Vault Gallery
Image Curtisy of the Artists
Currently on Display
Portals, Planets, and Petri Dishes
Exhibit Dates: January 8 - March 15, 2025
Reception Celebration: January 17, 2025, 5 - 7 pm (Snow Date, March 15)
Angela Piehl's collage-based prints and drawings evoke a range of possibilities. Piehl explores the medium of collage and its aesthetic as a metaphorical parallel to the process of composting-- a natural recycling of matter in which a prolific range of transformations occur. Dense spherical compositions hover like planets, or alternately, mimic microscopic views held within the ecosystem of a petri dish.
Cost: FREE with Registration
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Instructor: Angela Piehl
Collage along with Angela Piehl, the Artist behind Portals, Planets, and Petri Dishes now on Display in the Vault Gallery. Make alongside the artist, learn about her process, and ask questions about the exhibit.
Upcoming
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Exhibit Dates: March 26 - May 23, 2025
Reception Celebration: April 4, 202
Revisiting rural the landscape he grew up in, Robert Martin, imagines queer futures while honoring a rooted past.
The figurative work I create is a layered combination of rural aesthetics, queer historical references, inherited ephemera, personal imagery, and memory. Art-making – namely painting – allows me to tangibly imagine queer futures while honoring a rooted past by permitting these stories to coexist within one plane. As I ruminate on the interplay of these employed elements, I am cementing histories and generating utopias. My upbringing was largely bedecked by iconic Americana artists such as Norman Rockwell and Terry Redlin, who inform my visual predilections. I look to artists like Grant Wood and J.C. Leyendecker as primary historical influences, and I consider my work in conversation with contemporaries such as Jacob Todd Broussard, Jordan Ramsey Ismaiel, Matt Lifson and Pacifico Silano. Research into my uncle and namesake, Martin Ross McRoberts, has become a primary contextual influence as well as a direct link to an increasingly fading queer past.
About the Vault Gallery
During the 2015-2017 Historic Building renovation, the main floor was restored to the building’s original bank configuration. During the construction, the original bank vault door was discovered, restored, and reinstalled leading to the creation of the Vault Gallery. Not only does the Vault Gallery feature the exquisite early 20th century vault door, it showcases the original bank marble wainscoting, high ceilings, crown molding, windows, and trim. This large gallery space is enhanced further by the addition eight movable walls. The Vault Gallery exhibits are invitation only group and solo shows.
