Upcoming Exhibits

Shown above: "THE CRONE MYSTERIES. THE GIFT", Acrylic on wood, 8 x 10" plus frame, available

Los misterios de la Gran Diosa (The Mysteries of the Great Goddess)

Milka LoLo 6th Solo Show

Opens April 19, 2025

For Milka LoLo's 6th solo show for us, she will be exploring The Triple Goddess, specifically The Maiden, Mother, and Crone.

Milka will touch on the different facets that women experience throughout their lives and the way in which they face them. For example, what form does love have for the maidens of our time? Is the idea of love or self-love more important? To love or be loved?

What does motherhood mean for a woman without children? Does she lose her creative magic and with it the right to be a mother? Or does she become a mother and protector of those around her?

And when women reach the twilight of their days, can they count themselves among the lucky ones who knew how to take from life the flowers it offered? Share the wisdom acquired through blood and tears? Contemplate their legacy or destroy it?

Did the threads of destiny weave the mantle of their story at their pleasure or were they able to twist the plot and create a design of their own?

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Shown above: Victoria, Colored inks & pencil on paper with white titanium paint, 11 x 14", framed to 16 x 20", available

In the Garden of Blooms and Ballyhoo

Featuring artist Donna Abbate and friends

Opens May 17, 2025

The joyous calling card of flowers speaks to us through the power of color, and flowers impact how we see the world around us. Rich in kaleidoscope and bursting with imagination, they compete for our eye’s attention with the promise of chromatic wonder, and rarely do they disappoint. Even the smallest of blooms have this power.

Flowers and their botanical companions can reach out and pull us out of ourselves, and the botanical artist merely offers us even more visual ways to achieve this. Especially in these times, the quote “You are only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry and be sure to smell the flowers along the way” has value and our upcoming show “In the Garden of Blooms and Ballyhoo” invites you to experience the art along the way as well!

Participating artists: Donna Abbate, Ulla Anobile, Julie B., Andrea Bogdan, Mark Cantrell, Ivonne García, Emily Gonzáles, Diana Hartman, A Nancy Koutsouflakis, Patricia Krebs, Malathip, Mavis Leahy, Miriam Martinez, Gioconda Pieracci, Carla San Martin, Charlotte Sigurdson, and more.

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Loteria XI Group Show

July/August 2025

La Lotería is a traditional Mexican game of chance, similar to bingo, that uses images on a deck of cards instead of plain numbers. There are 54 images; each has a name and an assigned number. The cards are very colorful and the imagery on them is broadly recognized in all of Mexico, other Latin American countries, as well as European nations.

The most recognized version of La Lotería is the “Don Clemente Gallo” rendition which was introduced in Mexico in 1887 by the French businessman, Don Clemente Jacques. The owners today own the registered trademark and have continued this version through 3 generations with the original artwork remaining the same.

All 54 images of the original deck will be represented in the show. Here is a link to the original Loteria set: http://loteria.elsewhere.org/clemente1/

In addition, artists are creating cards from a second set of Loteria cards #55 - 108. These works will be small in size . Here is a link to the lesser known set, which is equally fun: http://loteria.elsewhere.org/clemente2a/

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Arboralia, A silvan song

Featuring artist Gioconda Pieracci of Pupillae Art Dolls and friends

September 2025

Trees are silent witnesses to time, the first -cathedrals of humankind, living columns that hold up the sky, roots sinking deep into our history, branches brushing against myth. Keepers of ancient secrets, they have fed legends and inspired dreams, weaving together sky and earth, the human and the divine.

It is no coincidence that they are the breath of the world, and through them—through books—knowledge was born. They have given shelter and sustenance, guiding humankind along its path.

Trees are life. They are thresholds, memory, and symbols of transformation. In their wild song lies the story of the earth and of humanity itself.

Arboralia is an homage to this primordial sanctity, to the fragile magnificence of trees, and to the stories they carry among their branches.

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