MARCH 5 - MAY 1, 2022

This group exhibition features artists who work with wood either as a material or as a subject – discover their stories in the grain.

Christopher Boring – “Wood is a very nostalgic and connecting theme for me. Growing up I spent a ton of time in the woods. I explored, collected walking sticks, built forts, and helped my grandparents with chopping and stacking wood. Having these experiences drew my attention to how wood records life and events specifically though their rings. I started regularly painting wood after the death of my great grandmother and pappy. I find painting it reconnects me to memories of the family I have lost.”

Nate Lucas – “My current body of work draws inspiration from the often, overlooked beauty of patterns in both natural and manmade experience. I desire to create objects that give the viewer some sense of the awe found in viewing a brilliantly colored patch or lichen, stones on a riverbank, or a crack in a sidewalk.”

Carin Mincemoyer – “This series comes from the primordial attraction we have to water in the landscape, the meditative calm we can get from gazing at the constantly changing but never repeating ripples and waves of the water's surface. It is based on photos I’ve taken of the water in our region's rivers and lakes, taken from points where the public accesses the water. While each of these public access points is different – different neighborhoods and people, different levels of amenities available, etc. – the always similar but never repeating shapes of the water's surface are a constant and shared experience.”

Jonathan Shapiro – “The Pale of Settlement was a western region of the Russian Empire from the late 18th through early 20th centuries. It was here that the vast majority of Russia’s Jewish population was relegated to live and it was here that, from 1918 to 1921, savage pogroms resulted in the death of more than 100,000 Jews. These pieces are inspired by the stories of my grandparents, who were victims of these attacks. They tell a story of determination and survival, and of escape to a new life in New York City.”

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