Artists: Jill McVarish

“This will be my third two person show with Stephanie Brockway. I love the way my paintings interact with here playful assemblage sculptures and puppets. Our work for this show, although not really religious is derived from her idea of "Perge the Demons" as a concept relating to new beginnings as we emerge from what has been a very couple years for most of us. With the combative political climate and the frustration of the pandemic coming to an end, the new mantras seem to be "give love" and "make peace". In this series of oil paintings on linen, I, very lightheartedly, explore what the bible calls the "Seven Cardinal Sins" and "The Seven Virtues". They all seem to me, to be traits, good and bad, that we all possess to some degree at one time or another as we struggle to be better people. And because of that, it has been fun to insert humor into the depictions of these traits, relatable or not...”