contemporary Art GALLERY & FINE ART DEALER
Via Time in two directions we harmonize voices that respect tradition but dismantle hierarchy. We seek alliance with the universal continuum. We honor the sacred, bow to the trespassed, and acknowledge the unseen. We suggest connection.
Read moreExhibition Dates: June 4 – July 31, 2021
Artists Present: Friday, June 4 | 5-8pm
Virtual Artist Talk Hosted by Sitka: Thursday, June 3 | 4pm
West coast artists Paul Turounet and Brian Benfer are celebrated for their work in photography and ceramics, respectively, yet to bind either artist to media would be reductive. More truly stated, their practice embodies a flexibility attuned to the nuance of context. In the gallery exhibition All that remains we harmonize the languages of Turounet and Benfer through works that share overlapping formal qualities and conceptual impetus with the intent to urge our more careful thought and reflection. These are questions asked without words, stories told without diction.
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Exhibition Dates: March 5 – May 29, 2021
Constanza Piaggio’s large format prints of solitary figures and pastoral scenes belong to the collection of work titled The Trap, executed just over a decade ago. Circumstance gives context to our eye, and today Piaggio’s work gains gravity. While these open-ended-narratives once spoke with a sly criticality of bourgeoise malaise unsubdued by distractions- societal traps (of dinner-parties, fancy toys, or the time-honored tradition of the rich hunting small animals for ‘sport’), today ring more true. They still speak to discontent, loneliness, and introversion, but now do so in a moment simplified by the acknowledgement of us all that that things don’t create happiness, people do. As we write the subtext of these discontented characters (or our own narratives) anew, we discover a glimmer of courage in the invitation of action. In recognizing our own traps, we can yet evade them. These works nudge impetus in their unraveling of “idealism” and offer an escape- a remembrance for gratitude and hope for a rebirth of humanitarianism via our own individual gestures and actions.
You and Yours counts our blessings as it emphasizes the power in connectivity. The +1 aspect of this group show lifts the veil on an unknown circle of contact and harmonizes with the idea of viral spread. Our metaphorical circle unites members through shared emotion and philosophy.
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through January 31, 2021
This gallery exhibition of new work by Matt Eich draws from a year and a half of prolific image-making in an ongoing visual journal series titled, Seasonal Blues. Eich’s photographs remind us that life is temporal and sacred. The rituals we subscribe to are not law by nature, rather designs of our own making. Through openness and compassion, we can share fears and desires. The web of intimacy surrounds us, belongs to us, and us to it.
Through the Glass: Bear Kirkpatrick’s work questions the limits of perception and traces “traits of consciousness.” His work seeks to give shape to the non-visible world.
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July 3 – August 31, 2020
The photographs in A Substitute World by Jennifer Greenburg were culled from over 15 years of her personal archive. These images have haunted her from the moment they were made – the weight of these spaces inspired the uncanny necessity to make the image. Today, these works feel eerily relevant devices to experiencing the impermissible.
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Through the Glass : Video Screening
July 3 - August 31, 2020
The video Rock - Paper - Guillotine integrate images from the Artist’s personal archive, dry pigments, and color grounds. Together these layers splice, layer, and intersect, and are reprocessed (through still or moving image). This work is playful and smart. Its process addresses the natural human desire to save memory and the intellectual art historical applications of this desire.
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