ANDREA DEZSO GALLERY

I created this body of work during the pandemic. It was directly inspired by Adam’s experimental sumi ink painting. Watching Adam’s daily practice and hearing him talk about what he wanted to create, the behavior of different paper surfaces, water pushing against ink directing its path, got me curious to try this for myself. I worked with kitakata (gampi) paper which I painted with liquid watercolors first. The process I developed is a call and response with the materials — I made a set of quick ink gestures on the wet surface of the paper at night, then placed a sheet of glass with heavy weights on top of the paper and left the studio. In the morning I found the image that developed from my initial ink gestures and the reaction of the water pushing against the gestures under pressure. 

ADAM GURVITCH GALLERY

Adam Gurvitch is a self-taught artist. His process involves careful observation and intuitive handling of materials to express relationships with the natural world. Adam films while snorkeling and hiking, drawing inspiration for painting, sculpting, and printmaking. He favors direct, immediate ways of improvising by hand, allowing chance to shape imagery.   Visit Adam's artist tab to learn more.

I was born in Moscow, Russia, and grew up in a family of physicists—a background that led me to a career in mathematics. After moving to the Pacific Northwest in 2010, I discovered quilting, and later, painting. I’m still not sure how I lived without it before.

-MARIA MICHURINA

HENRY MURPHY 

B.1995 living in Philadelphia, Pa

 Henry graduated with a certificate degree in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he received the Von Hess memorial travel scholarship, he has shown his work in Philadelphia at Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Art at Kings Oaks, Procession Gallery, Gross Mccleaf, as well as The Hampstead Arts Society in London, The Spring Break Art Fair, Stellarhighway in New York and The Ruffed Grouse Gallery of Narrowsburg NY.

BRANTNER DEATLEY

A few years ago I thought it would be funny to make a bear holding a cabin as a nod to the donor portraits or Saints holding cathedrals from medieval European art. 

  I made one here and there but never really gave them much focus. When Dean offered me the opportunity for this show he mentioned the bears with cabins which opened the door to really explore the idea. 

Making animals immediately leads you into our environment and all of the stress we put on nature with the choices we make in our lives and even more pressing the choices that are being made for us without our consent. 

TATIANA TRUNOVA  was born in St. Petersburg, Russia  in 1994, and currently lives and works in Argentina.

She graduated  from the School of Fine Arts and the I.E. Repin Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. The works are in Museum collections in Russia, as well as private collections in other countries.

SEAN SAWICKI

“Reinvention and the element of surprise are essential to my practice. Art and life are obviously intertwined; a lot of the time I am using leftover material or tools from household projects in my work. Connecting with familiar places or objects and working to find their heart is at the core; having been born and raised in Western Massachusetts, I need to slip into each dimension of this place for renewal. 
Sean Sawicki lives in Belchertown, MA