Humboldt State University First Street Gallery presents, Status Update, an exhibition featuring mixed-media works by Ricardo Febré and Michele McCall-Wallace, on display September 29 to November 8. 

The exhibition explores personal interactions and the broad use and complexities of social media.  With their art, they bring attention to our society’s use of technologies to communicate, the connections made through social media, the residue such interactions create, and the void left behind when the exchange has ended.

The artists examine changes in language, culture, and the media platforms on which the public holds debate and discussion, often without filter, inflected by a belief in relative anonymity or blatant indifference.  Febré and McCall-Wallace look at how we have woven social media into our daily activities and how we use it to communally share the human experience. They examine how social media-based interactions continue to define who we are.  Through their work, they draw correlations with the near and far past while inviting us to better see our collective present.

Ricardo Febré focuses on a variety of contemporary social issues in the United States that have generated controversy across social media.  He states that:

I am aware of how the medium can easily be used to spread nonsense. A few years backs, I came across hundreds of messages that were tweeted following the release of the war movie Red Dawn, which depicts the fictional conflict between an Asian nation and the United States. These 140-character tweets were tremendously racist.

The second instance when I saw the power of the medium was during the trial of George Zimmerman, the man who followed and killed teenager, Trayvon Martin. Through social media, there were debates about gun violence, racial profiling, and unfortunately— there were the people who just wanted to be hateful.

My typographic and graphic works for this show are not a critique of the medium, but rather an exploration of our culture through social media: How we— as a society— interact through posts and threads; its effect on our psyche; and how culture acts and reacts online and in the real world.

Febré and McCall-Wallace, who both teach in the Art Department at Humboldt State University, will exhibit an array of large-scale graphics-based panels, videos, sculptural installations, sound pieces and expressive typographic works.  Some pieces are interactive, meant to engage the public in the design and the evolution actual pieces, and to encourage the public to share their creations on social media. For instance, in her piece, Old School Selfie, McCall-Wallace invites participants to draw their face on  chalkboard panels, then take a selfie with their hand-drawn self-portrait (old-school selfie), attach the panel to the wall and post their picture on the gallery's Instagram or Facebook account by identifying it with a hashtag.

A reception for the artists will be held at HSU First Street Gallery on Saturday, October 3 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. during Eureka’s monthly Arts Alive program.  The event is free and open to the public HSU First Street Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. and is located at 422 First Street in Eureka, California.  Admission is free. Those planning group tours are encouraged to call ahead. For more information call 707-443-6363. 

Humboldt State University First Street Gallery presents a selection of prints and posters from the 1970s and 1980s by the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF).  The RCAF is a Sacramento, California based artist collective founded in 1970 by José Montoya and Esteban Villa. The art within this collection encapsulates the early, heady days of activism by the United Farm Workers movement in California. In viewing these prints, the audience will come away with a nuanced appreciation for the cultural and political aspirations of the Chicano community during that period. The art featured in this exhibition will be on loan from the permanent collection of California State University, Sacramento, curated by Phil Hitchcock, director of the university’s Library Gallery. 
 
The RCAF is best known for its mural paintings, poster art production, and individual artistic contributions. The artists of the RCAF have produced murals and exhibitions ranging from San Diego, California to Seattle, Washington. The RCAF is significant as a collective that has maintained a forty-five year history of engaging communities to express their Chicano culture, history and struggle for civil and labor rights. Many of the artists involved with the RCAF have also worked as educators in schools, community colleges and universities. Some members have taught in prisons, youth correctional facilities and neighborhood community centers.

Some of the work in the collection consists of posters that were created in order to promote community events such as dances, performances and other fundraisers which helped gain financial support for their activities as a collective. These community fundraising events were held at theatres and parks in Sacramento and helped support farm workers struggling against the exploitative work policies of large agricultural companies. These promotional posters are functional works of art. RCAF artists such as Louie “The Foot” Gonzalez, José Montoya and Rodolfo “Rudy” Cuellar, among others, created posters with a colorful and creative sense of design that also serve primarily as a method of spreading information to the community.

In addition to promotional posters, the collection also has political posters that bring attention to the issues surrounding Chicano and Latino culture both in the United States and abroad. Notable examples include a poster in support of The Salvadoran People’s Committee during the civil war in El Salvador from 1979 to 1992. Similarly, there are posters that support the socio-political advancement of Chicano culture. For example, RCAF artists created posters in support of community programs like bilingual education and creative Chicano Medicine at the University of California, Davis.

The exhibition will run from January 27 through March 8. A public reception for the exhibition will be held during Eureka Main Street’s Arts Alive on Saturday, February 7 from 6 to 9 p.m. First Street Gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, from noon to 5 p.m. The gallery is located at 422 First Street, Eureka, California. Admission is always free. School groups are encouraged to call ahead for tours. For more information, please call (707) 443-6363.

Humboldt State University (HSU) First Street Gallery presents,Young Alumni 2015, on exhibit from Tuesday, June 30 through Sunday, September 6. The exhibition features works by recent graduates from HSU’s Art Department.

Annually, HSU First Street Gallery mounts an exhibition to showcase the creative culmination of these aspiring artists and their transition from their art studies into their professional careers. The Young Alumni 2015 exhibition presents the work of 40 graduates whose art includes a wide variety of media. The works on display reflect the breadth of courses offered at the university including sculpture, jewelry, painting, graphic design, mixed media, photography, printmaking, new genre and ceramics.

“The alumni participating in this show have all developed to a point where their craft is at a professional level,” states First Street Gallery Director Jack Bentley.  “These participants demonstrate real evidence of artistic success.  Crucial to their success, however, are the less tangible qualities they all share—a dedication and commitment to making art as a way of life and a deep engagement with their work on poetic and intellectual levels.”

Upon entering the gallery, visitors will encounter a piece of interactive art, which immediately signals the ambition of these artists. Installation artist and Arcata Scrap and Salvage Award winner, Renée Calway, provokes her viewers to respond to societal issues that are occurring nation-wide while engaging them with her piece, Bored of Education. Calway invites gallery guests to interact with her large-scale map of the United States by using chalk provided to the audience to draw or write on her map.  She states that, “This piece encourages community members to express their frustrations with the education system in the United States”.

The gallery will be closed for the holiday on July 4th.  The gallery will schedule a closing reception on September 5 from 6 to 9 p.m. during Eureka Main Street’s Arts Alive program.  HSU First Street Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 5:00 p.m. HSU First Street Gallery is located at 422 First Street in Eureka, California and admission is free to all. Groups are encouraged to call ahead to arrange tours. For more information call 707-443-6363.

Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery is pleased to present A Holiday Exhibition, Affordable Art for the Season, which will open on November 25 and will continue through December 31.  Featured in the show will be artwork by nineteen artists who work in diverse styles and mediums.
  
The participating artists will display prints, ceramics, sculpture, and paintings.  “We're very excited to bring together these artists, many of them HSU alumni, during this holiday season," says Third Street Gallery Director Jack Bentley."  This exhibition will remind those of us who live here, how fortunate we are to live in a community that is also the home of so many wonderful artists."  The exhibition features artworks that are affordable and are suitable for the gift-giving season.

Participating artists include Conrad Calimpong, Kit Davenport, Trent Franks, Nancy Frazier, Amy Granfield, David Jordan, Peggy Loudon,
Malia Matsumoto, Laurel McKay, Demetri Mitsanas, Lush Newton, Kelsey Owens, Michael Pearce, Keith Schneider, Meredith Smith, Gina Tuzzi, Sarah Whorf, Mark Young and Dave Zdrazil.

A Holiday  Exhibition is produced by Humboldt State students. Students enrolled in the Art Museum and Gallery Practices Program participate in the daily management and planning of exhibitions at the gallery.  The gallery provides real-life opportunities for the students to develop their gallery and museum skills, which in turn provides them with experience that will help them to enter the job market. Many students who have participated in the program have gone on to careers in museums and galleries throughout the nation.  

Exhibition Schedule 

The exhibition will run from November 25 through December 31.  A reception for the artists will be held Saturday, December 3, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. during Eureka’s monthly Arts Alive event. The gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. and is located at 416 Third Street Eureka, California. The gallery will be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Admission is free. Those planning group tours are encouraged to call ahead. Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery is located at 416 Third Street Eureka, California.  The gallery was recently relocated and renamed after 19 years in its former location on First Street in Eureka. For more information call 707-443-6363.

Humboldt State University First Street Gallery presents, Chronic Fatigue, a two-person exhibition of sculpture and photographs by the artists Walter Early and Benjamin Funke, running February 2 through March 6. Hailing from Lexington, Kentucky where he keeps his studio, Walter Early will be a visiting artist on the Humboldt State campus during late January and the first week of February. Benjamin Funke resides on the California North Coast and lectures at Humboldt State University.  

Chronic Fatigue is an exhibition that takes on the commonly held position that our culture is overloaded with information, sensation and endless waste.  Moving from that premise, the two artists challenge the gallery visitor to experience art whose materials and subjects are drawn from the information overload and cast away resources.  Using selected bits and pieces of cultural artifacts and repurposed materials extracted from the waste stream, Early and Funke create meditative, elegant pieces of art, which defy their mundane origins.

Walter Early’s brightly colored steel sculptures originate as discarded scraps.  Early sifts through the rubble of the places where he lives, discovering salvageable and reusable pieces, often repurposing discarded pieces of prefab office furniture as pedestals. Bright, monochrome pigments play with perceptions of mass, weight and volume—individualizing the pieces and distancing them from their scrap origins.  Early pairs bright colors with dilapidated finishes, creating unexpected pairings of objects from urban and rural settings. He juxtaposes objects from our culture’s highs and lows.

Early’s work tests the justifications for preserving objects in domestic collections.  Specifically he investigates the ability of objects of seemingly little significance to act as a memory aid and surrogate for the corporeal.  Similar to still-life painting and photography, his found objects are often utilized or referenced as a metaphor for lifecycles.  Formally the work draws from the language of fragments, using incomplete forms to allude to a larger whole. His manipulation of these recycled materials embodies the adage that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Benjamin Funke’s work in photography and sculpture investigates the collective experience shared by members of male-oriented subcultures organized around pursuits like hardcore music and professional sports.  In his photographic series, TWA599, large, highly detailed color prints depict nameless objects, painted cloth fragments and tattered pieces of scrap wood.  At a distance, the imagery is nearly abstract. Up close, in high resolution, the scarred, twisted and scorched surfaces indicate a devastating event of extreme force and violence. 

These are relics salvaged from the crash of TWA flight 599, which killed Hall of Fame football coach Knute Rockne in 1931. The aviation disaster occurred as Rockne was en route to Hollywood to discuss the movie rights to his life story. In photographing these charred fragments, which have been preserved in the archives of the University of Notre Dame, Funke confers upon them the status of gridiron, sports-lore relics, worthy of the adoration of football fans across generations. 

These scrap objects are among the tiny minority of broken pieces from our culture that are accorded reverence, while billions of others are destined for the landfill.  Funke reinforces the reverence for the scrap relic with enameled, bronze sculptural pieces that echo the shape and feel of his photograph’s shard subjects. The bronze pieces are installed in close proximity to the photographs and of course, the heroic, memorializing material of bronze elevates the significance of the material remains of Knute Rockne’s final journey.     

In one of his new works, narrow color fields are assembled from thousands of bookended sports trading cards.  This presentation strips away the factual information that the cards were originally intended to communicate. Statistics, players’ identities, card provenance and collectible value are rendered null as each card’s signifying potential is restrained to a millimeter of color. Known quantities become ciphers; value becomes a matter of speculation rather than a predictable factor that is indexed to the outcome of crunched numbers.  Funke pushes viewers to reevaluate what they see.

Benjamin Funke rounds out his contribution to the exhibition with his Swish series.  These are sculptural, mixed media pieces that playfully capture the distorted shape of basketball nets right after the ball has passed through the net.

Walter Early will present a lecture and slide show about his work at Humboldt State University on Friday, February 5 at 5:30 p.m. The lecture will be held in Room 102 in the Art Department building on the Humboldt State University campus.  This event is free to the public and is sponsored by grants from First Street Gallery, the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences and the Art Department at Humboldt State University. 

A reception for the artists will be held at HSU First Street Gallery on Saturday, February 6 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. during Eureka’s monthly Arts Alive program.  HSU First Street Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. and is located at 422 First Street in Eureka, California.  Admission is free. Those planning group tours are encouraged to call ahead. For more information call 707-443-6363.

Humboldt State University First Street Gallery presents, Just Cause, a two-person exhibition of sculpture, paintings, drawings and mixed-media works by the artists Donovan Clark and Jeremy Hara, running February 2 through March 6. Both artists graduated from the Humboldt State University Art Department.  Their art is a mélange of Pop, Conceptual and Graffiti approaches that showcase the artists’ craft while gleefully playing with and subverting a variety of popular tropes within our culture.
     
Donovan Clark and Jeremy Hara met over fifteen years ago at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California.  Afterward, they both attended Humboldt State University, studying in the Art Department, where they became founding members the art collective, Empire Squared, a seminal, visual arts collective that spun out a number of young, ambitious artists from California’s North Coast.  Both artists have contributed to hundreds of art exhibitions in California’s North Coast region.  This exhibition is the culmination of over fifteen years of collaborative art exchanges between this dynamic, artistic duo.

Why are these two artists exhibiting at HSU First Street Gallery?  They answer with the exhibition’s title,  “Just Cause…” Donovan Clark and Jeremy Hara are embracing the flip and compulsive qualities of Just Cause.  Why do they make art?  Just Cause…they have to.  At the same time these artists are taking up the noble fight of the Just Cause.  Their work is inherently political, satirical and yet accessible and playful.  The work is political without being heavy-handed.  Justice, crime and pop culture are blended into a mash-up of humor and artful expression.

In Jeremy Hara’s 2015 series, Just Cause, he has created twenty vivid graffiti style abstract paintings. For the series, Hara created three fictitious taggers (graffiti artists) whose stylized tags (signatures) appear in each painting. These fictitious tags are, “Over & Over”, “IIII” and “XOXOXO”. “Over & Over” represents the repetitive nature of writing graffiti and the act of writing things obsessively over and over. It is also about the accumulation of layers, or the act of one artist “going over” another. “IIII” is a symbol of counting, numerical annotation and the passage of time. “XOXOXO” represents encoded language, love or just hugs and kisses. These three characters help construct and propel a narrative within Jeremy Hara’s works.

Much of Donovan Clark’s work is self-reflective, similar to a visual journal.  His art often deals with personal issues and interests, or documenting important moments in his life.  He is a contemporary artist who works in several different styles. Clark’s work reflects his interest in underground art, graffiti and skateboard culture.  He also works with more traditional concepts in art, which reflect his interest in Pop Art,  Pop culture, comic books, and 80s toys. Clark has been a comic book collector and a toy collector since his youth.   His obsession with collecting toys and comics has been a huge influence in his art.

The exhibition, Just Cause, will also feature an installation by the two artists who will build an artist’s studio within the First Street Gallery confines.

A reception for the artists will be held at HSU First Street Gallery on Saturday, February 6 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. during Eureka’s monthly Arts Alive program.  HSU First Street Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. and is located at 422 First Street in Eureka, California.  Admission is free. Those planning group tours are encouraged to call ahead. For more information call 707-443-6363.

Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery is pleased to present a series of paintings by Kathrin Burleson, titled The Creation Series, opening on November 25.  The series features a selection of vibrant watercolor paintings inspired by The Book of Genesis, the Bible’s creation story.

Informed by a family background that embraced both Protestant and Greek Orthodox traditions, religion has always been an important part of Burleson’s life and artwork.  But she says that she does not consider herself a literalist when it comes to Scripture, instead preferring its metaphorical potential. She is motivated to find profound realizations through her work, stating that, “Life is so beautiful and so precious and so brief.” In her ongoing Creation Series, she uses the first chapter in the Book of Genesis as a springboard into her exploration of the Creation, as seen from her studio door, using her observations of local flora and fauna as her subjects. Though the order of the series follows that of the Biblical seven days of creation, Burleson says that she is looking to convey a more general narrative about spirituality, life, and growth, allowing the viewer to find their own meaning within the work. In her own words, “If an artist expresses something that is authentic, then something will be passed on.”

Originally from Petaluma, California, Burleson earned a BA in French at UC Berkeley, an MA in Psychology from the Pacific Graduate Institute and an MA in Art from Humboldt State University where she studied under Leslie Kenneth Price.

This exhibition by Kathrin Burleson is produced by Humboldt State students. Students enrolled in the Art Museum and Gallery Practices Program participate in the daily management and planning of exhibitions at the gallery.  The gallery provides real-life opportunities for the students to develop their gallery and museum skills, which in turn provides them with experience that will help them to enter the job market. Many students who have participated in the program have gone on to careers in museums and galleries throughout the nation.

The exhibition will run from November 25 through December 31 The gallery is open Tuesdays through Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. and is closed on Mondays.  Admission is free. The gallery will also be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.   A reception for the artist will be held at HSU Third Street Gallery on December 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. during Eureka's monthly Arts Alive event.

Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery is located at 416 Third Street Eureka, California.  The gallery was recently relocated and renamed after 19 years in its former location on First Street in Eureka.  For more information, call (707) 443-6363.

Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery presents, The New Mother Nature Taking Over, a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Gina Tuzzi. The exhibition runs from October 1 through November 6. This exhibition marks the launch of Humboldt State’s new fine arts gallery in Eureka, California.

Tuzzi, born and raised in Santa Cruz, California makes her home on California’s North Coast and is currently an instructor of painting and drawing at Humboldt State University.

Gina Tuzzi is inspired by American youth culture and the counter-culture from decades past. Her vibrant, often nostalgic imagery is replete with optimistic representations of femininity and youth. The writer Jenny Sharaf notes that, “Tuzzi’s work focuses very heavily on the conjuring and manifestation of the idyll while playing with the ambiguity of romanticized language and autobiographical iconography. Her practice, which spans painting, drawing and sculpture, is inspired largely by counter culture ideologies and a romanticized neo-bohemian aesthetic. Tuzzi appropriates symbols and icons from popular love songs, spiritual divination, pop culture, familial history and an intimate personal narrative.”
 
Of her exhibition, Tuzzi states that, “These paintings were born as love letters. Their elements are strung together like torn magazine pages on a corkboard altar hanging on my bedroom wall in 1994. They are visual messages that I wish I could transmit through time to the eyes of my younger self, serving as a reminder to act boldly and recognize my strengths. The contents of the work are an arsenal for life preparedness. They are rich with totemic protection, lyrical reminders of rebellion and perspective. Ripe with beauty, to serve as a reminder of the potency of desire and recognition of the accomplishments I have achieved as a grown woman.”

The New Mother Nature Taking Over: Paintings and Works on Paper by Gina Tuzzi is produced by Humboldt State students. Students enrolled in the Art Museum and Gallery Practices Program participate in the daily management and planning of shows at the gallery.  The gallery provides real-life opportunities for the students to develop their gallery and museum skills, which in turn provides them with experience that will help them to enter the job market. Many students who have participated in the program have gone on to careers in museums and galleries throughout the nation.

Exhibition Schedule and Location 
The exhibition will run from October 1 through November 6. The gallery is open Tuesdays through Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. and is closed on Mondays   A reception for the artist will be held at HSU Third Street Gallery Saturday, October 1, 2016, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. during Eureka's monthly Arts Alive event. Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery is located at 416 Third Street Eureka, California.  The gallery was recently relocated and renamed after 19 years in its former location on First Street in Eureka.  For more information, call (707) 443-6363.

Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery presents, Verano, a solo exhibition of paintings by Leslie Kenneth Price. The exhibitionruns from October 1 through November 6. This exhibition marks the launch of Humboldt State’s new fine arts gallery in Eureka, California.

Price, a native of New York City, has made his home with his family on California’s North Coast for several decades where he taught at Humboldt State University as a painting professor and continues to maintain his studio practice.
  
Leslie Kenneth Price uses acrylic paint on canvas and wood panels to create visually striking abstract paintings filled with layers of color and biomorphic forms. Price’s compositions employ complex combinations of light, line, space and color interacting with one another to create abstractions are simultaneously meditative and dynamic, engaging the eye and the mind.

He draws his inspiration from the observable natural world, especially his own garden, which provides the visual information from which he improvises.  In repeated feats of imagination, improvisation and a bit of faith, Price paints from memory referencing raw imagery as seen in gardens. He draws influence from organic motifs such as flowers, earth, bark, plants and weeds. The result is, a body of paintings that impart an uncanny sense of place that feels specific, yet has never been seen by anyone until revealed by the artist.

Price recalls that, “When I was a child I remember watching my Mom in our apartment tending to her houseplants, or noticing a weed pushing up through the crack of the cement sidewalk. Because of these and other experiences, I have chosen to use nature to as a metaphor for life. Flowers, for example, are pregnant with historical, religious, and social meanings, while addressing the impermanence and transitory nature of life and consciousness.”

 Verano: Paintings by Leslie Kenneth Price, is produced by Humboldt State students. Students enrolled in the Art Museum and Gallery Practices Program participate in the daily management and planning of shows at the gallery.  The gallery provides real-life opportunities for the students to develop their gallery and museum skills, which in turn provides them with experience that will help them to enter the job market. Many students who have participated in the program have gone on to careers in museums and galleries throughout the nation.

Exhibition Schedule and Location 
The exhibition will run from October 1 through November 6. The gallery is open Tuesdays through Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. and is closed on Mondays   A reception for the artist will be held at HSU First Street Gallery Saturday, October 1, 2016, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. during Eureka's monthly Arts Alive event. Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery is located at 416 Third Street Eureka, California.  The gallery was recently relocated and renamed after 19 years in its former location on First Street in Eureka.  For more information, call (707) 443-6363.

Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery presents, all my pretty ones, a solo exhibition of paintings by Kathleen Mahoney-Cobb. The show runs from October 3 through November 5. Mahoney-Cobb, raised in Northern California, is an abstract painter currently residing in Providence, Rhode Island. 

An alumna of the Rhode Island School of Design, she has worked in various mediums including paint, photography and graphic design. From 2010 to 2012 she co-founded and ran the organization, Finch & Ada, a curatorial collaboration focused on creating contemporary fine art exhibitions that showcased original ideas and fresh talent from an array of artistic disciplines.

Mahoney-Cobb’s painting practice is informed by her understanding of the history of abstraction and surrealism in fine art. Her paintings focus on the relationships of space, color and texture. She explores these combinations while unveiling an emotive tone in the painting. She describes her mark making as a meditative practice that reveals the trajectory of her decision-making in the creation of each piece. As the viewer follows the movements of her brush, her abstractions begin to create a sense of time, space and movement within the confines of each canvas, inviting an individual response from each viewer.

all my pretty ones is produced by students enrolled in the Museum and Gallery Practices Program at Humboldt State University. These students participate in the planning and production of exhibitions at HSU Third Street Gallery. The gallery provides real-life opportunities for the students to develop their gallery and museum skills, which in turn provides them with experience that will help them to enter the job market. Many students who have participated in the program have gone on to careers in museums and galleries throughout the nation.

Exhibition Schedule and Location 
The exhibition will run from October 3 through November 5. The gallery is open daily from noon to 5 p.m.  A reception for the artist will be held at HSU Third Street Gallery Saturday, October 7, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. during Eureka's monthly Arts Alive event. Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery is located at 416 Third Street Eureka, California.  For more information, call (707) 443-6363

The more I paint, the more I want to paint.

My work is the product of a deep love with painting, and its many possibilities. Working in the traditions of abstraction and surrealism has given me the freedom and the visual framework to realize my deepest desires and personal mythologies through paint. By building up and breaking down many layers over time I am able to explore the physical and emotional impacts of paint, create a sense of time, space, and movement within the confines of the canvas, inviting an extended communion between the viewer and the work. By engaging with the work over time in a meditative and present fashion the work can continue to expand and evolve. In this way, the viewer can become absorbed within.

Kathleen Mahoney-Cobb
Autumn, 2017