FEBRUARY 7 - MARCH 8, 2026

Opening Reception:

Saturday, FEBRUARY 7, 2026  |  5 - 8:00 pm

IN THE MAIN GALLERY | 

SHARON BUTLER, JASON TRAVERS  

We are pleased to present in the new year, SPOT ON : aka, SEE SPOT RUN, an exhibition with work by four artists:  SHARON BUTLER and JASON TRAVERS in the Main Gallery — and in the Front Gallery, work by Murray Hochman and Eileen Power.

SHARON BUTLER uses process as metaphor and is keenly interested in creating paintings as documentation of her life. In a review in the Washington Post, art critic Michael Sullivan wrote that Butler “creates sketchy, thinly painted washes that hover between representation and abstraction.” Critic Thomas Micchelli proposed that Butler's work shares “Rauschenberg’s dissolution of the barriers between painting and sculpture,” particularly where the canvases are “stapled almost willy-nilly to the front of the stretcher bars, which are visible along the edges of some of the works.” She has said that at the root of her art practice is an effort to understand the relationship between emotion and intellect. “The tension between exacting, mechanical processes — often digital and screen-based — and the humanism inherent in handmade images and objects have always been stand-ins — a visual metaphor in my work.”

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JASON TRAVERS shares that as a young painter, with a strong desire to connect to nature, he began painting following the tradition of plein air painters, who studied light and color differences embodied in the landscape. Though external references to nature have diminished in his paintings over the years, he continues to ruminate on organic processes that nature provides. Travers’s goal is to move beyond literal translation and get at something deeper — to uncover the cycles, the patterns, the entropy that are constantly playing out. “It may be suggested in color choices and mark-making that I use. The color of sky at dusk, old stone, decaying wood, the passage of starling murmuration, footprints on the surface of a frozen pond — all become poetic moments that haunt my studio practice. Though at first glance my paintings may appear to be simple, given time I hope for them to open slowly to sensory experience.”

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