Artists

We work with artists whose practice rewards careful looking — makers who bring honesty, craft, and quiet intensity to their work.

J. Henry Fair

New York

Photography

J. Henry Fair is an internationally exhibited photographer whose aerial environmental work has quietly become a form of moral cartography—mapping not continents, but consequence. From high above the surface of the Earth, he turns extraction sites, industrial scars, and altered landscapes into compositions of unsettling beauty: abstract fields of color and fracture that seduce the eye even as they indict the systems that produced them. What might first read as painting reveals itself, on closer encounter, to be evidence; what feels distant resolves into something uncomfortably intimate. His work has been shown widely across international galleries and institutions, earning him recognition not only as an artist of considerable formal rigor, but as a visual witness to the ecological pressures of modern life. Fair’s images resist easy categorization—hovering between documentation and abstraction, between critique and seduction, between the aerial and the ethical. One might say he makes the uncomfortable almost unbearably beautiful, and then politely refuses to look away on our behalf. For Artful Dodge Gallery’s inaugural Fortnight Ghost Collection, Fair serves as an anchoring presence: a reminder that what we call landscape is often already history under revision. Selected works will remain in the permanent gallery collection, where they continue their quiet negotiation between aesthetic pleasure and environmental reckoning. For the collector, his photographs are not simply views from above, but views afterward—elegant fragments of a world learning, perhaps too late, how visibly it has been seen.

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Karen Albanese Campbell

Columbus, Ohio

Painting · Printmaking · Mixed Media

Karen Albanese Campbell is a painter and printmaker whose work concerns itself with the things most people are too hurried to notice: migration, memory, inheritance, and the quiet persistence of beauty. Educated at Boston University and among the first in her family to attend college, Campbell constructs richly layered worlds where figures drift through patterned landscapes and fragments of nature appear less observed than remembered. Her paintings possess the peculiar elegance of something uncovered rather than invented—surfaces built slowly through translucent color, etched marks, and symbolic forms that hover somewhere between dream and document. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including participation in the 15th Havana Biennial and cultural exchanges with printmakers at Taller Experimental de Gráfica de La Habana. In Ohio, Campbell has become a significant voice in contemporary printmaking through both her studio practice and her role as president of Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative, where she teaches and advocates for the enduring art of the handmade print. Her work resides in the permanent collection of the Columbus Museum of Art and has received numerous honors, including multiple “Best in Show” awards and recognition from the Ohio Arts Council. Nature appears throughout Campbell’s work not as scenery, but as metaphor. In *Consider the [Trout] Lilies…,* she writes of discovering the flowers “almost camouflaged” among the leaves, “sparkling jewels scattered throughout our lawn.” The observation feels characteristic of her entire practice. Paintings such as *A Long Journey* and the “Travelers” series suggest that meaning rarely arrives fully declared; it lingers quietly in traces, patterns, and remembered places, waiting for someone patient enough to recognize it.

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Christabel Devadoss

NE Ohio

Photography

Christabel Devadoss is a landscape and travel photographer based in Northeast Ohio and Middle Tennessee—though “based” is perhaps too static a term for someone so attentive to place. Devadoss is also a geographer with a Ph.D. and interest in the environment and geopolitics. She is a member of the Professional Photographers of America and composes images that are richly saturated, measured, and uncommonly thoughtful. Her work suggests the world, when properly observed, is inclined to arrange itself for those patient enough to notice.

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Greg Hendricks

NE Ohio

Mixed Media · Painting

Greg Hendricks came to painting honestly: by staying awake too long. After years driving trucks across American interstate highways, Hendricks began spending his sleepless nights with watercolors. Where others saw the curse of insomnia, Hendricks recognized a calling—proof the best routes in life often come from the detours. A mixed-media folk artist with a fondness for landscapes, Hendricks paints with the freedom of someone entirely unconcerned with fashionable seriousness. His work carries equal parts intuition, humor, curiosity, and hard-earned observation from a life spent actually looking at the world rather than merely discussing it at gallery openings. There are whispers Greg may possess a touch of color blindness, though one suspects this simply liberates him from the burden of sensible color choices. His grandchildren often join him to exploit this freedom for a spot of studio mischief—proving Hendricks’ philosophy that the best creative decisions begin with, "Let’s see what happens." Humble, wildly talented, and refreshingly free of pretension, Hendricks approaches art much the way he once approached the open road: with instinct, endurance, and a willingness to discover what waits around the next bend. Sleep, after all, may be essential—but art is considerably more interesting.

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Michael Keyes

Aurora, Colorado

Printmaking · Drawing

My artwork consists of drawing, oil painting, and woodcut printmaking. With these media, I can observe the world around me with focus and intensity, allowing me to represent the objects and environment, and make a visual statement. I am mindful of the power of the work to influence the viewers’ concept of themselves and their world. I recognize a responsibility, as I invite the viewer to enjoy shapes, textures, and colors, and, at times, peoples’ activities that are honorable and inspiring. How to decide the medium? Experience artistic imagery by seeing original art. Experience the production process by making art. The heart-and-soul reaction to those experiences yields the answer for each artist. Beyond the observations, and bound into the expression, the tools and materials inform the outcome of the artwork. The range of graphite markings on paper surfaces, the greasy, colorful oil paint on prepared canvas surfaces, the tactile cutting and carving of a woodblock, applying ink, paper, and pressure; each provides a range of experiences for composing and constructing works of art. Each medium provides unique “bonuses.”

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Michael Murray

Cleveland, Ohio

Photography

Michael Murray, a Cleveland-based photographer and former journalist, has a habit of discovering that the Cuyahoga Valley National Park is never quite finished repeating itself. He follows its shifting light and composed quietude, often in the agreeable company of Ohio’s more attentive photography circles. The Artful Dodge Gallery is particularly taken with his luminous herons and his painterly renderings of the CVNP—those familiar places that only began to behave properly once he bothered to look at them.

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David Robins

NE Ohio

Photography

David Robins has spent much of his life chasing things that refuse to stand still: light, weather, mountains, cities, ideas, and occasionally himself. Born in Hampton, Virginia, he moved to Colorado as a teenager and promptly developed an affection for alpine skiing that proved far more persuasive than higher education. After a year of college, he abandoned the classroom for the slopes of Vail, where he spent seven years pursuing snow with a level of commitment usually reserved for religion. Eventually, good judgment caught up with him. He returned to Colorado State University, earned a degree in Fine Arts, and began what would become a twenty-five-year academic career in library and information science. Along the way, he acquired a deep appreciation for both observation and inquiry—useful habits for a photographer. Today, Robins photographs landscapes and urban scenes, though his images are less concerned with documenting a place than with capturing a moment of recognition. He is drawn to the quiet conversation between form and feeling, where light, shadow, line, and shape become something unexpectedly personal. His photographs remind us that the world is constantly offering small revelations to anyone willing to pay attention. Fortunately, David Robins has spent a lifetime doing exactly that.

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Dan Cleary

Dayton, Ohio

Photography

Dan Cleary is an award-winning photographer with a long and practiced eye for the American landscape—urban, in this case. With more than forty years behind the camera, he works with light and structure to reveal what most pass by without a second glance—until he captures it. His photographs are widely collected, owing to their rare ability to make a place in the world feel both observed and understood.

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Gordon Murray

NE Ohio

Photography

Gordon Murray's photographs are guided by a restless curiosity, sense of humor and adventure. Visual puns, quiet riddles, and delicately bent allegories surface within compositions rich in hidden imagery and layered meaning, drawing viewers deeper into his imagination. The stories behind the work are as compelling as the images themselves. He signs work with his common name and adds a footnote in Latin—borrowed from a Renaissance painter—acknowledging the artist as both creator and witness. (*Translation: "Joe was here."*) He is the author of **Lost In Oscar Hotel:** *There is Something in the Air.*

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