Judy Biesanz & Ryan Selby
December 29-January 29

Judith Biesanz oil paintings are large and saturated with color and atmosphere.   Judith explains her paintings best:  “I’m fascinated by dreams, and I spend a lot of time thinking about and interpreting them, and trying to unearth what is going on in my subconscious. The motif: the (young) figure in the water- parallels many dreams I’ve had about this subject.  As the picture develops formally, I am aware of the representational elements, but at the same time trying to put the meaning of the images out of my mind. I hope that by “not-thinking”, by letting the images get lost and found across the canvas, and working on the painting formally and intuitively, that I am inviting a narrative to form that is an allegory from a more subconscious level."

Pictured left: "Lost & Found"

Ryan Selby is an emerging artist creating blown glass sculpture. He gains inspiration from Venetian glass forms while also considering elements of contemporary design to create aesthetically pleasing, non-representational sculpture. Form and use of color are both important aspects in Ryan’s work. The double-neck series are tall, elegant, contemporary blown glass.  "My blown glass sculpture is non-representational and purely aesthetic, leaving the work open to interpretation by the viewer. I apply vibrant colors and I attempt to show the properties of molten glass in my finished work.   When the glass is molten I am able to cut through it with shears, then pull and stretch the glass to elongate the forms. Opaque white glass is layered beneath a transparent color, which creates a gradation when the glass is stretched.

Pictured right:  "Ruby Double-Neck with Gold Wrap

     Here are some images from the show: