First Thursday, November 5

NEW PAINTINGS

by Oriana Lewton-Leopold

Oriana Lewton-Leopold was born in Portland, Oregon. She received her BA in Mixed Media art from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and has studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, the Chautauqua Institute, and the Universitat Der Kunste in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in New York and Maine. Oriana currently lives and works in Portland.

First Thursday, October 1

Vacillations

paintings by Ruth Lantz

Ruth Lantz approaches painting with the knowledge of unknowing. She creates images without an immediately identifiable context, but an ambiguous and shifting understanding. Through the combination of space photography, slide cultures, and x-ray imagery Lantz enables the viewers to re-discover unknown realities. She applies multiple thing layers of acrylic paint to build up luminosity, creating both pictorial depth and a distant surface. Through this process Lantz creates an image in constant flux, searching for both its beginning and its end.