Creative Loafing Mention by Megan Voeller

Pre-Opening Paparazzi

Top to bottom: Stephanie Hornsby; Katie Weber (l) and Denyce Coombs (r); Jonothan Maher in work mode; Lindsay Scoggins; Jacqueline Bayliss (l) and Iva Cepanec (r) filling the pool with water; Anita Rafat (far l) and her peers consider the options; Jonothan Maher's leaves.

More Opening Night! Paparazzi

Top to bottom: Gallery exterior at night, with Ben Hooper's sign blazing away; Interior; Jacqueline Bayliss and her mother admiring her work; Iva Cepanec and Katrina Bennett; Denyce Coombs and Victoria Miller; Katrina Bennett and Rebecca Flanders; Karen Tremmel and her daughter; Heather Gallman and Michelle Gubnau; Master Coombs ponders the situation with Victoria Miller; Victoria Miller, Elisabeth Condon and Jessica Carr; a very blurry Matt, Andy Nigon and Carmen Tiffany.

Grand Opening! Paparazzi Photos

Top to bottom: Gregory Green, John Byrd and Karl Kelly; Katie Weber's buttons in the waning daylight with Tony Palms passing by; David Gabbard and his muse, Beth; Timothy McMillan; Katie Weber's illuminated buttons by night with Jonothan Maher in the doorway; Viewing the reflecting pool.

Thank you YUENGLING BREWERY

Special Thanks to the local Yuengling Brewery for their contribution to our opening reception tonight!

Ready to Show

Moving counter-clockwise around the room, we begin with Stephanie Hornsby's maze, which yields beautiful surprises as one takes a closer look, Anita Rufat's mall bench recreated as a sculptural shelter and Jacqueline Bayliss' perch from which to view metalic vines and the creatures that live in them....spaces for rest and rejuvenation.

From there it is a brief step to Jillian Warren's vertiginous view out the Library window, framed by Victorial Miller's overflowing bookshelves.

To the left, Hiroki Haraguchi's tree swoops amidst free-standing windows creating patterns of movement echoing those in the library.

Denyce Coomb's and Timothy McMillan's flowering texts and petal steps lead us in shimmering circles to Jonothan Maher's cardboard palm trees and leaves.

Pivotal to the installation is a combination of marquee and gangplank, a bridge over water that introduces the space, created by Karen Tremmel and Jonothan Maher.

More Tuesday

Lindsay Scoggins' digital video of germs within Iva Cepanec's watery grotto evoke the underbelly of urban spaces...