Exhibitions
April 2 - May 27
Reception: Saturday, April 7, 5 - 8 PM
Artists Talk: Saturday April 28, 2 - 4 PM
The exhibition, Biomorphic, featuring works by artist’s Tom Hill and Liza Linder, transports the viewer into surreal worlds through color, form, and surface. Both artists use organic forms that resemble elements in the natural world while having an otherworldly feel. In Linder’s mosaic work, she isolates a range of nature specimens and life forms, scaling them up and creating embellishment with tile and glass. In contrast to Linder’s isolated forms, Tom Hill generates complete scenarios in which such forms live and breathe. Using acrylic paint and glazing medium, Hill presents a dreamlike journey of fluid and shifting movement, arcane markings, and suggestive, ambiguous space.
Front Window Feature
April 2 - May 27, 2018
Reception: Saturday, April 7, 5-8 pm
In her Neither Mine Nor Yours series, Michelle Dickson presents a poetic and contemplative view of life’s cycles, the relationship between humans and nature, and its consequence. Her use of driftwood, plaster, oil paint, and encaustic medium elegantly investigates the fragility of human existence and the natural environment. The work is a series of self-portraits that invites you into her innermost journey questioning time, presence, and effect.
June 11 – August 11, 2018
Reception: June 16, 5–8 pm
In a collaboration with the Brentwood Arts Exchange and under the direction of Professor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland art students curate, design and produce an exhibition featuring local artists. The exhibit will feature the work of Lorenzo Cardim, Victor Ekpuk and Wilfredo Valladares, with a focus on their material investigations, and an exploration of the transnational elements present in their process and productions. These artists, drawing upon their own complex cultural identities, create works that challenge our perception of identity as singular and unchanging. The students create an experience where the conversation between the works highlights the relationship between individual identity and the broader cultural and political issues of today around the world.
Works by Sharon Fishel, Susan Hostetler and Nancy Sausser
August 27 - October 21, 2018
Reception: Saturday, september 8, 5 - 8 pm
Artists Talk: Saturday, October 6, 2 pm
Artists Sharon Fishel, Susan Hostetler and Nancy Sausser, investigate the various manifestations of fertility, including the airborne, the interior and the aqueous. In a Fertile World presents their shared interest in the patterns and cycles of the natural world.
Working with oil paint, Fishel builds layer upon layer of color, texture and transparency. Her transformational forms, gathered from nature, are “grown” into complete works, suggesting individual moments in the natural life cycle of living forms as well as reflections upon the impermanent nature of the world.
On a more sculptural form, and inspired by flora and fauna, Hostetler’s drawings and 3-D wall pieces focus on the seasonal movement of migration, patterns in murmurations of birds, and the visual arrangement of their songs. Her work is an exploration of balance between predictability and mystery.
Sausser, in turn, explores the dichotomy between interior and exterior worlds. Her encased womb-like vessels reference the landscape and the botanical, while also conjuring images the interior body and bringing to mind an earthy and ceremonial sense of reverence.