Featured Artists Exhibit September-November 2025

The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Barbara Tyroler and Donna Stubbs, and guest artists Tama Hochbaum, Wyatt Speight Rhue and Carmen Elliott.

Opening Reception on October 10, 2025.

Barbara Tyroler

Barbara’s practice embraces dual nature—photography’s grounding in reality and its capacity for transformation. She explores how the camera can reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary, how technical choices can shift meaning, and how the act of selection itself becomes a form of interpretation. Her work explores the tension between documentation and expression, between the world as it appears and as it might be understood.

Carmen Elliot

Carmen creates terra cotta sculpture and pottery for home and garden. She is particularly interested in making forms that are expressive, and that may evoke a sense of mystery or humor, the fragile or the wild, or a kind of renewal that can unfold between maker, viewer, and the thing created.

Donna Stubbs

Donna’s paintings emerge from an exploration of color, materials, and line. Through repeated layering of drawn marks, organic shapes, and shifting tones, she creates compositions that carry both rhythm and movement. Her work builds abstract spaces that invite close looking, offering viewers layered narratives of memory, intuition, and discovery.

Tama Hochbaum

Tama Hochbaum creates photo-art that internally alludes to drawing and painting sensibilities, which she layers and aligns with photographic processes. This body of work uses a combination of photography and drawing and pulls beauty and joy from the artist’s garden, an Arcadian site of inspiration and pleasure. Tama works to make a final image that exists as if it were assembled from remembered scenes; an image that presents as if it were composed from manifold bits and layers over many hours at an easel.

Wyatt Speight Rhue

Wyatt designs, builds, and sculpts furniture in his studio in eastern North Carolina. His practice explores traditional modern forms while embracing playful and unexpected uses of materials and construction methods. For his body of work, Wyatt presents a collection of bowls and vessels turned on the lathe, as well as side tables carved, turned, and sculpted directly from logs. These works highlight his dialogue with raw wood — where natural shapes and irregularities become guides for form rather than obstacles to overcome.