Stephen Giannetti:
All In

December 13, 2024 -February 2, 2025
Reception: December 13, 6-9 PM
Artist Talk: January 18, 3-4:30 PM (FREE)

Stephen Giannetti has explored the grid and the circle in various media over his 30-year career. Early on, he pioneered a new approach to the grid. By painting three primary and three secondary colors in a pattern to define a set of circles, Giannetti created a visual experience where the act of seeing color is primary. Giannetti has adapted his method of painting by hand to using spray paint. Using poker chips as a stencil, he creates an active space where colors mix, and shapes shift in his paintings. During the pandemic, the artist began to use poker chips as the building blocks of sculptural forms. This exhibit includes his recent sculptures, which reference simplified geometric forms and repeated patterns.

Sponsored by Royal Guest Hotels, and Charles Cunningham

Bussie Parker Kehoe:
A Curious Garden

January 10 – February 28, 2025
Reception: January 10, 6-9 PM
Conversation with the Artist: February 22, 2-3:30 PM (FREE)

Bussie Parker Kehoe’s mixed media work walks the line between painting and sculpture. The artist painstakingly pours discarded household paint into stacks of colorful circles, celebrating found materials in unusual ways. Laying the dried circles in support next to one another, her work resembles leaves in an explosion of growth. Other times, Kehoe cuts the dried paint peels into smaller shapes, placed next to each other in an irregular colorful patchwork. Kehoe views her work as reminiscent of the patterned Korean textiles from her youth, creating a lively ‘quilt’ full of texture and movement that seems to escape from its base.

Sponsored by Rosa Marquez & Yatish Mishra as part of the Pence Gallery Emerging Artist Award

Jordan Hayes:
The Little Things

December 6, 2024 -January 30, 2025
Reception: December 13, 6-9 PM

Jordan Hayes is a figurative painter whose recent work centers on portraying objects with underlying stories and deeper meanings. Her figures engage with these items in quiet scenes, featuring dramatic lighting, eye-catching hues, and attention to detail, to provoke a greater appreciation for life’s subtleties.

Please be aware that this exhibit is located in our upstairs gallery. Access may be slightly limited due to occasional events and classes that occur in this space. To ensure that your visit and enjoyment of this exhibit is not interrupted, please refer to our Programs page.

Kathy Canfield Shepard:
Quilled Paper Art (Stairway Display)

January 10 – February 28, 2025
Reception: January 10, 6-9 PM

Kathy Canfield Shepard has been an artist for most of her life, working in a variety of mediums, most recently, paper quilling, which she first discovered when she was seven years old. Over the next few years, she created simple designs and ornaments for family and friends. In recent years, she’s rediscovered the art form and has stretched the boundaries of traditional techniques to create intricate three-dimensional works of art. Also trained in surface pattern design, she uses her own designed papers in her work, incorporates her skills as a graphic designer and watercolor artist, and uses seed beads and other found objects to highlight her designs.