New work from Robert St. John and Mike Herburger with Laurent Tschumy in the North Gallery May 27 - June 20, 2021

Robert St. John works with a variety of media, including linocuts, inkjet prints, and cardboard constructions, in combination with found objects, with the goal of reducing the boundaries between discrete art objects. His artwork examines the ways in which aesthetic or formal decisions are connected to, or disconnected from, an object or image’s conceptual impact. Towards this end, his upcoming exhibition at Spark focuses on the element of color, embodied in a variety of often commonplace objects and images from popular media.

Mike Herburger's pinhole photographs are small records of light that capture passages through time and spaces. Photographs of everyday places and subjects that are preserved as visual fossils of the past that continue to pull us into the future with every look. The compositions of shape, tone, texture and movement blend with a surreal quality that allows the imagination to make a visual or emotional connection that draws the viewer into, through and around the subject to a new destination each time.

Laurent Tschumy's work consists of simple, abstract color compositions. Identical configurations using distinctive colors evoke various associations. This is when magic happens; everyone sees something different: a location, a time of day, a childhood memory, a season.

Gallery Hours: Thursday 12-5 pm | Friday 12-7 pm | Saturday 12-5 pm | Sunday 1-4 pm