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Rock Stars

Lois Kampinsky

Curated by Mira Hecht

March 25th, 2026 - April 18th, 2026

What could be more mundane and ubiquitous than rocks? 

Yet, their varieties, colors, shapes, textures, combinations, and configurations can result in fascinating pileups of sculptural forms. 

Think of water rushing through the dramatic stone outcroppings of Rio, the statue-like structures along the rivers of Vietnam, the dramatic arches in America’s southwest.

Presented here are my painted takes on real scenes witnessed in Spain, the US West, and China plus even more imaginative leaps involving pebbles, rocks, slopes, and sand. 

The goal is not to depict reality so much as to use of my memories of various places as underpinnings for color juxtapositions and whirls of undulating shape.

In the Lower Gallery

A World Appears As We Open Our Eyes

Sabiha Iqbal

Curated by Mira Hecht

March 25th, 2026 - April 18th, 2026

In this series I set myself some impossible goal of painting both our explosive world and the beauty surrounding us. To paint the delightful and the disturbing simultaneously. It draws inspiration from our world’s stage, and my thoughts about connections between nature and humans.

Working with newsprint collages and paints on canvas as well as paper, I explored harmony juxtaposed the explosive tensions, discord and conflict in our world. Gestural lines trace the movement, and energy traversing through figures in a dystopian Landscape.

What starts as a representation of the darker aspects of life, then evolves into a light-filled scene of abstract figures entwined with nature, running, floating and colliding. These paintings fulfill an important function for me. It involves creating a piece of art which gives me immense joy and also a means to grapple with the world of never-ending conflicts. The show culminates in a final sculptural painted wood piece reflecting all the colors of my paintings entangled with black wire, tippling and turning, completely unstable and still rising above the fray.

Twilight Gatherings

Wayne Paige

Curated by Mary Welch-Higgins

March 25th, 2026 - April 18th, 2026

The drawings in Twilight Gatherings serve as both reflections and interpretations of a convoluted voice in a likewise convoluted world. Using pen and paper, reality and perception are synthesized through the creative process, incorporating imagination, observation, and nostalgia. Each drawing takes place in an otherworldly landscape where animals, forest creatures, spirits, and lost souls gather.  Where a celestial armada of tadpole-like comets fills the skies, tree stumps and woodlands fill the grounds, and waterways envelop the landscape. These are all elements of my earlier drawings that are still evident.

By integrating varied styles and subject matter, I examine concepts of duality, transformation, and the bizarre. Encounters prevail in many forms. Often, they are created by tapping into strange or peculiar thoughts or memories. Eventually, they are transformed and reassembled into entirely new forms and images, and at times, never intended.  Each is a cover of a story without the story, with all occurring at twilight gatherings.

In the Garden Gallery

Joan Mayfield

A collection of works

Curated by Iza Thomas and Robert Cwiok

March 25th, 2026 - April 18th, 2026

Joan Mayfield presents a collection of works created from found materials, transforming everyday objects into layered compositions.

Revisions

Beverly Logan

Curated by Iza Thomas and Robert Cwiok

March 25th, 2026 - April 18th, 2026

These images are believable until they aren’t. A familiar world becomes ungrounded when we revisit it. This changed world can be beautiful but also frightening. Its beauty calls to us but makes us fearful of what we will find in this new world.