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| Named for our late founder, THE JENNIFER BATES MEMORIAL GALLERY is always looking for artists who don't pander to conventional tastes or art school norms. We like the extreme, the provocative, the truly politically incorrect. Any art dealing with the occult, conspiracy, post-apocalyptic, heresy, extraterrestrials, or fringe interests is considered.
August 6, 2010 through September 18, 2010
Curious Creatures and
Archons of Alternate Dimensions
(show runs through September 18)
Lynette Shelley
and
Brandon Lord Ross
(First
Friday, August 6, 5-9PM
GALLERY
OPENING RECEPTION)
Lynnette's
artwork strikes a primal chord in many viewers, with almost Jungian
associations to the colors and shapes. Her animal art and creature
illustrations are both primitive and sophisticated, and have been
likened to images from an undiscovered ancient civilization or
culture…Deeply influenced by Celtic, Eastern, Asian and aboriginal /
native works; art nouveau, abstract expressionism, and medieval
artworks; fantasy and science fiction; as well as zoomorphism,
therianthropy, cryptozoology and mythological stories and legends;
Lynnette fuses these styles into her strikingly unique illustrations.
Always having an interest in art, metaphysics, and
creating intuitively, Brandon Lord Ross began doing
several drawings, and then paintings, and oil pastels,
and noticed a repeating theme: mostly strange figures
surrounded by or connecting to geometric shapes,
striations, and patterns that seem to be part of each
other. These pictures invoke something deep in the
psyche, and are eerily familiar in many ways. He
believes what is depicted is a truer, more pure reality
and that we may in fact be in the “canvas” of these
beings.
October 2010/ November 2010 Chuck Van Zyl Bernard Jerome Deppe (Photography)
December 2010 / January 2011 Bonnie MacAllister Coptic: Ethiopian Mysticism (Documentary Photography)
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