PERIPHERAL CONTEMPLATION

On View January 20, 2023 - March 11, 2023

As we embrace a fresh new year where we will continue to find inspiration and healing through art, the six artists in PERIPHERAL CONTEMPLATION invite us to step outside of ourselves to gain a broader perspective. Calling for personal and cultural reflection, the remarkably textural works in this monochromatic group exhibition combine medium, subject matter, and message to cultivate contemplation, conversation and energetic evolution.

This group exhibition features the work of Julie Maren, Jen Starling, Jongku Kim, Conor King, Gloria Pereyra, and Karin Schminke.

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Peripheral Contemplation- Inquiry

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JULIE MAREN invites us to reflect on what is truly important with her latest series, “Silver Linings”. Mica, with its reflective surface, provides a mirror. The mineral’s delicate, layered construction suggests the fragility of life — similarly echoed in the cloud-like formation of the installation. Through the use of materials and arrangement we are called to look inward.

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Silver Linings
Mounted painted mica
60x144
$20,000

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Silver Linings Sunset
mounted painted mica
30x78
$8,800

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Silver Linings Blue Sky
mounted painted mica
69x44
$6,800

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JEN STARLING

The subjects in JEN STARLING’s work are undeniably vulnerable. Inspired by a desire for deep connection with others, her latest series speaks to the search for meaning, peace, and spiritual connection that is inherently human. When people witness vulnerability in others, compassion ensues, and allows them to feel connected regardless of their differences. It is from this place of vulnerability that growth and change is possible.

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GeminiTide
Mixed Media on Canvas
24 x 30
$3600

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In My Bones
Mixed Media on Canvas
24 x 24
$3000

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Two Sides of Nine
Oil on panel
48 x 48
$9000

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Spellbound
Mixed Media on Canvas
24 x 30
$3600

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What We Don’t Need
Mixed Media on Canvas
24 x 24
$3000

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Love Letters Written on Envelopes
Mixed Media on Canvas
36 x 60.5
$8700

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The metamorphosis of steel is connected with JONGKU KIM’s reflection on today’s materialist civilization. Contemporary society has followed blind goals of development and growth and is subordinate to material value. By transforming a mass of steel, the symbol of contemporary materialist civilization, into steel powder and then into a peaceful horizontal landscape, his hope is to open up a new place of possibility, hope and coexistence.

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Over the Landscape
Iron on canvas
60 x 60
$25,000

Under the Sun
Iron on canvas
60 x 60
$25,000

Traversing the Landscape
Iron on Canvas
60 x 60
$25,000

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CONOR KING’s latest series “Forms” explores photography as abstraction, providing new ways of looking at the medium. This work is created from the byproducts of other photographic artworks using paper, film bags, notes, mounted prints, cardboard, and shipping materials. Using these by products to create new work prompts us to look at photography in new ways, further abstracting the medium and giving us different ways to understand the photographic process.

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GLORIA PEREYRA

GLORIA PEREYRA likens her camera to her paintbrushes, her photographs to paintings. Her work is an illusion and an expression of what is beautiful. She continues to experiment with exquisite presentations of her work such as this project on silk organza illuminated by gold leaf.

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#2277
silk organza over gold leaf
26 x 26 (framed)
$1,200

#2262
silk organza over gold leaf
26 x 26 (framed)
$1,200

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#0156
silk organza over gold leaf
26 x 26 (framed)
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#2271
silk organza over gold leaf
26 x 26 (framed)
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#2255
silk organza over gold leaf
26 x 26 (framed)
$1,200

#2269
silk organza over gold leaf
26 x 26 (framed)
$1,200

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#1979
silk organza over gold leaf
26 x 26 (framed)
$1,200

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KARIN SCHMINKE’s latest series contains images of both fading and rejuvenating plant forms that tell the story of recurring cycles of destruction and renewal. Laser-cutting is used to provide the base structure and textural foundations of the calming and centering forms inspired by fading flowers. Metal surfaces are utilized to capture ambient light, mimicking the changing light of day in the natural world.

Artist Statement (pdf)
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