Inspired by textures and microscopic elements in the natural world, CHRISTOPHER OWEN NELSON thrives on giving things new life, purpose, and movement. Nelson’s work manifests as a reflection of full expression of self, communicating energetically what cannot be said in words. This series is comprised of large-scale mixed media sculptures and wall sculptures taking inspiration from geological patterns and structures.

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ROB MELLOR explores the hybrid re-combination of information abstracted from natural and organic forms, imagination, fashion, gesture, and collage. The paintings can be viewed as propositions for visual enactment by the viewer, each work providing cues for engaging with the composition, layer by layer, edge by edge, line by line, color by color. Shifting forms collide on the surface of the work, balancing frozen gestures with suggested and implied passages; the result is a painting that can just be, making no demands other than what a viewer can glean from the experience of seeing.

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DOUG HAEUSSNER’s latest body of work is an extension of the artist’s exploration of the natural cycle of life: creation, existence, and decay. The repurposing of print materials gives the contents new life after being destroyed and reassembled. Bits of imagery that weren’t intended to be placed together create a new aesthetic and give fresh meaning to the originals.

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For two decades, TONIA BONNELL has been building images with the repetition of a short line, exploring ways in which simple parts can create an intricate whole. Just as musical notes gain emotion when composed and performed, Bonnell’s work embodies a mood or tone that is greater than the sum of the parts. Conceived during a time of change and uncertainty, this series of drawings is a response to words such as shatter and explode.

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ANGELA PIEHL’s collages consider the relationship between accumulation and the feeling of alienation from nature, as well as question preconceived notions of nature and beauty. The work sources imagery from media which possess inherent, suggestive codifications for gender, as well as seductive imagery of luxury, lifestyles and consumer behavior. Piehl incorporates a hybridization of aesthetic orders: synthetic and organic, flora and fauna, and bodily and constructed forms.

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CHRISTOPHER WARREN explores the shapes made by the footprints of watersheds, and how many different parts of a river affect the land across the whole course of its flow. These reframing lenses come together to create some of the most powerful geologic forces on earth, establishing new shapes from the rectangular states that we are accustomed to.

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