Artist collaborators Rita MacNelly and Beezy Bogan are known for their distinctive, life-sized mixed-media sculptures that merge the disciplines of painting and three-dimensional art. Working together from their studio since 1987, their process begins on the streets, where they photograph and sketch real people to capture unique and uninhibited personalities. Bogan then creates the foundational sculpture using wire mesh and plaster, establishing the figure's core form, while MacNelly adds the "clothing" cut from canvas, covers it in gesso, and paints it, lending the piece its final, vivid personality. The resulting works are "short stories closer to fact than fiction," offering an exaggerated, often humorous, and always deeply human look at people who are unapologetically themselves, and their art is regularly featured at Key West's Gallery on Greene alongside other prominent artists.
Reads the obits religiously with the glee of a man who has just won a bet.
A skilled unicycle rider always trying but failing to sweep up the spotlight.
Finds innerpeace through impulse buying
Operates a family run restaurant specializing in fried chicken “so good you can hear your arteries slamming shut”
On a cruise last year to the Canary Islands she was heard to ask “what time is the midnight buffet”
More than a woman, she’s an experience.
She prefers to not think before speaking. She likes to be just as surprised as everyone.
Ricky began his career at 16 at Stews Auto Body Shop where he honed his skills painting flames.
A self proclaimed extrovert Wanda gets a thrill out of an evening of Bingo.