Nora See, on the other hand, takes a much more forward approach with the messages in her paintings. With a harsh candor, Nora See’s paintings dissect the current socio-political climate and force the viewer to reckon with the gruesome and painful realities that have resulted for many as a result of the actions of people in power. Her paintings shed light on the harsh realities of contemporary society, including dehumanization, manipulation, and abuse of power.

Peter Olson’s artwork has harmonized photography and ceramics in vessels whose shapes hearken back to the ancient world.  As bands of imagery spin around the thrown and assembled ceramic garnitures, there is a feeling that time is passing, history is revealing itself, a story is being told. The skeletal imagery, religious iconography, and the urn-like shapes of the self-contained vessels explore the artists’ meditations on the temporality of life and the perpetuation of time.

As an artist, Tiffany Calvert applies contemporary painting techniques to seventeenth-century Dutch floral still life, whose themes have traditionally underscored the transience and impermanence of life. She uses these vanitas images as a springboard for exploring the shifting nature of human perception, employing techniques such as gridding, fragmentation, and image reversal in order to obstruct and interrupt the viewer’s perception of the image. Like a digital “glitch” or a scrambled transmission, Calvert generates paintings that are suspended in a moment, simultaneously on the verge of destruction or cohesion.

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