Studio & Gallery

It’s the last weekend to check out the ‘Light’ Exhibit and please join us Sunday May 17th at 2pm for the artist talk. What a wonderful show. Thank you to all the artists and everyone who made time to come to the gallery and appreciate the creations. We can’t do it without you. The Golden Flower Dan Groth Collaged watercolor, ink, gouache @dangrothart Crystal Hartman ‘Dandelions’ An artists book about dandelions, friendship, and sharing skills. Dandelions. Ink. Paper. @crystalhartmanart The Heat is On - But So’s The Light David Butler Mixed Metal & Found Vintage Items

View from my front Window J Milton Beens Watercolor @miltbeens

Two-Track Jed Webster Smith Acrylic on paper mounted to canvas and coated with transparent matte gel @jedwebstersmith

Let It Be Patricia Davidson Sculpted Glass (Detail) Available ‘Light’ A Group Exhibition til May 17th. Artist talk May 17th 2pm @pattydglass

Lorna Meaden ‘Candelabra’ Ceramics Available ‘Light’ A Group Exhibition is in the gallery til May 17th. Stop by if you haven’t seen the show yet. Artist talk May 17th, 2pm @lornameadenpottery

Stairs in Light Shawn Lotze Ink & Pastel on Paper @s_lotze available ‘Light’ A Group Exhibition til May 17th. Artist talk May 17th 2 pm.

‘LIGHT’ A Group Art Exhibition. Curated by Tim Kapustka May 8-17th. Artist Talk Sunday May 17th, 2pm Noah Stotz ‘The Great Corn Hole in the Sky’ Steel, Concrete, Paint Available @noah_stotz_art

‘Light’ A Group Art Exhibition curated by Tim Kapustka May 8-17th. Artist Talk Sunday May 17th, 2 pm Jenn Rawling Guardians Acrylic on Paper framed Available As we live in our soft empathic human bodies in the heaviness of the highly triggering now- I’ve been thinking a lot about the words used to describe our nervous system’s reaction to traumatic events- Fight. Flight. Fawn. Freeze. I held these words as anchors (as well as the word LIGHT) to guide this painting. The result is a dream that is weird and open- full of space for stories about wrestling with difficulties, support & witness, transformative healing, and the importance of guarding our inner light. @jennrawling

‘Light’ A Group Art Exhibition- Curated by Tim Kapustka May 8-17th. Artist talk Sunday May 17th 2pm Northern Light Leesa Zarinelli Gawlik Repurposed kimono lining - shiboni stitch resist, dyed with plant materials, texturized, hand/machine stitched Available Images recorded through a lens are often not as vivid as those imprinted on one’s consciousness, especially when it comes to light - an ephemeral gift from a moment in time. Viewing Alaska from a transpacific flight, the mountainous landscape was suddenly transformed with glowing brilliance as the sun lowered to the horizon against a gradated indigo sky. Years later, such a stunning yet elusive spectacle of light remains a profound memory and thus, interpreted in cloth.

Framed piece SOLD! There are still archival prints of this available by request. Thank you to everyone who’s purchasing art from the LIGHT exhibit. We appreciate it so much! Exhibit is up til May 17th -Artist Talk Sunday May 17th, 2pm. Constructs & Truths or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lean Into the Light Tim Kapustka Limited Edition Archival Print Years ago, after the sudden passing of my father, in what were dark times, Light found me. I was tasked with going through his life when he was no longer around to narrate it for me. While doing so, I found a note in his closet amongst decades of detritus and distractions, in his handwriting it read, “A mere mortal in search of the perfect Light.” That note quickly became an heirloom, the message now engraved on the granite that marks my dad’s final resting place out in a tree lined field in rural Michigan. It’s a place where one can understand that searching for the perfect light is enough work for today. Here’s hoping your search finds you drenched in that perfect Light every now and again and with the knowing, that is wealth.

‘Light’ A Group Exhibition May 8-17 Artist talk Sundays May 17, 2pm Mario Jacob Lambert Brooks Black & White 35mm Film Available @jlambertfilm I met Mario on my first trip to Cuba in 2015 when you still had to sneak in through Mexico. He was the most dapper man in El Centro - fedora cocked just right, buttoned up, shoes shined, a stark contrast of personal care against a world crumbling around him. I returned to Cuba often over the following years and ran into Mario on every trip, the way the universe seems to orchestrate when you travel. On my final trip, I happened to stay in a room next door to Mario’s final home, a janitor’s closet at the end of the hall. I don’t know if he recognized me. He seemed much older, this man whose grace and style once lit the streets of Habana now sitting in a dark room, asking me for the literal shirt off my back, the only available light pouring in through a small hole at the top of the wall, a contrast of light and dark, a contrast of realities. Maybe that’s the miracle of light, though, the way it finds its way through the cracks, the way it pierces the dark. A single lumen adds shape and reveals the truth of a space. In dark places, in dark times, the smallest amount of light, the smallest acts of kindness shine infinitely bright; A simple smile, an encouraging word, a patient disposition, can alter reality. In Mario’s room, a small hole in the wall revealed a lifetime of story, the depth of his 102 year old frame nearing the finish line, eyes gazing toward the light. When the world feels dark, Mario’s life, this room, encourages me to be that small, seemingly insignificant light.

Thank you for coming together last night for an incredible opening of ‘Light’. What an exhibit! The work is up til May 17th and the gallery is open every day except Wednesday. Featured art in this post @juanitanelsonartist @george__schmidt @elizabethkinahan