These exhibitions will be on view from August 13 through September 24, 2021 at 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City, UT. Gallery hours are 9:30am-8:30pm Tuesdays, 9:30am-5pm Wednesdays & Thursdays. There will be an artist reception on Friday August 20, 6-9pm, open to the public with no RSVP required. Masks required.

Annelise Duque & Gwen Davis-Barrios

Homes and Graves and Gardens

Through photographs and oil paintings, these artists use gardens as a metaphor. Gardens present a of tension between wildness and control, and the implication of a gardener or curator. The artists create a place that is in-between realities—a place where they are able to explore alternative universes and a connection to those who have passed on. Duque’s work draws on her Filipino-American heritage. Davis-Barrios explores the nighttime and the multitude of possibilities it presents.

Doug Wildfoerster

CASSANDRA NEVER REALLY DID COME BACK FROM MEXICO—Or, Painting the Stanislavski Way

Wildfoerster’s watercolor paintings are theatrical in nature. His paintings constitute a notebook of ideas—characters, settings, moods, impulses—for an improvised play. Each painting appears like a collage of past encounters meshed into a vibrant dream.