Are Throwback Thursdays getting a little tired? While we don’t have a finger on the pulse of social media (coming off a rough week with the outage), we do know that for us, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, has nothing to do with looking back. Tomorrow is all about WHAT’S NEXT. First, we gather to lift the curtain on our 2021 AUTUMN INVITATIONAL, which has been turning heads since it went up late last month, with a 7-10 PM OPENING RECEPTION. Then, just as our reception is winding down, we, alas, close the door to entries for UNDER $100, our first juried show since the pandemic struck. If you haven’t yet entered — and we have received an enthusiastic outpouring from artists near and far — it’s NOT TOO LATE...you have until 11:59 PM tomorrow. This is a very special INVITATIONAL and another important step on our road back. SIMONE BAILEY CAMPBELL arrives with two collections: “Fashion Stories,” a celebration of the evocative, empowering nature of fashion apparel and accessories, focusing mainly on shoes; and “New Day,” a timely conversation about the challenges, transitions, and hope that describe our lives. LEONARD HOLLINGER has a flourishing commercial art practice of his own, but when he comes here, it feels like he is wearing his creative heart on his sleeve. The cowboy iconography that helped win Leonard top honors in the last UNDER $100 show, in December 2019, rides range again, but over a far-reaching series of works, he reveals an unbridled process of experimentation that yields stunning results. And RACHAEL MCLAUGHLIN, much like her colleagues, makes art as a form of therapy, just as much as it is self-expression. Her work is a joy: lyrical fabric poems that are, at turns, simply beautiful and unapologetic and forthright. We are thrilled and inspired to be in the midst of such talent, and we hope you can join us — by attending the OPENING and by entering the JURIED SHOW. Onward and upward we go!
