• "My painting practice focuses on the dialectic between realism and abstraction. I am interested in how painting as a visual language can produce such seemingly contradictory results, the convincing illusion of volumetric forms, and the extreme simplification of flat shapes. The resulting tension of combining classical realism with a minimalist geometric shape creates an opportunity to examine how we attach meaning to the objects and wildlife around us. The more one looks, the more disorienting the experience. The subjects in my work are void of background they are denied a stable footing in space, pulling away from their historical setting and context. Further, its relationship to abstract shapes sets up a dialogue that can make us think about how we experience pressure, weight, gravity, and light."

    -Nick Rooney

  • "Stewardship is a modus operandi that has never been a collective priority of our human species since we achieved a scale of environmental impact that called for it. As industry and populations grow, the demand we place on the finite resource that is this world grows in turn and so the rift between us and the natural world deepens. To prioritise and maximise the stewardship of our environment is a contract we unwittingly entered into nearly two centuries ago with the rest of our companions with whom we share this precarious condition called life - a contract we are increasingly in breach of. Now, With a growing storm of existential problems on the horizon, the need for true stewardship presses ever harder against the borders of our self indulgence. We must find the courage and willingness to gaze together into the fullness of time with a unified and stalwart conviction that we must do always what is best for the preservation of life in all its diversity and majesty."

    -John F. Ross

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RSVP Artist Reception: Saturday, Oct 19th, 6-9pm with Artist Talk at 3pm | Show: Oct 19 - 31