The nest represents an activity which has sublime purpose. It is also merely an empty object which may have exhausted its use. This dichotomy is relevant to the practice of painting and the scrutiny it has endured. Stefany Hemming is interested in the fundamental communication inherent in mark making and sketching. The immediacy of a sketch can expose an individual, locating them in a precise time, place and frame of mind. The line betrays the hand that made it. In her work, Hemming strives to capture motion, intention and motive. She has developed a reductive method of working that allows her to draw with paint, making fluid lines in sweeping strokes, at any width or speed. Initially, Hemming began by painting networks of lines. They quickly took on nest-like forms

Her most recent body of work, in continuity with her past productions, is a series based upon a single theme that demonstrates again the profound social commitment of this artist to sensitize the public regarding the precariousness of planetary equilibrium, and the fragility of our environment.he boundless possibilities of expression following from this inspiration allow for the artist to engage in both complementary and contrasting rhythms. The subject evokes matter and matter becomes subject, through an unending process of discovery improvised on the rhythm of the theme.

German artist Udo Nöger abstractly renders light as a tangible material in his luminous transparent canvases. “Light appears to enter into the painting, illuminating the usually transparent forms and then returning to the ambient space that is its source. The paintings are composed of three thin layers of canvas, which trap the light so as to transform it and send it on its way, back into the world. In this way, the light in the painting feels as though it is emanating from the forms themselves,” comments John Goodman, art critic. Nöger’s soft and elegant compositions beautifully embody the artist’s ongoing interest in light and its manifestations

The soft, sensuous abstraction of Steve Seinberg celebrates the process of insemination, and honors the concept of fertility. Like the seeping of water into layers of planted soil, the thin washes of color in Seinberg's canvases penetrate imagery of seeds and pods, thereby realizing the creative potential inherent in this process...

Surrounded by painters, musicians, and writers during his early career, Nall excelled among his contemporaries. At that point in the early 1970's, Nall was mentored by Spanish Surrealist, Salvador Dali, who advised him to "Draw from life, draw, again and again..." He was also inspired by American psychedelic art, fauvism, impressionism and Japanese wash drawings but then returned to basic black and white drawing and on concentrating on building a solid artistic foundation on drawing skills...

Michael David’s abstract paintings renew immediacy, indeed, reconstitute, strengthen, and even apotheosize it. They raise it to a feverishly fresh intensity with their remarkable touch, indicating they are among the very best painterly abstractions made. To me they make it transparently clear that immediacy may be an illusion to the intellect but it is not one for the senses--for touch and sight, mingled together inextricably in ecstatic perception. For them, painterly immediacy is ultimate reality: pure sensuous intensity transcendent of ordinary, habitual understanding of the world, which is mediated by socially sanctioned language and banal meanings that force sense experience into their procrustean bed...