artist

Thomas Sayre

Thomas Sayre (b. 1950) is an American sculptor and painter. He designs and builds public art projects and private commissions all over the world. His current work includes large paintings made with tar, smoke, gunshots, welding material, earth, and fire. Sayre founded the multi-disciplinary design firm Clearscapes, alongside the late architect Steve Schuster. The firm designs numerous civic, educational, and museum buildings.

ARTIST

YUKO NOGAMI TAYLOR

Yuko Nogami Taylor is a painter who thoughtfully fuses Eastern and Western painting traditions. Drawing from both her Japanese upbringing and her experiences in the Southeastern United States over the past 30 years, Nogami Taylor's work is a beautiful collision of cultures and techniques, a celebration of our shared humanity. Employing Nihonga techniques, a general term for traditional Japanese painting, her slow and meticulous process exhibits a reverence for craft, materiality and heritage, while simultaneously oscillating between abstraction and representation.

COLLECTOR

SCOTT AVETT

Hanging alongside a 17th-century painting in the Old Masters section at The North Carolina Museum of Art is “Julianne in Vain,” a striking chiaroscuro portrait North Carolina artist Scott Avett painted in 2009. The anachronistic placement is a recognition of the deep influence artists like Caravaggio have had on his work. But fans of Avett’s music will instantly recognize the painting as the cover art for “I and Love and You,” the 2009 Rick Rubin-produced album that was the major label debut for his famed alt-folk band The Avett Brothers.

ARTIST

BEVERLY MCIVER

Within Beverly McIver's portraiture work — where skin that the average person might describe as brown is rendered as an expressionistic composite of an array of vibrant colors and energetic lines that almost seem capable of animating a static image — her exploration of racial identity and her own upbringing is not simply black and white.

community

Hank Willis Thomas

Love Over Rules is a work in neon installed in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. “The message of the power of love is incredibly important right now”.

community

meet the founders

Longtime friends and contemporary art lovers Marjorie Hodges and Allen Thomas Jr. have been called many things: connoisseurs, curators, collectors, creative collaborators. With the launch of Artsuite, they are combining their years and breadth of knowledge, expertise and passion for the art world to focus on one role above all — connector.