The Hen House @ The Stables presents the work of Curtis Bartone with Ugis Berzins opening November 22nd. INKED: Concept to Commodity will be on view at The Hen House’s new space located at The Stables (7 Rathborne Dr.) through December 14th and features a wide variety of original works rooted in drawing, including illustrations, prints and paintings. The show focuses on the evolution of the sketch as the basis for artistic creation, and the relationship of value to a works’ ultimate distribution as it is mediated through different processes.
The comic is for the many, the print for the few, and the painting for the one. How this relationship affects its worth is worth considering.
Gallery hours are Friday through Sunday from noon-5PM starting on November 22nd. A closing reception will be held on Saturday, December 14th, from 6-9PM. All programming is free and open to the public.
About the Artists:
Curtis Bartone’s work has been included in over 100 group exhibitions internationally, and in 22 solo exhibitions, most recently at the University of Alabama, Huntsville; Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston; Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia and Alberta Printmakers in Canada. He has been awarded numerous residencies in the U.S. and abroad and has received grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council. In the summer of 2021, Bartone will have a solo exhibition of works on paper in North Karelia, Finland.
He received an MFA from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, and a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design, in Columbus, Ohio. Currently, he resides in Savannah, Georgia with his wife and seven cats, where he makes paintings, drawings and prints and teaches printmaking at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
@cabartone | curtisbartone.com
Ugis Berzins is an illustrator and cartoonist hailing from Michigan, but is now biscuit deep in the Savannah Gentrification Olympics. After graduating from SCAD in 2014, he decided to double down on making art for a niche audience, opting out of profitability or an upward career trajectory. No matter how questionable the concept, the goal for Ugis is to treat it seriously, with a high degree of craft.