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Sunday, Feb. 8 from 3-6 pm

Meredith Dytch paints the city, finding aesthetic value in places that aren’t normally thought of as having any. Abandoned buildings, rusting viaducts, overgrown vacant lots, or mundane industrial scenes – Dytch thinks of these places as the Hidden City because we don’t pay attention to them, or appreciate them aesthetically. Our eye skips over them as we flash by in our cars or trains.

The world around us does not need to be idealized or romanticized. The Japanese have an aesthetic viewpoint called “sabi,” which is about the beauty and dignity inherent in the old, the decaying, and the weathered – for example, a wooden barn door from which most of the paint has peeled.  This philosophy encourages Dytch to strip art of sentimentality, “prettiness,” or the “grandeur” of the traditional landscape: simply recording the built environment – showing things as she finds them, without adornment.

Join us for our Opening
Sunday, Feb. 8 from 3-6 pm

The primary focus of Jessica Gondek’s work is abstract stemming from an interest in technology, geometry, machine aesthetics, nature, and architecture.  The exhibit Enterprising Machines explores a dichotomous relationship between the hand and the machine that has evolved over time. This creative journey has taken Gondek from works engaged in 3D modeling to create forms and compositions to recent explorations of gendered domestic machines from the early part of the twentieth century referencing trade catalogues and actual utilitarian objects.  These works hold in common a marriage of both traditional media and digitally mediated computer approaches intrinsic to the development of the images.  The mechanical forms within these compositions are simultaneously transformed asserting an animated physical presence and internal narrative.

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Sunday, Feb. 8 from 3-6 pm

In her exhibit The Story of Art, whether it is one image or a series of them, Ellen Roth Deutsch tells stories that draw the viewer into a complicated set of circumstances that feature a cast of characters that act and interact on a stage-like set.  Most of Deutsch’s works are colored pencil and ink on paper with emphasis on story, color and line. Her work is expressive, narrative and largely based on her own personal story or that of other women. They usually concern themselves with the fragility of life.
Deutsch has completed a wide variety of artist’s books.  Words sometimes accompany the images.  New work are drawings on silk embellished with stitchery and beading.