JULY 28 - AUGUST 31 • MAIN GALLERY
Color and the Art of Forgetting
Ellen Goldschmidt
Ellen Goldschmidt — Samara, 2024, Acrylic, marker, pastel, collage on panel, 36" x 24”
The invented environments in Goldschmidt’s colordrenched paintings invite us to travel inward to a place where we may find relief from the grief of contemporary life.
Inspired by the improvisational structures and bold colors of artists, such as Amy Sillman and Anna Kunz, she has crafted complex and layered spaces—resting and hiding places for our world-weary souls.
Color and the Art of Forgetting is a journey into the artist’s own inner multiverse, a world you may find
surprisingly enlivening and renewing.
New Members
Justin Auld & Robert Shepard
(Left) Justin Auld— Quantum Painting #60, 2024, oil on masonite, 18.5" x 24"
(Right) Robert Shepard— Pioneer, 2017-2021, acrylic on canvas,48" x 48"
Justin Auld’s paintings of clouds celebrate the sky’s endless offering of countless, ever-changing suggestions of form. Auld’s work centers the multiple realities offered by cloud-forms and how these relate to human sense-making and quantum simultaneity.
Robert Shepard offers linear abstractions that serve as meditations on light, space, and synchronicity. Inspired by nature, these paintings present a complexity and range of possibilities to the observer.
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GALLERY 2
El País de las Maravillas or Wonderland
Monica Mitchell
Monica MItchell — La Vida Interesante / The Interesting Life, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 82" x 64”
El País de las Maravillas is an installation loosely based on a bilingual edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Mitchell borrowed Spanish and English phrases from the novel that ring true for her and used them as a foundation for color and objects to create a new "Wonderland” landscape.
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JAMES HIBBARD GALLERY
Small Machines Moving With Time
Stephen Soihl
Featuring watercolors from the garden alongside self-perpetuating pendulum machines of brass and ball-bearings, Small Machines Moving With Time offers an opportunity to explore the common ground between flowers and flywheels. What do these tiny dynamos teach us about energy, time, and repetition? What are the physical equations that bind these motions, and, by extension, us?
Ellen Goldschmidt
Justin Auld
Robert Shepard
Monica Mitchell
Panel Discussion: Thursday, August 8, 5:30pm
Happy Hour Discussion and Q&A with Ellen Goldschmidt: Friday, August 9, 6pm
Blackfishers Doing Cool Stuff
See what Blackfish Artists are involved with outside the gallery this month.