London Amara – Ethos: The Alchemy of Spirit and Light
Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts 501 Broad Street, Gadsden, AL, United StatesLondon Amara has created intimate black-and-white portraits and haunting images of the wooded landscapes of Florida, Ohio, California, and British Columbia. Employing the use of a singular technical strategy, she works on site in a portable darkroom made from an ice-fishing tent to produce large-format, collodian photographic images. Amara’s immersion in the visually marked cycles […]
Kaye Freeman: Paintings
Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts 501 Broad Street, Gadsden, AL, United StatesKaye Freeman’s work is informed by diverse influences. The way she arranges an image mirrors the shifting perspective of classical Japanese landscape, while her knowledge of that country’s calligraphic tradition shapes her commitment to immediacy and narrative. She’s interested too in the symbolism of color using it to raise issues of gender and race alongside […]
Lee Saloutos
Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts 501 Broad Street, Gadsden, AL, United StatesLee Saloutos’s landscape, interior, and close-up surface images are highly detailed and richly atmospheric. These are works that transport the viewer to locations that, while usually unidentified, evoke nonetheless the unending action of the elements and the inexorable passage of time. Even more than this, they hint at a narrative of national decline, the gradual […]
James Singelis: Burning from Within
Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts 501 Broad Street, Gadsden, AL, United StatesJim Singelis describes his images as self-portraits without a mirror, and the complex emotions they represent do embody a singular and personal intensity. The series actually began with one clear and literal self-likeness, and he starts each new painting or drawing by sketching his own reflection. But from there he improvises, and while he observes […]
Peter Cusack Solo Exhibition
Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts 501 Broad Street, Gadsden, AL, United StatesIn his current paintings, Peter Cusack explores themes of human identity, sexuality, consciousness, and crisis, illuminating the hidden psychological realities of everyday life. Heroic male and female figures live their lives beyond the view of ordinary society, revealing interior monologues of desire, longing, rejection, ambiguity, fear, and despair - but without shame, inhibition, or the […]