Psikoz

Box No. 1 by Craig Hawkins

A series that seeks to question the way we hide. Dealing with isolation, and compartmentalizing. What feels safe and comfortable may not always be beneficial. We were created with the need for community, and communication beyond ourselves. Struggling to reach out and make the personal something accessible and local requires acts of love and patience. Asking questions is a great way to encounter someone else’s inner dialogue with the hope of understanding. The hope of relationship. It’s seeking the heart not the box.

Bedroom Portrait Face Down by Andy Denzler

“I am not really after a narrative. As much as I am concerned with movement, I prefer to be suggestive at most, implying only a mood or feeling. Any type of moralizing or story telling is intended to be frozen, inert, non-revealing to the viewer. I am generally after an expressive documentation of situations plausible enough, but aloof and distanced in which the viewer must not be distracted with narrative, so he may engage himself in the expression, material and execution of the work.”

Peggy Wauters EGGTH #20 by Buddy Nestor

“My latest series of paintings are portraits of female artists.  These physical and psychological images are my attempt to capture the true nature of humanity.  They are spiritual X-Rays.  The models that I use in my work are all beautiful women.  However, there is nothing beautiful about the portraits I create.”

Untitled no. 3 (from the peculiar manifestation of paint in my everyday life) by Jennifer Cronin

“There is always something that cannot be seen. A before and after. Something just outside, on the fringe, or even teeming just beneath the surface. Building upon the ubiquitous but often concealed psychological underpinnings inherent to suburban life, my paintings create an absurd mythology of the seemingly banal.”