Curation Services
Kim Fabio Fine Art Curation Services works with apartment buildings in the Charlotte area looking to enhance their lobbies and the resident experience with artwork from regional artists. We will research and select artists appropriate to the desired setting and create in house materials to promote the artist to the residents. We are committed to bringing the best regional artists The Carolinas has to offer and will engage the diversity of tastes in the visual arts while highlighting the design of the buildings interior.
Local Artist
Lita Gatlin
Lita Gatlin, a native of Georgia, now living in Charlotte, North Carolina, began drawing in pencil and ink at an early age and transitioned to oil as a medium after college. As an artist, she wants her paintings to give the viewer a sense of being in the space of the painted subject. She wants the viewer to feel the temperature and the atmosphere. While Lita primarily paints landscapes of mountain scenery and the low country, she also enjoys figurative work. She is an Associate member of Oil Painters of America.
Anne Harkness
A native of Charlotte, NC, Anne Harkness is an alumnus of the Atlanta College of Art and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from The Maryland Institute, College of Art. Her work as an art director in New York City for 15 years, has impacted her style with a graphic aspect which can usually be seen in her paintings. The elements Anne uses are line, shape and color to support her design focus. The principles that interest her are balance, rhythm and movement.
Emily Furr
Emily Furr was raised in Charleston, South Carolina and recently earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Winthrop University located in South Carolina. With this degree she specialized in painting and drawing. The majority of her work involves portraiture. Her interest in portraiture began with an exploration of depth with color. She really became attached to the process of painting people.
Juliann Bannon
Juliann Bannon, divides her time between her studio in Charlotte, North Carolina and her home in southern Maine where she enjoys her harbor studio. Juliann paints in oil, but the roots of her work lies in the world of ceramics. In the 1990's she studied and worked at Harvard Radcliff Ceramics Studio where she was influenced by notable American and Japanese artists. The color palette of her paintings comes from the long experience and varied effect of kiln firings. Her work varies from landscapes that edge toward the surreal to abstracts that explore fiery color.
Kris Ross
Kris Ross majored in art in high school. She yearned to paint and shifted her creativity into the profession of Decorative Painting and trained in her field in many schools across the country. She has won many awards for her work in the industry as well as participated in several non-profit shows. She likes to work in texture and build layer upon layer while still allowing pieces of the underlying elements radiate through. The materials interact with each other and organically create something of their own. She can influence it with the addition of materials like copper and iron shavings. Each piece has a tale of its own.
Laura Sussman-Randall
Laura Sussman-Randall was raised in New Jersey where she enjoyed many artistic influences such as her mother, artist Mary Lou Sussman and close proximity to the museums, galleries and art scene of New York City. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a Bachelors of History of Art. Her work has become part of private collections across the country including Charlotte, New Orleans and Los Angeles. Much of her recent work has become about the power imbalances becoming so visible in our country. The images of canine behavior are a symbol for the various power struggles that are taking place in our society.
Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings easily moves from landscapes to still life paintings to trompe l'oeil in his chosen medium, oil painting. His landscapes feature bright intense color bordering on the surreal with emphasis on amplified perspective. He is a self educated artist who never stops studying and perfecting his craft through private lessons, workshops and hours of independent study.
Sharon Hockfield
Sharon Hockfield is a North Carolina native who works in her studio in the South End of Charlotte. Her subject is the figure and portraits. She is constantly searching for the balance between the figure and the abstract. She combines drawing with painting, line with form and texture with color. Sharon always works from life and wants the viewer to have a conversation with her figures because they have something to say.
Tim Sheaffer
Tim Sheaffer studied at Western Michigan University and has participated in workshops from Michigan to Seattle. He has shown his work in a variety of venues in Michigan, Illinois, California, Washington, South Carolina and North Carolina and has collectors is several other states. His work for the past few years has been focused on the idea that everything is defined by what it reflects. Every color on every surface is not only represented by its true color, but also by the way its texture affects that color. He finds that this is also metaphorically true of the mind. We are what our mind reflects.
Veronica Maldonado
Veronica Maldonado's paintings are on display this month in the Catalyst Lobby Gallery. Veronica was born in Peru and has lived in Australia and Hong Kong. Her collection “for the love of birds” springs from her childhood love of birds and their natural surroundings. Her painting probes relationships between realistic and stylized elements, image, and self, color and mood.