Seemingly Unrelated: Paintings By The Saline Painters Guild

When

Tuesday December 2, 2014: 10:05am to Wednesday January 14, 2015: 9:00am

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room Exhibit

Description

Like myths from opposing cultures, the different approaches by the twenty artists in The Saline Painters Guild Exhibit fit their theme of “seemingly unrelated” to a “T”. The paintings in this exhibit include abstracts, landscapes, patterns, still life and portraits executed in oil, acrylic or watercolor on canvas, paper, Yupo and cloth.

When seen for the first time, the paintings do seem entirely unrelated. But when we look beneath the surface we find the connections: they tickle our memories of landscapes we’ve seen before, floral gatherings in a still life and games we might have played on a beach somewhere. Like the signature myths of widely separated cultures, the principle details of these paintings have relationships of which we are hardly aware, until we pause to view the world through the artists’ eyes.