SUPER CUTE!!! In this stressful time we could definitely use a big dose of adorable energy. This group exhibition is the perfect way to bring that to life. Our artists’ subjects range from puppies to babies, manga to bunnies, sparkles, unicorns, fuzzy creatures and more. We feature artworks that make you smile, giggle, and evoke that happy, weird, and super cute vibe. Whether through drawing, painting, photography, or sculpture, the goal is simple: to spread the feeling of everyday cuteness that is all around us. What do you find cute? How does something cute make you feel? Let’s find out. And remember, one person’s cute may be another person’s creepy. It’s all fair game.

Artists have been gaining inspiration from a live model for centuries. It is a time honored tradition where we learn by seeing and expressing what we see and feel. An artist’s vision and expression gets funneled through their life experience, culture, training, moment, time and place; content and context. As we focus on seeing, we create. We note the human form plus colors, lights and darks, line, gesture, composition etc. Each artist has a unique mark making language and interpretation of the model. You can have one model and 15 artist drawings and each artist will have entirely different interpretations of the same person and same pose. We all see differently. It’s a magical experience to be in a studio all together in this creative process. This show is a sample of what we do. We encourage you to think of these pieces as experiments, a process of discovery by each artist rather than a product.

Angels have played a major part in our human psyche for thousands of years beginning (as some scholars say) with the ancient Babylonians. Humans have looked to angels for guidance from early Jewish traditions in mystical texts like The Apocrypha, The Book of Enoch and then to Christian traditions like The Book of Revelations and later to contemporary spirituals. They have appeared in times of crisis and turmoil. Angels have been described as loyal guardians, messengers of God, with wings or subtle matter, and displayed the vengeance of God as in The Book of Revelations. Their presence has been debated, depicted, written about, classified, sexualized, wrestled with and feared. My mother, like many people, kept a small statue of a guardian angel in her car. Some people argued that angels may even have been Aliens and UFOs.