CURRENT EXHIBITION

LUMINOUS:

Tom Scarff & Sandra Marchewa

SHADOWS OF THE ROCK:

Mary Butkus

May 8 - June 14, 2008.

Free and open to the public.

The artist Henri Matisse once said, "The artist or poet possesses an interior light which transforms objects to make a new world of them." Tom Scarff, Sandra Marchewa, and Mary Butkus create, reflect, and record light and shadow to make fascinating, Luminous artworks.

Since 1968, Chicago artist Scarff has investigated the latest in lighting technology. Recalling Matisse, he says, "Light is an echo of the mystical glow from within. It allows the manipulation of space. What I do would be impossible with paint."

Sandra Marchewa creates three-dimensional paintings with an inner light through the careful layering of paint, wood, Plexiglas, epoxy resin, and hand-made or found objects. "In the past, my wok has been heavily influenced by dreams,  nightmares and the intangible realities we all face, but are often too afraid to confront or question," she states. "My current work still faces these issues and plays with the contrast of the commercial, plastic world and the organic, living world."

In Shadows of the Rock, St. Louis artist Mary Butkus captures light filtering into the abandoned Alcatraz prison. She says, "I photographed Alcatraz like a photojournalist would cover an assignment, looking for the different, the unusual, the minutia that most would miss."

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