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Other BIG NEWS: I am happy to announce I am now represented by Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
UPCOMING SHOWS
Fire, Water and UFOs
Group Show
V Gallery
Omena, MI
Opening: Saturday, June 28, 2025
5-7pm
Snake Around the Lake Studio Tour
Local studio tour in Arcadia & Onekama, MI
Saturday & Sunday, July 5 & 6, 2025
11am - 4pm
Solo Show (title TBA)
Meyer Vogl Gallery
Charleston, SC
Opening: Friday, March 6, 2026
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Inside in Winter
Amanda Acker, Sally Maca, & Melanie Parke
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
7 December 2024 - 26 January 2025
THE STILL LIFES
Light is the main character in my work. Or maybe it is air. I walk in twighlight to observe the moon, the stars. In daylight, to watch the sun in the sky and the little things below.
Composing a still life with the obvious identifiers - a bouquet, a bowl of fruit - what I want to give my viewer is a feeling of chasing light. I’m curious how light effects can make a chimera of things - a mutation - as if lifting the weight out of what is knowable.
Cezanne’s idea of passing through objects is something I think about a lot. Even when the entire plane of one of my paintings is engaged in pattern, I’m going for a sense of never-ending transparencies, passing through walls and hard surfaces, to keep the eye going, passing to the other side of a thing. To keep looking.
I reconstruct interiors and garden motifs through ideology and memory. Collecting imagery representative of care, tenderness, nostalgia, I am interested in a practice of attentive observation. An affection for slowness.
Windows and doors give structure to the ephemeral. At the edge of these portals are sometimes offerings, material objects that appear close at hand, seen and touched with the imagination. Tracing the gestures made by other artists in a familiar postcard, ceramic or sculpture, these are a nod to the conversations that go on between artists. What was once ephemeral has solidity in our remembering. We keep talking to artist friends and mentors through all the years of literature and art history.
Flowers, which embody brevity, generosity, sentiment, center most of my work. The presence of birds suggests curiosity and wonder, sometimes allegories of fragility, sometimes euphoria. I’m looking for visual lushness. Contemplation. Sensations of consolation, longing and desire.