Metamorphosis Exhibit At Village Arts On Display Through This Weekend

Artwork in the Metamorphosis exhibit at Village Arts is on display through this weekend, so there’s no time to lose. Stop by 216 DP Road and check it out. Courtesy photo

Courtesy photo

Courtesy photo

VILLAGE ARTS NEWS RELEASE

We’ve just set the clocks back and change is in the air, and right now Village Arts is all about transformation with dozens of artists creating work that highlights metamorphosis in celebration of the 100th year anniversary of Kafka’s pivotal “Metamorphosis” work. Artwork is on display through this weekend, so there’s no time to lose!

Viewers of Metamorphosis will be surprised by an array of pieces in diverse media with subject matter that spans from quirky anthropomorphizes animals to thought provoking changes that encompass eons or take no time at all.

Ezra Estes’ Twilight watercolor captures the moment day turns to night while Fran Stovall’s mosaic “Loons” show how loonlets grow to adulthood, and Carol Rinard’s “So White; After the Cerro Grande Fire” depicts our abruptly altered landscape.

Diane Thurston’s ‘Natural Bridge pastel piece bookends a wall of work with Carolyn Bossert’s “Falling” leaf pen and ink print. Immediately between the two pieces is Elizabeth Brosha’s illuminated “If Nothing Ever Changed There’d Be No Butterflies” piece, which feels like the truth of the exhibition all wrapped into one piece.

Butterflies are abundantly noticeable as symbols in Phyllisha Hamrick’s colored pencil “My Mother Turned Into a Butterfly”, Sue Ellen Hains’ “Butterflies Are Free” collage, and Nancy Cope and Helena Whyte’s embroidered butterfly works. The vibrant changes of fall are also at center stage with everything from Ezra Estes’ watercolored “Flux” to Gloria Sharp’s “Golden Symphony batik.

Gloria Sharp’s Morning to Evening batik and Eileen Patterson’s meticulously collaged Night into Day compel abstraction to render change while Jerry Beguin’s “Changing Directions” uses form, color, and texture to achieve a similar effect in conveying the movement associated with metamorphosis. Ann Greene uses movement in her beaded “Out of Darkness” imagery to express a phoenix like transfiguration and tracks movement through time in her “7th Generation” family tree.

Michael Andryc’s portrait of a woman gazing at a mirrored fox also conveys the power of transformation, and his portrait of Kafka pulls together the entire body of work thematically.

In a similar vein to Kafka’s insect metamorphosis, artist Seth Dustin’s formal prairie dog portraiture and Bonnie Dickman’s “Eight Fisted Drinker” offer quirky reinventions that hover between animal and human, while Peggy Durbin’s pen and ink “Babbird/Birdboon” and Shaloy Fauber’s “Skellyfish” immaginative meld together diverse subjects seamlessly.

Seamless transitions between artwork showing butterflies spreading their wings to autumnal studies, abstract ideas, imaginative creatures, and abstracted color shifts seem impossible, but as artist Darla Graph Thompson explores in her introspective sculptures “Incompatiblitiy” and “Molt”, somehow the tensions create a whole that is richer in its diversity.

Stop into Village Arts at 216 DP Road to be transformed and support your local and regional artists by voting on your favorite works or perhaps finding the perfect piece to take home with you! As the year draws to an end, Village Arts invites everyone to take a look at the upcoming exhibit schedule and to enter the next upcoming exhibit, Reflections. Everyone is invited to participate, and there’s no cost to join in the fun! For more information on exhibits and Village Arts call 505-661-2526, check in on www.villageartsframing.com, Facebook, and Instagram.