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January
CORE 2025 ARTISTS
Group Exhibition
Celebrate with us during the month of January as we showcase our CORE 2025 gallery artists in our annual group exhibition! Enjoy the creative spirit as we present another year of colors, textures, stories, and ideas within which to find inspiration. It's going to be another great year!
May
DAILY GLIMMERS
Lynne Conrad Marvet
I am attracted to and emotionally moved by the things that I photograph. What is see nourishes and replenishes me. It is different from mundane visual perception of the world, There is some kind of spark, shimmer or glimmer of inspiration. I often experience a sense of amazement, wonder, and stillness beyond words, concepts, and thoughts. I know that what I see is fleeting, temporary, and can never be seen in the same way again. That light, time of day, and atmosphere are in constant flux.
Some days I may experience one or more "glimmers". At other times, I do not see "glimmers" at all. Perhaps daily glimmers are offered by the phenomenal world as reminders that everything changes. "Nothing endures but change." (Heraclitus)
Abstract photographs and mixed media offering glimmers -- brief moments that interrupt discursiveness, attract attention, and offer delight, curiosity, ease.
May
DON’T LOOK
Ann-Marie Stillion
"Revising history is one of the hallmarks of a dictatorship." - M H
I can see that as a woman, I was never really in the timeline of history—perhaps tangentially, but nothing more. I can help, give birth, play with lovely things, cook and clean. But I was never meant to lead or rule or be anything significant due to my gender. The recent move by the Trump administration to eliminate the words "women" and “female” in its writings makes this clear.
Simply taking charge of the male body, as I do when I photograph men, has been very satisfying. My work puts something in the world that wasn't there before. I don't render men as real. They are projections of a world I would prefer to live in.
One of the works in the exhibit, “DON’T LOOK” uses a photograph I made years ago at Eagle Falls. It was a gorgeous setting, and I recalled the photographer Edward Weston in its original title. When I posted it on social media, it was censored immediately. Placing words over the man's genitals made it acceptable when I reposted it later.
Women's bodies are shared in every imaginable way, but return the favor and you will find out immediately that men don't want to be seen and everyone has an objection of some kind. So I have continued.
All images © 2025 Ann-Marie Stillion / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
April
FOLKLORE
New paintings of people by Kate Harkins.
Kate Harkins
April
TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
Paige Pettibon
This show examines casinos' dual impact on Indigenous communities through paintings of people, playing cards, and dimensional pieces, balancing economy and addiction.
March
OUT OF PROPORTION
Marit Berg
The title of my exhibit is in reference to our realistic expectations of objects in space. I begin my creative process working ideas through a series of drawings in my sketchbook. By playing with scale and perspective I create conflicting depths, in an effort to take familiar objects out of context. By effecting expectations of space, I feel freer to explore the narrative in the work. I might also work some color studies, but color choices are typically decided in the process of the painting or print.
My subject matter is inspired by 16th century Dutch vanitas paintings, a theme previously explored in Roman times. Vanitas paintings are a meditation on the vanities of life; the passing time; and a reminder of the inevitability of death. I am also interested in the Mexican surrealist painters of the early part of the 20th century, particularly Carrington, Varo, and Tichenor. These artists painted intriguing combinations of objects and imaginary figures in landscapes or enclosed spaces. Like these artists, I present a narrative in an imagined space, asking the viewer to consider ideas from different perspectives and contexts.
March
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BREAKING GROUND
Ann Marie Schneider
Ann Marie’s ruptured surfaces and unhinged structures reveal life in the fissures, slips, and voids wrought by deep time.
February
THEY CAME IN PEACE
Kevin Ducoing
Imagining our most obvious legacy -our homes, our neighborhoods, our towns and villages, and our ongoing engineering of the land- as experienced from the landscape's point of view.
What if the land itself could tell the tale of us, the people. Are we just part of the overall surrounding landscape, just another animal making its way? Are we an invasion...or a threat?
In this collection, our presence in the world can be imagined as a flying house moving through the landscape, as from a ghost story, or a science fiction movie.
February
EMBRACING DEPTH
Uyen Tran-Gjerde
Creating through chaos and revealing the true intentions of every artist will demand attention from all corners of the world.
