CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Tracy Burtz: What she knows
EXHIBITION DATES: March 3 – March 28, 2026
RECEPTION: Thursday, March 5, 5 - 8 pm
Contained within color, pattern, and subtlety, What She Knows is a meditation on the interior life of women: how it gathers, splits, mirrors itself, and shines through moments that might otherwise go unnoticed. Tracy Burtz paints the lives of women as spaces to be entered rather than observed. The world she constructs is one governed by women: emotionally, spatially, and symbolically. Within this landscape, women often appear alongside animals, particularly dogs whose bodies form a protective, gentle constellation around them. Formally, Burtz’s paintings engage in a playful tension between depth and flatness. After more than forty-five years of painting, she moves beyond her formal training, allowing space to become abstract and elastic.
Claire Mcconaughy: Uncultivated
EXHIBITION DATES: March 3 – March 28, 2026
RECEPTION: Thursday, March 5, 5 - 8 pm
The exhibition Uncultivated relates the wild, uncultivated nature of painting to an environment left to its own without human intervention. These ten paintings present heightened, dreamlike images of nature rooted in reality, yet transformed through subconscious perception and the physical act of painting. Claire McConaughy’s source is the vivid, radiant energy of the natural world, a vitality she seeks to both channel and convey. Her process begins with direct encounters in nature—exploring forests, woods, and rural areas, as well as observing the trees, flowers, and weeds of New York City, where she has lived for thirty years. She carries these experiences into her studio, where they are reimagined through exaggerated color and expressive mark-making.
exhibitions 2007 - 2026
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