The February exhibit at Justus Fine Art Gallery will feature work by artists including Michael Ashley, Dustyn Bork, Susan Baker Chambers, Robyn Horn, Sammy Peters, Laura Raborn, Sandra Sell, Gene Sparling, Stephen Schneider, Rebecca Thompson, Michael Warrick, and Elizabeth Weber.

The opening reception will be held from 5-9 p.m. Friday as part of the monthly Gallery Walk in downtown Hot Springs. The exhibit will run through Feb. 29.

Bork earned his MFA in printmaking from Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, and his BFA in printmaking from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is currently an associate professor of Art at Lyon College in Batesville.

Bork’s work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions regionally, nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibits include Hendrix College in Conway; Material Art Space in Memphis: the Thea Foundation, Little Rock; the Art Museum of the University of Memphis; and Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Bork has also participated in artist residencies at the Franz Masereel Centre in Kasterlee, Belgium, and the MIRA artist residency in Martignano, Italy. He has served on the board of directors for Number Inc., an independent journal of the visual arts of the South, along with the Batesville Area Arts Council.

“I explore cultural notions of design, architecture, and pattern through abstraction,” Bork said in a gallery news release.

“My work focuses on the formal contrasts of renewal and destruction in the constructed environment. I juxtapose the intentional design of architecture and the incidental structure of visual forms in various stages of decay and renewal. Substantiality is a key consideration in my work. I want to entice my viewer into a dialogue to consider issues of permanence, transience, and form.

“These abstractions are meant to be akin visually to koans: a Japanese tradition of stylistically embedding pieces or snippets of dialogue into a text. In these hybrid visual works, there are large sections or segments of shape or pattern. Just as Koans seem to embody a hidden or mysterious connections, these works offer abstract entrance points to the concrete structure from the forms the were derived,” he said.

Chambers earned a BA in Art from Rhodes College in Memphis in 1974 and an MFA in painting from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1979.

Her professional experience in the arts includes residencies for the Arkansas Arts Council and adjunct positions at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University of Central Arkansas, and Hendrix College. Chambers’ work has been exhibited nationally and regionally, along with being included in public and corporate collections including Carillon Importers (Absolut), Central Arkansas Library System, University of Arkansas Medical System, Southeast Arkansas Arts and Science Center, and Systematics.

Recent recognition includes an Individual Fellowship in Painting from the Arkansas Arts Council in 2020, inclusion in the 2021 traveling exhibition of Small Works on Paper hosted by the Arkansas Arts Council along with the Juror’s Selected Purchase Award for that exhibition. Chambers was also included in the 2022 RAM Annual Juried Invitational: Metamorphosis at the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum. Susan Chambers and her husband, George, live in the Quapaw Quarter historic district of Little Rock, where they operate Chambers Studio.

“My garden is my connection to nature, an ever-changing art installation, open-air studio, and the focus of my paintings. It is a humble, Southern backyard garden resembling a ‘crazy quilt’ of color and pattern,” Chambers said in the release.

“My major aesthetic concerns are color, space, pattern and composition. Saturated, contrasting hues are used to enliven and flatten the abstract space. The shallow space is full of patterned plants and hard-edged, flat shapes stacked on an uptilted plane. The surface composition is a larger overall pattern. Matte acrylic is applied flatly to emphasize these formal concerns. To garden is to hope. I plant natives that attract birds and pollinators who animate the garden and pictorial space. My work is an invitation to the viewer to explore the ever-changing space of the garden and reconnect with nature,” she said.

Schneider discovered at an early age that he had an aptitude for drawing and a joy for the creative process, according to the release.

“In the beginning, his attention focused mostly on drawing and painting, but later expanded to explore more effective ways to communicate visually by examining the laws of nature and how they affect our perception,” it said.

Schneider pursued his art career in Lafayette, Louisiana, as a fine art painter, illustrator, and graphic designer until moving to Donaldsonville, Louisiana, in 2004, where Schneider and his wife, Cynthia, owned and operated Schneider Art Gallery and Grapevine Café & Gallery. The couple moved to Goshen in 2014, where Steven Schneider, “influenced by the beauty and purity of the Ozark wilderness, continued to develop his expressive style. To be closer to family, the Schneiders relocated to Tupelo, Mississippi, in 2023, where they currently reside and Steven continues to create.”

“My work is greatly influenced by the natural world and draws inspiration from the color harmonies, values and shape relationships that exist in nature. The subjects chosen resonate a personal experience to me and are of a familiar spirit. They serve to satisfy my need for image-making as well as document a place in time. My process includes referencing plein-air studies and sketches and the use of photography with digital manipulation,” Schneider said in the release.

His work has been included in the Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Art in Little Rock and is held in numerous public and private collections, including the corporate offices for George’s Inc. in Springdale; Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana; Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Belle Alliance Plantation in Belle Rose, Louisiana.

The gallery, located at 827-A Central Ave., is owned by artist Dolores Justus. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and by appointment. For more information, call 501-321-2335 or visit:

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