Myth and Memory

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Wednesday, November 23rd through Saturday, December 17th, 2022

We form memories continuously throughout our lives, consolidating them over time into broad understandings of the world around us. Collectively they become our sacred stories, parts of us, indeed what defines us. The combined memories of a group or culture – often mixtures of fact and fantasy – become the lessons and the wisdom of that group, sometimes in the form of legends or myths.

Myths can be suffused by the supernatural, the unreal. But they are real to us in important ways. They establish and perpetuate cherished traditions, traditions that will nourish us throughout life and on into the next generation.

Life Begins
Freda Lee McCann
Acrylic on canvas
12'“ x 12”
$600
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After the Nightmare
Elizabeth Curren
2022
Watercolors and inks on paper
17.5” x 13.5”
$300
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Primary Memory
Jennifer Duncan
Mixed media on panel
10” x 10”
$275
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Metamorphosis
Sally Kauffman
2022
Oil on canvas
20” x 40” half circle
$2,000
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Kauffman, a visual artist based in Washington, DC is best known for her abstract yet allusory large-scale paintings of crowds engaged in communal activities. 


Metamorphosis reflects hope after the tragic and, at times, terrifying year of 2020. Painting butterflies brings her joy - they symbolize renewal and courage. Metamorphosis is part of her “Jeopardy” series in which she lends her voice to endangered species as their natural habitats and migration patterns are being disrupted and protections stripped away.

 

They’re Coming
Elizabeth Curren
2022
Watercolors and inks
17.5” x 13.5”
$300
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Avril
Lisa Battle
Ceramic
18" x 15" x 14"
$1,500
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My Castle Under the Sea
Carolee Jakes
2021
Hand-carved woodblock Print
22” x 24”
$700
Varied edition of 3
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“Patched together from very watery ink marks, these drawings riff off of advertising portrait photographs, allowing the wet materials to cement the archetypes they exploit, while imbuing them as they swirl and feather with new, more personal, narratives.”

-Irene Pantelis

Overcoat
Irene Pantelis
2020
Sumi and walnut ink, color pencils, on printmaking paper
34” x 27”
$800
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The Emotional Element
Joyce McCarten
Collage and acrylic on board
24” x 16”
$650
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Sweaters and Scarves
Irene Pantelis
2020
Sumi ink and pencils on printmaking paper
34” x 27”
$800
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My photo collage of Westsider Rare & Used Books, is of an independent book and record store located on the Upper West Side in New York City.  It's a fabulous small space that has survived for over the years despite being bought and sold many times.  This photograph was taken before it was announced that the store would remain open.  I wanted to memorialize it just in case it had to close for the last time.

-Pam Frederick

Westsider Rare & Used Books
Pam Frederick
Photo, collage, and mixed media on cradled maple panel
20" x 16" x 2"
$600
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Triangle vase
Lisa Battle
Ceramic
16" x 6" x 6" 
$300
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Snakes Looking for Trouble
Bill Bowser
Pastel and gouache on paper
16” x 13.75”
$260
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Memories of a Bride shows the cap to the veil my mother wore when she married my father many years ago.  The roses symbolize love that has endured over time; faded, perhaps from its youthful ardor, but still strong and beautiful.

Souvenir from a Ball represents an earlier era, from my grandmother or great-grandmother's time, when graceful women carried fans to formal balls - perhaps receiving flowers from hopeful beaux.

-Jo Levine

 

Souvenir from a Ball
Jo Levine
Archivally printed photograph
16” x 20”
$325
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Matrimonial Dreams
Sarah Matthews
Block Printed Collage
21" x 14.5"
$250  
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Memories of a Bride
Jo Levine
Archivally printed photograph
16” x 20”
$325
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Kimberley Bursic is a painter and printmaker working in Washington DC. Her works reference memories, places and weather. This work morphs found landscape imagery into a story about water.

When Watermelons Were Big and Chairs Were Small
Beverly Logan
2020
Handmade collage from inkjet prints
22” x 26”
$450
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Pink Landscape
Kimberley Bursic
Acrylic collage on paper
24” x 32”  
$1,100
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Alone
Beverly Logan
2020
Handmade collage from inkjet prints
22” x 26”
$450
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Thinking, Trying and Never Getting Over
Wayne Paige
Oil on canvas, triptych
20" x 16" each, 20” x 48” total
$1,800
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An Essential Fire
Bill Bowser
Pastel and gouache on paper
15."5” x 14.5”
$260
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Origin Story
Chris Corson
2022
Ceramic, underglaze, encaustic
9” x 10” x 13.5”
$1000
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Last Days of Summer
Joyce McCarten
Oil on canvas
40” x 30”
$1,800
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This work is part of a series of “stuffed paintings” of rats and other critters taking on human characteristics in a surrealistic landscape. The stuffed part is sewn right onto the canvas, the whole thing is gessoed and then painted in oil.

-Victoria Hanks

You Made Me Love You
Victoria Hanks
2019
Oil on stuffed canvas, mixed media
30” x 34”
$1,200
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Free to Be
Sabiha Iqbal
Oil on canvas
18” x 24”
$500
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The Well Spirited Señor Dance
Yvette Kraft
Caran d’Ache crayons on canvas
15” x 12.25”
$500
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Myth & Memory #1 in the Pentagoet Inn Bar
Castine, Maine
Susan Raines
Archival Photograph
16” x 20”
$250
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After Diebenkorn
Suzanne Goldberg
2022
Oil on canvas
24” x 24”
$1,500
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Myth & Memory #2 in the Pentagoet Inn Bar
Castine, Maine
Susan Raines
Archival Photograph
16” x 20”
$250
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What is self-identity? Here I experiment with alternate views of myself.

-Gary Anthes

Self Portrait
Gary Anthes
2022
Photograph, edition of six
22” x 30”
$350
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Chapel
Bob Burgess
Photography
20” x 13.25”, Other sizes available upon request
$300
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Time’s Shadow
Gary Anthes
2022
Photograph, edition of six
22” x 30”
$350
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Summer Bouquet
Eleanor Wang
Mixed media
30” x 30”
$625
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Luxembourg
Bob Burgess
Photograph
16” x 20”, Other sizes available upon request
$300
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Yellow Sky
Jennifer Duncan
Mixed media on panel
12” x 12”
$375
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Drawings from Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon, these sublime landscapes are filled with personal memories having been there, as well as with history, legends, and undoubtedly myths about how they were created over eons, who lived there, who visited, when, why, and what these majestic panoramas mean to us today.

Grand Canyon Landscape - LD168
Gordon Binder
1994
Pastel on gray paper
12” x 15”
$225
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From The Beautiful Vase
Yvette Kraft
Caran d’Ache Crayons on canvas
18.75” x 15.25”
$500
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Road Through Monument Valley - LD165
Gordon Binder
1993
Pastel on cream colored paper
12” x 15”
$225
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In my piece “Markings: What Remains”, careful observation of markings on found wood and paper the piece is made from shows what amounts to the memories of the object.

-Joan Mayfield

Portrait of a Home Long Gone
Halley Sun Stubis
Acrylic on canvas
24” x 18”
NFS
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Markings: What Remains
Joan Mayfield
2022
Found wood, found paper
29” x 27”
$1,000
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What’s Left
Halley Sun Stubis
Acrylic on canvas
24” x 18”
NFS
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How does a home hold memories, and how do those memories remain in the space even after the families have left and the houses burned down? There is a bittersweet sacredness that I associate with lost memories and history freshly buried. It’s as though the universe is reclaiming itself, blowing away dust for it to resettle in a new pattern. These sister paintings were inspired by a home I saw that burned to the ground, with only its monolithic hearth still standing amongst the ash. This destroyed lot where there was once a house made me question how spaces continue to hold energy long after its residents have passed on, silently honoring the rich lives of those we will never know. The immensity of humanity is awe-inspiring, and I love to touch on this in my work by examining what is in my environment.

-Halley Sun Stubis

 

These photographs address power dynamics, conflict, loss, and deteriorating memories. Through referencing the natural processes of dissolution, this work reflects aspects of existence on the edge of potential demise. I am attempting to reflect the often hidden or ignored ephemeral beauty in our shared environment, which has in its genesis a component of transience of a fleeting object or expression in time. I tried to capture a passing, momentary art that tells a story, highlight a certain moment in time, describes people, politics, culture, art, places and a society that together form the myth of life.

-Lynda Andrews-Barry

Heart
Lynda Andrews-Barry
Digital photograph on archival paper
9.5” x 9.5”
$150
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Lynda Andrews-Barry
Digital photograph on archival paper
9.5” x 9.5”
$150
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Portrait
Lynda Andrews-Barry
Digital photograph on archival paper
9.5” x 9.5”
$150
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Coil
Lynda Andrews-Barry
Digital photograph on archival paper
9.5” x 9.5”
$150
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The Myth of Cadmus and Harmonia (from Ovid: Metamorphoses):

Ovid tells the story of Cadmus, who, with his beloved wife Harmonia comes to the evening of his life, weighed down with misfortunes. Cadmus regrets once killing a giant snake that may have been sacred - “If it was, then the certain wrath of the gods punishes me, and I pray to become a snake myself”.... And as he speaks he feels scales growing on his skin...then his form starts to change...." Harmonia, now also a snake, slides into his embrace.

In Skin Flux I portray Cadmus’ change as a process of explosive fragmentation and coalescence. He is neither human nor snake, and yet both.

-Micheline Klagsbrun

SKIN FLUX (King Cadmus)
Micheline Klagsbrun
2009
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 36"
$3,000
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Tembo
Sarah Matthews
Block Print
16.5” x 20”
$450 
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Black Holes of Spring
Lois Kampinsky
2022
24” x 18”
Mixed Media on Paper-Mounted Canvas
$975
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When it’s climatically threatening, politically challenging, and economically discouraging, we cling to our memories of spring.  The softest of times beckons when we’re scraping ice off windshields, dodging slush pools, and bracing against unpitying winds.  But our memories may deceive us.  Are springtime humidities, drenching showers, and swarming insects always benign?  Maybe there are black holes lurking beneath the pastel hues of Spring.  We toss them off as worth it.  And what choice do we have?

-Lois Kampinsky

 

Coming Out of the Shadows
Harriet Lesser
26” x 12”
Charcoal, graphite, and reworked photo transfer on paper
$450
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Waterfall
Al Lipton
2015
Oil on canvas
25” x 32”
$2,500
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Remembering…
Cheryl Ann Bearss
Oil on canvas
36” x 24”
$400
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Myth Discovered
Bob Burgess
Photograph
20” x 13.25”
$400
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Tree of Life
Cheryl Ann Bearss
2022
Oil
24” x 36”
$700
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