Current Exhibit, "Our Awesome Universe"

__________________________________________________________

The current exhibit at the Luna Moth Art Gallery at the Caldwell Eco-Center is "Our Awesome Universe". The mixed-media paintings by Margaret Gohn depict nebulas, novas, galaxies and other elements of the larger universe.

The round paintings, which were inspired by Hubble Photos, were created by using glazes of color and iridescent paints to try to capture the filmy nature of the subjects. There are also paintings on panels which represent possible foreign landscapes. And painted spheres which represent possible planets.

And there is one sunflower painting.

The artist, Margaret Gohn, also works creating plein air oil paintings (painting on site) in the woods, in fields, and at the ocean (and sometimes in places like aquariums). The work she does creating artwork based on the far reaches of space are a way of focusing on the worlds outside of ours. A way of considering how amazing the universe, as well as our own life, is.

Part of the challenge of creating both the plein air paintings and the universe paintings is trying to capture the sense of life, of movement. The world, the universe, in a state of flux.


The exhibit will run through Feb. 28th.