CORPOREAL ATTACHMENTS

Leah Tacha
Sailor, 2017
Glazed porcelain with digital inkjet prints on acid-free foam core with acrylic paint
21 X 1 1/2 X 6 inches
$3,200

Melissa Dadourian
Coral Vessel, 2019
Ceramic, approx.1 ft X 8 inches
$1,500

Amanda Browder
Mouth, 2009
Vintage fabric, polyfil, rope
5 ft 5 in X
Tony Cox’s piece, shield-like and fabricated in fine needlepoint with blonde fringe cascading from the canvas, references the totemic. Melissa Dadourian’s fabric, paper and ceramic geometries are both architectural intrusions and screens, hiding and revealing a boundaried femininity. Amanda Browder’sinstallationis a literal manifestation of the body, a kaleidoscopic quilted mouth with fangs and adorned throne-chair while Liz Collins’s woven wall paintings drape the gallery in a flowing attire of electric hues.
If Tony’s work is totemic and Melissa’s a gendered architecture, Meg Lipke’s stuffed silk cushion-painting,soft and seductively human, is a meaty Venus casually hanging off the gallery wall in gorgeous yellow and orange hues, it’s creatural character provocative, powerful and protective.

Meg Lipke
Yellow Painting, 2020
Silk poly, acrylic paint, dye
6 X 4 feet
$18,000

Tony Cox
Memory Gongs,2017
Embroidery, fabric, poly stuffing, acrylic paint
2X4 feet
NFS

Agnes Barley
Constructed Waves, 2020
Acrylic on paper
44X30 inches
$4,800 unframed, $950 + frame
Other works in the show formally defined as drawings, paintings and sculptures also project abstractions of embodiment. The brush marks in Agnes Barley’s textural paint strokes elicit a pause; the soprano holds a note, a wave curls and crashes, or more directly, a narrative emerges of the artist slowly dragging her brush across the paper. Michael Scott’s psychedelic circle paintings speak to our sense of sight, how color and form can affect our physical being. And in Katie Merz’s animated lines, the artist’s spirit is firmly reified on the paper in her curling configurations without end.

Katie Merz
Gouche on paper, 10X12, framed
$2,500

Beth Humphrey
Mutual Aid, 2020
Paper collage, 10X12 in, framed
$450

Melissa Dadourian
Pink Vessel, 2019
Ceramic, paint, approx.1 ft X 8 inches
$1,500

Michael Scott
Circle Paintings, 2020
Enamel on Aluminum Panel, 12x12 in
$6,500 each

Amy Talluto
All Dark Things, 2020
Gouche, oil collage on paper, 13.5X10, framed
$900

Amanda Browder
Chair, 2013
Wood and Vintage fabric, hand sewn, acrylic gloss paint
32 X 22 X 27 inches
$1,500

Leah Tacha
Shredder, 2017
Glazed porcelain with digital inkjet prints on acid-free foam core with acrylic paint
22 X 12 X 4 inches
$3,400
A humorous take on our mortal appendages, Beth Humphrey’s collages suggest extra thumbs, odd-shaped toes, a neon pink appendix. In a romantic mise en scène, Diane Dwyer’s airy brush strokes and diagonal lines are parts and pieces; hair blowing in the breeze, elbows and knees, a languid wave, while Amy Talluto’s graceful composites are a landscape of anatomy, all sinew and bone. Finally, in Leah Tacha’s mystical sculptures I see myself in caricature, decorated and dressed, ready for battle.

Diane Dwyer
Treasure Island
Acrylic and oil on canvas, wood, 16.5X17 inches
$1,200

Amy Talluto
The Visitation, 2020
Gouche collage on paper, 10.25X10.75, framed
$900

Agnes Barley
Constructed Waves, 2020
Acrylic on paper
44X30 inches
$4,800 unframed, $950 + frame

Katie Merz
Gouche on paper, 10X12, framed
$2,500

Michael Scott
Tree, 2020
Enamel on Aluminum, 16x16 in
$7,500

Beth Humphrey
Untitled, 2020
Paper collage, 12X12 in, framed
$500

Melissa Dadourian
Flashe, 2020
Paper, fabric
24X23 inches
$2,300

Diane Dwyer
Linen Square (half green)
Acrylic and oil on canvas, wood, 16.5X17 inches
$1,200

Beth Humphrey
Painted ceramic, 6X8 inches
$150

Michael Scott
Circle Paintings, 2020
Enamel on Aluminum Panel, 12x12 in
$6,500 each

Liz Collins
Ball & Chain, 2015/2019
Acrylic, canvas, and rayon
36X24 inches, Circle canvas 16 inch diameter, yarn measures 56 inches from canvas to canvas
$7,000

Diane Dwyer
Linen Cup
Acrylic on canvas, wood, 16.5X17 inches
$1,200

Leah Tacha
Polka Dot Vase, 2019
Ceramic with screen-printed underglaze and digital decals
161/2X81/4X 51/4 inches
$1,500

Amy Talluto
The Blue Heir, 2020
Gouche, oil collage on paper, 7X8, framed
$800

Melissa Dadourian
Red Vessel, 2019
Ceramic, approx.1 ft X 8 inches
$1,500

Diane Dwyer
Temple Sleep
Oil on linen, 14X18 inches
$1,600
We are all bound, frequently enamored, by our attachment to the corporeal, whether our own bodies or those of our loves. What these artists bequeath to us in their works is the tactile materiality of that attachment in glorious form.