Patricia Prendergast, River Reflection
On Display Now
current exhibits
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
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.