FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING

Shiva Ahmadi	Victoria Civera	Joyce Pensato	Laura Sue Phillips
Arlene TextaQueen	Terry Rodgers	Liao Yu-An

February 8 - March 14, 2006

Private Opening Reception: Wednesday February 8, 6 – 8 PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12-6 PM or by appointment

Figuratively Speaking plays on contemporary forms of figurative art with seven artists from all over the world. Within the spectra of our many different cultures and backgrounds this group exhibition represents highly varied aspects of the representational in drawings and paintings... This reaches from a new take on the more classic forms of nudes by Laura Sue Phillips and Terry Rodgers (USA) to playful "cartoonlike" portraits by Liao Yu-An (Taiwan), and Joyce Pensato (USA). Devoted to her felt-tip marker medium, ArleneTextaQueen (Autralia), depicts herself and friends with lots of humour in varied public and private situations. Victoria Civera's (Spain) paintings reflect the artist's intimate surroundings and depicts her life as a woman, artist, and mother. Shiva Ahmadi's (Iran, USA) disquieting poetic images recall her cultural heritage by mixing conventional water color technique with Persian spices and teas used as paper dyes.