Curated by: An Hoang Participating artists: Alison Fox, Olive Ayhens, Benjamin Britton, and Michael Hayden

There is a certain degree of disorder or uncertainty in our system; often a loss of information in a transmitted message and a sense of fragility that lies within our modern society. This exhibition reveals the subconscious perception of entropy in our lives. Included in this exhibition are four artists that have elements of this notion in their work.

Alison Fox’s abstract paintings are colorful and layered, utilizing an array of techniques in her brushwork. Based on caricatures of nature, the result is an expressive canvas of color and swirling movement with moments of quietness, creating order within disorder.

The watercolors by Olive Ayhens depict vertiginous cityscapes and frenetic modern interiors. Altered perspectives, often from bird’s eye views, show the system of a city we typically experience at street level.

Benjamin Britton’s paintings convey moments from his daily experiences. The juxtaposition of these layered memories and events create blurred movements where ”...viewers are encouraged by…different states of seeing to feel as if they’ve temporarily lost the facility to control their own balance.”

In Michael Hayden’s drawings, segments of landscape are built on scaffolds and structures that reference the ways that memory, whether personal or collective, is constructed.

These artists all have a common thread of revealing a buzzing undercurrent in our daily experience; perhaps internal and not always visually perceived. There’s an underlying force or influence often contrary to what is superficially evident.