MAYUKO ONO GRAY (La Marque, TX), 諸行無常_this too, shall pass
ALYSON J. BARTON (Roaring Branch, PA), The Remembered Land
November 25, 2024 – January 4, 2025

Mayuko Ono Gray’s large scale graphite drawings on paper, reference her background, both culturally Japanese and American.  This hybridized background influences her drawing practices and aesthetics. Her drawings represent people, animals and still lifes. She then matches a Japanese proverb spelled out with hiragana and kanji characters and intertwines them to create a single line within the imagery.

Barton’s photographs are inseparably linked to nature, memory, myth, and our deep relationship with land and place of her childhood in England. The romanticized landscapes blend tonalism and pictorialism and are rendered in historic photographic practices and old master painting techniques.

 Left to right: Mayuko Ono Gray,  かたちあるものいつかこわれる_Anything that takes a form will break sooner or later (45), 2023, Graphite on paper; Alyson J. Barton, Remembered Land (Winter's Call), 2023, chromogenic silver halide print