Ursula Schneider

Terri Moore: "Connections Two"

December 12, 2009 - January 23, 2010

Terry Moore work is concerned with the transfer of information which is the basis for all communication. Moore juxtaposes two figures which create both tangible and intangible exchanges; such as a glance, a touch, a smell, body language and emotion. She combines images from artists such as Michelangelo, Klimt, Mapplethorpe and Marshall and juxtaposes them against soft porn from Playboy magazine. These oddly coupled figures create a sexual tension that questions our methods of communication and how they affect our interpersonal relationships.

Terri Moore:

Lorenz, Crouse, and Farr at Gallery 1025

Farr's paintings being viewed

Shown At Gallery 1025

August 8 - September 21, 2009

Lorenz: Painting

Lorenz approaches painting as a balance of physical structure, visual structure and color. The structure of color takes on it's own life while contained on the paintings surface. whether thin ans spacial, or thick and elemental, the colors are not random, but developed to compliment the physical and the visual.

Michael Crouse: Lithography and Drawing (Image Shown)

The transformation of the rural farm fields into a sprawling patchwork of somewhat unplanned subdivision is the primary source of imagery for Crouse's work. His images are taken from the American urban and suburban landscapes that have been shaped and determined by our automobile culture.

Warren Farr: Painting

Farr's work is characterized by a sense of history, irony, black humor, surreal dream images, isolation , melancholy and conflict with the influence of technology on human character. Farr's gift is the ability to combine all of these elements into a coherent precise, if somewhat magical, world of science fiction and fantasy.

Print by Michael Crouse

Panel series by Paul Lorenz

Patricia Smith: "Barriers" at Gallery 1025

Patricia Smith: "Barriers" at Gallery 1025

Solo Exhibition

Patricia M. Smith: Barriers  

June 13 - July 25, 2009     Opening Reception: June 13, 5:00 pm     

Gallery Talk by the artist 7:00 pm             

Patricia Smith’s latest exhibition, “Barriers” is a series of graphite drawings/rubbings. The series was motivated by press coverage of the U.S. action to build fences to keep out illegal immigrants. Smith presents the notion of barriers as physical and psychological. The viewer is asked to question his or her own personal barriers. What prevents us from getting to where we want to go? What do we hope to discover, achieve, acquire if we break through the barrier and get there. When open to interpretation the drawings may be referenced as fences; as crevasses or ravines; curtains. The varied interpretations still reference barriers.

 While concept plays a fundamental role, equal weight is placed on the methodical and meditative process of building a drawing; the subtle change in color and texture that takes place during it’s creation. The materials are seductive as well as the process, the purity of the graphite against the white paper. As a printmaker, Smith is often engaged in the act of making multiples. This series uses matrixes that are placed under the paper of many of the drawings. The matrix creates a texture, a rubbing, which can be defined as a simple printmaking process. Although the drawings are different the matrixes are used repeatedly. Smith developed this body of work since June of 07. Many of the drawings are contiguous. A room full of them creates a compelling installation.

Grand Opening

Featured Artists:
Michael Crouse
Warren Farr
Michelle LaBonte Kelly
Dale Leys
Paul Lorenz
Nikki D. May
Patricia Smith
Marta Utsler