VITAL GESTURE: EXPRESSIVE WORKS BY Michael Wray and Marilyn Wells october 3, 2025 to november 2, 2025.

In shades of blue, flourescent colors of pink and orange, Colorado artist Michael Wray shows his latest series of work “Mystic” in the front gallery.

Exploring themes of memory, loss, and the environment his process is intuitive and layered, allowing forms to emerge through Pollock like drips and gestures rather than predetermined image-making. The resulting works balance intensity with restraint, often suggesting both rupture and calm within the same surface. Mystic continues this exploration by engaging with questions of climate change, collective memory, and the search for meaning in the face of tragedy.

Tears for Another Child

ACRYLIC PAINTING

With a similar interest in movement, Marilyn Wells creates sumi-e paintings in her show “Echoes of Silence” Gesturing towards the magical and mythical, Marilyn brings form where there is emptiness and presence from absence. Working with delicate types of paper and Sumi-e inks, the works are spontaneous, seeking the depths of creation in moments of pure clarity.

Marilyn Wells, PhD, M.Ed in Art and CPT, is an American artist known for her visionary works, revealing our Being, in layers and transparencies, through time, from our Origin in Primal and Magic Art through the ambiguities, cycles of life and visually represented emergence of Soul into our current Mental/Rational mode of being and forwards into the wholeness of a new, Integral, 4th dimension way of being - so much needed in these troubled times.

Her artistry spans oil painting, figurative sculpture, and abstract sumi-e, each influenced by poetry and prose, capturing the essence of our sacred earth into which we are woven. Her work as a teacher and artist is recognized both nationally and internationally.

The exhibit opens on First Friday October 3, 2025 and runs through November 2, 2025. The artist’s reception will be Friday October 10, 2025 from 6-9 pm. Also features will be live Jazz Saxophonist Max Wagner.

Marilyn Wells

Sumi E Ink on paper