DUOS | Curated by j.Reto

SEPTEMBER 2025
NORTH GALLERY
DUOS | Curated by j.Reto

Addie Studebaker
Christina Young
Graham Dane
j.Reto
Joshua Demain
Owen Tucker
Sally Carr
Suzanne Dvorak
Winter
Yulia Kalagaeva

DUOS is an experiment in collaboration between local artists. Each painting is the result of two artists working independently on different areas of the piece, then concealing the work and passing it onto the other artist. Neither artist knows what the completed piece looks like.  

The works are hung fully wrapped and will be taken off the walls and torn open at 6pm opening night.  

DUOS is also an experimental show with viewer participation. The paintings are meant to be held, passed around and rehung in any order. The randomness and spontaneity are aspects of the show.  

In all, DUOS is an attempt to bring artists and audiences together, and to break down the divide between art and observer.  

DUOS is curated by j.Reto, a founding member of CIRCLE5 art group.

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Photographs by Hans Hallinen

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Antithesis of Demure | Isabell Daniel and Cynthia Morelli

AUGUST 2025
CENTER GALLERY
Antithesis of Demure | Isabell Daniel and Cynthia Morelli

This August Isabell Daniel's and Cynthia Morelli’s sculptures will be on display in an exhibit titled Antithesis of Demure at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska. That's us in the picture, dancing as teacups and saucers on a summer night in Atlanta, Georgia in 1985. With this two person exhibition, we celebrate a deep and enduring friendship, born from and sustained through a shared history with clay. Our ongoing project, in which we shake up our own figure-based abstract sculpture through collaborative studio time, materials and place exchange, channels our heartfelt trust and bold playfulness inspired by each other. This is an intentional exchange based on the foundation of clay that began our forty-plus year friendship at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in the 1980’s.

www.isabelldaniel.com
www.cynthiamorelli.com

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Photographs by Hans Hallinen

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Portrait Series by Isabell Daniel and Cynthia Morelli

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Nordic Light and Darkness | Kim Jansson and Josefine Östberg Olsson

JANUARY 2021
NORTH GALLERY
Nordic Light and Darkness | Kim Jansson and Josefine Östberg Olsson

Working across video and fabrics Nordic Light and Darkness, the two Swedish based artists first show together, revolve around this sort of situation-based logic, where both the landscape and cars works as amplifiers of the situation. In this exhibition through act of cleaning an internal combustion engine and a hunt for the first Sun after the polar night.

Statement from the artists:
We wanted to go to Alaska to experience and inhale the logic woven into the car launch event in Glacier View on 4th of July. Twice these last two years, we’ve booked plane tickets, both times it was cancelled. First time due to a financial crisis on a personal level, and the second was due to Covid19. The starting point of our now two-year long collaboration was this event in Glacier View, with the monumental Alaskan landscape as backdrop, and the name Glacier View, setting the mood, concept and title. Then... cars flying through the sky... Like the final scene in Thelma and Louise (1991), on repeat.

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Josefine Östberg Olsson holds an MA degree in Fine Art, Valand Academy (2016). Östberg Olsson works mainly through performance and has exhibited at several galleries in Sweden and is represented in collections both in Sweden and internationally.

In Fluid and Dirt, a series of digitally printed fabrics, the motifs have emerged through the physical act of thoroughly cleaning a V8 engine, a performance by Östberg Olsson that lasted for 4 days, through layers of dirt, engine oil, gearbox oil, and other car-related liquids. The cloths have later been printed digitally on textiles, creating the distance needed from smell and stickiness to turn the motifs into images, resulting in abstract landscapes of darkness and light on cotton cloth, images of a heart-breaking goodbye, when she decided never to drive a combustion engine again.

Östberg Olsson writes: “Feeling a roaring V8 setting off at full speed gives me goosebumps, and through my performance practice I have, until now, driven a V8 engine many times. For me it’s about desire, a desire for risk-taking at full speed, all summed up in the car...”

www.josefineostbergolsson.se

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Kim Jansson is a video based artist and holds a BFA degree in Fine Art, Valand Academy (2016). Her short documentary The Family Farm has been shown at several international film festivals including Anchorage International Film Festival in 2019.

Driven by a deep interest in traveling to remote places in the north, Kim Jansson has travelled by sea to the fishing village Berlevåg in the Arctic part of Norway. In Jansson’s video From Darkness, the viewer meets the sun after its return from the long-lasting polar nigh. A short glimpse of the sun is visible, as it emerges from behind the clouds.

Jansson writes; “Last winter I went on a five-day boat journey to Berlevåg. I wanted a slow way of travel, allowing me to adapt to the changes of the landscape along the Norwegian coast. I had a strong wish to be in Berlevåg when the sun came back after the polar night, as its breaking out of the dark. A manifestation of the polarities between light and darkness. This is as far as one can get on the Scandinavian mainland, it really feels like being at the end of the world.”

www.josefineostbergolsson.se

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