The Art of SigniaThird Floor

Madera Arts have been crafting bespoke furniture for over a decade. Their mission is to utilize reclaimed and sustainable pieces to craft high-quality and unique pieces.

Madera Arts’ piece for Signia by Hilton Atlanta is titled Atlanta History Wall and is a multi-paneled and experiential work dedicated to showcasing the progression of the city of Atlanta from its conception to the present. The panels are angled, and viewers receive different storylines depending upon perspective.

This engaging work will be featured in the hospitality zone of the hotel on the third floor. This will allow for viewers to participate in the visual experience.

Anna G. Dean is an interdisciplinary artist, working in sculpture, installation, video and mixed media.

She began her career in Art Education, with a focus on Contemporary Art and Arts Integration. She was selected for the Art21 Educators program in NYC, and helped create the SmartArts program in Greenville, SC. She recently completed her MFA at Winthrop University, where she currently teaches and coordinates the CreatorSpace technology lab. Anna also works as a production designer with ACSM, a design/build firm in Charlotte, NC.

Anna’s work has been exhibited at the Mint Museum, the McColl Center, the Brooklyn Collective, Redux Gallery and at Miami Art Week. Anna has public art installations at Atrium Health in Charlotte NC, and at Miracle Park in Rock Hill, SC. She has been an artist-in-residence at the McColl Center, and has been awarded a project space at Goodyear Arts. Anna currently lives and works in Fort Mill, with her husband and son.

Sheri Schumacher is a textile designer-maker, based in Auburn, Alabama. Her creative practice focuses on exploring narratives about cultural landscapes and recording a sense of place through observation and material investigation. Discovery through the act of making is integral to her work, finding the hidden beauty of cloth from repurposed garments and linens with a history of use. She works with a range of processes, including hand stitching and fabric manipulation, creating textile assemblages from an intimate scale to larger site specific works.

Schumacher received a MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art, is a professor emerita of design at Auburn University School of Architecture, and exhibits her work nationally and internationally.

Julio Ceballos, an artist based in Atlanta, GA, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Georgia State University in 2013. Since then, he has worked on public art projects for diverse Atlanta organizations, including the Georgia Building Authority, The Office of Cultural Affairs, The Department of Veteran Affairs, and The Atlanta Beltline.

Julio’s artistic journey is marked by an impassioned exploration of new processes and mediums, spanning from traditional painting to sculpture. Regardless of the chosen process and medium, Julio’s overarching goal with each piece is to delve into the factors that shape us and examine how they contribute to shaping us as a people.

In recent years, this artist has forged meaningful collaborations with non-profit organizations like Paint Love and Project Chimps, actively contributing as an artist to programs that leverage art to enhance the well-being of their beneficiaries.

Known for his public art installations, ceramic sculpture, photography, and mixed-media constructions, Gregor Turk often incorporates mapping imagery and cultural markings into his artwork. His response to his surroundings, whether in his hometown, Atlanta, or while traveling, serves as a major impetus for much of what he creates.

Projects include producing a significant body of artwork resulting from hiking and biking along the course of the 1,270 mile section of the 49th parallel that defines the U.S./Canadian border, photographing blank billboards along fictitious Interstate 50, and making thousands of rubbings from text and imagery from the ubiquitous historical plaques and markers found in American cities.

He has permanent public art installations in the International Concourse at the Atlanta Airport (gates E 33 – 36) and in the Jacksonville Airport. His work is included in the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, High Museum of Art, MOCA – GA (Museum of Contemporary Art – Georgia), and numerous other public and private collections. He received his B.A. from Rhodes College and his M.F.A. from Boston University. Between degrees he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. His studio is located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lorenz (Larry) Klug was born in Elmont, Long Island, New York. He lived there all his childhood years. After high school, Larry attended Hawthorne College in Antrim, New Hampshire, where his love of nature and beautiful mountain scenes took root. In the early 1970’s, Larry moved back to New York and attended Germaine School of Photography in NYC. It was during these years he shot and wrote articles for a west coast car magazine and held membership in the International Motor Press Ass. In addition he worked as a wedding photographer for a studio in Forest Hills, NY.

Since retiring, he has participated and received recognition in many international photography competitions. As well as local contests including the Atlanta Journal Constitution annual photo contest and the Georgia National Fair photo competition.
These days, he is content to live peaceably in his mountain retreat. His one passion, besides photography, is traveling in his fifth wheel. This is where many of his current photographs are now taken.

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Self-taught artist Brett Smith often simplifies the ever-changing details of nature into forms, shapes, and colors in his work. Always inspired by the natural world, these are themes that have been consistent in his work. Originally from Durban, South Africa, Smith received an education at Georgia State University, and lives and works in Atlanta, GA.

Colleen Leach is a self-taught artist. Her style of work is heavily influenced by music, art that evokes the human spirit. Her work explores the relationship of playful bold linear works, texture and the use of color blocks as a primary compositional structure. She tends to lean towards awkward color pairings, textures and pushing the envelope with her work.

Laura Fayer is a New York City based artist working with painting, drawing and collage. Her artwork has been included in galleries and exhibitions throughout the world and can be viewed in many public and private collections, including Norwegian Cruise Lines, NYU Langone Hospitals, Apollo Global Management, the Londoner in Macau, Grand Hyatt in Kauai, Ritz Carlton in Shenzhen and the US Embassy in Djibouti.

She was awarded fellowships from International Residencies for Artists and the Pollock Krasner Foundation to live and work at Triangle France in Marseille and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and was also an artist in residence at Baer Arts Center in Iceland, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.

She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University’s Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies, and holds an MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York City. Her early childhood years in Japan have a strong influence on her work.
Her mixed media paintings evoke an ephemeral natural world, poised in a delicate balance between dynamism and tranquility, movement and harmony. She uses handmade stencils and stamps to hand print patterns and lines onto very thin Japanese paper, which is then applied to the canvas in layers and painted over with acrylic medium.

As a young teenager living in Japan with her family, Laura toured a papermaking village and fell in love with Japanese paper, which is a main component of her current artwork. She loves the strength and delicacy of the paper, mixing the paint and creating the transitions between the paint and paper.

Always on the lookout for moments of unexpected mystery and beauty, she brings her unique vision and experience into her art studio and into the world via her paintings.

Samantha Burns is an interdisciplinary artist and creative facilitator whose work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Germany, France, and Canada. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including residencies at Vermont Studio Center, OxBow in Michigan, and UNESCO Colors of the Planet in Ordino, Andorra.

Within her works, Burns’ considers herself to be a composure of sorts, assembling and manipulating materials in order to create new networks of dialogue and dependence. Samantha’s work is an exploration of chance and memory of forms. Her artwork aims to call attention to the inherent strengths and uniqueness of her arrangements, investigating the relationships they have with one another and the spaces they create.

Samantha Burns received her Master of Fine Arts from Florida State University in 2014. Her works are part of several private collections and permanent collections such as the Ferman Center for the Arts, Elsewhere Museum, and Fairgrounds St Pete. Currently Samantha Burns’ resides in Northeast Florida with her husband and son.

Caroline Bullock creates work that explores her philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of reality, impermanence and the intersections between science and spirituality. The natural world plays a key role in her work. She sources local materials from nature to create cyanotypes that form the physical backdrop of her work and also serve as a direct marker of place in time. Water based media is then added to the cyanotypes to create additional layers of imagery. Gravity is often allowed to do the work, trusting the paint to forge its own way into a form more authentic than one she could control with her hands. The process is as important then as the end product as it offers a chance at reconciliation with unanswerable questions. Bullock received a BFA from Georgia State University. Her work is included in collections such as the High Museum of Art and The Coca-Cola Company as well as numerous other private and public collections worldwide. She has exhibited in Atlanta and New York and is represented by Spalding Nix Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia.