Megan Chapman: Evidence of the Disappearance Painter Megan Chapman featured at Blue Moon Gallery, Hot Springs Arkansas"Evidence of the Disappearance" an exhibit of abstract, oil and mixed media paintings by Fayetteville artist, Megan Chapman will be featured for two months beginning June 6 – July at the Blue Moon Gallery in Hot Springs Arkansas.The gallery is located at 718 Central Avenue in the downtown Historic Arts District.The opening reception will be held June 6th from 5-9pm, during first Friday gallery walk. The artist will be present.This exhibit includes thirty new paintings never before exhibited.Chapman's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Remy Fine Art in Ft. Smith, the DDP gallery in Fayetteville, Julie Wait Designs in Rogers, Mullins Library, at the University of Arkansas, and at Gallery Fraga in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Chapman's work was recently on display in the Arkansas World Trade Center in Rogers, Arkansas. Her mixed media abstracts have been well received, and can been seen in the Fayetteville Shogun Sky bar's permanent collection, and in other corporate collections. Most recently two of Chapman's paintings were published in Studio Visit, a national juried exhibition in print.Megan Chapman was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She received her B.F.A. in painting from the University of Oregon. Chapman has shown her paintings over the past ten years in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington; her paintings have appeared in various publications, and are in private and corporate collections around the country.About the concept behind the title and the exhibition, Chapman says...When I paint I listen to music on my headphones, and the music is always a constant source of inspiration and helps me to dive into the work and away from this world; the paintings that result are the only "evidence" of this time spent "away."My work is always about my love of color, the subtle changes that occur when colors overlap, react, and create something new. I also love textures and how layers of color and texture come together. I have been exploring different motifs that I find natural and comforting. These shapes are repetitive at times, and often peek out from a hidden space in the painting or brazenly take the foreground. These shapes reflect my love of design as well as "mark making" and how I enjoy the imperfect smudge of charcoal or the gritty pencil line as it floats along the painted surface. Intuitively, I bring these elements together to create an otherworldly atmosphere.Please join us to welcome Megan Chapman at her opening reception of "Evidence of the Disappearance" June 6, from 5-9 PM at Blue Moon Gallery. The exhibit will continue through July. For further information please call the Blue Moon Gallery at 501-318-2787 or visit the website at www.bluemoonartgallery.com
Find Megan Chapman's paintings and learn more about the artist's work at these websites and galleries:www.bluemoonartgallery.com
www.ddpgallery.com
www.rivermarketartspace.comwww.remyfineart.com
www.galleryfraga.com
www.meganchapman.com
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