Exhibitions

Penelope Stewart

January 21 – February 18, 2012
North Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 21, 2-4 PM

This exhibition features drawings, prints and sculptures that relate to explorations of utopian propositions in architecture, the apian metaphor and the imaginary potential architectures or urban plans. Stewart draws inspiration from Gaudi, Le Corbusier, Burley Griffin and others, who were fascinated by the social model of the beehive and how it could be a blueprint for the model city, or utopian scheme.

The Gamble of Perfect Symmetry:
Double or Nothing

Jesse Boles, Dianne Bos, Doug Guildford, Catherine Heard, Penelope Stewart

January 21 – February 18, 2012
Main Gallery

The occurrence of the double -- through mimicry, duplication, reflection -- holds endless fascination in that it at once indicates sameness and yet clearly delineates the “other.” Symmetry, as a geometric principle, refers to a seamless “whole,” comprising two, equal parts, as typified with reflective symmetry. Each of the artists featured in the exhibition draws on the harmonious qualities of symmetry while also recognizing, and even amplifying in some instances, the fragility of such structures.