Featured Artists Exhibit July-August 2025
July 8 – August 16
The gallery is featuring the work of member artist R. Scott Horner, emerging artist in residence Lucas Bernard, and guest artists Chris Boerner, Paul Reamey, and Kerry Schroeder.
The gallery also features a group landscape show, “SCAPES”.
Opening Reception on July 11, 2025.
Lucas Bernard
As an oil painter, Lucas’ motivation to create stems from a desire to engage more intimately with the world around him. By spending hours closely observing an object, person, plant, or landscape, Lucas is able to build a personal connection to both his subject and the physical art he creates. Through this process, Lucas aims to highlight aspects of life that may seem insignificant or overlooked, inviting a deeper appreciation of the mundane.
Chris Boerner
Chris Boerner is an artistic woodturner, specializing in creating beautiful one-of-a-kind pieces of artwork from a variety of rare and unusual wood. Basically self-taught, Chris enjoys creating intricately and technically advanced artistic pieces. He searches for unusual wood from downed trees with dynamic color and grain which may have burls, holes, or bark inclusions. Though these characteristics add to the difficulty and danger turning the wood, it increases Chris’ excitement and determination to create a piece that is truly unique.
R. Scott Horner
In this exhibit, Scott is visualizing the many echos of self found in the things we create and the enduring actions that leave behind traces of our being. Our selves echo in the digital world, too. Giant data centers build virtual selves by assembling our online activities. Through repetition of key shapes, and creation of container-like forms, Scott explores the concept of self-related artifacts.
Paul Reamey
Paul is an artist and industrial designer currently working in glass, wood, and stone. He’s drawn to these materials both by the puzzle of joining them together and by a simple fascination of how they continue to interact in a finished piece. There’s something about the fragility of cold glass, the heaviness of stone and the soft, approachable nature of wood that makes coupling these materials particularly compelling.
Kerry Schroeder
Kerry Schroeder’s work is a metaphor for the search for answers in a world where they feel both close at hand and impossibly distant. She turns to nature as her visual language—layered, ever-changing, and complex, much like life itself. She considers her work expressionistic, blending gestural brushstrokes and spontaneous marks with representational forms, existing in the space between the tangible and the abstract. Her process is a constant push and pull—allowing what wants to emerge, working with what appears, and letting go of what doesn’t belong.
