During the weekend of September 15th-17th, 2023, Brush Creek Art Walk celebrated it’s 12th Anniversary with a 3‑day weekend of Outdoor Painting. Over 47 registered artists participated in the weekend event with all three of our $500 (sponsored) Quick Paint Events offering Purchase Awards. The resulting 72+ original painting submissions are currently on display at 1608 Locust Gallery, Lexitas Legal Services in the Crossroads through February. More info on BCAW2023 at BCAW2023 (click bars) (bcawfoundation.org)

POLYCHROME RIFT is a solo exhibition featuring artist Barry Anderson. These newest works are an off shoot of his ongoing series Fragments of Space. Anderson uses 3D rendering and animation to create pictorial images of “fabricated, non-utilitarian architectural space that exist in a balance of openness and claustrophobia”. Please join us for the opening February 2, 6 – 8 pm here at SLCA gallery.

Ky Anderson’s paintings and works on paper are light filled, abstract color harmonies. Compositions echo architecture, sculpture and the figure and read as poetry not prose.

Andy Ryan’s abstract watercolors contain both absurdist humor and references to mysticism and spirituality. In his paintings, surreal landscapes, ghostly figures, and botanical forms emerge from overlapping shapes and gradient color-fields. His work draws from a variety of influences, from modernism to folk art, comics, craft and design. Ryan’s undulating forms are built with colorful layers of paint, each varying in density, creating movement and visual symmetry within each piece.

Sun Smith-Foret, often associated with massive sculptures, socio-political quilts, and intricate knotted sculpture nests, has taken a turn towards painting. This February we are set to showcase her new paintings. Smith-Foret describes them as- “The paintings are semi-abstract, featuring nature-derived content inspired by my current location immediately adjacent to the Mississippi River in rural Illinois. Still life observation provides another opportunity to delve into strategies of geometry, spatial and value interactions, and altered perspectives on 2D surfaces.