BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, IT'S THE 

5TH ANNUAL MINIATURE SHOW! 

Give the special gift of art to your friends and family or add to your personal collection. This year, "the Mini Show" features 35+ artists who created original works and exquisite handmade pottery and jewelry. This your chance to collect artwork from your favorite local artist and check work from first-time Gallery Flux contributors. 

We would love to see you at our Opening Reception! Please mark your calendars for December 1st and join us from 5:30-8 PM as we kick-off the "Mini" show and celebrate the holiday season! The show will run through the end of December, but don't miss your chance to get first dibs on your favorite artwork! 

Featured Artists:

Joseph Burrough, David Camden, Amy H R Donahue, Alice Anne Ellis, Louise Ellis, Jenna Guthrie, Elaine Hahn, Kim Hall, Linda Hollett-Bazouzi, Sue Jachimiec, Kelly Johnston, Stephanie Joyce, Elizabeth Kinahan, Emma Knight, Brett LaGue, Dan Michael, Jeanne Minnix, Suzanne G. Morris, Meredith Spencer Mullins, Bonnie Nelms, Mary Pedini, Christopher S. Phillips, Estelle Porter, Lorelle Rau, Lynda Ray, Maria Reardon, Helene Roberts, Mary Shira, Renee W. Stramel, Mel Titus, Kathleen Walsh, Kathleen Willingham, Deborah Weiss, Dennis Winston, Kenneth Winter, & Jennifer Young

"Christmas is the spirit of giving without a though of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values." 

Thomas S. Monson

Artist Spotlight 

Susan Newbold 

Susan Newbold's painting and prints are her response to nature as a metaphor for life's Organic flow. Through a vocabulary both representational and abstract, she illustrates the vibrant path of valleys, oceans, fields, and rocks. Mark making celebrates the repetition of life process, while line and color invite the view into its variety. In combing monoprints with drawing, painting and other mixed media, she signals the infinite design of the natural landscape. Her intentions to render the joy of creation through the spirit of these elements. 

The Artist received a BA in studio Art from Principia College and a MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College. Her final project, an artist book, was acquired by the Chicago Institute of Art. She is also a graduate of the Post Bac Program of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. She has been awarded four fellowships to work in France by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MD Institute of Art. Additional residencies have been at the New Pacific Studios in New Zealand and the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, ME. 

"The Flow of life wit its many complex passages is my concern. Obstacles, openings, beginnings, endings, detours, and rapids are some of the aspects of the movement which I strive to depict. My vocabulary to express this life journey is mark making with ink, graphite, paint, printmaking and collage. This process causes me to be both obsessive and free/gestural (not unlike to practice of yoga) and the final results always cathartic."

-Susan Newbold 

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Artist Spotlight 

Heidi Lewis Coleman 

Heidi Lewis Coleman is an abstract artist whose work reflects an ongoing exploration into the aesthetics of using language in art.  While most conceptual artists incorporate text into their work as a means of analyzing popular culture or for making political and social commentary, Coleman’s work focuses on developing text as a visual design element.  

The artist creates mixed media pieces and steel sculpture which incorporate her own automatic, abstract writing.  Originally, her invented languages were painted on paper, cut out and then applied to a painted canvas.  As the work has evolved,  Coleman has continued to develop new characters by deconstructing and reconstructing her original text, creating languages which are visually richer and more complex.  More recently, She has extended this process by incorporating “Mandalas” into her art, circular forms which were originally used by the Hindus and Buddhists as focal points for meditation.

Coleman studied art at Parsons and the New York School of Design in New York City.  She is a juried member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Women’s Caucus for Art and the Silvermine Guild of Artists.  Coleman is an award winning artist who has exhibited widely in galleries and museums across the country.

"My work reflects an ongoing exploration into the aesthetics of using language in art. While most conceptual artists incorporate text into their work as a means of analyzing popular culture or for making political and social commentary, I am more intrigued with developing text as a visual design element. I am particularly inspired by Asian art and have studied the intricate calligraphy used to decorate ancient scrolls and screens. The columns of simple, yet elegant characters may express specific meanings, but a viewer is not required to understand that meaning in order to appreciate the grace and integrity of the artwork.

I create mixed media pieces and steel sculptures which incorporate my own automatic, abstract writing. Originally, my invented languages were painted on paper, cut out and then applied to a painted canvas. As the work has evolved, I’ve continued to develop new characters by deconstructing and reconstructing my original text, creating languages which are visually richer and more complex. More recently, I have extended this process by incorporating “Mandalas” into my art, circular forms which were originally used by the Hindus and Buddhists as focal points for meditation.

For me, the languages have an ancient, almost mystical quality. I believe that because my artwork communicates in the abstract, individual viewers are not forced to translate it specifically, allowing them to connect with the energy of each piece in ways that are personal and unique."

-Heidi Lewis Coleman 

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