“Image vs Object,” a group show with 2D and 3D works by local artists
Isabel Riley, John Guthrie, and Judy Riola.
Opening reception, Thursday, July 30th, 5-7pm.
On view now through September 30th.
Isabel Riley
This work is about repetition, reverence and revelation
It speaks to the grid, sparkling metallics and happy accidents
I combine liquids and solids in various ways
And embed and appliqué metal found along my journey
These recipes make little icons that convey formality, emotion and spirit
John Guthrie
John Guthrie presents a group of recent works that mark an evolving direction in his practice. Emerging from an intuitive process of building, revising, and responding, the work embraces ambiguity rather than resolution. Familiar forms appear only briefly before giving way to something more elusive, where surface, structure, and gesture become carriers of meaning. Together, these works extend Guthrie’s longstanding interest in symbolic form while opening a new chapter grounded in material experimentation and quiet transformation.
Judy Riola
The characters in my paintings are living in a post-human world, inhabiting a space at once familiar and oddly foreign. The usual order of things is out of whack; sofas and woods and gorillas are all on the same plane. At first glance, there seems to be an innocence. That perception is quickly upended by the uncanny and the strange.
In this new environment, animals have formed unlikely alliances and have become guardians and caretakers for each other. Nature itself is a kind of protagonist, not just a passive background. The landscape is on the verge of falling apart as the characters merge in and out of it.
My titles are purely descriptive, giving the viewer an entry into the paintings, but I try to let ambiguity and mystery take central stage.
