MODUS OPERANDI

On View July 22, 2022 - September 10, 2022

Every creator possesses a unique artistic language that works concurrently with their own medium and inspirations. MODUS OPERANDI presents artists who utilize this dialect to dictate the outcome of their work, allowing spontaneity, intuition, and process to be the driving forces in their creations. Working within their own subconscious and guidelines, these artists focus on the creative process rather than the end result, thus finding freedom in the journey.

This group exhibition features the work of Laura Guese, Deidre Adams, Blair Vaughn-Gruler, Ben Strawn, Melanie Grein and Melana Bontrager

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LAURA GUESE searches for simple moments of peace in our hectic, fast-paced world. Infinitely intrigued by the idea of being away from it all, lost in a place of hopeful tranquility, her latest work draws inspiration from the surreal feeling of standing on a mountain top and examining the surrounding land and sky.

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Laura Guese
Colorado Clouds
48x60
Oil on linen
$5700

Laura Guese
Moonlit Cloud Peaks
48x70
Oil on linen
$7400

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Laura Guese
Wanderlust Sky
72x96
Oil on linen
$15,200

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DEIDRE ADAMS’ paintings are personal meditations in abstract form. She utilizes the formal elements of visual language to reference time and transformation, specifically to the ways in which surfaces are altered by external forces. Working in an iterative, intuitive process of personal discovery, Adams uses her initial marks on the canvas as a catalyst for response, making choices spontaneously and in conversation with the painting.

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Deidre Adams
Meaning is Ephemeral
30x44
Acrylic and mixed media on panel
$3500

Deidre Adams
Meaning is Subjective
30x44
Acrylic and mixed media on panel
$3500

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Deidre Adams
Untold Stories
72x48
Acrylic and mixed media on panel
$8,600

Deidre Adams
Stormy Optimist
40x60
Acrylic and mixed media on panel
$6500

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BEN STRAWN

The process of BEN STRAWN’s development of image begins with the phrase, “I don’t know.” This mantra sets the stage for open-source evolution of pictorial manifestation, and the movement of charcoal-in-hand draws in etheric emanations.

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Ben Strawn
Dragonfly
Mixed media on canvas
54x62
$8,600

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Ben Strawn
Ysmir
Mixed media on canvas
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Ben Strawn
Sumerian Glyph
Mixed media on canvas
46x62
$7,000

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Ben Strawn
Capricho
Mixed media on canvas
44x62
$7,000

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MELANA BONTRAGER

Exploring the daily connections that make up the human experience, MELANA BONTRAGER’s latest works look specifically at the simultaneous existence of joy and grief/loss. Her pieces place a heavy focus on texture and line as a means for exploring the psychological idea of “both/and”: the idea that multiple things can be true at the same time, giving room for a full range of simultaneous--and often conflicting--emotions rather than limiting the human capacity to linear, siloed experiences.

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Melana Bontrager
Felt and Unsaid
India ink, graphite and acrylic on wood
50x100
$10,560

Melana Bontrager
Perceived Potential
India ink, graphite and acrylic on wood
50x100
$10,560

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Melana Bontrager
Absent Minded Intention
India ink and acrylic on wood
32x64
$5,280

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MELANIE GREIN focuses her work on buoyancy, a visual upward force that resists and transcends the descending weight of worry that can creep into anyone’s life. Exploring relationships of space, line, color and texture through means of land, sky and water, she offers a little whimsy and joy balanced with calm and solace in her latest series.

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Melanie Grein
For the Experience
40x40
Mixed media on canvas
$3600

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Melanie Grein
For the Moment
40x40
Mixed media on canvas
$3600

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Melanie Grein
For the Love
40x40
Mixed media on canvas
$3600

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Melanie Grein
For the Time
40x40
Mixed media on canvas
$3600

Melanie Grein
For the Peace
40x40
Mixed media on canvas
$3600

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Melanie Grein
For the Joy
48x48
Mixed media on canvas
$5200

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BLAIR VAUGHN-GRULER works in layered dichotomies: order and chaos, modernism and postmodernism, oil and water, black and white, planned and spontaneous. Similar to hand work like writing, sewing or knitting, repetitive mark-making activates endorphins and creates a record of successful mediations towards reconciling opposing forces within each piece.

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