Anne Appleby, Xylor Jane, Dean Smith & Andy Vogt

Eli Ridgway Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring the work of Anne Appleby, Xylor Jane, Dean Smith, and Andy Vogt. This selection of abstract painting, works on paper, and wall sculpture is linked by an investigation of natural phenomenon and how that phenomenon is both perceived and then understood in the mind.

Anne Appleby's four-panel painting, Stream Mint, not only depicts the subtle nuances of color, density, and depth of an indigenous plant through an annual life-cycle, but the attendant play of ethereal light and tone. Xylor Jane's grid of minuscule dots illustrates naturally occurring mathematical patterns in a meditation of expansion and retraction. The accumulating mark-making of Dean Smith reflects upon the measure of time and a ceaseless human impulse to render the invisible visible, and Andy Vogt's wall sculpture heightens an awareness of space as both real and imagined. Each work in the exhibition is a subtle meditation on the mind's attempt to grasp some of the more abstract and intriguing phenomenon of the natural world.