meet the artists
Ric
Ric Jordan is an American artist whose paintings explore the anxiety, beauty, and quiet moments of modern life through layered acrylic, oil, and mixed media.
He began creating art at a very early age and spent most of his childhood making art on any surface he could get his hands on. This continued into school, where he would spend the day drawing on all of his notebooks and worksheets.
Ric would go on to attend and then drop out of the art department at the not very prestigious University of South Alabama, but not before learning enough about art to put together a decent composition. He would go on from there to take a job teaching, and let his art making go dormant for many years.
A fellow teacher and mentor would later suggest that Ric get back into painting, and that suggestion would reawaken his desire to create. Now, later in life, he takes his practice seriously, creating lush, textured paintings and collages when he is not teaching art to high school students.
His shambolic, layered compositions explore the anxiety and confusion of navigating a life steeped in overstimulation and information overload while still searching for beauty and quiet moments. Alongside his studio practice, Ric writes about creativity, attention, failure, and the strange process of trying to make meaningful work in a distracted world. To read that stuff click the image.
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Kim
Kim Jordan is an American artist that specializes in mixed media creations using recycled or discarded materials. She graduated from the University of South Alabama with a degree in creative writing and education. When she’s not making art she teaches gifted students how to think creatively.
Kim is less interested in the title of artist than in the act of creating. She takes the most basic materials and turns them into artistic creations. From junk mail to discarded paint palettes, anything can become a material for her work.
She draws on her own emotions for most of her work, creating compositions that are both symbolic and heartfelt. Her work features expressive brush work, as well as unorthodox methods for applying paint, resulting in unique works. She begins each composition with no preconceived idea, instead allowing the artwork to decide what it wants to become.
Most of her paintings have an earnest sense of whimsy and wonder, capturing the joy of making. Many of her paintings begin when she smashes a used paint pallet on the canvas to offload any unused paint, and then when enough paint has built up on the canvas, she lets the splotches and shapes tell her what they want to become.