Guardian

J. B. Rea has always worked in silver but now, more and more, uses gold, often combining both. For 2001 Space Odyssey, he has designed Guardian, a dramatic formed-silver necklace, with pendant of turquoise and moss agate set in gold, and also pieces using Mabe pearls, sometimes using the whole pearl, in a gold or textured silver setting. In this new show, each piece is a different process. Some works are experimental, for instance a dragonfly image, run through a printer, then a duplicating machine transfers the image into plastic, then from plastic to metal to etch out the silver in ferric nitrate, this all a process out of "computer etching".

Several of Martha Woodburys paintings in this show are life-size. Morphing Monolith is about 6 1/2 feet tall by 15" with images such as moonlike circles, bands of light, algae or protozoa flowing into each other in a chain.

Solar Plexus

Solar Plexus, 80" high x 36" wide, presents sensations of reversing from positive to negative before the viewers eyes. In this show, all of the tall monolithic sized paintings have layers of glowing colors, shining with a luminosity, often by the subtle use of complimentary hues and a changing value structure, glowing like metallics.

Martha says, "This new work is an evolution of what I've been doing in the past. It's different, but continues to be generated from the parallels between circular - linear, feminine - masculine, negative -positive and yin -yang, etc. and what happens when you combine them. If you create a synthesis of linear and circular, you get a spiral, a DNA or a vortex, or even a galaxy, cohesive, active, alive. It takes this polarity to keep it all in motion. We live in a dynamic universe."

She continues, "Working with the name of our show, has inspired me to think about the concept of space. Not only outer space, but inner space, and the space in between and beneath things, as with the figure-ground pieces of work. It is a play on words for me, and also a timely icon of this era. What once seemed so far in the future, has now come to pass!"