Allen C. Smith 

Allen C. Smith (or Denny to his friends) creates large watercolor paintings. “I use the tools of childhood, while recalling and ignoring the formal theories I learned at school. Adult sober intellect drives my body to respond with childlike activity, forcing my self to recognize and follow the contradiction.


For me, making art is a visceral experience and a meditation. My abstractions are born of thoughts that come to me through the day, usually at first awakening. Often the thought is simply a line or a negative space that I choose to follow with my hand.

When I'm drawing with pencils and crayons, I work very aggressively, listening to frenetic music, grinding and sweating, drawing with both hands, sometimes tearing the paper. When I'm painting I slow my heart rate, tone down the music, just groove to the feeling.”

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Diane Janowski

Diane Janowski, who did not come to her senses, also with a long career in the fine arts, produces conceptual art and short-length art films including the critically- acclaimed "White", "Blades of Grass," and "Zero is Not Nothing. "When I was little, I took things apart. Typewriters, clothing, radios…… I put them back together – usually with many leftover parts. But, they looked a whole lot better – at least to me.

My work always revolves around taking things apart and putting them back together. A process of deconstruction and reconstruction. My goal is transformation, reconciliation, and redemption. What didn’t work before, now does. I deconstruct an existing narrative and write a new story."

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