If Life Were Still

If Life Were Still presents the works of three painters -  Lorraine Sack, Richard Laurent, and Tanya Gadbaw - who interpret the inherent beauty, mystery, personal memories and visual metaphors revealed through the centuries-old tradition of recording particular details of specific objects. They focus on factual and expressive depictions of what they observe, their symbolic significance, the emotions they stir, and the visual challenges they inspire.

 Sack, Laurent and Gadbaw invest their studies of treasured finds with a subjective warmth and curiosity.  They slow down the process of looking and ask us to see less casually, to contemplate quietly, to recognize and appreciate what we may have been ignoring in our haste and noise. We are invited to enter and linger for a while inside the intimate and introverted spaces they have created.

The artists' share a fascination and delight in portraying familiar forms, lustrous surfaces and complex textures; and make a long-term commitment to the process of observing, revealing, and constructing ordered worlds where calm resides and stillness prevails.

If Life Were Still, curated by Claudia Craemer, runs from August 8 through September 8, 2012 at Union Street Gallery in Chicago Heights. Opening Reception is Friday, August 10th, from 6-9pm. Opening Reception is free and open to the public.  Union Street Gallery is located at 1527 Otto Blvd, Chicago Heights, IL 60411, (about 35 miles south of the loop).  For more information visit www.unionstreetgallery.org.