Featured Artists: Karen Bushold, Dan Dow, Diane Hudson, Jim Kelly, Ruth Sylmor, Fran Vita-Taylor, Andrea van Voorst van Beest, Jan Peter van Voorst van Beest, Dave Wade

This particular exhibition features photography, painting and printmaking. All the artists draw from the rich well of daily life lending their own particular lens of interest or beauty to whatever framing device or mood they are seeking at the time. While at first glance it may appear there is not a theme or similarity between the artist’s work, a happenstance rhythm presents itself as relationships of color and form moments frozen in time, beginning a conversation on the walls waiting for the listener/viewer to catch on.

The majority of the group uses photography for their work and as Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest remarks on the medium on his website ”During my many years in photography, I have found the whole spectrum of emotions. Joy, hate, sadness, love, war and peace. Photographs are small pieces in time. I take them home and have ownership. They are particles of history and a record of life on earth.” While this can be said for all mediums, it seems especially apt at this time. Having felt a slight shift in how time passes, what we ‘keep’ and what we discard from our memories during the various phases we have just experienced over these pandemic stricken months/years.

In a complete departure from photography, for example, the work of Jim Kelly’s gestural paintings will act as a counterpoint to some of the lost-in-time black and white images here in the gallery. About Jim’s work: “His abstract paintings are complex and non-hierarchical. They celebrate an intuitive process that utilizes gestural color, asemic calligraphy and free-form shapes. But just beneath the strong surface energy and apparent randomness reside internal patterns and rhythms that create a balance of controlled anarchy.” These are just two of the very well-established artists that will have work on the walls that will leave the viewer wanting more.