Ceramic artist Mucuy Bolles’ inscribed stoneware vessels speak to the artist’s Mayan heritage. Printmaker Liz Chalfin has created collaged prints as an intuitive response to the devastating rains of last summer. As characters in Donald Saaf’s large, quilt-like painting, Cherryfield, stroll through their rural village, Gay Malin’s bronze figure titled What’s Going On? nervously peers ahead into 2024. Neighborhood of Worries, suggests David Brewster, attempts to “…synthesize a 200-year-old tradition of American Scene Painting into a new breaking point of abstraction in order to make sense of an increasingly bizarre and incongruous synthetic landscape.” And the aptly titled carborundum monoprint, Hot Topic, by Emily Mason, heralds the artist’s growing critical recognition as one of the art world’s premiere colorists,…”an American genius, turning color into its own form of storytelling.” (Jackson Arn, “Tone Control,” The New Yorker, 1/29/24) (Image: David Brewster, Autumnal Burger King Ablaze, oil, 47″ x 32″)
