Controlled Chance

Upper Gallery
By appointment only

Exhibition Catalogue

"It is often said that Gilliam’s painting style is inspired by jazz... Colors blended, interpenetrated, and formed expressive, abstract worlds of color that were beyond the artist’s control, despite the regulated production process."
Ann Mbuti

"I think that lack of control helps to open up this whole way of working, where it’s much more about pooling and letting the alchemical aspects of the paint happen. It’s about directing but not really enforcing what happens."
Jackie Saccoccio

"At times, [Saito's] brushwork is controlled, deliberate... at others, he trusted the pigment to go where it wanted. Animated by this accumulation of painterly incident, incongruous tones and textures, variations of line, the surface takes on a life of its own."
Rachel Wetzler

"Norman Lewis... traveled to Greece in 1973; the canvases that ensued were based on a view of a mountain from his hotel room that Lewis drew every day. ‘Actually, I saw the contour of that mountain change, just from the sun,’ he remembered. ‘At night the damn thing disappeared, but I knew it was out there.'"
Ann Eden Gibson

"I follow the materials and my instinct... When I am working I am in a deep unknowing. It's the best part of making art—that silencing of all thinking except the feeling of form and materials and making contact with some other force."
Beverly Pepper

"I did not correct my movements; if they were false, I had to leave them false because I felt that the thinner I paint, the less I can lie... How can one direct spontaneity? One can only rely on the truth of the moment."
Friedel Dzubas

Beverly Pepper: Legno

Garden Cabin
By appointment only

Exhibition Catalogue

Our exhibition highlights two important Beverly Pepper works from the 1960s, which are among her earliest sculptures, as well as her later use of wood in her totemic plazas and Messengers from the 1980s.

"I was very lucky to see [Angkor Wat] in an incredible state. And I was haunted by it. When I got back to Rome... there were about 30-some-odd trees that had been cut down on the property... I started cutting up the trees. And the result of those cut-up trees was that I had my first show."
Beverly Pepper

Christina Nicodema: Extra Special

Lower Gallery
By appointment only

Exhibition Catalogue

"At once hyper-realistic and utterly impossible, the works are oddly mesmerizing."
Artnet,
"Here Are 7 Artists You Might Not Know, But Should"

"It's a moment of peak perfection or celebration. The exhibition title Extra Special refers to how we all want to feel this specialness or uniqueness... Everyone wants their moment."
Christina Nicodema

"[The cakes] possess memories of the past, of societal structures or family structures. I’m thinking about how those things fade and degrade and transform over time."
Christina Nicodema

Mike Ousley: It’s Mighty Dark to Travel

The Cabin
By appointment only

Exhibition Catalogue

"It's mighty dark for me to travel / For my sweetheart she is gone / The road is rough and filled with gravel / But I must journey on and on."
Bill Monroe

“I decided I wanted to take my painting back to the way I created images as a child, inspired by the visionary art of Kentucky and other Southern Folk artists... The storytelling traditions of Appalachia are a powerful influence. ”

Mike Ousley