Marcia whyte artist

On this episode of Local Business Stories by Alignable , we're talking to a baby boomer, Marcia Whyte of Send Out Cards , who leveraged the forgotten art of manners to create a successful business. Marcia used her experience running a catering business and working in sales to step out on faith and build her affiliate business, Send Out Cards, in Knoxville, TN into a powerhouse of gratitude.

Marcia joins us to share her small business experience , what got her started in the business world, and how she stayed with the idea until it became a success.

Tune in as Marcia shares stories of seizing opportunities, and how creating authentic relationships can positively impact your company's bottom line. She pulls back the curtains and shares the challenges she's faced and vital steps she would take if given a chance to do things differently.

Turn up the volume and tune into Marcia's inspirational local business story. She talks about the human side of marketing and old school manners into the age of technology. Just click my Amplify Alignable button at the top of this post to learn more about our upcoming Alignable Success Summit. Great interview and great info! I have heard of Send Out Cards from a local rep, and after this I am seriously considering the service.

Take Our Poll. Join Today! In Heirloom 3 the artist is once again depicted in a sea of darkness, the light hitting his hands and feet. The figure is bound with multiple neck ties around his face so we cannot see his features or expression; his head and, most importantly, his eyes are obscured by this object of male attire that symbolizes the code of business dress.

He drops a tie, which floats in mid-flight like a charmed snake. The patterned silk both masks and reveals the man: the tie hides his face but at the same time articulates his masculine identity. As strong as these photographs are, it is in the drawings that Whyte is clearly in his zone. The large-scale charcoal drawings are held to the wall without glass between the viewer and the work. A crown of braids rises out of the round piece of head and then cascades downward.

There are large gestural areas of erasure that are so fluid they read as a kind of abstracted calligraphy. Kiss Mi Neck Back , a large charcoal drawing hung side-by-side with Cut Eye , also depicts a head with elaborate braids that obscure what would be the face. Here, Whyte has drawn in charcoal a sculptural ear set on the head. The braiding creates an amorphous shape with a swish of erasure that is like fallen paint in its gestural quality, with pieces of gold leaf that drip from the crown of the head.

In this drawing, Whyte has cut into the paper on the edges in a staccato pattern that follows no obvious organization, but it opens up the drawing and connects it to the doilies featured in the installation works in the exhibition. When Whyte works in charcoal, drawing on a large scale, something more than message takes over; he transforms his content into deeply resonant images.

One only has to look at Vessel 2 , a large charcoal drawing, to see how this artist can hold onto his content yet transform the form and elevate the meaning.