Fresh from the Studio

Thu Jan 30, 2025

12PM

Fresh from the Studio invites W&TW artist members to share what they are working on now. In this virtual format, artists share work in progress, newly finished artworks, and recent or upcoming projects. Each presentation is about 10 minutes with time for your questions and comments afterwards. Fresh from the Studio is your chance to see what is new and hear from contemporary artists. This program is free and open to the public.

This segment of Fresh from the Studio will feature Aimée Everett, Natasha Kanevski, Andrea La Valleur-Purvis, and Georgie Miller.

About the Artists

Aimée M. Everett is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. She now lives and works in Austin, Texas. Everett’s work has been showcased in galleries and included in collections in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Dallas, Austin, and Canada. Questioning and communicating life experiences, emotions, and memories through gestureless abstraction, figurative exploration, minimalism, intense color, form, and texture, Everett asks the viewer to revisit recreated memory snapshots as a state of present experience. Drawing inspiration from the rich cultural heritage of New Orleans — where the celebration of the mundane, the dead, and the living coexists with a forward-looking perspective— Everett embraces this tradition throughout her practice.

Natasha Kanevski is a Belarus-born Israeli-American based in Texas. Kanevski creates meta-modernistic sculptures and works in monochrome to allow attention to concentrate on texture and composition. Kanevski has had works appear and win awards in juried art shows across the US and Europe, shown with selected galleries, including Solo and Duo Exhibits. In addition to exhibiting in Art Galleries, she runs a successful 5-star shop on Etsy, sells on Saatchi Art, Singulart, Artfinder, and Wescover, and work directly with interior designers. Since the war in Ukraine started, Kanevski has organized and curated Benefit Art Shows for Ukraine and is a founder and curator of the benefit Ukraine BE BRAVE Art Show.

With a formal education in Sculpture, Andrea La Valleur-Purvis holds a BFA in Sculpture from the College of Visual Arts (St. Paul, MN, USA), a post graduate in Innovation and Design Thinking from Emeritus (in collaboration with MIT, Tuck and Columbia Universities) and a number of certificates from IDEO and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Her studio practice has been inspired by working artists and teachers who have invested their talent and time to building artists of the future, including Karen Wirth (McKnight Fellow, MCAD, CVA), Sculptor Kurt Dyrhaug (Professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow Lamar University) and under current mentorship by John Nickell, Master Metalsmith and architectural metal fabricator among others. La Valleur-Purvis’ work is deeply informed by her multicultural upbringing in the UK and Germany by British and American parents. In adulthood, she lived in Spain for 5 years after traveling the world solo for one year in 2015. Before returning to her passion of making contemporary art, La Valleur-Purvis held creative roles for visionary tech brands for nearly two decades. In 2023, La Valleur-Purvis released her first series of public art installations for the City of Waco, Texas. She works from her studio in Waco, Texas.

Georgie Miller is a collage and photography-based mixed media artist based in Chicago and Austin. Her work explores themes of consumption and indulgence in daily life and in death, as well as the possibilities of perception. Her poignant works are created by digitally altering images, colors, and patterns and compiling the printed results through collage on paper, often with three-dimensionality. Her still-life scenes reveal new meanings found in the digital and physical manipulations of imagery and paper. The collages on paper invite the viewer to challenge how they absorb what they read, eat, drink, and see, whether mundane or celebratory – and the magic in the processing of the human experience. At the core of her practice is a transformative process where her own photography, digitally created patterns, colored paper, archived news media, and more become the raw material for my artistic expression. Miller aims to capture snapshots of what our eyes glance at millions of times daily without regard and seek a new perspective from layering, distorting, and compiling. The viewer is invited to reflect on how they process the world around them and what moments, whether simple or extravagant, spark joy.

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