Tom Herberg, Anne Seltzer and Gina stepaniuk showcase their work.

Curated by: Paula Van Horn

Dates: September 1 – September 30, 2009

Pedestrian Viewing 24/7, Galleries open by appointment

Location: 81 Pine Street

Hold onto your hats! These three painters will take you on a journey through swirling masses of emotionally charged patterns and colors.

Tom: Tom’s paintings are magical. His scale ranges from the amazing beauty of a histological slide to the eruptive explosions in the universe. The precipices, jagged corners and ensnaring wires may make you want to look away, but you can’t stop staring. His work is mesmerizing. It is nature at its core—dark, luminous and beautiful.

Anne: With Anne’s paintings you feel comfortable and nurtured, but look closer, there is subtle discord nestled in her traditional painting technique. In "WHITE EDGE FALLS": she gently takes abstraction back to its roots of deconstruction, and then pushes you out of the safety net of the familiar.

Gina: Gina’s paintings abound with splashes of color, making you feel you could be swept away at any moment. In "TAKING OFF AND LANDING" there is an uncertainty whether the landing will happen. She will tell you her work is about nature—inner, outer, micro, macro…and it is. But just as nature is never static, neither are Gina’s paintings. They have power in their movement that will keep you captivated. 

Little Dipper by Helen Lessick

The Little Dipper is an installation using buckets, bead chain and blue paint to create a ground-level constellation for Long Beach.

The artwork consists of seven altered commercial pails suspended in the space to form the constellation Ursa Minor (the Little Dipper).  The largest bucket, representing Polaris, situates the North Star of mariners and pilots in the middle of the Aquarium Way space.  In the northern hemisphere, all constellations rotate around Polaris, which appears fixed in the night sky.

Location:  21 Aquarium Way