about Stephen Burt’s current show Ripeness Twice Over on view:

Flaunting his dedication to the art of drawing, Burt’s sense of irony and fearless sense of truth-telling shines forth. The artist takes what we have seen in the past, shines a light on it in such a way, catching a glimpse of his own take on allegory and the world in all its twisted glory. Through his knowledge of art history he is able to draw a future pulled from the past that is both confounding in its beauty, yet eerily prescient. 

His subjects travel world between insects & plants, the human form, and the maelstrom of visceral and beautiful life both observed and imagined. Stephen Burt has been concocting storms on paper since 2005, perhaps as a cartharsis from the daily onslaught of information and news. Who is to say what is real or real fake after all? We invite you to take a close look at work that is consuming when you take the time to slow down and look within. - j.e. paterak/Zero Station, curator

In the artists’ own words: “The images are intended to evolve in the imagination over time with the viewer rewarded for contemplative observation. To try and outline each inspiration and relationship as it occurred would not be either possible or prudent.”

about Lauren Fensterstock

Lauren Fensterstock creates elaborate sculptures and installations that explore the evolving history of our relationship to nature. These intricate artworks are constructed in the material of ladies’ accomplishments, such as quilled paper and shellwork, emphasizing the capacity of traditional female crafts to reflect on the complexities of the world beyond the domestic sphere.

Fensterstock is a United States Artist Barr Fellow whose work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at MOCA Jacksonville, The John Michael Kohler Art Center, The Bowdoin College Museum of Art and Drexel University. She has also recently exhibited at such institutions as Rijswijk Museum, Austin Contemporary, Des Moines Art Center and Wichita Museum of Art. Her work is represented by Claire Oliver Gallery in New York.