La Belle et La Bête
Featured Artists
Shirley Yang Crutchfield
Katya Granova
Laine Lovick
Gordon Massman
Anna van den Hovel
Garland Robinette
Shirley Yang Crutchfield
Shirley Yang Crutchfield is a Chicago-based artist whose gold-leafed works draw on art history, fashion, contemporary heroines and her own entrepreneurial journey. She uses traditional 14th-century Italian gilding methods to create portraits of women that shine both literally and symbolically with beauty, grit, and timeless strength. Her work is influenced by Byzantine art, Renaissance, Baroque and contemporary aesthetics, fashion, and the portrayal of strong female figures. Shirley has exhibited at galleries internationally, including Sun Valley Contemporary (Sun Valley), Dacia Gallery (New York), Chicago Fine Art Salon (Chicago), Echo Park Art (Los Angeles), and Las Laguna Art Gallery (Laguna Beach), and her work has won several international awards.
Katya Granova
Katya Granova (b. 1988, St. Petersburg, Russia) lives and works in London. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2021); a Certificate in Fine Art from the Paris College of Art (2015); and an MA in Art and Space from Kingston University, London (2013). In 2017, she completed the New Artistic Strategies program at the ICA Moscow. Recent exhibitions include Voices from a Suitcase (Shtager Gallery, 2023); When My Babushka Joined the Reich (Barbican Art Group Trust, 2022); and A Song of Unrequited Love for Britain (RuptureXIBIT Artist-Run Space, 2024). Recent residencies include the Barbican Art Group Trust (2022), Aschersleben Sommeratelier (2022) and Pilotenkueche (2024). Her work has been recognized with the Bath Open Art Prize (2023), Art Works Open (2021), and Signature Art Prize (2020); she was a finalist for the Castlegate Art Prize (2020) and the Women United Art Prize (2023), received shortlist recognition for the Bankley Prize (2019), and was longlisted for both the Contemporary British Painting Prize (2023) and the John Moores Painting Prize (2020). In 2020, she collaborated with Burberry UK, and in 2021 her work entered the permanent collection of the Royal College of Art.
Gordan Massman
Gordon Massman (b. 1949) is a self-taught painter and poet based in Rockport, MA. Massman’s subjects, while usually psychologically distressed, are offset by a subtle sense of humor, either on the canvas itself or in witty titles. Parodying his own angst and that of the human race with poetic sincerity, Massman’s paintings are shameless confessions of the human psyche, unfolded in graphic, chaotic detail. Massman studied literature and creative writing at the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He taught writing and literature at The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA, and is the published author of five poetry volumes, having composed thousands of poems over a span of forty-five years. Massman has exhibited in the United States, and his work is in the collection of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.
Laine Lovick
Laine Lovick is a New Orleans–based artist whose work spans atmospheric landscapes, architectural abstractions, and gestural studies of the human figure. She studied Studio Art at the LSU School of Design, where she developed a deep interest in interpreting form through movement and simplified, expressive mark-making. Her work draws on influences from architectural minimalism, classical figure study, and contemporary explorations of emotional presence. Laine’s practice merges structure and intuition to create pieces that explore resilience, identity, and the quiet narratives held within the human form. Her use of repurposed materials ties her practice to minimalism, pairing raw surfaces with raw media such as charcoal and conté. This approach distills the human form to its essentials, emphasizing immediacy and the integrity of the gesture.
