Art Pop Up + Shop: Four Brookhaven Residents To Support Year-Round
The Art Pop Up + Shop in Town Brookhaven closed Sunday, May 21st. This temporary gallery of paintings, mixed media, photography, limited series prints, ceramics, and jewelry, presented by Explore Brookhaven and srmART CONNECT, featured over 20 artists from the greater Atlanta area and four Brookhaven residents: Lauren Loden, Steve Shaw, Len Brown, and Sally W. Eppstein. Keep reading to learn more about our residents’ styles and projects:
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Lauren Loden, Artist Lauren Loden
Lauren Loden was chosen to be our 2023 Art Pop Up + Shop Featured Artist by curator, Sharon Moskowitz. Now in her second year of the Shop, Lauren brings elements of her process to the table from raw material to scraped off remnants of previous pieces. Her corner of encaustic pieces and materials dive into the fluid movement of nature. From Lauren, “Encaustic painting allows me to put my perfectionistic fears aside and to embrace the creative process. The reactions of the encaustic materials guide my vision and design - heating the wax and mixing pigments, burning the wax into the wood in layers. Seeing what forms. Fusing myself and the moment - scraping and layering time.”
You can purchase Lauren’s art locally at Marguerite’s on Dresden and commissioned pieces online – (https://www.artistlaurenloden.com/)
Steve Shaw, Art by Steve Shaw
Brookhaven resident Steve Shaw is an artist, teacher, and former boat captain! Steve has returned to the classroom for over 20 years and doesn’t wish to quit his day job to be a full-time artist. Steve’s art at the Pop Up displayed two styles: acrylic pour painting and abstract land and seascapes. His pieces remind us of the freedoms of vacation with expansive seas, aptly from his Key West and Beach House collections.
Keep up with Steve online (https://www.artbysteveshaw.com/) or learn from Steve at (https://acrylicpouring.com/author/steve-shaw/)
![](https://brookhaven.imgix.net/images/Len-Brown-Repairing-Drummer.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=320&s=f63ccc435c294d2afe0c1246daa0f2ef 320w, https://brookhaven.imgix.net/images/Len-Brown-Repairing-Drummer.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=540&s=6c890ec92fb2cddaa23c8a3faf2e31d0 540w, https://brookhaven.imgix.net/images/Len-Brown-Repairing-Drummer.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=768&s=b037adbe59f9891be20f9f8c9a5bc565 768w, https://brookhaven.imgix.net/images/Len-Brown-Repairing-Drummer.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1024&s=993e041844e23b91e053d64b8d72c25a 900w)
Len Brown, LenNelsonArt
For the last 20-ish years, Len Brown has practiced self-taught, assemblage folk art. From roadside finds to estate sale pickings, Brown searches for “useful but crappy/oddball pieces” destined for the landfill and breathes new life into them to make art. Len mentions that he does “not have a vision of what the finished work could be at the start but just whether pieces seem to fit together and let it evolve as we go.” The pieces in the Art Pop Up are just a small fraction of Len’s adoptable creations.
See more of Len’s creations (https://lennelsonart.com/)
Sally W. Eppstein, Shesquatch LLC
Warning: Shesquatch sighting ahead! Sally W. Eppstein’s beloved Shesquatch took various forms at this year’s Art Pop Up + Shop. From framed prints to two tales, and a life-size cutout of the female Bigfoot, Sally’s Shesquatch art is inspired from a backpacking trip on the Appalachian. Shesquatch is for readers of all ages; Meet Lily, A Shesquatch is for ages 4-8 and Lily and Her Critter Friends, Let the Adventures Begin is written early chapter book readers.
Find signed copies of these books and more of Sally’s art online at (https://sallyeppstein.com/)