Butterfield Garage Art Gallery will present new work from Nancy Hamlin-Vogler, its April 2025 featured artist. Her new exhibit, “Time Out of Time,” opens on the First Friday Artwalk, 5-9 p.m. April 4. Hamlin-Vogler will be present to discuss her new work.
In new paintings on paper, Hamlin-Vogler explores a playful interpretation of the contemporary still life genre. Choosing from an array of jars, bottles, cups, shells and ephemera, she allows the objects to dance or disappear through the painted surface.
“After an extensive studio reorganization, I was reintroduced to a gang of work over the past five decades, along with the memories of creating these drawings, paintings and serigraphs,” she said. “This triggered my incessant interest about the nature of time and became a logical segue to express my signature gestural/abstract style using cutout, silkscreened and painted papers.”
A diverse two-dimensional artist, Hamlin-Vogler’s favorite materials include drawing implements, acrylic and oil paints, charcoal, pastels, pasted rice paper and cut/torn silkscreened paper elements. She is inspired by the landscape, ephemera and nature in her own backyard, adding fortuitous discoveries, worldwide travels and studies in Buddhism thrown into the mix of life’s mysteries.
Her work has been included in juried art shows and invitational exhibitions, especially at the St. Augustine Art Association, in which she has won numerous awards.
Most recently, she received an individual Art Ventures grant from the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, to work on a series titled “Backyard Studio Kitchen.” She is represented by Arts on Douglas in New Smyrna Beach and is a current and founding member of Butterfield Garage Art Gallery.
After finishing graduate school with an M.A. in French literature, Hamlin-Vogler developed an infatuation with the silkscreen printing process, designed a line of colorful greeting cards and established Eastern Sun Printworks. Forty years later, now printed digitally, her iconic card images, featuring suns and moons on blended background mindscapes are still sought after by card aficionados.
For further information, go to nancyhamlinvogler.com.
Butterfield Garage Art Gallery is located at 137 King St., St. Augustine. The website is butterfieldgarage.com.
