2023 Solo Exhibitions

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The Mandala Project: An Artists Collective

January 13 - February 11, 2023

On Display in our Curated Gallery

The Mandala Project: An Artist Collective features new works created in 2022 along with work created on August 14, 2021 during a live art event in the Cherokee Street Art District. Each artist started a new acrylic on canvas, then passed it along to each of the other artists to respond and add to the creation.

Mandalas are vehicles for journeying to the center of one's being and  bridging individual and collective consciousness. It also represents the dreamer's search for completeness, self-unity, healing, and wholeness. The pieces reveal abstracted representations that take on a dreamlike quality. The work is color, design and texture driven.  Layers and value create a sense of depth, and repeated motifs coalesce the body of works.Viewers are drawn in by ambiguous characteristics presented. The group's paintings are composed largely of vibrant colors, but the vibrancy is tempered with intuitive use of dark values that create depth both literally and figuratively.

The artists will host a live, shared painting event during the opening of the exhibit.


Washington Elementary -Tribute to Trailblazing African American Artists

February 24 - March 25, 2023

On Display in our Ramp Gallery

Washington Elementary students worked from famous trailblazing African American Artists to create amazing renditions in the artists signature style. Showcasing 37 works inspired by the likes of  Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon, Jacob Lawrence, and many more. 


Everything Falls Apart by Ronald Young

April 7 - May 13, 2023

Artists Reception: April 14, 2023 5-8pm

Ronald Young's multi-disciplinary art installation explores the concept of The Power Object, the spiritual  Belief that all objects in nature have a soul. Young seeks to incorporate the West African diasporic traditions of masks, sculpture, ancestry figures, and Nkisi n Kondi. Embedded into a series of  mixed-media assemblages are concepts of recontextualizing materials to make connections between the past and the present, America and Africa, and the physical and spiritual world. The exhibition will  embody the collective consciousness of generations of black people rooted in the aesthetic traditions of  Sankofa: the African concept of understanding one's past to go forward.


Still Point by Christine Ilewski

April 7 - May 13, 2023

Opening Reception: April 14, 2023 5-8pm

Christine Ilewski lives in Alton, IL. She received her BFA from the Univ. of WI-Eau Claire, with masters work at Lindenwood Univ. and SIUE where she completed K-12 teaching certification.

Her studio work is primarily acrylic with multiple mixed media elements. She describes her current work:

Landscape has often been the background to my work but now it centers me. a place of reflection, a still point from which everything else revolves bubbling up from a subconscious stream of physical and emotional relationships. My studio overlooks the Mississippi. The mighty river runs through my work, centuries of secrets flowing between its shores.

Her work is represented by Ariodante Gallery NOLA, Heartland Gallery, IL and found in many private collections.