LOOM Coworking includes a substantial exhibit spaces for nationally shown local artisans called GALLERY@LOOM and spaces for up-and-coming and Student artists called the Studios@LOOM. Artists receive a great deal of exposure by coworkers and event rentals. The exhibits are free and open (by appointment) Mon-Fri 9am-4pm and during community events. Preview the Gallery space via our virtual tour!
Join us each quarter for the artist’s reception and open house to meet these talented individuals and find out how LOOM has gotten involved in the local arts community. Stay on top of these events on our Facebook events page!
Mary Zio describes herself as an abstract expressionist. Working in an non-objective style, she uses color, form, and movement as her subject matter. She enjoys inviting the viewer to engage with her artwork by means of their initial reactions and feelings, to draw their own ideas of the artwork’s interpretation.
Mary received a Bachelors of Fine Art from Purchase College. While attending school, she studied and worked under a two year apprenticeship with world renowned artist, Bruce Bleach, in New Rochelle, N.Y. She has displayed and sold artworks in various galleries, museums and shops in New York and North Carolina. Mary founded and her my own art gallery in Ocean Isle Beach, where she displayed and sold her own artwork, along with forty other artist’s artwork.
Mary has participated in the 2020 ‘UP-AND-COMING Charlotte Artists’ art show at Shain Gallery, exhibited in the invitation only Greenhill Winter Art Show, was chosen as a 2021 Charlotte ArtPop Street artist, and became an Art House Charlotte Gallery artist.
Shaun Cassidy was born in Carshalton, England in 1966. He studied sculpture at Norwich School of Art, Norfolk, UK, receiving a BA (HONS) in 1988. In 1988 Cassidy worked as a studio assistant for British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro. In 1991 Cassidy finished his graduate studies in sculpture at the University of Alberta, Canada. Cassidy’s sculpture has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. He has exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN, Forum for Contemporary Art in Saint Louis, the Columbia Museum of Art, SC, and at the DeCordova Museum, MA. In 1995 Cassidy exhibited five large- scale sculptures at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Marseilles, France.
He has been awarded residencies at over ten venues including The McDowell Colony, NH, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, CA, McColl Center for Visual Arts, NC, and Sculpture Space, NY. His work has been reviewed and featured in Art in America, New Art Examiner, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Currently Cassidy is a Professor of Sculpture at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. In 2006 Cassidy was named Kinard Teaching Professor of the Year at Winthrop University.
At the Galler@LOOM, you will have the opportunity to view two collections of his 2D works! Additional exhibits in the Studio building include recent Winthrop photography graduate Marisa Fields-Williams, local live music photographer Darlene Cunnup, and art educatorJessica Calloway.
Michael Patterson has lived in Charlotte, NC since 1993. He graduated with a BFA in Photography and Painting from Louisiana Tech University in 1980. The past years have become a prolific creative period after construction of his studio in 2014. The studio setting provided traction and a haven for experimentation. Collectively texture, movement, tension, and color allow a fluidity towards the indefinable feeling when a composition feels finished.Paint. It is straightforward with a unique smell. It’s quiet. Dry. With a cold character. I often paint with my hands giving me an ability to blend groups of colors with depth and volume or ever so thinly. Compounded color provides texture in the 2D world I live in professionally as a painter and video editor. I intend for my paintings to become enrichments in my own journey toward appreciation of the arts. I wish for an individual to connect with a painting that provokes and maintains the initial reaction when first viewed. But mostly I want you to appreciate the process so your investment will continue to be endeared.
Melissa Herriott’s exhibit at LOOM Coworking is an eclectic mix of her two favorite mediums… acrylic and ink. Her paintings celebrate her love for nature, travel, and adventure. They are all, in their own way, inspired by the elements. Melissa is a former exhibitor in the Studio Building. This exhibit celebrates her development and broadening of exposure over the last couple of years. LOOM is proud of the advancement of all our featured artists! Melissa’s work can be found all over Charlotte and beyond. She works one-on-one with clients to create custom commission pieces.
Foozhan Kashkooli is a multidisciplinary artist who employs colors, forms, and shapes to create large scale abstract paintings and site-specific environmental installations. Kashkooli received her M.F.A. degree from Winthrop University and her B.A. from Queens University of Charlotte. As an artist, she has worked with many different mediums such as metal sculpture, intaglio, film and digital photography, painting, and installation.
Her inspiration for her work comes from music, nature and the evocation of memories. Foozhan is currently working and living in Charlotte North Carolina.
