PHYSIQUE
ArtisT + Collector MIxer Saturday, August 15
4:00 - 6:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through September 11
For availability & inquiries
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This summer, Kai Lin Art proudly presents PHYSIQUE, our first-ever juried exhibition dedicated entirely to figurative work. Bringing together a diverse cohort of contemporary artists from across the Southeast and beyond, the show is a sustained meditation on the human body — its anatomy, its posture, its poise, and its enduring capacity to move us.
Figuration is among the oldest impulses in art, and PHYSIQUE honors that lineage while pushing it forward. The exhibition spans an expansive range of styles and approaches — conceptual, classical, surreal, minimal, and intricate — with works rendered in painting, sculpture, and mixed media. What unites them is not a single aesthetic but a shared subject: the figure as a vessel for meaning, material, and transformation. Across the gallery's walls and pedestals, the human form appears fragmented and whole, quiet and charged, familiar and strange — each artist offering their own answer to what the body can hold and reveal.
The exhibition was juried by Luke Hamilton, an Atlanta-based illustrator, professor, and longtime gallery associate at Kai Lin Art. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design with both a BA and MA in Illustration, Hamilton brings a practiced eye shaped by years of figure drawing, gallery curation, and commercial illustration work across the city. His selections reflect both technical rigor and a genuine curiosity for how artists today are reimagining the body as subject.
Featured Artists Melissa Holmes, Ryan Lamfers, Julie Fordham, AnnMarie Jalmasco, Heather Olsen, David Clifton-Strawn, Kris Krava, Jess Self, Kevin Chambers, Charles Tryon, Charles Young Walls, Grayson Simon, Diana Eaves, Alicia Brooke, Shane McDonald, Chad Awalt, Saulee Smith, Greg Nott, Melvin Toledo, Lisa Matrundola, Diana Flowers, Kristin Cronic, Shannon Thomas, TJ Reese, Nancy Sumerall, Karen Graffeo, Alex Charner, David Carlton, Jamie Ballay, Morgan East, Miles Davis, Beth Grabish, Lars Finderup, Caroline Gates, and Astoria Jellett.
Together, these thirty-five artists form a wide-ranging portrait of contemporary figuration — a conversation carried out in flesh, form, and gesture. PHYSIQUE invites viewers to look closely, to linger, and to reconsider a subject as old as art itself through thirty-four distinct, contemporary lenses.