Future Exhibits
Jaana Erkkilä-Hill : Encountering the Invisible
February 13- April 16, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 13th, 7:00-8:30 pm
Artist talk beginning at 7:20 pm
Jaana Erkkilä-Hill creates artwork that reflects the spiritual and religious experiences of life, looking beyond culture, time, and circumstance to try to access a deeply-felt and experienced connection to the spiritual. She sees her creative practice as a means to ask questions, philosophically examining what is seen and unseen. Drawing from art history, nature, and society, Erkkilä-Hill combines the everyday and the sacred, the visible and the invisible world in search of what lies at the core.
Jaana Erkkilä-Hill is a visual artist, researcher and professor of visual arts at the University of Lapland in Finland. In her more than thirty years of artistic practice she has focused on printmaking including both woodcuts and linocuts, mastering the process of layering color and imagery. In recent years her academic research has focused on artist pedagogy.
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Eeva Honkanen: Humus (taking over)
April 24 – June 4, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 24th, 7-8:30 pm
Artist Talk beginning at 7:20 pm
Imaginative, fantastical and transformative, Eeva Honkanen’s large-scale ink drawings capture a landscape bursting with life. Insects, butterflies, tiny creatures that resemble human beings populate her surreal world in a swirling, complex and constantly changing vision of life. Absent is the hierarchical order that places human beings at the apex. Honkanen’s drawings emphasize the unity of life, diversity and the continuum of time.
Emerging through free association, Honkanen’s drawings burst with contradictory elements and exaggerated forms. Under the seemingly chaotic surface of her work lies a deep interest in the essence of human nature. It is in her imagination that Honkanen grapples with the relationship between humans, animals, and the environment. Her eccentric vision is a merciless critique of the modern world, often accompanied by a touch of humor.
