FEATURE AREA & WINDOW DISPLAY

The Feature Area is new to the Guardino Gallery. Situated in the front area where the frame shop used to be, the new Feature Area will host "Mini-shows" on a changing monthly basis. We will also be scheduling the Window as a showing area and a place for installations.

August 30-September 23

	SHOWING THE FEATURE GALLERY Una Kim’s exposure to Chinese and Korean art while growing up in Korea gave her an appreciation of the aesthetics of Asian painting, calligraphy, and the powerful interrelationships between word and image. Kim’s recent works explore text, pattern, paint and the tension between reading a text for meaning and looking at its visual form. In her recent "Immigrant Series," she uses simple shapes to bring balance between flat geometric shapes and elements of the nature. She uses patterns as a way to find a central place of personal power and meaning in the midst of conflicting powers and cultures, east and west, female and male, native and an immigrant, parent and a child. Pictured Left: "Do Re Mi" oil painting
	ALSO SHOWING IN THE FEATURE AREA Kurumi Conley is a glass artist who has developed her own vocabulary combining flame-work, kiln-forming and cold-working techniques. Kurumi grew up in Kyoto, Japan and got her start in glasswork at her school, the Joshibi University of Art and Design in Japan. She found herself attracted to the transparent characteristics of glass, the colors, and the illusion of liquidity inherent in the material. Her environment inspires her work. “The nature that surrounds me and keeps changing throughout the seasons fascinates me. The unoccupied chair symbolizes a feeling, representing the existence of a human who is not there to sit - and in that absence, the quiet, endless flow of time.”IN THE WINDOW & FEATURE AREA Pictured left: "Leaf Chair" kiln formed glass
	SHOWING IN THE WINDOW GALLERY Richard Schemmerer will be creating a special installation for the Guardino Window Gallery. The title for his theme is “Art as a Game.” To quote Schemmerer “We live in a visual realm that is filled with symbols and their associations. This exhibit is a playful attempt to tease those associations out of their prefixed context and serve them up in new variations which overlap with the subliminal.” To Richard a game is a term for an artistic expression, a term that cannot be framed by limiting thought but is like art, a creative expression of ones skills in an ever-changing process. A game is a time out from ordinary activity like work. And so is Art, a time out from ordinary thinking. Both open a portal into an imaginary world. Pictured Left: " The Secret" mixed media