May 1st-31st, 2025

North Gallery

We Speak in Color: Jeffrey Fuchs and Heather Adamek

We Speak In Color …but how do we say it all? Finding the right words, particularly right now is a challenge, the sheer volume of events and emotions is exhausting. We struggle to articulate it all, feel it all, give space for it all while simultaneously remaining present and available for our families, friends and community that we love so deeply. 

We Speak In Color…how do we say it all? Oh, that’s right…, through color and movement and paint. The act of creation itself is a release, a way to speak without being depleted. A physical act that heals and makes visual all that we feel. 

For this exhibition we paid close attention not just to the colors but to the space between the colors. Spaces that remind us to pause, take a beat, and breathe before responding. It’s so easy to speak and speak and speak (There is SO much to say!) and then we forget to listen. We know we each do this. So… These are our feelings on canvas. We’ve laid them out in paint for you…but true to our intention, we have left space to pause, to breathe and to listen. And to ask questions and disagree and still love our fellow artists, art lovers, and kind people. We Speak in Color and we laugh and hug and cry and laugh some more. Sit in these spaces between the colors with us and tell us what you hear.


May 1st-31st, 2025

South Gallery

Inventing People: Michael Spence

New paintings by Michael Spence

With this show of new paintings, I am moving to new and strange country.  I have not been a painter of people.  My work in the past has centered on the landscape: highly abstracted, fixated on color, shape and composition and these new paintings respect those same concerns. I am working with a similar palate of bold colors and loose, improvisational brushwork.  

The Inventing People title is appropriate because most of these people are made up, conjured often from bits and pieces of memory, imagination, or photos from various sources including the internet, magazines and family photos.  Regardless of the source, they all speak to me in some emotional way, often nostalgic, and always mysterious in a way that I hope leads to more questions than answers for the viewer.