Feb 10 – March 14
Opening reception: Friday, Feb 10, 5-8pm
Joseph Haske, Brant Kingman
New York painter Joseph Haske creates evocative abstractions using a marble dust and acrylic surface, and acrylic paint. The weathered surfaces of these timeless but thoroughly contemporary paintings recall ancient frescos.
Also featuring figurative cast bronze sculpture by Minneapolis artist Brant Kingman.
March 17 – April 18
Opening reception: Friday, March 17, 5-8pm
Jill McGannon
Having begun her artistic career in Chicago, Jill McGannon now lives and works in Atlanta, GA. McGannon’s paintings are based on landscape images she experience on her travels to Italy, the West coast, and in the area around her home. The artist then develops these paintings through the use of pattern, texture, and evocative materials like wax and gold leaf. What results is a sensitive rendering of an inner landscape, focusing on the emotional content and formal imagination of the artist.
April 21 – May 30
Opening reception: Friday, April 21, 5-8pm
Kevin Sonmor
Kevin Sonmor’s paintings reflect environments; wandering between historical conventions of landscape painting and the contemporary aesthetic of the abstracted landscape. An inspired student of Flemish painting, his visions are dark and atmospheric. These heavily textured, ambiguous spaces are populated with familiar still life objects such as fabric, flowers and grapes. These moments of realism float disembodied through rich, luminescent landscapes of gesture and paint.
June 2 – July 12
Opening reception: Friday, June 2, 5-8pm
Robin Denevan
San Francisco artist Robin Denevan uses encaustic materials and techniques to evoke a sense of light and atmosphere in these paintings that hover in a mysterious place between process abstraction and landscape painting.
July 14 - August 31, 2006
Opening reception: Friday, July 14, 5-8 pm
From Nature: A Group Exhibition. Artists that use imagery from nature as inspiration and source material for their own work.
September 8 - October 18, 2006
Opening reception: Friday, September 8, 5-8 pm
transFIGURE: The Body in Motion
A group exhibition featuring artists that use images of the human figure to explore ideas about movement, transition, and progression.
featuring work by:
Michiko Itatani,
Joseph Hronek,
Tim Lowly,
Julia Katz,
Steph Roberts,
James Mesple,
Margaret Lazzari,
Joyce Polance, and
Frank Ryan
October 20 – November 28
Opening reception: Friday, October 20, 5-8pm
Jean Larson
The flowers of Jean Larson evoke a sensual and
surreal vision; a tiny metaphor for the heart; a
silent poem for the survival of the soul. According
to the artist "A flower opens to the light, boldly
displays its colors to the world, and then withers
away. These are the stages of life that I witness and
experience, each with its own beauty and wisdom. I
have learned much from flowers." We, in turn, learn much from these silently powerful, softly
poignant, and quietly spiritual paintings.
December 1, 2006 – January 31, 2007
Opening receptions: Friday, December 1, 5-8pm
and Saturday, Dec 2, 12-3pm Join us for an informal time with the artist on Saturday from 12 -3 - coffee, soft drinks, and food will be served.
Ron Clayton
Utilizing both the traditional conventions of
renaissance perspective and a painterly affirmation
of the modernist picture plane, Clayton establishes
a counterpoint in his paintings between abstract and
illusionistic space.
The interior spaces depicted in Clayton's paintings
recall abandoned industrial
buildings, seductive both in their painterly rendering,
and in the glimpses of nature visible through a
portal or passageway at it's far end. These doorways
offer the viewer a means of escape, if he or
she is willing to accept it. Clayton's work not only
represents real architecture, and real shifts in
contemporary culture, it attempts to harmonize
the conflict between the age of technology and the
natural man.
Also featuring: New work by Lisa Vanderhill
The Opening Reception for each exhibition is held on the first night of the exhibit between 5:00
and 8 p.m.
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March 16 - April 7
April 20 - June 1