Past Shows / Events
2023
POSTMODERN OPTIONS
INTERPRETING PUNCTUATION
IMPERFECT TENNIS
Your insides are out
Wendy Rhode's paintings flirt with the figurative and representational while consistently veering back to a pure romance with process. In this subgroup of her massive output from the last five years, she plays with the theme of inside/outside through the use of layering, transparency and opacity. The works speak in a common language of sensual organic forms, which sometimes resemble the guts inside our bodies or the skin holding them in.
For the opening reception, her offspring(+) supplied entertainment in the form of poetry (Zoe Darsee + Adrienne Herr) and song+dance (Twyla Rhode).
For the opening reception, her offspring(+) supplied entertainment in the form of poetry (Zoe Darsee + Adrienne Herr) and song+dance (Twyla Rhode).
remains to be seen
Something happened. Maybe by accident, maybe on purpose, but now there's this: the evidence.
We put out a call to the community for mysterious responses to a mysterious question / results of an action or inaction,
and our intrepid community members delivered. This show was ripe for the scrutiny of poets and amateur detectives.
Therefore, we invited local poet and conceptual artist Michael Anthony Garcia to share his impressions of the works presented! At the opening reception attendees were treated to a musical performance by sad pajamas + Andrea Alfaro.
We put out a call to the community for mysterious responses to a mysterious question / results of an action or inaction,
and our intrepid community members delivered. This show was ripe for the scrutiny of poets and amateur detectives.
Therefore, we invited local poet and conceptual artist Michael Anthony Garcia to share his impressions of the works presented! At the opening reception attendees were treated to a musical performance by sad pajamas + Andrea Alfaro.
all saxophones are trees
paintings by Carl Smith... in his words:
"For many years I approached abstract art head on and tried to deal with nonobjective abstraction in a personal way,
but these images always fell short of the real thing for me. The filter of my experiences must be expressed through
the medium of landscape and painting but there is never an attainment of the goal. Surviving the process to get to a painting's end is difficult enough. The more paintings I make the more I learn how to say what is needed. Being able to present my work has had such a huge influence on the work I make and my ideas around how to make paintings consistently over a long period of time. This final step in the creative process for me is the most important. Presenting the work completes a cycle of creativity that allows me to start at the beginning of painting again, which often starts as an emanation from my heart, compulsively telling me to try to make a slightly better painting then the one I just made."
"For many years I approached abstract art head on and tried to deal with nonobjective abstraction in a personal way,
but these images always fell short of the real thing for me. The filter of my experiences must be expressed through
the medium of landscape and painting but there is never an attainment of the goal. Surviving the process to get to a painting's end is difficult enough. The more paintings I make the more I learn how to say what is needed. Being able to present my work has had such a huge influence on the work I make and my ideas around how to make paintings consistently over a long period of time. This final step in the creative process for me is the most important. Presenting the work completes a cycle of creativity that allows me to start at the beginning of painting again, which often starts as an emanation from my heart, compulsively telling me to try to make a slightly better painting then the one I just made."