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February 28, 2018
"Creative Growth begins the New Year with an exhibition of work that brings alternate realities to life. Explore the landscapes of Meyshe Benyomen Shapiro-Nygren’s warring galaxies, Chris Corr-Barberis’ cryptic drawings of the “Real” and “Unreal,” and Rickie Algarva’s worlds, filled with surreal and mythological creatures. Nicole Storm brings her prolific practice to the gallery with an artist-curated section of the exhibition; her prophetic thoughts and observations, looped into abstractions in her pink and purple washes of paint, are worlds onto their own. At times, there is a sense of artists willing fantasy into truth, such as Aurie Ramirez’s repetitive, dreamlike characters and William Scott’s paintings of re-imagined housing projects, the deceased returning to earth as benevolent aliens, and depictions of William’s own life filled with the love and peace he longs for.
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On the Ramp: Terri Bowden
Terri Bowden’s otherworldly drawings of celebrities and animals re-imagined as albino and rendered with nuanced expression will join her impressionistic beachscapes and neon portraits of punk rockers in a presentation of the artist’s work on paper."