COMPLEX IDENTITY featured paintings and sculpture by Grand Rapids Artist Michael Pfleghaar. Pfleghaar’s expressive and exaggerated style interprets inanimate objects into conscious entities by giving them human characteristics in their movement, shape, and posture. Pfleghaar creates dynamic “visual conversations” among the elements in his work which give the compositions a human essence and worldly energy. His sculpture takes on the same personality as his two-dimensional work through his continued use of color, curves and exaggeration. For more information about Michael Pfleghaar and his work you can visit his website at www.pfleghaar.com.
Remnants: Symbol and Form featured paintings and drawings by West Michigan Artist Art Martin. Martin’s work balances familiar and overlooked objects between highly rendered illusion and flat two-dimensional patterns and forms. The resulting pieces explore the abstract form and symbolic content of the objects, translating them into moments of contemplation, disquiet and transition.
Sari Khoury: Selected Works featured paintings and drawings by the late Sari Khoury, former Central Michigan University Professor of Art, and Department Chair. Sari Khoury’s work embodies qualities of abstract expressionism through is use of line form and color. For more information on Sari Khoury and his work please visit www.khouryart.org