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."
Frances Cox ~ Paintings
September 14 - 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?