Price:
Free admission

Date and Time:
Exhibit – March 12 to April 12, 2025

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday Noon to 5:00 pm

Opening Reception on March 15, 2025, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm

Artists throughout history have been fascinated with the play of light and shadow and the imagery implied by each. Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and da Vinci developed the style of chiaroscuro which used high contrast light and dark tones in their work. In the 17th century Rembrandt elevated the use of chiaroscuro to dramatic effect as did other artists including many contemporary artists today. The language of chiaroscuro translates to both representative and abstract art.

The theme, Light and Shadow, also lends itself to wide interpretation creatively. Light and dark can represent good and evil, day and night, Paradise vs the Underworld, a healthy mind vs mental illness. The psychologist Carl Jung theorized that the mind can be divided into sections that include the healthy Ego (the light) and a section of repressed unconscious thoughts and actions, called the Shadow. He believed that uncovering and working on this shadowy section of the personal psyche was beneficial to mental health. There is certainly a lot of fodder for individual artistic expression there.

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