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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
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David Barron works in architecture and creates large-scale, textured paintings with visual layers as well as layers of meaning. One's perceptions of his paintings often change as one spends more time viewing the works.
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Jim Buonaccorsi’s work has been included in over one hundred and fifty exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at City Gallery Chastain in Atlanta, Georgia, 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida, Fugitive Art Center in Nashville, Tennessee and Marshall Arts in Memphis, Tennessee. His most recent solo exhibition debuted at The Flood Fine Art Center in Asheville, North Carolina in 2008. His work has received numerous awards including the Reese Collection Annual Purchase Award at the University of Tennessee and The Martin and Doris Rosen Award at the Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. He has also received a Georgia State Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant and the M.G. Michael Award for ![]() outstanding research and two Senior Faculty research grant at the University of Georgia. His work is in numerous public and private collections. Jim and his wife, LeeAnn Mitchell, also a sculptor, live and run their studios in Farmington, Georgia along with their Bull Terrier Cosimo.
Buonaccorsi's Artist Statement:
"My work addresses social, political and philosophical issues. The sculpture I make is not an attempt at moralizing, prophesying or passing judgment, but rather a way of confronting the issues we conveniently ignore. Most of the works are constructed in steel with other media, such as bronze, aluminum, cast iron, glass and concrete. Incorporated within these pieces are historical, architectural, and figural elements. My sculpture is industrial, both in appearance, as well as the method of construction. I feel that this type of imagery successfully addresses the post-industrial, socio-political and philosophical issues I want to call into question. The utilization of this type of imagery acts as an indicator to the issue of man’s inability to learn from history. Although as a species we continue to make claims of great progress in both civilization and technology, this progress is often misused. The same mistakes are constantly being made and our technology, which is most often war generated, has merely made us more efficient in making these mistakes."
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