Current Exhibitions

Willing to Go There Patricia Gillespie May 22nd - June 23rd Artist’s Reception: Thursday, May 29th, from 6pm to 9pm Patricia Gillespie’s new work amuses and then punches. She calls her show Willing to go There and as with her earlier work she is taking the viewer past the first impression. Her humor and irony seduce the viewer to take another look, to think about the context she has created. After the work begins to sink in the charm of the piece takes on a different appeal. There is a place, a condition, a sense of identity that she wants us to see and contemplate. With wood figures held in relief over quilted backgrounds Gillespie’s work offers a glimpse at a moment that has a past and she seems to ask the viewer to take that moment and finish the story for themselves.

Wonder Woman, Mixed Media, 32" x 18", by Patricia Gillespie

Foreplay, Mixed Media, 36" x 24", by Patricia Gillespie

The Hot Salon: Paintings by Scott Hove and Bethany Ayres

May 22nd - June 23rd

Artists' Reception: Friday, June 6th from 6pm to 9pm

Scott Hove's and Bethany Ayres' insights into our perceived social roles take shape in large format works. Hove's kinetic works on canvases contrast with Ayre's retro-commercial art paintings on plywood.

In Scott Hove's first series of paintings in over 5 years, he explores the concept of self-sacrifice. Sacrificing things of value to one's individual/cultural/global identity becomes necessary practice in order to keep up with one's obligations to the ever-growing economy. The paintings raise questions about finding one's place, and staying true.

Ayres' new works continue an aesthetic of bright and metallic enamels on stained plywood and proceed towards increasingly edgier color combinations. They also posses a sentimental bent: “These paintings are about love,” said Ayres. “The colors, compositions and elements are about finding symmetry in love and the lonely, painful adventure towards that possibility.”

Corinthian Dragon, Oil on Canvas, by Scott Hove	Juggernaut 2 , Oil on Canvas, by Scott Hove

From the Bottom of My Meow, Paint on Plywood, by Bethany Ayres

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