Alina Poroshina
February 15 - April 15, 2010
Reception: Friday, February 19, 5:30-7:30

"Water and Fire" is a body of work that incorporates hidden symbolism as a vehicle for transforming reality and fitting observations into a paradigm of values. The work addresses internal struggle, passion, fear and desire.

Deanna Krueger
April 19 - June 3, 2010
Reception: Friday, April 23, 5:30-7:30

Deanna Krueger produces powerful mixed media forms created from recycled medical diagnostic film layered with monotypes. The film is torn, repositioned, and then stapled together to create various multi-faceted surfaces. The semi-reflective surfaces create a mesmerizing, gem-like quality. Krueger's given titles hint at the conceptual nuances, which imply humanity's collective search for meaning. Krueger explains:

"I am interested in humanity's collective search for meaning in the absurdity that is this life, and in the pleasure to be found in the various manifestations of that search. …Serving as a marker of this time of transition, the materials speak to the recent evolution of information storage. When virtual documents replace paper, the lowly staple will become an artifact of an earlier information age. Modes of diagnostic imagery are shifting as well: X-Rays and MRI scans are increasingly being recorded solely in the digital realm."

Visual Narrative ~ Fine Art That Tells a Story
A National Juried Exhibition
June 8 - July 22, 2010
Reception: Friday, June 11, 5:30-7:30

Entry Deadline: March 14, 2010 Download Prospectus for "Visual Narrative"

Suzanne Stryk
July 26 - September 9, 2010
Reception: Friday, July 30, 5:30-7:30

"A few years ago, I was drawing the unfurling of a beetles wings—observing the precise hinges designed to open them out to fly and fold in when at rest—all neatly fitting under the elytra, those hard wings that cover a beetle's body. While struck by the beautiful intricacy of this small creature before me, I was aware that minute genetic instructions determine everything about the workings the organism. I realized then, that my consciousness is a cross-pollination of a 19th century artist-naturalist's sensibility with a contemporary awareness of the genome."

The Collection Exhibition
September 13 - November 11, 2010
Reception: Friday, September 17, 5:30-7:30

Rebecca Moy
November 15 - January 17, 2011
Reception: Friday, November 19, 5:30-7:30

Who are you?

What determines a memory for you? What exactly is it that recalls a specific moment in your life? Is it just our eyes we depend on to depict innumerable and meticulous details that make up the memories of our existence?

Perhaps there are no definitive answers. Perhaps this series reflects the known with the uncertain; combining the familiarity of landscape, architecture, nature and the digital age we inhabit with something intangible that lives and breaths within us.

Who are you?

I’ve always been fascinated with the reaction of one’s body and mind to the visceral relationship between colors and shapes; all strangely familiar yet uncertain. Our collective apprehension and consequent visual interpretation of reality surrounds us. Seduces us.

Before I sleep, while dreaming, and just before, and as I wake, this series becomes physical embodiment of this investigation, as it takes place within me. I am more so intrigued by the thoughts and feelings evoked by precise orchestrations of color and shape. Layer by layer, these shapes and forms permit us a place to remember, or perhaps a place to forget. To wonder and wander through the times and places we’ve all journeyed; perhaps these are the moments and memories which define us.

Who are you?

There is a broadness in color theory and a specificity in line which are at times minimal. Others are expressionistic and designed to yield an opportunity for genuine thought, feeling and contemplation. Our mind’s eye reaches out to a place of space and time; a place in our memories. Our senses are bombarded by our 180 degree view…. But as we walk, our eyes find specific faces, places, lines…time, and perhaps themselves.

Like an internal chord struck and vibrating into the very core of what it means to be us, these works call to us all and whisper an eternal question.

Who are you?