Vibrant portraits of familiar faces paired with gastronomic delights!

Artist Raven Waters returns this spring to The Altama with a show of new paintings. A gallery opening reception will be held April 8, Friday, from 6-8 pm, and the exhibit runs through May 14. “Food & Faces” showcases a collection of wildly colorful celebrity portraits and paintings from still lifes of food. The portraits include images of Billie Holliday, John Lennon, Rosa Parks, Louie Armstrong, Emma Goldman, Frida Kahlo, Robin Williams, Willie Nelson, and Muhammed Ali, among others. Food paintings range from fruit and vegetables to baked goods. The show’s curator is Jennifer Martinez, museum director.  

Waters’s vibrant paintings are rendered in oil, highly textured, executed with a bold brush stroke on canvas. He holds a degree in fine art from Georgia Southern and has shown his work at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Old Jail Museum in Darien, Averitt Center in Statesboro, and Savannah Regional Airport. He belongs to the Statesboro Regional Art Association. In 2021 the seed company Sow True Seeds of Asheville, NC featured his painting of foxglove flowers on packets of their seeds.

Gallery hours are Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10am to 2pm. More information may be obtained by calling The Altama at 912-537-1911