David Kontra, Can You Survive the Insanity?

Kontra is a self-taught painter whose work deals head-on with prejudices and ignorance in our society.  Kontra has less than 5 percent of vision remaining in his left eye and only a small amount of light perception remaining in his right eye.  When Kontra paints, he sees less than a quarter-inch section of the canvas at a time.  Kontra's world is one not of distinct images, but of shadowy inhabitants, hints of colors, shapes and textures which can change at any time into something else.  

Kontra lives and works near Hartville, Missouri.  Kontra's website.

Jonathan Prull, Eastwood is Eighty

Eastwood Is Eighty features ink drawings that reveal Prull's interest in an aging movie icon.  The drawings form a stream-of-consciousness landscape, an uninterrupted space that attempts to integrate various stages of an artist's process otherwise confined to sketchbooks and studies.

Prull received a BFA from the University of Rhode Island and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.  He has been an artist-member of Vox Populi since 2006.

Paradise, Curated by Roxana Pérez-Méndez

As we address the impact of the global recession on our personal lives, and as a new air of frugality and domestic economy take form, Paradise looks into the reflexive process of the artist.  This group show looks to contentment as a constructed landscape or place and to the ever-present inverse to the frailties of our current state.  Paradise features the work of  Kia Carscallen, Coke Whitworth, Giselle Insuaste, and Lisette Morell, among others.