FREE STYLE
Idiosyncratic/Eclecticism

Curated by Brett DePalma
March 8 - April 20, 2025

Main Gallery at Building 35

Gallery Hours:
Fridays: 2-5pm
Saturdays & Sundays: 1-5pm
OPEN Easter Sunday, April 20th

A non-hierarchical style in which there is no superior form over another and the coexistence of expression is not only allowed but promoted. This is to avoid the commodification of extraction of attention, giving the viewer a sense confusion leading to boredom…A variety of examples for attention are there to combat such a malaise of creative curiosity.

You’ve got to love an exhibition title that aptly captures art’s status as the ultimate arena of expressive freedom — such as FREE STYLE: Idiosyncratic/Eclecticism...

- Taliesin Thomas, Hyperalleric

COMING UP

FRANC PALAIA

URBAN ARCHAEOLOGY
A 20-Year Survey Solo Exhibition of Multi-Disciplinary Art

Opening Reception:
Sunday, May 4, 3-5PM

May 3 - June 15, 2025

Main Gallery at Building 35

Gallery Hours:
Fridays: 2-5pm
Saturdays & Sundays: 1-5pm

Franc Palaia’s Urban Archaeology is an expansive exhibition that transforms the cavernous Building 35 Main Gallery at GARNER Arts Center into an archaeological site. Mr. Palaia is a master of visual deception. His mixed media paintings, frescoes, photographs, and sculptures look like they have been unearthed from abandoned underground urban landfills of the future. Upon entering the space, the viewer is amazed at how the massive archeological fragments appear to be broken life-sized concrete walls, crumbling rubble, and pigmented fragments of modern-day cement structures, despite not being what they seem.

Edward M. O’Hara

Echoes of Grass
New Works on Paper

Opening Reception:
Sunday, May 4th, 2025, 3-5pm

May 3 - June 15, 2025

Ned Harris Gallery at Building 35

Gallery Hours:
Fridays: 2-5pm
Saturdays & Sundays: 1-5pm

GARNER Arts Center is pleased to present this new series by abstract painter, Edward M. O’Hara for a solo exhibition in its Ned Harris Gallery at Building 35. By using the earth as his brush, O’Hara’s new series breaks free from studio restraints while capturing the beauty, motion and ephemeral fragility of nature. The artist creates these works in the fields of his farm in Highland NY. After applying paint directly to the wind-blown grasses, he repeatedly presses paper with his hands and feet onto the grassy surfaces. When the paper is peeled away, bold, energetic, fractal patterns are revealed, patterns that are mirrored throughout nature - in ocean waves, sand dunes, and wispy clouds. For O’Hara, the process feels raw, intimate, honest and connects him to the universe in ways he never anticipated.