The Floating World, May 3 - June 7, 2008

Curated by Carol Taylor-Kearney

In Buddhism “The Floating World” is sometimes also referred to as ”the fleeting world”.  It expresses the ephemeral nature of our existence.  As each moment gives way to the next, there is a certain impermanence—a transitory and illusionary aspect to our sensory experience.  This is not to say that our experience is untrue, but it is perhaps more than we contemplate--deeper and richer than what we acknowledge at any given moment.  Two painters, Paul Hamanaka and Darla Beckemeyer Cassidy, provide a visual record to this connection of the known with the unacknowledged unknown.   

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Standardized Units, Mar. 22 - Apr. 26, 2008

Curated by Pam Chapman

Standardized units was a show of the recent works of three artists; Arianne Dar, Stefan Abrams and Pam Chapman. It focuses attention on stock forms and repeatedpatterns that are so ubiquitous that they tend to go unnoticed yet are vital to our way of life.

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Gross Anatomy, Oct. 6- Nov. 10, 2007                                        

Curated by Aurora Deshauteurs and Carol Taylor-Kearney

The catalyst for this exhibition was the calculating sale of Thomas Eakins’ Gross Clinic. Shrewd business is not an innovation of the 21st century, and throughout history ,man, specifically enterprising man, has shown his ability to manipulate circumstances to his favor. The sale and resale of Gross Clinic is just a current example. What is it that drives us to manipulate, calculate or even interpret fixed ideas? How do we see beyond the literal?

Ten Artists' works will be on display October 6 through November 10; Warren Angle, Rosemary Castiglioni, Ben Cohen, Candace Davis, Richard Dunn, Elaine M. Erne, Michael Gallagher, Geoffrey Hindle, Carol Taylor-Kearney and Nancy W. Wright.

 

    

 

     Richard Dunn

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Multiplicity, August 25 - September 29, 2007                                            Curated by Carol Taylor-Kearney


      The title, Multiplicity, refers to the idea of repetition and duplication.  Each artist of the exhibition, Multiplicity, used the characteristics of the multiple to their own visual ends.  For Charles Katzenbach the viewer was challenged to experience evolutionary change; for  Luke Weichmann, it was the strength of the individual in  a replicated system; and for Don Simon, how the relationship of Nature and the man-made called into question our stewardship of the earth.

  Don Simon

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The Personal Picture Plane, May 5 - June 9, 2007                                   Curated by Carol Taylor-Kearney

As systems and materials changed, so did the picture plane, at first moving to lighter and more transportable means: from cave and plaster wall to wood to canvas, alloys, and more durable papers. Today’s painters have an extraordinary number of choices. Art at “the end of Art”, as coined by Arthur Danto, gives artists a resource-rich environment from which to select, to combine, or to build their visual interactions of the world. Painters, as the tradition holds, continue to use the materiality of color on a support, and the materiality and the expression of both have expanded to include a greater personalization. The picture plane has become part and parcel of this lexicon, not simply its prop.

The artists include in the exhibition are Ellen Abraham, Jim Brossy,  Louise DeSalvo, Aurora Deshauteurs, Richard Elzo Dunn, Jessica Makin and Carol Taylor-Kearney.

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The Progress of Process, March 24th - April 28th, 2007

Three area artists; David Foss, Michelle Marcuse, and Kathryn Pannepacker provided access into the “behind the scenes” interaction of the artistic process. (This was a Curatorial Proposal Project),

 
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Eternal Temporality, October 7 - November 11, 2006                              Curated by Carol Taylor-Kearney

  

    The three artists of this exhibition, Eternal Temporality, provided a visual record to the connection of the temporal to the eternal in very different ways; Rosemary Castiglioni, Brooke Hine & Keith Sharp.

Rosemary Castiglioni. Natural inclination.(detail)


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"In the  Neighborhood", August 26 - September 30, 2006                      Curated by Aurora Deshauteurs and Carol Taylor-Kearney

IceScream, Digital print by Mia Moffett.  

 This was a juried themed show that not only reflects the conditions of the neighborhood in and around Strata Sphere, but explores subject matter that is of relevance to the ever-changing city. The artists in the show were Sam Fritch, Genesis Belanger, Kate Mundie, James J. Kelewae,  Suzanne Francis, Heather Davis, Geoff Hindle, Mia Moffett, and Michael Landers.


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