the Opening Night Reception is Friday, May 20, 7-10 pm, and the show runs May 20th through July 8th 2005. I have two pieces in this show, maybe three. My Aloe Vera from the previous post is in the show, to which I've added a black frame with white "dots" (they point out kind of like chocolate chips) that echo the dots in the painting.


When I was a little girl I would draw variations of the same picture over and over and over again. There would be a tree on the left hand side, rolling hills in the background with a river or stream coming forward. The sun in the right corner, with rays extending out to a couple of clouds, from which a rainbow would arc, and raindrops (three) would be falling. There would be flowers and mushrooms in the foreground and as many animals as I could squeeze in, a mouse, a squirrel, a skunk, a rabbit, and some birds in the sky. So it seemed appropriate to do such a painting for the Landscapes show. Since this scenario is my paradigm for nature, I imagine I'm not the only little girl who drew such pictures, I called the piece Archetype.



The maybe piece is called Interior/Exterior. It's two sided, bolted together, and fairly self-explanatory. Believe it or not, the sun/moon imagery was completely accidental. I have it pictured a little backwards, the blue side is the interior part, and is prior to the orange side which is exterior. It's a maybe because I've completely missed the set up deadline, and with the two sides, it requires special consideration for hanging. So we'll see.