April 10 – May 3, 2008

IN ALL GALLERIES:
ARTSPACE SPECTACULAR! BENEFIT AUCTION PREVIEW EXHIBITION
On view throughout the gallery are over 100 works by well-known local and national artists as well as unique experience lots to be auctioned to the highest bidder in our live and silent auctions at our annual Spectacular! Benefit Auction on May 3, 2008.

February 2 – March 29, 2008

GALLERY 1: UNNAMEABLE THINGS
This exhibition highlights seven painters working in an abstract language. While these artists focus on elements of color, shape, and surface, their works allude to structures, figures and things in the world. Their paintings begin to suggest recognizable forms, yet remain abstract and unnameable. Featuring: Matt Connors, Keltie Ferris, Chris Martin, Carrie Moyer, Baker Overstreet, Palma Blank-Rosenblum, Chuck Webster. Curated by Clint Jukkala.

GALLERY 3: MT. GRANDEUR
New paintings by Cham Hendon.
Like Chinese ink and brush paintings, Hendon's large scale poured paint pieces are at the same time fluid in their strokes and inflexible once they are dry. In this series, he reworks typical mountain imagery by mixing California culture with the Far East.

GALLERY 4: UNJOINED UNITY 3
Constructions and new work by Liz Pagano.
Simultaneously pushing the limitations of chance and control, Liz Pagano layers transparent plexiglass marked with stains, swirls, and spots to create assemblages that come alive when placed near light.

GALLERY 5: ANOMALIES AND OTHER ODDITIES
A new installation by Tim Nikiforuk.
Drawing from various aspects of cellular growth and mutation, Nikiforuk's vast wall drawings explode with a flux of mutated abstract organisms that envelop its viewing audience as they virally spread from the nooks and crannies of the room.

GALLERY 6: SUSPENDED ANIMATION 1 & 2
A new installation by John Bent.
In this two-part animation and installation, Bent explores the relationship of time to our bodies and personal identities. Suspended Animation 1 presents a continuous churning mass of abstracted organ-like forms, exposing the rift between the real and perceived time of our internal body. Suspended Animation 2 emerges from within a wax and latex form, examining the continual, largely unnoticed changes and cycles of our external body's appearance.

GALLERY 7: thoughts of you...
An exhibition of photographic works in which the artists use text or titles to conjure stories that accompany the visual image, inviting the viewer to construct a narrative by piecing together the written and visual information presented. These works represent a particular time, place or person as subject without being visibly present. Featuring: Hannah Cole, Judy Gelles, Martin Kruck, Christine Shank. Curated by Jessica Smolinski.