Into the Light
A group exhibit of 11 gallery artists
January 29 – March 13, 2022
Exhibit Opens – Saturday, January 29, 11am
Donald Saaf, Island, mixed media on canvas, 2018
Mitchell Giddings • Fine Arts is pleased to offer Into the Light,
celebrating a curated group of 11 gallery artists in a variety of media.
This uplifting show will intrigue your senses and delight your imagination with it’s diverse range.
Featuring work by:
David Brewster, Bruce Campbell, Jim Giddings,
Petria Mitchell, Rocio Olguin, Chuck Olson,
Torin Porter, David Rohn, Donald Saaf,
James Urbaska, and Julia Zanes
David Brewster
Light Upon My Brow, 2021
oil on Crescent Board
40h x 32 inches
$6500
“My interpretations of urban centers, suburbia and farmlands are not as we remember them — not sentimental imitations, but as they are, hybrids of historic architecture and modern amenities of late-stage capitalism.”
Bruce Campbell
Finding Polaris, 2022
steel and brass mounted on purpleheart wood base
15h x 9 x 7 inches
sold
“This piece is about the star explorers have used for centuries to find true north. It is in the tail of the Little Dipper or, Ursa Minor, and is comprised of 30 stars of which the 7 brightest form the Dipper. But 4 stars have revolving planets. My piece tries to cast light on the importance of finding this star as a directional aid and can also be interpreted as our own quest to find our own guiding star in this life.“
Jim Giddings
Overflow with Numbers, 2007
oil, oil paintstick and graphite on paper
29h x 21 inches
$3400
“When I begin a painting I have no idea what will develop. My ideas change throughout the process; the process changes my ideas.”
Petria Mitchell
Caught Wandering, 2022
oil on canvas
24h x 30 inches
$5500
“In choosing to embrace opportunity, I create space for something spontaneous or unexpected to emerge.”
Torin Porter
Time Line, 2022
steel
2.5h x 4 x 4 inches
$600
“I think of each sculpture as a kind of tool or toy for creating a dialogue within the viewer.”
Chuck Olson
Red Boot Red, 2021
acrylic/collage on panel
24h x 18 inches
$1750
“As an American painter educated within the last quarter of the 20th century, the powerful example of Abstract Expressionism, which marked the self defining American break with European modernism, pulled me into its energy and provided me with a way of seeing with which to respond to my experience.”
David Rohn
Fruit, Book, Cup of Water, 2022
watercolor
30h x 42 inches
$8000
“Supervising a puddle takes all of your attention.”
Rocio Olguin
Bird Series 2, No. XI, 2019
mixed media
18h x 39.5 inches
$1700
“Living in Oaxaca has helped me to break not only with the academic guidelines regarding art, but also with a system of personal beliefs that do not allow me an authentic expression of myself.”
Donald Saaf
The People’s Building, 2018
mixed media on canvas
36h x 46 inches
$4800
“My subject matter draws from the local experience of community, family and immediate surroundings as well as an internal dream place. Although some of the imagery is very personal, I am always striving for the universal.”
Julia Zanes
Red House with Yellow Flowers, 2018
mixed media on panel
40h x 36 inches
$5400
“I want my paintings to do something that is neither intellectual nor aesthetic, primarily—I want something practical, personal, and apotropaic, like ancient Ethiopian scrolls.”
James Urbaska
Fall Pond, 2020
oil on linen
40h x 60 inches
$12,000
“When asked to write an artist statement, I think of a quote by Carmen Herrera, ‘Paintings speak for themselves.’
That sums it all up. What more, really, needs to be said?”
MGFA offers an extensive collection of contemporary art in a variety of media by emerging and established artists. Visit our spacious sunlit gallery on Main Street Brattleboro or view and shop online.