Featured artists exhibit for June/July 2022

Luna Lee Ray

Working with both “randomness and intentionality,” mixed media and member artist Luna Lee Ray’s pieces are each delicately and precisely layered, in which she creates supremely ethereal and exquisite works inspired by the interplay of nature. In her own words; “The early stages of a piece involve active drawing, sometimes with my eyes closed. I then add multiple layers of thin and thick paints, adding more graphite between layers. As a piece moves on I will begin to add more complex forms and fine tune the color harmonics. As I layer, some elements are enhanced and some are obscured, resulting in an atmospheric surface rich with history, depth, and luminosity.”

Shelly Hehenberger

In an expertly skilled and unique technique, member artist Shelly Hehenberger masters her medium of oil and cold wax to create highly layered and textured pieces through a process that is months in the making.  Directly inspired by the natural world, Shelly pieces are a stunning interpretation of how she views the ever-changing elements and movement of nature. Using a variety of tools, Shelly layers, carves, adds and subtracts with cold wax which, “reflects a sense of the creative tension existing between the constructive and deconstructive energies in nature, and is the essence of my process.”

William Moore

Guest artist and sculptor, William Moore works in a variety of sculptural elements, including marble, ceramic, stone, wood, and bronze to create imaginative and skillful works of art. “His blend of an obviously crisp, intimate familiarity with human form into impossible contortions of angular, stolid materials, mimics the natural forces Earth spent creating the elements.”