May events

Flourish, a group exhibit, opened today at Robischon Gallery, featuring ten abstract artists. Primarily paintings as well as sculpture by Brad Miller, and installation by Katy Stone, the work is sensual, composed of rich candy colors, sparkling synthetic material (in the case of Stone), and delicate though daring formal composition. The title of the exhibit which connotes perhaps a sense of the lush and brilliant not only presents work that lives up to the suggestion, but artist’s whose technique demonstrates that sparseness can be just as ornamental as intricacy.

Marina Graves’ new exhibit is now open at The Northstar Brewery and Pub, featuring a series of landscape photographs. As a project that examines the intersections of urban construction with the natural world that determines how we build our cityscapes, Graves’ pieces are refreshingly non-judgmental and seem to invoke the artistic eye that traces and captures instead of critiques. Graves also has the keen sense of how shadow and light (momentary conditions, it should be added) can play-up the drama of organic geometry meeting human vision.