The Creative Spark

NOVEMBER 20th  - DECEMBER 3

The Creative Spark opens at Meyer Gallery on November 20th, bringing together twenty-three artists who treat art history as raw material rather than a rulebook. Curators Natalie Featherston and Anthony Waichulis built the show around a simple conviction: technical mastery and tradition are the foundation of originality, not a limit on it. Every artist here has studied the old methods closely enough to know what to keep and what to break. The result is work that carries centuries of craft forward into subjects and sensibilities entirely of this moment. This is not a nostalgia show. It is proof that the past keeps generating new art, as long as someone is willing to wrestle with it.

CURRENT CATALOG

Robert LaDuke: The Open Road

LaDuke's palette and precision carry an inheritance from Norman Rockwell, and his subjects come from a version of America built in the 1930s and 40s. But his surfaces work differently than Rockwell's did. Under the chrome and the color, something quieter sits in these paintings, a private humor, a suggestion of a story. LaDuke layers personal references into his compositions, memories of family and childhood folded into the paint without explanation. 

The Open Road  is on view September 25 - Oct. 8. 

Artist Reception to meet Robert on Friday September 25, from 4 - 6 pm. 

UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION

Jacob A. Pfeiffer: Inner Child

At its core, this series asks what is lost and what might be recovered when we outgrow our earliest ways of seeing. The “inner child” here is not sentimental; it is perceptive, curious, and open. By recontextualizing everyday objects into unfamiliar relationships, the paintings aim to reactivate that mode of seeing the world where we allow our imagination to interrupt expectation.  

Inner Child is on view October 9 - 22. 

Artist Reception to meet Jacob on Friday October 9, from 4 - 6 pm.