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Only By Night
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Only by Night is a meditation on the solitary experience of the world at night. Inspired by an Edgar
Allen Poe poem, which alludes to the constrictions of nighttime dreaming. Only By Night features
works whose images come alive after dark falls, when the world quiets, and we find ourselves with
a moment to contemplate the day that came before and the life that looms ahead. The pause for
reflection vibrates from a still room, to a quiet neighborhood, to the hushed landscape, to the
magnitude of the entire universe.
The work in Only By Night includes painting, printmaking, drawing, and photography representing
both the restorative and haunting icons of nighttime existence; whimsical buffalos tramp across
snow white pillows as if something from a dream; moons and planets are rendered in graphite
and paint in surreal detail and sober asceticism; the haze of fireflies and softly lit houses captured
from the lens of a camera recall summer evenings and the comfort of companionship, and a glow-
ing red digital alarm clock painted in oil hints both at the anxiety of insomnia and the potential
of the coming morning light.
Works by Kamrooz Aram, Glen Baldridge, Shawn Bitters, James Castle, Vija Celmins, Gregory
Crewdson, Matthew Day Jackson, Juliet Jacobson, Michael Krueger,Vera Lutter, Mary Manning,
Frank Moore, Robert Olsen, Mae Shore, Kyle Simon, Brian Shure, and Chris Ulivo.
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