Allois
The Song of the Innocence & the Experience
based on short story “The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury)
2023, oil on wood, 48” x 48”
$16,000
The painting is based on the story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury.
One of the most fascinating and at the same time petrifying stories, it creates an environment of suspense that thrills the reader into paying attention and makes the story terrifyingly memorable.
Originally appearing as "The World the Children Made" in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.
The painting finds Wendy and Peter at the next stage of their journey. The world of the Adults has been dealt with. They are finally Free. Two lions lie next to them. All the main characters have been united in the Veld, where the Sun and the Moon aligned in one Face. They are singing the Song of the Innocence and the Experience.
Catherine Bennaton
Fahrenheit 451
(original title by Ray Bradbury)
2006 24”x18” oil on linen
$1200.00
This painting illustrates our social environment today with the desire of some to censor ideas and rewrite history. Many scientific and historic thoughts are being questioned out of fear and religious fervor. Fahrenheit 451 is decades old but still pertinent to the conversations happening today.
The painting depicts an actual book burning. A fire consumes the books knowledge and displays intolerance of the ideas held within them. The elephant is the political right who wants to forget, but ironically also the symbol of a perfect memory. The roman soldier seeks to dominate empires and control thoughts of the people he conquers, while the religious figure yearns to have the predominating faith to influence the most people. The woman stands aghast while the man looks on in bewilderment.
Bill Leigh Brewer
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(Original Title by Douglas Adams)
12:34 am. Bristol Dry Lake. July 2, 2021
Photograph on Archival pigment on paper
Image size: 24x20 inches / Framed size: 32x29 inches
$1200 unframed $1500 framed
Quotation House #2. Sarcobatus Flat, Nevada. July 12, 2023 Photograph on Archival pigment on paper
Image size: 27x20 inches / Framed size: 35x29 inches
$1200 unframed $1500 framed
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(Original Title by Douglas Adams)
The impulse behind both of these images is the same: to create magic from these derelict buildings. In both cases I “intervened” by adding lights to the interiors of the buildings. The result is pictures that are about light, and, with the Milky Way (our galaxy) in the sky, they are also about space.The series,
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is sometimes referred to as a trilogy in five parts. It follows the misadventures of Arthur Dent, a hapless Englishman, following the destruction of the Earth. We discover that the Universe is in the safe hands of a simple man living on a remote planet in a wooden shack with his cat.
Wini Brewer
The Secret Life of Stars
(original Title by Lisa Harvey-Smith)
Acrylic/Collage
19"x19" cradled wood
$850
The Secret Life of Stars II
(original Title by Lisa Harvey-Smith)
Acrylic/Collage
19"x19" cradled wood
$850
Trevor Bryant
The Universe in a Nutshell
(Original Title by Stephen Hawking)
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Etching Paper with paper collage, colored pencil and ink
Image size: 14x19 inches / Framed size: 19x25 inches
$1000
Stephen Hawking’s book title “The Universe in a Nutshell” conjures up an image that requires illustration. The obvious is a nutshell; the profound, a James Webb view of the universe; the journey, searching for meaning in chaos.
Stephen Hawking looked at the Universe through the lens of physics, a mathematical puzzle to be solved. I see the universe as a moment in time, inside and outside the nutshell. We are all hurtling through life, seeking other worlds, but seldom stopping long enough to see a tree grow.
S.P. Harper
The Diamond Age
(original title by Neal Stephenson)
Geometric Reflections
Repurposed glass, plastic and wood.
377 Karat Polyhedron - 9 x 9 x 9 inches - $225
6,765 Karat Icosahedron - 12 x 12 x 12 inches -$350
987 Karat Ruby - 9 x 7 x 7 inches - $200
S. P. Harper focuses on the intersection of rubbish and objects d’art. Inspired by her diamantaire (diamond cutter) grandfather, she constructs abstract geometrics using reclaimed materials. Through reforming and re-employing materials, the work reduces, reuses and up-cycles. In utilizing Skilsaw, Table and Jigsaw she creates a form in which to design recycled plastic, glass and Mardi Gras beads. They are chosen to represent a gem’s brilliance, fire and luster. What begins as refuse is repurposed by transforming base materials into noble objects.
Sea of Tranquility
(original title by Emily St. John Mandel)
‘Angi’ Jewel in the Crown, The Raj Quartet
Oil and acrylic on Bollywood poster, 16 x 16 inches
$350
Part of eco-centric art and inspired by her diamantaire (diamond cutter) grandfather, S. P. Harper paints abstract geometrics using reclaimed material. By synthesizing historical and contemporary styles she combines the classical tradition of still-life painting with modernism. Through reforming and re-employing materials, the work reduces, reuses and up-cycles. Recovered background patterns disappear behind opaque paint and reappear through transparent washes. Gods of fire have been chosen to represent gem stones.
Aaron Kramer
Frankenstein
(original Title by Mary Shelley)
Vintage box, doll parts, toys, wire, lasercut wood - 14”x6”x11”h
$1800
I investigate creating life from inanimate objects and the repercussions of animating found objects. @artist_wrangler asked me to participate in this show and I knew immediately that I wanted to incorporate some doll furniture that she had left by the dumpster. The disembodied hands play on her piano while the crib rocks itself revealing doll heads that open and close their eyes. Under the watchful gaze of the abomination that is a clown headed figure crafted from disparate parts. A shaft inside rotates cams that lift levers attached to wires that move the characters in this mechanical tableaux.
Nancy Larrew-Curator
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
(original title by Phillip K. Dick)
16” x 12” x 2”
acrylic paint, clay, plaster, artificial grass
on wood panel
$600
Baron Margo
Anne Jennings Paris
Galaxy Girls
(original Title by Libby Jackson)
10" x 10" acrylic on board
$1,500
I have been experimenting with Artificial Intelligence as a collaborator to my artistic process. I had noticed that, when asked to generate an image of a woman, AI almost always generates women who are white, thin, and normatively attractive. "Galaxy Girls" began by asking Midjourney (an AI application) to generate an image of three women of different sizes--the software failed spectacularly, but after a while, I was able to force it to generate three women who were all what would be considered plus-sized. Once I had these three powerful looking women, I realized I wanted to see them in different roles that society wouldn't normally embrace due to their size. I generated them in swimsuits and then spacesuits, and I asked AI to apply artistic styles that were reminiscent of modernism to their swimsuits and spacesuits. In order to create the final image, I collaged several AI images together manually to include the faces, spacesuits, and backgrounds that were most compelling to me, then used that collage as reference material for the resulting acrylic painting.
Kindred
(original Title by Octavia E. Butler)
10" x 10" acrylic on board
$1,050
About this painting: I have been experimenting with Artificial Intelligence as a collaborator to my artistic process. "Kindred" began by asking Midjourney (an AI application) to generate an image in response to a dream I had, in which a poet read a line from a poem stating that, "I am a pattern of what was in my mother." The software created many beautiful female images, but all were white women (much has been written about AI's inherent racial biases). I worked on prompting the AI to generate images of women of color, which dramatically shifted the output toward somber imagery. I kept pushing the AI toward more joyful and colorful ideas with altered prompts and nudges in the right direction, finally resulting in some incredible images very similar to the one you see in the painting "Kindred." In order to create the final image, I collaged several AI images together manually to include the details I found most interesting, then used that collage as reference material for an acrylic painting, which of course morphed into its own identity with its own details as the work progressed.
Cesare Safieh
Cosmos
(original Title by Carl Sagan)
Acrylic with Mixed Media on Canvas
30" x 40" x 2"
$3,550
During Covid the world seemed to contract, and the feeling of space seemed lost.
The piece is representative of how the virus of Covid seemed to expand taking over every part of our Universe.
Frank Schlegel
Cory Sewelson
The Space Between Worlds
(original title by Micaiah Johnson)
2018
20 x 16”
acrylic, oil on masonite panel
$1100
When I retired from work a few years ago, I did this painting as a self-portrait. I’ve always considered myself to be an artist in the sense that that is how I primarily engage with the world. Of course, I also had some identification with my working self and all that goes with those obligations. This piece and its title are my way of sorting through this transition.
“North Star”
2023
20 x 16”
acrylic, oil on masonite panel
$1100
I had recently seen the Philip Glass opera, “Circus Days and Nights,” which looks at the circus as metaphor of life. In this painting, I’m interested in the dichotomies that are revealed - performer and audience, nature and man-made, authentic and manipulated. Most of my paintings suggest a narrative through metaphor rather than construct a singular specific story.
Theodore Svenningsen
Strangers In A Strange Land
(original title by Robert A. Heinlein)
Acrylic on Canvas
40" x 30"
$5000
I found myself in a strange land full of structures that were in some manner, primitive.
I was with others, we were all mystified by these, we couldn’t determine their purpose.
Presently, as night fell, we came upon a glowing tower of blue light, and all around us became a phosphorescent blue.