Pink Moon / Sprouting Grass is a one day two person exhibition of the work of Emily Gustafson and Clara DeGalan. While both artists work in the traditional mediums of drawing and painting, each transcends the boundaries of their discipline to encompass the role of community in identity and practice, and the presence of the more than human world in the genres of landscape and figure drawing.

Emily Gustafson’s vibrant drawing practice has become deeply tied to her identity as a teacher of children. She infuses artistry daily within the micro-macro, steady-breathing rhythms of her vocation. Emily’s drawings are compact jewels of meditative contemplation galvanized with rapid execution. Shifting her focus back and forth between subjects at play (plants blowing in the breeze, children running in a field) and the outlines and depth of their constantly changing spaces, Emily stretches her observational drawing skills while holding the people and nature in her company safely, freely and lovingly within all of her senses’ heightened peripheries as she draws. 

Clara DeGalan’s studio practice draws from time spent on the periphery of society, exploring the more than human world. She describes herself as a landscape artist, though her landscape is not a commodity to be observed, but a breathing, sentient home to immerse within and learn from. Building a visual vocabulary of imagery from observation, local and ancestral folklore, The Uncanny, alchemy, and New Age thought, Clara seeks to create landscape paintings for the land and its people (flyers, walkers, swimmers and crawlers) as well as for viewers in gallery spaces.

The reception will take place on Saturday, April 1st from 6pm-10pm