MAYUKO ONO GRAY (La Marque, TX), 諸行無常_this too, shall pass
ALYSON J.BARTON (Roaring Branch, PA), The Remembered Land
Nov. 25 – Jan. 4
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
35th ANNUAL DAYTON WORKS ON PAPER
Jan. 21 – March 1
Works on Paper is a juried exhibition created for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio. The exhibition features two-and three-dimensional works of art on or of paper. Artist awards totaling $1,100 will be selected by the juror and gallery visitors will select a People’s Choice Award made possible through the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund.
MORGAN CRAIG (Philadelphia, PA), Paintings
KATHY A. MOORE (Casstown, OH), Snow Light/Day and Night
March 10 – April 12
Morgan Craig’s large scale oil paintings describe architectural spaces that are not merely a method of documentation, but also a sociopolitical/socioeconomic commentary on automation, obsolescence, alienation, and class struggle.
Kathy A. Moore’s greyscale paintings focus upon a nostalgic time period. Depicting suburban or rural scenes these paintings refer to black and white photography from the period 1920-1950, inspired partly by Moore’s own family albums. The scenes show signs of people and life, but they are sparing, as if they have been driven inside by the cold.
Captions: Morgan Craig, Widowmaker, oil on linen, 2022; Kathy A. Moore, Shared Shed in Backyards, 2021, acrylic on birch hardboard.
YIYUN CHEN (Cleveland, OH), Whispers in the Breeze 微風細語
GHISLAINE AND LANDO FREMAUX-VALDEZ (Lubbock, TX)
April 21 – May 24
Yiyun Chen’s photographic project, Whispers in the Breeze, began as a pastime and was prompted by the artist’s wandering as a pedestrian along Lake Erie. The project became a ritual, and then a process of self-reflection and self-discovery for the artist as an Asian immigrant – exploring the relationship between people, environment and society.
The collaborative work of partners Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux-Valdez is on a gargantuan scale, executed in gouache and pastel on paper. Each drawing naturalistically portrays one or both of the artists’ bodies (sometimes many times over), but deranges them through fragmentation, anatomical corruption, and/or pictorial chaos.
Captions; Yiyun Chen, Future, pigment print – photography, 2022; Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux-Valdez, Washing Feet / Hair Bath, Pastel and gouache on paper, 2023
31st ANNUAL THE VIEW JURIED LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION
June 9 – July 19
Showcasing both contemporary and traditional approaches to landscape art, The View is an annual, juried exhibition open to Ohio artists working in any medium. Among the topics explored are nature, environmental themes and world issues. Artist awards totaling $1,100 will be selected by the juror and gallery visitors will select a People’s Choice Award made possible through the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund.
INVITATIONAL: NANCY CARTWRIGHT
INVITATIONAL: AFRICAN AMERICAN VISUAL ARTS GUILD
Aug. 4 – Sept. 13
Emmy Award winning actor and artist Nancy Cartwright will exhibit her reverse-style paintings on Lucite, created using animation techniques and bright, joyful color. Much of Cartwright’s artwork is animated in nature and inspired by Picasso and Warhol. Her use of vibrant color in creating colorful pop art spans a variety of collections ranging from spotlighting societal issues to her love of animated characters.
The African American Visual Artists Guild (AAVAG), of Dayton, Ohio, was born out of the need to express visually the African American experience through a wide range of styles and subject matter using many diverse approaches and materials with a focus on communicating the artist's own spirituality. The AAVAG will exhibit their 2025 traveling exhibition, What’s New?.
Captions, left to right: Nancy Cartwright, D'oh a Deer, Reverse painting acrylic on acrylic, 2024; Nathan Conner, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Acrylic painting, 30” x 30”
EDEN QUISPE (Newton, KS) Quilts
DENNY GERWIN (Charlotte, NC) Figurative Work
Nov. 24 – Jan. 3
In her work, Eden Quispe creates interior scenes using inherited quilting techniques, embroidery, printing, and collage. Quispe expresses the precarious balance of her multiple roles as a mother, artist and teacher with symbols and materials; her daughter’s baby clothes, grandfather's ties, and inherited fabric from her family and husband's Peruvian culture are painted and sewn upon and cut to become walls, tables, and chairs. These object memories are sewn together and printed on to create her patchwork paintings.
Denny Gerwin’s ceramic sculptures and vessels reference the female form, acknowledging artifacts created up to 30,000 years ago and illustrating universal human interest in precarious subject matter. Recognizing himself as the “other” in the equation, and noting that this is a rare position for him to sit in, the artist is grateful for lessons learned in vulnerability. More recent works in this series show clinched fists, an aberration from traditional depictions of Venus and an apt departure given the threat to women's power.
Captions, left to right: Eden Quispe, Day Mama Night Mama, 2024, stitched, printed and painted textiles; Denny Gerwin, Venus Clinched Her Fists, 2022, wood fired ceramic.
ABOUT THE GALLERY
The Kettering Health Art Gallery at Rosewood Arts Center is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Center, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering, 45420.