Ember's endless shifting landscape paintings take viewers on a journey
Small Gestures of Repair | Artists Respond to 2020April 21 - May 30, 2021
Curator Helen Molesworth, in a recent online talk, described the work of Zoe Leonard as evidence of “art’s small gestures of repair.” During times of conflict and challenge, art and artists can play a particular role in facilitating conversations and healing.
Small Gestures of Repair, a juried exhibition featuring the work of twenty-three artists from across the United States (and one from Austria), reflects the challenges of Year 2020-- a time of global pandemic, ecological disaster, racial unrest, economic crisis, and political contention. The statements of the artists themselves bear witness to the times as they record the living hardships of what it is to be human in a time of dis-ease and frayed edges.
Juror, Joyce Harlow, referenced the very real tension she found evident in the varied pieces in this show--the tension between loneliness, isolation, despair, and fragility on one hand, balanced against the need for expressions of beauty, hope, connection, and “control of the broken pieces” on the other. The works in Small Gestures of Repair explore many layers of obscured reality, find beauty in imperfections, combine the grotesque with the whimsical, utilize old materials in new ways, take deliberate refuge in meditative practices, and find reparation in, as exhibition artist, Dale Hartley states, “go[ing] forward instead of stumbling to a stop.”
“We always carry with us our storage or travel bags,” notes artist, Becky Hyberger. What the viewer of this exhibit finds at the end of 2020’s long journey is a sense of catharsis and more than one gesture of repair embedded in this honest and unfiltered art.
https://www.salinaartcenter.org/small-gestures
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Matryoshka Tattoo (918 N Kansas): “A Journey Home, a Roaming House”
series by Joey Embers, tells a story of growth, discovery, and the overwhelming emotions of self-worth. These works stem from the internal process of reflecting on life, examining who he is and giving himself permission to look inward. The artist’s goal is to eliminate the invasive nature of time. These houses are stuck in the forever moving landscapes of emotions. What happens when we hit pause? What happens when we take back time? Joey is able to live inside each moment and mark each moment with the creative process putting together the puzzle pieces of his art. This series maps his journey home, finding his voice through the fluid language of paint and color. Regular hours are Tues-Sat from 10a-8p. FFAW 10a-9p. Find us on Instagram @matryoshkatattoo.
series by Joey Embers, tells a story of growth, discovery, and the overwhelming emotions of self-worth. These works stem from the internal process of reflecting on life, examining who he is and giving himself permission to look inward. The artist’s goal is to eliminate the invasive nature of time. These houses are stuck in the forever moving landscapes of emotions. What happens when we hit pause? What happens when we take back time? Joey is able to live inside each moment and mark each moment with the creative process putting together the puzzle pieces of his art. This series maps his journey home, finding his voice through the fluid language of paint and color. Regular hours are Tues-Sat from 10a-8p. FFAW 10a-9p. Find us on Instagram @matryoshkatattoo.
Muppet Central News Four Fish Fly Free with the help of Joey Embers
I've been working for the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library since 2008 as a System and Network Administrator. Having a world class art gallery, the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery an arms reach away from me has given a great deal of inspiration. In 2016 I had the great opportunity to participate in a Roy G Biv exhibit. Along with displaying one of my paintings in the show I also gave a demonstration of mixing colors to a group of customers.