OASIS

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - Sunday, November 11, 2007
2007

An oasis is an isolated area of vegetation, a small bit of relief, a green area in an otherwise barren landscape. As our lives become more and more scheduled, busy, and fragmented, artists are responding by looking to nature.

Nancy Blum’s work represents the duality of life; at once hard and soft, masculine and feminine. Inscribing pattern and color, she is able to combine nature and culture in clever and imaginative ways. Portia Munson is interested in the fleeting lives of flowers and the healing nature of the mandala shape while also exploring “artificial?nature ?man made objects marketed to resemble the color of nature. Jon Rappleye invents a nature that is inspired by fairy tales, imagination, and extreme representations of the natural world. It is surreal and fantastic. Raymond Saa creates gestural drawings and paintings that explore tropical imagery, used as a metaphor for the cultural displacement many immigrants experience in their new homes.

Thursday through Sunday, Noon to 5PM

Margaret Murphy, guest curator

CURATOR'S TALK:
Sunday, October 21, 2007 @ 2:00pm