Works by Gio Geo, Mark Farrell, and David Clark

On display at EDGE Gallery February 17th - March 5th, 2023 An opening reception will take place on February 17th starting at 6 pm.  Gio Geo: ABRAXAS “This show is the culmination of ideas and visions that came to me beginning in the fall of 2019 which can only be crystallized here and now as these seven pieces. Abraxas comes from the Grand Archon of early Christian Heresy, Abraxas who is binding Good to Evil. I examine with paint-brush gnostic and ancient images of the divine as a way of personally and socially re-examining current psychological axioms. Using art as a scalpel to violently rip these long-forgotten ideas from the obscure to drop them on the center of the canvas.” Mark Farrell: Leave Scars “My paintings in this show are comprised of works spanning the past two or three years, as well as work from last year. Regardless, they are all pieces I have never shown in a gallery before. In response to our recent show at Edge about gun violence, I am showing my painting Fuck the NRA from 2020 (which I actually started and had the idea for in 2018). Another painting called Boxcar Coven was featured in New American Paintings, but this is the first time I've shown it in a Colorado gallery (or any gallery). My more recent paintings continue to lean into the supernatural and somewhat gothic spirit of Boxcar Coven, and though some are included in this show, I'm saving most of them for an upcoming show at a gallery in RINO in May.” “My work in general deals with things that are haunted. What haunts a place has nothing to do with religion, I think it has more to do with trauma. Most art is a coping mechanism that frames trauma in some way. I often populate my paintings with at least some kind of ghoul, and while I make them I ask myself "what is it to be haunted?" "What is it about Halloween or supernatural that I want to take and put into my paintings?" I want this feeling to be specific to place, so I've made it specific to Colorado in some ways: purple clouds at night, strange loud sunsets, or what if the witch trials took place in Colorado? I also take many of my scenes from the Littleton suburbs where I grew up, and in the process of working I add what I'd like to see in the suburbs to those scenes. I do this to try to open the minds of some people to what could actually take place in the suburbs.” David Clark: Photoids “Photoids (photo-based mixed media pieces) and other images in this show employ the use of various methods and materials to explore the visual representation of ideas after my 23-year hiatus (1997-2020) from art making.  Although I had delved a bit into photography during this time, I did almost nothing with my home-turf disciplines of drawing, painting and printmaking. It feels good to be making images once again using all the image-making tools at my disposal as so much of what I do is determined by a process-oriented response to the materials I have at hand.”  Gallery Hours: Friday: 6-9pm Saturday & Sunday: 12-5pm Private viewings are available by appointment. Visit www.edgeart.org for more information.

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