Jana Demartini - Dancing with Trees
Exploring the multifaceted power of trees, Jana Demartini’s new exhibition, Dancing with Trees embraces the multifaceted mystique of the forest. Despite the ecocentric nature of her subject however, Demartini’s paintings unmistakably entangle humanity as well. For Demartini, her arborous subjects seem to exist simultaneously immersed in, and set intentionally apart from a human world that sometimes violently interjects upon them. This strange balance between human and tree forms the curious crux of Dancing with Trees, which defies easy classifications as readily as a forest.
Pomegranate Doyle - Circe, Circle, Circus
This exhibition encourages viewers to follow its wild and untrammled paths in order to uncover their own liberated being. For Doyle, this wellspring is the root of not just artistic impulse, but also political resistance. This intermingling of enchantment and solidity is brought together by ligaments of vivid color and archetypal figures that dance across Doyle’s panels. Emphasizing the transformative power of creative impulse, Circe, Circle, Circus subversively suggests that restraints, whether personal or political, cannot help but wither when faced with the blossoming of inherent expression.
