SARAH STEINBERG: Rooted in Memory
January 11 - March 8, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 11th @6PM-9PM
Steinberg paints to preserve the memories of her past, reflecting love and longing for the landscape of her childhood in Canada. She begins by making complicated marks across the canvas, with oil paint. From this mass of shapes, more specific images begin to emerge that guide Steinberg toward an overall composition. Certain shapes are left abstracted, while others are transformed into recognizable figures: the outline of a house, or the dense treeline of a snowy forest. Steinberg captures the likeness of her home in Ontario, while still allowing the image to be transformed by her imagination. This process lends an expressive quality to Steinberg’s work, allowing the viewer to glimpse the layering of emotion and memory in each scene.
These paintings not only capture the memories of Steinberg’s childhood home, but the overall experience of being homesick and what it’s like to long for a place and time you can only revisit in your heart and in your mind.
in the Upstairs Gallery
JUAN LUIS JARDÍ: The Cinema of Memory
January 11 - March 8, 2025
Jardí’s work takes on a vintage perspective, drawing influence from 1950’s and 60’s filmmaking, to communicate his view of the world. His imaginative scenes depict places and moments from different time periods, merging them into surreal fantasies that feel both nostalgic and mysterious to the viewer. Pop culture references are woven together with Jardí’s imagined characters, adding to the sense that each scene is composed like a still from a movie. Jardí’s work is part of permanent collections at the International Olympic Committee Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland; and in Spain, the Roda Museum, Ciudad Real Museum, Albacete Museum, Lérida Museum, the Valdepeñas Museum, Melilla Museum, and the Focus Abengoa Sevilla Museum. Jardí’s work is included in the private collections of the former King and Queen of Spain, Juan Carlos I and Sofía, as well as Margaret Thatcher, Fidel Castro, and the former President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch. Jardí lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
in the Upstairs Gallery
RAQUEL ALVAREZ: Layers of Light
January 11 - March 8, 2025
Raquel Alvarez begins with loose, spontaneous brushstrokes, allowing these intuitive marks to gradually guide the development of her composition and reveal the central subject of the piece. Alvarez paints to create a universal visual language that resonates across diverse audiences, transcending any ideological or linguistic boundaries.