Exhibitions

"Eloquence of Trees"
Tapestry Exhibition

March - April

Squeak Carnwath, Donald and Era Farnsworth,  April Gornik, Robert Kushner, Hung Liu, Bob Nugent, Darren Waterston,  Andy Diaz Hope & Laurel Roth, Deborah Oropallo, and William Wiley.

Jacquard tapestries by 12 Contemporary artists working with one of natures most iconic images. A matrix of thousands and thousands of colored threads. As Marshall McLuhan says, “the medium is the message.” They are not pigment on a ground; the ground is the image. Every color and detail is the result of the interaction of the colored threads which comprise the object itself, the vertical warp interlaced with the horizontal weft.

Robert McCauley
March  - April

Robert McCauley, influenced by the Northwest Coast culture – presents paintings and mixed media works rooted in the tradition of 19th century American Romanticism, his narratives are contemporary, timely and relevant. Through the metaphorical juxtaposition of found objects, inscribed texts and ambiguous titles, McCauley addresses a wide variety of contemporary themes and issues, including cultures in collision, environmental ethics, humankind’s impact on nature and the appropriation of nature in art.

Jenny Honnert Abell
March - April

Jenny Honnert Abell’s first solo exhibition at Gail Severn Gallery is filled with fantasy and imagination.  Loving nature, Abell’s imagery of birds on old book covers resembles the illustrations seen in early childhood fairytale books. Jenny’s work includes collage; it is an enigma of photos, drawings and patterns for the viewer to solve.  Her work is so detailed; even the smallest book cover has levels of complexity which are hard to comprehend.

"Surface and Beyond"
Kris Cox and Rana Rochat

March - April

Kris Cox creates symbolic abstractions of time and memory, created by a process of applying multiple layers of pigmented putties, on wood panels with grids that have been chased into their surfaces.  

Rana Rochat’s paintings contain the outlined shapes of literal vessels and the contents spilling out of them, bowls or beakers or drops of liquid, and it is up to the viewer to decide whether these semi-images are meaningful images or incidental bits of spontaneous mark-making.