ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON

May 17 – July 12

Opening Receptions – Friday, May 17, 6-8 p.m. & Saturday, May 18, 12 – 4 p.m.

“All In The Golden Afternoon” features new bodies of work by Susan Hable, Marina Dunbar, Guy Robinson and Shelby Little. “All In The Golden Afternoon” is a reference to the preface poem in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” that details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into an enchanted world. It is a rule-bound world, but its rules are not those of our world and she finds herself in situations of contradiction, absurdity, nonsense, and paradox, but also of magic and everything around her teeming with life. Susan Hable’s “I Remember This” is a step into a similar world, a daydream of flowers and fantasy through patterned paintings and graphic collage works. Marina Dunbar’s paintings explore the sensory spirit of Spring and resurgence through her layered, cut, and reassembled canvases. Guy Robinson’s “Poetry Of Paradox” is a continuation of his practice of “following the muse and working the unsolvable puzzle,” creating paintings that imbue the magic of seemingly random objects. Shelby Little’s “Lies of Poets” is a colorful homage to the figures in Greek Mythology, while reminding the viewer of their unseriousness and playfulness. Through vibrant colors, engulfing compositions, playful uses of patterns and the pairing of disparate objects, the artists in this show create and indulge in their own sort of wonderlands of riddles, paradox and magic!