Past Exhibitions: Peter Paul Luce Gallery
Tart Cherry, Emma Beatrez
Oct. 27-Dec. 20, 2023
Drawing on a range of influences including psychoanalysis, contemporary fashion, and human belief systems, Beatrez’s work involves ritual, the recontextualization of materials, and aspects of the body. Her recent paintings and multimedia installations explore core psychoanalytic notions of the symbolic and the real, and the emergence of new meanings through distortion of established iconography. By manipulating the physical data of the gallery with lighting, scent, display, and other interdisciplinary processes, Beatrez hopes to encourage transference of unconscious associations in the viewer.
Echoes and Undercurrents: A Retrospective, Susan M. Coleman
Sept. 1-Oct. 15, 2023
In her retrospective, the former Cornell gallery coordinator and longtime lecturer will show a collection of pastels, collages, drawings, and oil paintings made over the last 35 years. Coleman imbues her landscapes with an awareness of nature as a living presence, embodying source and refuge.
Proximity, Cynthia Grieg
Jan. 27-March. 24, 2023
In “Proximity,” Greig uses photography and video to explore themes of life and death while focusing on how the passage of time between the two has the potential to reveal more than what first meets the eye. “Rendering the poetic rhythms and fleeting forms of a breath exhaled, or reconfiguring the ghostly vestiges of whitewashed still-life arrangements as three-dimensional drawings, my work reduces representation to its most minimal as a way to give visibility to the otherwise unseen or unnoticed,” Greig said. Greig uses different forms of mark-making with photography and video along with 3D work to explore themes of human connection, mortality, and the shifting nature of perception. Produced before the global pandemic, the work took on added significance as forced isolation and political turmoil increased our awareness of the uncertainty of the future.