Leah Virsik: COMMON THREAD
July 29th, 2022 – September 3rd, 2022
Leah Virsik’s new collages contain bits of material from previous projects. Her work is formal, consisting of color, line, texture, form, value, shape, and space. Blues and oranges, complementary colors on the color wheel, convey emotional meaning. In Virsik’s work, blues represent comfort and disappointment; while golds, yellows, and browns represent her optimism and warmth.
Virsik’s works contain thread and stitching, painted over self-portraits, silk organza, prints and old business cards, and dots and holes, all which reveal and conceal. These bits of material, no longer used for their original purpose, now torn or cut and repurposed, speak of potentiality and a remaking of the self.
Abby Zhang
Abby Zhang is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained as a painter, she holds a Masters of Fine Arts From the Pratt Institute and has exhibited her work nationally. Zhang’s expansive body of work includes paintings, sculpture, site-specific installations, and video. She has shown her work in Target Gallery, VA; Capital Culture house, Madrid, Spain; Art X Gallery, Fremont, CA; and Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA. She recently participated in the Nomad III and TRYST Alternative Art Fair, hosted by the Torrance Art Museum. She will be an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center in spring/summer 2025.