Current Exhibition
Upcoming Exhibition
"Words Fell"
Heather Hacker
Heather's work focuses on the decayed splendor of grand spaces forgotton by time and by the people that built and used them. Her expertise with the technical aspects of photography reveal the darkest corners of these eerie spaces. She is able to find and bring a beauty to the degraded and rotting corpses of buildings and locations that most people would be terrified to enter.
Part of the success of Heather's photography is the conflict that we feel when we view them. The images are beautiful, cared for, and sometimes tender in their embrace of these spaces. Yet the subject matter is one of decay, rot and in many ways, death. What Heather is asking us to do is to see these spaces as they once were when they were in their prime; places of beauty and splendor. When we can see both the past and the present in these photos we must then ask ourselves, "How did we get here? What is it that allows these spaces to fall into such disrepair? Are they not worth saving?"
"Birds: Three Visions of our Feathered Friends"
Mike Driscoll, Bryan Clocker, and Kris Olson
Birds have been capturing our imaginations for as long as we have seen them fly overhead and heard them sing their songs. They are elusive, magical and symbolic. In this exhibition three artists offer three very different visions of birds and how they have captured our imaginations.
Bryan Clocker's prints venerate birds. The subjects have regal poses, gazing off the page to look at something that we can't see, but they can. They are surrounded or placed in front of elegant borders and designs, making them into more than just birds; they become decorative symbols. These birds stand for more than what they are, taking on a higher meaning.
Kris Olson's realistic representation of the birds in his watercolors make them stand out against the gritty, mossy, fuzzy looseness of his backgrounds. These birds are survivors. The backgrounds bring up thoughts of a postapocalyptic wasteland, almost radioactive in their color and mood. These brids exist without humans, they stand on their own, strong, proud and so very alive.
Mike Driscoll's watercolors are whimsicial, fun, and imaginative. His "beasties" are amalgamations of birds, lines, colors and funny names. The paintings take the recognizable aspects of birds like their long legs, pointy beaks and colorful feathers and they heighten them into the absurd.
Bryan Clocker
Bryan Clocker
Mike Driscoll
Bryan Clocker