Opening Reception & First Friday: June 7, 7-10pm
Additional Hours, June 8 to June 18: Tuesday to Friday, 12-6pm; Saturday, 12-5pm
Artist Statement
When we close our eyes we glimpse visions of what may have been, what is, maybe even what is to come. We dream, we see alien worlds and strange creatures even if we don’t remember them in the morning. Inside our own minds are our realities, but there are other realities all around us in the minds of every single person and art is a nexus that can tie these realities together.
My art has evolved in the past few years to become more tightly coupled with the weird and the wonderful. The dreamscape, the shape inspired by a cloud, or even the faces in the colours and shapes I see when I close my eyes. In some cases it is a distorted world that I see as my own fears and anxieties that show me the unusual things of the darker places of our mind to find beauty, and others, the corruption and darkness beneath the beauty.
This show is my nexus. My window into the worlds and beings of my mind, the worlds beyond the day to day. As I often wonder. “Do I draw them because I dream them, or do I dream them because I draw them?” Are they just fragments of my mind, corrupted data from the hours and days gone by, or is there even a chance that I get to peer behind the curtain of our reality into another nexus through imagination and dreams?