Something Old...

No, no one’s getting married tonight. But we definitely have an engagement! So in inviting you to tonight's 7-10 PM OPENING RECEPTION for PROCESSES INTERSECTING SPACES, we happily invoke the age-old adage as we walk you through a few highlights from the show. Let’s start with a “painting” — in fact, a digitally manipulated photograph — that is part of MICHAEL JICHA’s PROJECT 1910 and was previously seen and sold at the 2019 edition of UNDER $100. The difference now is that we have never seen this work in the proper dimensions. Only at this size can we more fully understand the artist’s practice, which “interprets the Post-Impressionist to Surrealist movements.” Find out more in person and on offthewallgallery.org. See you tonight!

MICHAEL JICHA
detail from “Reine d’Or”
35 x 25 framed
digitally manipulated photograph
500.

Seeing Red

While our artists invariably find faithful fans among our audiences, the ultimate name of the game in measuring success in any art show is RED DOTS. Happily, one of the seven so far for BABY, WE’RE BACK! sits alongside this limited-edition photo print from MICHAEL JICHA. It’s one of four large-scale works from the artist’s “Project 1910,” so named because, as Mike says, “[it’s] my personal interpretation of the post-impressionist to surrealist movements. In 1910, the term ‘post-impression’ was first used.” He is also quick to point out, “I don’t try to make my photographs look like paintings. Rather, I want to show the key influences of painters from these periods.”

MICHAEL JICHA
“Study in Red with a Moth”
digitally manipulated photograph
limited edition of 10
26.5 x 30.5 framed
450.

Welcome Back

Our hearts are beating just a little faster…and perhaps we are breathing a little easier…now that our first Opening Reception in 18+ months is finally underway! JOSEPH EGGLESTON and MICHAEL JICHA are in the house — and RUSTY EVELAND is on his way. Not least, the always-amazing ROSE COSSABONE is behind the bar, dispensing our fave drinks, mixed with wisdom. JOIN US! (And feel free to come later than 10. If it took a year and a half to restart this party, we’re not checking the clock to see when it stops!) #BABYWEREBACK

A New Day

Yes indeed, we are BACK in every sense of the word! Yesterday’s BABY, WE’RE BACK hanging day felt...well, both energizing and cathartic. We got to exercise long-dormant creative muscles, to put art right in front of an audience that went right up to examine and experience the work from inches away...for the first time since January 2020. Imagine that! And we are certain the OPENING RECEPTION this Thursday, 7-10 PM, will strike everyone as equally inspiring. If we choose not to show the newly hung Wall in this post, it is only to spur you to join us in 96 hours. The only difference from a “traditional” Opening will be: NO hors d’ouevres. We’re not quite ready for communal food. But everything else will be business and pleasure as we know them best. Nor could we possibly ask for a better trio of artists to kick this off than RUSTY EVELAND, a fast-rising star in our community who deftly hops from medium to medium and notably projects a loop of three short films in our 3D space, and JOSEPH EGGLESTON and MICHAEL JICHA, both discoveries of BRICK BY BRICK, our summer 2019 celebration of Stonehill at 50. They are both phenomenal painters — even if Joseph wields an assortment of brushes and palette knives and Mike happens to paint with digital tools on a canvas that makes a highly art-directed photograph its gessoed base. Bottom line: THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN! It’s time to appreciate the simple things we always took for granted..