October 25 thru November 29, 2003

Johnny Robertson
Recent Paintings


Johnny Robertson's newest paintings continue to explore the emotive impact of the landscape communicated through monochromatic color, stark imagery and scale. These formal decisions reveal a sensibility toward distance or isolation. Many of the images originated on the road between Texas and California and capture a highly romantic notion in the tradition of American landscape painting. The saturation of light and the density of atmosphere replace the majesty of terra firma.

Thad Duhigg
Consensus Reality

Although not a new venue for the artist, Consensus Reality signals a new direction in Thad Duhigg's career, from former associations with natural forms to a magnification of regionalist iconography inspired by trinkets from popular culture. The exhibition includes ten cast bronze sculptures, enlarged from their natural state and paired together to mark common associations within cultural prejudices.








PROJECT ROOM

Mary Emma Kruse
Wild Beasts Roaming

The brightly colored ambiguous figures that inhabit Mary Emma's paintings spring from personal observation and become abstracted responses to the awareness of sorrow, depravity and discrimination. Spontaneous transitions between original thoughts and peculiar images become conceptually and visually unified to guide the viewer through compositions of ambiguous and interesting stories.