(re)Visions

A New Members Show

Wednesday, January 4th through Saturday, January 28th, 2023

 Everything we do as artists and as people, in general, begins as a vision. We look at a blank canvas, an empty room, a vacant lot, a white monitor screen, a yellow-legal pad. We have an idea or a vision and we express it. And then, we rewrite, repaint, redo, reorganize, redecorate, reconsider, revise.   

In this show artists take a step back and a fresh look at their practice. How has their vision changed? What influenced that change? How has the aging of the work as well as the artist added deeper insight and more meaning?  

In turn, we hope this exhibition inspires you, the viewer, to reflect on your own (re)visions.

Sabiha Iqbal

Iqbal draws her inspiration from our shifting world landscape and current events. A newspaper headline, a line from a poem, or a book are all reasons for her to pick up her brush. Her paintings celebrate the connectedness and interdependence of human beings and nature against a backdrop of political and social complexities and tensions of our time.

Lynda Andrews-Barry

Andrews-Barry is interested interested in line, color, space, and audience. Her artistic practice explores the integration of the  natural and digital worlds, and employs contemporary computer aided design tools paired with the  traditional conceptual techniques of drawing, painting, sewing, photography, and hand fabrication. Her work asserts the craft-based primacy of the handmade, grounding itself in the modern world of  technology.  

Beverly Logan

Logan’s collages are handmade. She finds one photograph that sets the stage, much like the set of an opera or a play. She then cuts out pieces from her other images and arranges them on top. On occasion, she adds a piece of an image by a favorite photographer such as William Eggleston or Stephen Shore in order to create her colorful, vibrant artworks.

Robert Cwiok

Cwiok’s work begins with geometric compositions, structures from which he is able to depart and stretch the boundaries he has set for himself. His use of collage is a way to combine and incorporate real world experience and to achieve a sense of poetry with a visual narrative. He employs collage as content and as compositional elements. The use of everyday objects of communication such as security envelope designs, tickets stubs, announcements, and personal ephemera provide a wealth of tangible material. These remnants of life are place markers and reminders of past experiences that allow a depth of emotional significance and as well as poignant memory. His work is an additive process, constructed piece by piece in the manner of marquetry, resulting in a single layer of intricate parts that constitutes the visual field.

Iza Thomas

Thomas’ goal as an artist is to provide through my art a vision of the world that incorporates realism, magic and the voiceless ghosts of experience. She brings an immigrant's lived life of being settled and unsettled at the same time where the familiar and unfamiliar are constantly intermingling. Thomas’ works are accompanied by original poetry by her husband Suresh.

Chris Chernow

Chernow’s impressionistic, painterly style mixes with a subdued color palette to create works that are simultaneously mysterious and emotionally rich. The figures in her paintings are softly blurred with hues of gray-greens and blues, their eyes and facial features similar shades as the backgrounds they stand in front of. And yet, these characters seem to wear their hearts on their sleeves, each displaying a unique and very distinct emotion.

Wayne Paige

The Digital Age has brought upon us a binary kaleidoscope fog blanketing both perception and reality along with a device-driven technology that has gone well beyond its original purpose of improving lives. Paige thinks of his artwork as not only beyond the fog, but also behind the curtain of technology, closer to the woods and fields and further from the machines and buildings.