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Gray Edgerton - The Jig is Up - 36" x 36"

Roger Anthony Mapes combines the emotion and imagination of both an expressionist and a surrealist.  All the lines, shapes and colors seem to flow together into one great abstract phantasm.  But if you look closer, hidden in the background, you’ll notice an eerie alien craft.  Immediately my mind is whisked away and the illusion turns into an exciting premonition.   A haloed beam, a sudden flash of light, slowly I’m elevated, leaving the world I knew below.

Roger Anthony Mapes - The Guildsman and The Worm (DUNE) - 5' x 6'

Ron Richter’s Mr. Wobbly is extremely bizarre even for a surrealist painting.  The thought that must have gone into this piece is fantastically mind boggling.  First off, whats going on?  Who are these creatures?  Where do they live?  And then there’s ice cream falling from the sky.  And Mr. Wobbly’s tie is cut in half.   Did he just lose his job?  I’m completely baffled and yet maybe that’s why it so engrossing.  I can’t look away.

Ron Richter - Mr. Wobbly - 84" x 72"

Colleen Mulligan is an artistic biologist of sorts and she happens to be  studying an unexplored island where surreal creatures populate the landscape.  This little critter (still unclassified) was found passionately floating atop a pitch black sea.  Luckily, Colleen was the first person to document the discovery.  Her ability to paint androgynous looking sacks, glands and creases is unmatched by anyone.  All the colors and shadows are tactfully blended to match each sensual shade perfectly.  This painting deserves to be on the cover of nature magazine.

Colleen Mulligan - Untitled - 72" x 72"

David Rockwell’s Three Figures are intertwined together; a seamless menage of lines, limbs, shapes and shadows.  The contrasting colors and lighting distinguish emotion and also convey movement or a progression.  This piece is joyful, thoughtful and remorseful all at the same time.  Maybe its a journey through a single lifetime or just one memorable evening, either way its very pleasant to imagine.

David Rockwell - Three Figures - 27" x27"

Helmut Krackie’s Untitled assortment of lines is an aesthetically enjoyable pattern with many hidden complexities.  The simple assortment of colored lines on a white background is more elaborate on closer inspection.   The beauty of paint is its ability to absorb all those random unseen influences.  Each layer includes a new emotion and mood;  its a brief biography of the artist.  And this is why art is always unique, artists are always original and everyone who views artwork does so through new eyes.

Helmut Krackie - Untitled - 34" x 44"

Edward Heim’s sculpture Swan Song is masterfully crafted from marble and sits atop a blue stone pillar.   I’m always infinity impressed by classical sculpture work.  The time and precision that must have gone into cutting, smoothing and polishing this piece is inspirational.   Edward’s ability to hew smooth lines  allows him to carve a single piece of marble into impossible shapes.  His surrealistic interpretation of a swan is an imaginative use of a timeless art form.

Edward Heim - Swan Song - 50"x 10"x 8"

Ellen Hallie Schiff’s Independence Day is half a femptosecond after a cataclysmic reaction.   And its the only remaining proof.  This one image is frozen in time only moments before a magnificent series of events which tend to follow this sort of spectacle.  All the chaos  is subtly blended together; leaving each speck purposefully critical in maintain the illusion of a nonrepresentational abstraction.

Ellen Hallie Schiff - Independence Day - 48" x 60"

Luke Jackson’s Hats and Evil is a wickedly mesmerizing quasi surrealistic diner where supervillians come to eat fourth meal.  I don’t know which shady character scares me most.  I’m also concerned that Doll Face’s plate is still empty.  He’s got a short fuse and his bull headed friend can’t decide what to eat.  I can see the confusion in his face, he still doesn’t know.  Of course, compared to the Big Schnoz everyone takes forever.  His mouth starts watering from a mile away.  Finally, it looks like waiters coming back but it appears he forgot the coffee.

Luke Jackson - Hats and Evil - 4' x 5'