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Monthly Exhibitions:
Ron Zakrin: Sept. 26th
Glenn Barr: Oct. 28th
David Foox: Nov. 28th
Andrew Alexander: Dec. 18th
Matt Cipov: Jan 30th
David Van Alphen: Feb. 27th
Glass,Cinder & Thorns: March. 20th
Mark Heggie: April. 17th
Mark Arminski: May 15th
2 year Birthday Bash June 10th - 13th
The Silent Giants: August
Ron Zakrin: September 2010
Tom Thewes: October 2010
Tony Roko: November 2010
John Dunivant: Spring 2011
ARTIST PROFILE
For obvious reasons we're really struggling to avoid the term "dutch treat" here .... or astro turf. You see, David "Netherland" van Alphen is an artist who freely admits to being influenced by that most benighted of American decades - the 70's. What we (or most of us) regard as a sterile interlude in our culture, van Alphen sees as a beguiling era of imagery and color. That pastel wasteland, that deliberate use of iconic symbols by a consumer culture, the music that was "catchy" without being memorable, the blissfully dazed confusion of suburban purgatory - all these things are grist for his mill and the paintings/montages he creates with them reveal a hitherto undetected (or unappreciated) subtext of gentleness and humor. He makes us feel nostalgic for a period we either suffered through or barely noticed. And happily enough he does it without making us look for the nearest disco floor.
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