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Unrehearsed

Parvin · Charissa Brock · through November 5

Unrehearsed

No blueprints. Charissa Brock hand-splits harvested bamboo into forms echoing ancient tools and vessels; Parvin, raised in Iran's hillsides and along the Caspian coast, paints straight onto raw canvas — no sketch, no plan. Two artists, one instinct: trust the material, trust the memory, and let the form arrive on its own.

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Notes, observations, and the longer view.

Unrehearsed opens October 2. Bamboo split by hand, paint laid down without a sketch.

Charissa Brock splits harvested bamboo by hand and sews it into forms that read as tools, shells and star charts before they read as sculpture. Parvin paints beside her the way she always has: no study underneath, colour answered by colour.

Why a whale: Britt Freda took a line from Strauss and painted a bay in Mexico

The title of the painting at the centre of Sanctuary is a line from Ariadne auf Naxos. The aria it comes from calls music the holiest art, the one that unites all who can dare. Freda took the daring for her title and the holiness for her subject — and worked Strauss's score into the panel itself.

Sanctuary opens August 7. Two painters, nineteen works, and a whale.

Britt Freda went to Mexico last winter, newly empty-nested, and was greeted on the boat by a breaching humpback. The painting that came of it is five feet of whale rising through a sea built entirely of stones. Teresa Smith holds the quieter register of the same island.

Additions opened June 5. Two artists joined the program.

Ross Collado paints belonging in layered mixed media; Tamera Abaté builds landscapes from as many as thirty fused layers of beeswax, tree sap and pigment. Both joined the permanent program.