On Friday, July 12 from 5:30 to 8pm, the public is invited to meet the artists and enjoy refreshments at an Opening Reception for MULTIPLICITIES, featuring internationally celebrated vibraphonist ELDAD TARMU, whose jazz singles have reached the top 20 in US radio charts. Come by and enjoy wonderful art and music, along with a glass of wine!

MULTIPLICITIES: an exhibition of imaginative visual systems. In philosophy, multiplicity can be defined as the multi-faceted nature of reality. The writer Italo Calvino described the concept of multiplicity in literature as seeing the world as a system of systems.

In our MULTIPLICITIES exhibition this summer, our Drawing Rooms walls will be covered with engaging systems of numerous, various and re-occurring aspects; arrangements of multiple shape, form, color and image.

Building with both simple and complex graphic forms through repetition and variation, pattern and contrast, each artist creates a cohesive vision expressive of their own perspective, yet enveloping the viewer in new experience.

MULTIPLICITIES features artists who are fascinated by the interplay of repeatable parts, pattern, and structure. This exhibition features drawings, paintings, wall installations by Milosz Koziej, Megan Klim, Bill Rybak, Loura van der Meule, Nyugen E. Smith, Vincent Salvati, William Stamos, Liz Cohen, Winifred McNeill, Greg Brickey, Max Velez and James Pustorino.

Milosz Koziej- His gigantic spin art paintings develop intensity like rising notes in a musical composition. The inscribed notation of a Chopin Nocturne becomes calligraphic marks spiraling out from the center of the multi-layers of colors, generated using a motor to spin the canvas.

Bill Rybak’s latest work is composed of 77 individual print-outs taped together, each a section of a whole a 3D construction created rendered entirely on a computer program, a system unseen by the viewer.

Nyugen E Smith’s Borderlines series is comprised of many small drawings on shaped paper, stitched together with thread, like pieces of a puzzle. Raised in Trinidad, Smith’s technique underscores the concerns of his art, which investigates the psychological, cultural and social implications of colonialism.

Loura van der Meule’s striking portraits of her grandparents display a richly developed visual language set in a system of layered, drawn, painted and collaged imagery derived from Dutch design heritage.

Winifred McNeill’s system of drawn and cut-out layers, which both obscure and reveal ,are suggestive of windows or portals: multiple stories or events occurring simultaneously that may or may not affect each other.

William Stamos’ fantastical light-into-dark drawing animates the repeated form of the classic artist’s palette, turning the space within and without into celestial, cosmically charged alternate realities.   

Greg Brickey – In his Circle paintings, he uses both structural templates and systematic painting techniques that work to counter his loose, colorful painting style, producing a remarkable visual tension.

Vince Salvati - His expressive, bold drawing style to a system of grids, in works that engage the space of the page and also group together to engage and energize the space of the room they fill.

Megan Klim’s intriguing pieces use the repetition of small linear forms and changes in scale to suggest a map or aerial view, one that evokes rather than clarifies, and makes us look longer, revealing a bit more with each viewing.

James Pustorino – Some have described this artist’s bold, complex and colorful work as a melding of high brow sci- fi and comic book art. Pustorino uses graphic, abstract and realistic form to explore concepts of narrative and spatial/structural composition.

Max Velez creates complex compositions through a myriad of graphic marks, text, and descriptive rendering. In his drawings, multiplicity is evinced to create a transformative narrative.

Liz Cohen’s obsessive ball-point drawings mirror her latest project and obsession: creating a world inhabited by dolls that can bridge time and culture. Using varied forms and characters that move through her compositions, the intensity of fine lines heighten the drama of their interaction.