Sept 30 - Nov 1, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, October 2, 6-8 pm

Robin Levandov
”The Color of Memory”

Patty Adams
  “Bathers and Bacchanals”

Benjamin Sears
”Dwellings”

Robin Levandov
”The Color of Memory”

Abstract painting is the stuff of daydreams.  And pure play.

It begins in a space where there are no words and intuition becomes my guide. I never begin with a predetermined image or a fixed destination.  Instead, I follow impulses, interruptions, surprises and discoveries, allowing the painting to reveal itself one gesture at a time.  As my mind wanders, I blend memory with emotion.

Painting is my door to enter a state of play— where curiosity matters more than certainty.  I invent rules only to abandon them.  I layer, erase, obscure, scrape away, and sometimes begin anew.  Accident is my collaborator and uncertainty is my guide.  Every painting shows me the way.

I enjoy painting different subjects so that i am constantly challenged.  Similarly, I explore different techniques for applying paint.  Thus, this show features abstract work over a few years ad represents an array of strategies.  For example, during covid i committed to painting one piece a day until I was satisfied, on 9 x 12 paper for oil, which I later mounted on panel.  Another set of rules i employed included using exclusively leftover paint from previous work. I use brushes, spatulas, fingers or other available tools.  Often I will make a random mark and simply respond to that.

Each piece is a conversation between intention and surrender.  Marks are made, revised, obscured and sometimes rediscovered.  The work always emphasizes process over outcome.  As I love to investigate possibilities, it is aways changing.  What remains is only part of the story. 

What emerges is not a portrait of an experience but the residue of memory:  moments of hesitation and exuberance, fragments of remembrance, emotional states and rhythms for which there are no words.  These paintings are landscapes of feeling, mapping inner experience through movement, color and time.

In this way, I inhabit the place between intention and surrender, where conscious decisions give way to something less predictable and more alive.  In that shifting realm the work often surprises me, and these are the most honest moments of painting.

Patty Adams
“Bathers and Bacchanals”

There are bodies and there is nature. They are profoundly connected.

In this work I have drawn on the art historical imagery of the nude figure in nature both as bathers and revelers. I have tried to capture their joy and pleasure of being alive in the natural world.

I was inspired by discovering Grace Hartigan and how she used Henri Matisse’s “Bathers by a River” as an inspiration  for her own “River Bathers.”  Her painting  was strangely like and yet unlike Matisse’s. I wanted to have a similar experience.

The above painting is based on a  similar but more general inspiration from Rubens and Poussin and their paintings of orgiastic dancers and satyrs worshipping Venus and Pan. This painting is oil on canvas but its surface has been enlivened by collaged elements of paper and theatrical gels.

Benjamin Sears
”Dwellings”

The architectural forms in these paintings and drawings feel, to me, sentient. And like living beings, they possess complex psychological systems. They also hold memories of past experiences.

These imagined structures rarely remain still. They process their inner lives through movement, transformation, and invention. Some buildings remain closed and opaque, even as they may long to reveal what lies within them. Others unintentionally become transparent - vulnerably exposing themselves.

Existing as both objects and inhabitable spaces, these dwellings use imagination to grow past their limitations.