September 9 – October 29

Artist Reception: Friday, September 30th, 5-7pm

‘Hang Tight’

‘Growth Patterns’ explores the iterative design of generation and degeneration that humans, and nature for that matter, make to create growth. What works continues, but what we have outgrown evolves. Like a simple-cell brims to the point of bursting, patterns bear until their progress requires breaking. Scriver observes and then teases the line; where, during uncertain times, it is required to bend, blend, or decay to form new inroads. Her paintings respond to where the center cannot hold- using everyday tools and materials, such as food, lasers, trowels, net, and fencing to create borders and paths to intersect or breakdown. An idea, a simple pathway in the brain, merges with another to create something new, maybe more organic in shape, maybe less rigid. Perhaps it follows a whole new direction.

Growth and progress require expansion, and therefore an adaptive nature. It is in this adaptation where the growth pattern can be seen, the deviation, the breaking through the old line. What is microscopic is also telescopic with a biomorphic correlation to the timeless and expansive nature of life and our planet itself.

Portal | Will There Be Enough? II | Gleaning

Scriver’s new paintings in mixed media explore shapes, patterns, textures, and colors as if they were living entities constantly morphing, expanding, and even moving beyond their borders of confinement.

Scriver’s work can often remind us of geological forms, urban constructions, and satellite or microscopic imagery. She is constantly experimenting with different tools and materials and seems to be having lots of fun exploring the outcomes. This body of work presents viewers with a unique immersion of both proximate and remote perspectives which frequently overlap to create dynamic relationships within the paintings.

See more images on Artist’s page Here

‘If You Go to Paris, You May Still Not Find It.’