Hope Springs Eternal

Hope Springs Eternal was a show created around the feeling of joy these paintings elicit. These works are bright, energetic, and ebullient on the gallery walls. Over and over again, I have described this show using the word “joy”, like the type of joy in the spring after a long winter, like the type of joy we are beginning to experience seeing the hopeful end of the pandemic and isolation.

When I begin to curate a show, I ask myself, “Why these artists? Why these works?” and there’s no question that the answer was color and joy for Hope Springs Eternal. Throughout the show you will see works by Angie Barker, Katie Craig, and Ettavee.

Angie Barker is a new artist for our gallery and she hails from Greensboro, N.C. Her current series, The Molecular Series, is to create tangible representations of living energy that makes us all who we are. Each work is a visual meditation of how her body functions and reacts.The quote by Carl Sagan, “We are made of “star-stuff,” made her think of the chemical elements that make us who we are and how the same elements can be found amongst stars. She explores that small part of human molecular anatomy and give is a technicolor, abstract representation.

Katie Craig has been a popular artist at our gallery for sometime. Our clients are always drawn to her beautiful mastery of color and the outgoing energy throughout each piece. From her home studio in Dallas, TX, Katie says of her work “I am attracted to maximalism. An extension of my mind, getting it out brings me peace. Stripes, dots, lines and strokes; beautifully busy art. Seeing it on canvas makes much more sense than when it is bouncing around in my mind.”

We are proud to be the only gallery in the United States who carries the work of Ettavee. Also known as Jessi, she is an American living with her family in Strausbourg, France. You can find her work all over her incredibly popular instagram account and even in the card aisle at Target currently. Jessi calls herself a “joymaker” and she is drawn to the colors and energy that she finds while walking down the winding streets of her small French village.

I am so proud to carry work by these incredible artists and have their stunning artwork grace our walls. The show is, you guessed it, a joy, and I have loved working beside it this last week.