March 27- April 24, 2010
Artists Reception: Saturday April 17, 1-5pm
Gallery Hours: by appointment only

Breanne Duffy and John Norton are two distinctly different painters from Belmont who share a common interest in the possibilities of exploring the visual and conceptual texture of man made and natural environments. Their sources of inspiration range from the people and streets of contemporary Manhattan and Coney Island in New York City to the recycled milled wooden remnants of bygone quiet Maine forests.

Breanne Duffy’s figurative work presents a veiled urban narrative that is both visually seductive and conceptually unsettling. The mixed media hybrids combine her altered photographs, translated into graphic silkscreen images, with fantastic elements in oil paint–both familiar and quite foreign. John Norton works on discarded wooden panels that once served as freight box lids with paint, pencil, and other materials. Embedded within the wood are minimal signs of human intelligence and design - a sort of tactile map or sign language that has been left behind or excavated.

Both artists are interested in the possibilities of subtle suggestion and challenging thought. Their work offers an unsettled and ambiguous mystery, a kind of juxtaposed tension that exists between what we see and think we know on the surface of things and what can be imagined within.

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