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The Promise of Dawn

Thierry Guillemin

with Soundscapes by Jim Metzner

Curated by Gaby Mizes

March 27th - April 20th, 2024

In these new paintings Thierry Guillemin explores the wonders of early morning light. 
He invited his friend Jim Metzner to contribute original dawn soundscapes that will be played in the gallery during the show.  
In this unique and immersive collaboration, Thierry and Jim pay homage to the magic of dawn, a powerful symbol of awakening and new possibilities.

Thierry has been a member of Studio Gallery since 2005. Originally an abstract painter, he found in this current series of large realistic paintings a new path to address essential aspects of his life experience, time, awareness, and interconnectedness, that he feels people eagerly respond to. 
“What I find is that the same desire for sincerity can continue to be the guiding force of my work even though the form has changed so radically in appearance”.

For the past 40 years, Jim Metzner has recorded soundscapes all over the world, lately as a Fulbright Specialist in Media and Communication.  
Many of Jim's recordings have appeared on his radio program and podcast, Pulse of the Planet. His archive is now reposited in the Library of Congress. 
"I'm a huge fan of Thierry's art and am honored to have some of my recordings included in his exhibition, The Promise of Dawn". 

A special limited and signed edition of Jim’s dawn recording will be made available with each painting and can also be purchased separately.
Dawn 1 (44:00) is the soundscape heard in the exhibition, recorded at various locations in the northeastern US. 
Dawn 2 (8:51) is a quieter soundscape, recorded at a wetlands in upstate New York. 
Dawn 3 (23:48) was recorded in Australia, New Zealand, Sierra Nevada and the Northeast."

For more information about Jim's work, visit jimmetznerproductions.com.
Thierry’s website can be visited at www.thierryguillemin.com.

In the Lower Gallery

The Colors of Fruit

Elizabeth McNeil Harris

Curated by Gaby Mizes

March 27th - April 20th, 2024

Drawings and musings on the beauty of familiar (and delicious) objects.

“TEARS ENOUGH TO DROWN ME BUT I SWIM”

Iza Thomas

Curated by Gaby Mizes

March 27th - April 20th, 2024

Women, I think, exist in two worlds at the same time. The first one is the everyday world with lovers and children, friendship, and daily routine. This world is also one where the never-ending obligations and expectations heaped on women are taken for granted and the invisibility of our existence is a fact of life. The second parallel world --our interior world-- is where we nevertheless dance towards the light. It is where we get our resiliency, our strength, and our grace to manage and go on in the face of the indifferent gods. I use magical realism to depict both of these worlds.

The mannequins in my paintings and the props come from sudden lucky finds in dusty antique shops and online auction houses. They convey the sense of being real and not real simultaneously, the way women feel often.

And yet the everyday earth has its joys. My husband wrote the poems that accompany my paintings so art can bring us together. He is always there through the trials and tribulations of creating a painting. He helps me out of difficult moments that I find myself in. As a result, he is able to capture in words the message that I want to convey through my brush.

So that is what I am trying to express in these series of paintings, our resilience and our strength. This is best captured in the line that I use as the title for my exhibit from the poem Defining Worlds by G.Y. Baxter: “Tears enough to drown me but I swim.”

In the Garden Gallery

Woman│Artist
A Studio Gallery Staff Exhibit

Atiya Dorsey, Lydia Embry, Halley Sun Stubis, Samantha Van Heest

Curated by Halley Sun Stubis

March 27th - April 20th, 2024

Images (left to right): She Is Always Emptying by Lydia Embry, 归来 (Returning Anew) by Halley Sun Stubis, A Sweet Magnolia and Her Southern Tree by Atiya Dorsey (from the Anemoia Series), and two peaches, eaten consecutively by Samantha Van Heest.

Woman│Artist features four Studio Gallery staff members, including
Director Halley Sun Stubis, Curator and Fellows Manager Atiya Dorsey, and former
gallery associates Lydia Embry and Samantha Van Heest.

As women artists, this exhibit explores the role of womanhood (and by extension, girlhood) in their identities. What does it mean to be a woman artist, and how does gender mold our experiences and ways of creation? Through Woman│Artist, Dorsey, Embry, Stubis, and Van Heest touch on the narrative intimacies often intertwined in the overarching experience of womanhood. This exhibit features paintings, photographic collages, and mixed-media works.