On view in the MAIN GALLERIES:

This exhibition continues to explore a dystopic world paralleling our own. The characters inhabiting it are assemblages made from disparate components and byproducts, resulting in a balancing act between whimsy and warning. Layers of tattoo, dermis, graffiti and detritus combine to complicate these portraits and ask the viewer to consider what is the character’s true self. RUOK, or “Are you ok?”, is one of numerous text short-hands tattooed throughout this series of works. In the context of this show, this phrase maneuvers away from a question of concern, to an assumption of downfall.

"Incogneato"
oil on cradled panel, framed: 49.75" x 37.75"

"Goofy Dragon"
oil on cradled panel, framed: 13.5" x 13.5"

On view in the OFFICE GALLERY:

Clare Rosean
CONTROL
New Paintings & Drawings

I think of this collection of drawings and paintings simply as “scapes” - not quite landscapes,
but not cityscapes either.  “Peoplescapes” might be a better word for them;
as human interaction and specifically conflict, is their primary focus.

It took me years to make some of these pieces because I kept starting over when even one detail was off.
Each composition is a carefully constructed pattern - a precarious balance of positive and negative,
specific and abstract - imposing order on the messiness of our social landscape.

On view in the OFFICE GALLERY:

Amanda Elizabeth Joseph
Fading Pinpricks
New Embroideries

The majority of the works included in this collection are what I refer to as "fragmented epitaphs":
abstracted details of moss and lichen-covered tombstones.  These embroideries are an intimate reflection
on the intersection of life and death and time, shimmering in the morning dew: fading pinpricks of light.