January 9 – February 28

Artists’ Reception on Gallery Night, Friday, January 16 from 5 to 9 pm

Artists’ Talk on Gallery Day, Saturday, January 17 at 1 pm

Seven contemporary artists use color and abstraction to define space and structure.  Artists include Tom Berenz, Derrick Buisch, Ben Grant, Mark Ottens, Jeremy Popelka, Jason Rohlf and Richard Taylor.

• The paintings of Tom Berenz blur the lines between realism and abstraction and imaginatively discuss ideological issues

• Derrick Buisch’s decades long practice of maintaining sketchbooks with ideograms of ordinary objects has resulted in distinct images of graphic motifs with surface tension

• Ben Grant forms a visual syntax with strings of information in the shape of color and pattern to build complex relationships within his paintings

• Mark Ottens finds new ways to express the outer limits of color and depth in his highly intricate, many layered, intimately sized paintings

• Jeremy Popelka blows vibrant, contemporary forms in glass using the ancient technique of Murrini

• Jason Rohlf incorporates elements of collage and drawing embedded in layers of paint and varnish in his rhythmic paintings

• Richard Taylor’s dynamically painted aluminum three dimensional and wall sculptures integrate the Midwestern landscape, poetry, and jazz.