Join Five Points Gallery on Friday, December 15, from 6:30 – 7:30 PM for an in-person Artist Talk featuring the six artists currently on display. Moderated by Five Points Founder and Executive Director, Judith McElhone. 

Pamela Bramble’s paintings based on the natural world are defined by her process of building up and excavating her surfaces until an emotional response is unlocked. Bramble removes and manipulates layers of colors, marks, and gestures until she can clearly understand what that painting is going to be about and works towards that idea. Bramble states, “It is in the evolution of a painting where the residue of earlier activity on the surface maintains a presence that infuses and energizes subsequent layers of paint.

Kim Sobel’s large paintings blend an organic and painterly sensibility that follows rhythms and patterns seen in the natural world around her. She infuses her own unique poetic language, when talking about her work, “Mixing paint is like pulling weeds and sculpting the garden like carving compositions.

Field of View: Susan Hackett, Steven Holmes, Caleb Portfolio, Erika Gabriela Santos

Susan Hackett’s “larger than life” photographs center around her unique process. Using a hand-held digital microscope and camera, Hackett photographs some of the smallest details of the natural world, things that often go unnoticed – revealing new perspectives, color, and lifeforms.

Steven Holme’s approach to capturing the world around him is inspired by and named after Caspar David Friedrich, whose 19th-century paintings of expansive romantic landscapes were featured with hints of human presence.

Caleb Portfolio’s manipulation of photography begins in the darkroom, he is inspired by the notion of capturing the movement of a fleeting moment in time. By working with water and light as his subjects, Caleb focuses on the symbolic meanings – waster as a source of life or a vehicle of cleansing or regeneration.

Erika Gabriela Santos recycles scraps from various leftover projects, Santos’ uniquely layered collages combine feelings of both frustration and affection in her series titled “De Lo Que Me Queda” or “Of What I Have Left Behind”.