Vitality Rising
​
Curated by Doug Frohman
Artists: Darrell Roberts, Rebecca Moy, Doug Frohman, Pamela Staker, Ford Crull

March 16th - April 14th
Second Floor Exhibition Space

Artists: Ford Crull, Darrell Roberts, Rebecca Moy

The gathering of these five artists, as individually accomplished as they are varied in style and execution all produce a heightened quality of vitality in the objects they create. This exhibition demonstrates how the individual character, craft and passion their work summons is greatly enhanced by proximity and the resulting dialogue amongst the works. The notion of two plus two equaling five applies here and then some...

Though we often think of time as our most valuable commodity, it turns out that vitality or life itself actually takes the top spot. Time can race or it can drag whereas the presence of vitality makes or breaks the quality or lack thereof in one’s experience of life. Each of these artists reach for nothing less than the greatest possible expression of that ineffable quality.

Artist: Doug Frohman

The germ of the idea for “Vitality Rising” came from seeing some coiled wire on my work table. I had been writing in my notebook musing about the experiences that art sparks in the audience.Wondering where that inspiration comes from, I engaged several artists whose work and practices I deeply admire. In those dialogues I started getting excited about the possibility of an exhibit where this seminal question is explored in the artists’ works as well as a dialogue between their works and the audience. It was my great good fortune to be able to bring together a small group of artists whose work I greatly admire; work that is both powerfully unique and at the beating heart of where contemporary painting is today. One of the central themes that ran through the works of all these artists, whose materials, strategies and execution couldn’t have been more different, was the experience of vitality. As one walks among these works, engaging them individually as well as in dialogue with one another, the audience completes the circuit that began as that vital generative spark.
​
- Doug Frohman