Stacey Lee Gee: I’LL WORSHIP ANYTHING Opening Reception Fri. Jan 5, 5-8pm

Put anything in front of me and I’ll worship it. Worship zooms me into a thing and zooms me out to the absence of myself.

One part deep history, one part plexiglass from Home Depot. The collaboration of old and the new, the history of myself and the space. The arrangement of objects in a particular room at a particular time.

The care that goes into worshiping something is the kind of humanity I wish for.

Sessah DelaRue: THE SPACE BETWEEN WAS AND IS

Opening Reception Fri. Jan 5, 2024, 5-8pm

Curator: David Reif

"FOREVER IS COMPOSED OF NOWS"

Opening Reception Fri. Feb 2, 5-8pm

Iris Goldstein, a long-time member of ARC Gallery, is exhibiting colored-pencil drawings at the gallery in February 2024. Goldstein is always interested in the unusual and offbeat. Though she is committed to nonobjective art, she tries to find visual images that are suggestive and allusive, based on real-life objects or places that are transformed through the artist's imagination.

Abigail Engstrand: MARCH ON

Opening Reception: Friday, March 1, 2024, 5-8pm

As an artist  I am always looking at bodies, and reading relationships. I tune in to my senses, trying to really see and understand the world around me.  I anthropomorphize and empathize with life I find in nature. I love to tend a garden, and watch life’s cycles.

Jessica Gondek: IRONMADES: Dualisms

Opening Reception: Friday, March 1, 2024, 5-8pm

My work endeavors to blur the distinction between hand and machine. “Ironmades” is a nod to the early 20th century Dada movement engaged with machinery and manufactured items. In 1916 Marcel Duchamp coined the term readymades, elevating mass-produced objects to the status of art. Of special note is Man Ray’s “The Gift” created in 1921, a sculpture of an everyday flat iron modified with brass tacks adhered to the sole plate. This transformation subverted the iron’s intended function to smooth clothing. As an artist, I continue building on this tradition to bring it into the digital era of the 21st century as our relationship with technology continues to evolve.

N. Dia Webb: TO THE SAINTS OF MY SANITY

Opening Reception Fri. March 1, 2024, 5-8pmpm

Humanity’s fascination with issues of the mind fails to account for its fragility and how quickly everything can unravel. There is an unspoken expectation when creating work about mental health that it is based strictly on trauma. My artwork is informed by delving into divergent issues that come from mental health while combating societal stigma surrounding speaking about these struggles.

Curator: Curtis Anthony Bozif

Lee Stanton: OUT OF THE BLUE  Opening Reception Fri.  Sept 8, 5-8pm

White on blue. A line. An identifiable path created by a point moving in space. Look up! Lines, a trail of condensed water from an aircraft at high altitude, a white streak across the sky. Intangible, the sky has no surface; it cannot be turned into a thing or given a quantity. It may represent infinity, eternity, immortality, transcendence, or simply inspiration. As the traditional residence of gods and goddesses the sky may suggest omnipotence. The sky may also be symbolic of order in the universe. How might our interference with the environment alter these responses, drawing lines across the vista. In this series, views of land or anything else which might help to suggest scale or orientation is decidedly absent, excluded, and kept to a minimum. Infinite possibilities.

Michelle Williams: RETROSPECTIVE: A Journey Through Time Opening Reception Fri. Sept 8, 5-8pm

This show spans over 30 years of my beaded sculptures. Before bead art, I worked with tapestry, weaving, baskets, embroidery and crochet. In 1989, on a trip to Jamaica, I began exploring bead art using basic couching techniques and the human form. The first in that series, I called “First in Series.” My sculptures have won prizes and been featured in several Bead Art books.

ARC Members’: 50th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION Opening Reception Fri. Sept 29, 5-8pm

Please join the collective membership of ARC for its 50th Anniversary Members' Exhibition! For this milestone celebration, ARC presents work by members past and present. Featuring an installation piece by founding member Gerda Meyer-Bernstein, now 100 years old.

Growing Up Now

Opening Reception Fri. Oct 27, 5-8pm

Artists of all backgrounds explore the challenges and threats faced by children growing up in the world today. From the looming threat of global warming and natural disasters to the rise of school shootings and the erosion of civil rights, young people today face unprecedented challenges that will shape their lives and the future of the planet they inhabit.