Artist: Karen Ganz

Title: Cat and Mouse

Medium: Limited ed signed print

Dimensions: 48 X 21 in

The work Karen Ganz is influenced by 1920s cartoon and comic strip characters. She works often with large canvases and collage, using ink drawings overlaid with bright colors. Her paintings and drawings invoke a sense of nostalgia, humor, and concern for the predicament of the "common man."

From the artist's statement: "...I use these images and very gestural painting as metaphors for psychological states of mind. Attachment, questions of being an "individual" within "the group",assimilation and role-playing interest me. I use a frankenstein-like approach to piece together figures/images and use multiple broken-up canvases to further the fragmentation of those images. This first came up in the heavy collage work of my drawings which I allowed to change the way that I approach my painting. My approach to painting also has been influenced by early films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton that I arrived at by way of Twyla Tharp and Samuel Beckett. I approach a show as a "staged" experience, and my job as that of choreographer of the work."

Artist: Thomas R Colletta

Title: Rhine Maiden

Medium: Oil on linen

Dimensions: 54 X 40 in

TR Colletta calls his paintings "contemporary exercises in recognizable memories." The objects themselves are the initial draw. They have a familiar color, shape and style, and although they make room for differing experiences, most have universal functions.

"Rhine Maiden" is from a trio of whimsical corkscrew designs that were never manufactured, but painted.

Artist: Marilyn Levin

Title: East Bay Fog #1

Medium: Oil on wood panel

Dimensions: 12 X 12 in

Marilyn Levin's work grows out of a concern for painterly abstraction and has long been concerned with color and its relationship to reflective surfaces.

"I have always been fascinated by the magic of the Bay Area fog - its color, its light, its mystery. I have painted it in many ways over the past 10 years This is part of that series."

Artist: Amy Kaufman

Title: Water

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 84 X 72 in

Amy Kaufman has a career-long focus on pattern and repetition, working in a variety of media such as paint, charcoal, pastel, silverpoint, and graphite, to transform fixed stripes, meandering lines, and accumulations of shapes into bold compositions that suggest space and movement. Continually shifting between figuration and abstraction, her work conveys a tension between the tactile and the illusory.

Artist: Davina Semo

Title: Gathering, monoprint #10

Medium: Relief ink on Rives BFK

Dimensions: 27.75 X 22.75 in

Davina Semo is represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery. The graphic element in these new monoprints is a repeated image of a flower, a gear, a portal. In various constellations, they create different landscapes that are evocative of drifting air and wind, floating and suspension, people moving, things collecting, and shifting. As flowers, these buds signal change, growth, ground cover, and landscape. As gears, each shape works together as a machine, indicating movement, change, density, anxiety, production, and function. As portals, these openings become whirlpools, passageways, tunnels, letting in color and language, darkness and light. The shapes combine to create a forcefield, a collection of intensity, a psychological map, a web of connections, movements based on one another, in cooperation, in sync.