STILL II: An Elaboration on the Inanimate (2022)

May 15 to June 15, 2022

STILL II: An Elaboration on the Inanimate (2022) was presented from May 15 to June 15, 2022 as TCG Gallery's second annual still life exhibition. Twenty artists contributed 21 works to a catalog spanning painting, works on paper, printmaking, photography, and mixed media. The original prospectus places contemporary still life between references to ancient Greco-Roman artworks and Dutch vanitas painting, then asks what artists can do with inanimate subjects after centuries of flowers and fruit. The recorded media answer at the level of process: oil and acrylic on canvas and panel, pastel, watercolor, limited edition linocut, chromogenic and archival inkjet printing, a photographic print, photo painting, and photography combined with graphite, watercolor, and pencil. One digital photograph records a paper-and-thread sculpture and is mounted on aluminum; another work retains the live catalog's medium entry of Unknown. The Featured Artists roster includes credits across the United States and locations in Canada, Italy, Germany, and Iran. Those are artist credit locations, not claims about nationality or where any work was made. This permanent archive page preserves the complete roster, 21 catalog entries, media, dimensions, edition notes, and historical listed prices. Explore the works below, then continue to the first STILL exhibition, the archive, or current calls.

TCG Gallery's Second Annual Still Life Exhibition

STILL II: An Elaboration on the Inanimate (2022) is a completed mixed media exhibition of 21 works by 20 artists. Its original prospectus describes it as TCG Gallery's second annual still life exhibition and frames the project through its own references to ancient Greco-Roman artworks, Dutch vanitas painting, wilting flowers, and bowls of oranges. The question on the page is direct: what can contemporary artists add to a genre organized around inanimate subjects? The archive answers with the catalog itself, keeping titles, media, dimensions, artist credits, and historical price fields attached to each work without inventing a visual interpretation from any title.

Oil, Acrylic, Pastel, and Watercolor

The catalog records multiple approaches to painting and drawing. Kevin Kemp contributed two oil-on-panel works, Life in a Box and Yellow Cab. Mollie Greenberg's Missing Person is acrylic on canvas, while Jacob Docksey's Mid-day Fiasco and John (Witzel Art) Walters II's Docking Station are oil on canvas. Ronald Anderson's Mushroom Trio is credited as three attached oil-on-canvas panels forming a framed triptych. Timothy Tyree's His & Her Trees No. 2 combines oil, charcoal, oil pen, spray paint, and glitter. Carina Imbrogno's Lemon Lime Paradise uses pastels. Meridith McNeal and Raymond Perez are represented by watercolor on paper, and Kara Bigda's Antique Store Jars is watercolor on clay panel.

Photography, Photo-Based Work, and Hybrid Media

Photography appears as one part of the mixed media catalog. Brittany Severance's Mom's Iced Tea and Vitamins is an archival inkjet print, Jacob Wachal's Magbaylo (Barter) is a chromogenic print, and Mehdi Babadi's Grotesque is a photographic print. Monika Blanka Katterwe's live credit identifies Not All That So Shine Is Really Be Gold as a photo painting. Amy Schuessler's Untitled VIII combines photography with graphite, watercolor, and pencil. Amy Yoshitsu's Untitled (01/12/2021) is credited as a digital photograph of a sculpture made from paper and thread, mounted on aluminum. The archive preserves those exact process distinctions instead of flattening every photo-based entry into one generic category.

Linocut, Mixed Materials, and an Unknown Medium

Tina Armando's Final Walk in the Woods is a limited edition linocut. Gennaro Santaniello, Megan Green, and other artists extend the catalog through oil or acrylic on canvas and panel, while the listed materials elsewhere include charcoal, spray paint, glitter, graphite, pencil, paper, thread, clay panel, and aluminum mounting. Peter Devenyi's Pearlescence remains credited with the medium Unknown and dimensions shown as question marks. That incomplete field is part of the live catalog record, so the archive does not replace it with a guess. Preserving uncertainty is more accurate than converting a missing medium into a confident but unsupported process claim.

Twenty Artists Across Five Credited Countries

The Featured Artists list contains credit locations in the United States, Canada, Italy, Germany, and Iran. These entries identify the artists for the catalog. They do not establish nationality, subject location, or where a particular work was produced. The distinction matters because this archive is built from the record actually published on the exhibition page. NFS and the listed prices are retained as historical catalog fields only; they do not represent current availability or an offer to sell.

A Recurring Theme in the Permanent Archive

STILL II follows STILL: An Elaboration on the Inanimate (2021), the first exhibition in TCG Gallery's recurring still life theme. The two editions remain separate inside the permanent online exhibition archive, each with its own dates, roster, prospectus framing, and catalog. Explore all 21 works below. Then visit the 2021 edition, browse the complete exhibition archive, or review TCG Gallery's current photography open calls.

Featured Artists

Mollie Greenberg, Kevin Kemp, Carina Imbrogno, Timothy Tyree, John (Witzel Art) Walters II, Peter Devenyi, Megan Green, Amy Yoshitsu, Ronald Anderson, Tina Armando, Meridith McNeal, Kara Bigda, Gennaro Santaniello, Amy Schuessler, Monika Blanka Katterwe, Mehdi Babadi, Jacob Wachal, Brittany Severance, Raymond Perez, Jacob Docksey