shared his insight into the wonders of the natural world in shows from California to NYC to Bologna, Italy. His paintings were selected for the Woody Allen films “Manhattan” and “Interiors.” Images of Jameson’s insightful translations of his personal relationship with and respect for “the great outdoors” have appeared in a dozen publications. His is the best of both worlds in the Carolinas-living and painting by the sea in Charleston and by a mountain stream in Saluda, NC.

In addition to being an avid painter Jameson maintains a busy travel itinerary with artist workshops he conducts in France, Italy, San Muguel de Allende, Mexico and Greece. He will light long enough to share his perception of the world at Shain Fine Art. 

Amy Dobbs and David Ballew

 “Playing With the Mystery”

(Amy Dobbs will be present) 

Friday December 13  6-9pm

 (Show through January 31) 

Amy Dobbs has been painting and residing in Southern France since 1995. Since high school, her “classic with a twist” realistic still lifes, figurative and landscapes have won awards, earning the young painter a position with the Bank of America Fresco under Ben Long in 1992. Dobbs has shown in impressive venues, from the Congressional Offices in Washington DC in 1998 to shows in London and Paris. The highly skilled painter works in oil on linen or wood panel prepared with rabbit skin gesso. Dobbs usually paints “live” in front of subject, in the most minute detail, to achieve extraordinarily lifelike subjects. She credits Mother Nature with being “our best teacher”-and as Magna Cum Laude at Meredith College in Raleigh, Dobbs was obviously top student. 

David Ballew has been intrigued with geology and drawing all his life and understands a connection between the two. He studied art at Indiana University and also has a degree in Geology. Ballew’s love affair with the world about him and the compelling mysteries therein have inspired his exquisite landscapes. “Painting is very much a language in the way that poetry and music are and you can’t expect to speak eloquently unless you know the language. The intuitive part, however, is wide open.”-David Ballew  

Connie Winters and Darren Young

“Generation Gap: Charlotte Mother and Son”

 (Both artists will be present) 

Friday February 7  6-9pm

(Show through March 31) 

Connie Winters, (Mother) A twenty year career as a full time artist has earned Winters a prominent place in many private and corporate collections including Coca Cola as well as the Hearst Family, and locally the Duke Mansion and the Matthews Library. Winters’ lush, lively landscapes and still lifes continue to grow in popularity with collectors drawn to her refreshing, honest approach. Her original compositions are in a classic Impressionist style, inspired by painting jaunts to sunny France, the home of Impressionism. Winters, like the French, view landscapes and paintings of them as having a true soul-she succeeds in capturing that sensibility on every canvas.

 Darren Young, (Son) is a Denver, CO resident who earned a  Master of Fine Arts from the University of Indiana. Darren teaches art at University of Colorado in Denver. As a painter he inherited his mother’s artistic gene, which will serve him well, if her success is indicative of his future as a painter.  

 Josh Grant: Artist from New Zealand

(Artist will be present) 

Friday April 4  6-9pm

(Show through April 30) 

Josh Grant is a young artist who is establishing himself as an artist in the Queen City, hailing from one of the Queen’s former territories. Grant graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Barton College (formerly Atlantic Christian College) in Wilson, NC, where he was on a tennis scholarship. Grant has shown notable promise and has paintings in several corporate and private collections from his home country New Zealand to New York and Florida. The painter has been recognized by several awards as a rising star. Grant describes his style as an amalgamation of two of his primary interests-German Expressionism and photorealism. Grant’s oversized still life of Italian pottery was overwhelmingly well received at the Charlotte Latin School auction and was sold for significantly more than the retail value. Meet Josh Grant, an artist whose name you will come to hear in the Charlotte art community and beyond.