LORE
exhibition Opening Friday September 5, 2025
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through Oct 17
We are excited to announce our seventh exhibition of 2025 :: LORE
Lore brings together six artists whose work transforms memory, myth, and imagination into living narratives. Through painting, printmaking, and installation, each artist reinterprets the timeless function of lore: to carry stories that explain, preserve, and reinvent human experience. Cameron Bliss captures the contemplative strength of the female figure in ornate, theatrical spaces. Yuji Hiratsuka’s witty, enigmatic prints echo the universal dramas of daily life. Steven L. Anderson draws upon the cycles of nature as a living archive of memory and resilience. Greg Noblin creates surreal fables where play and ritual blur into dream. AnnMarie Jalmasco reimagines ancient and fantastical traditions into new mythologies. And Kiara Gilbert builds a powerful, evolving record of Black, queer life through print and narrative reclamation. Together, their works reveal lore as not only inherited, but continually made anew—an ever-shifting constellation of stories that invite us to wonder, remember, and imagine.
Cameron Bliss’s paintings unfold like living lore—stories told through the female form in all its mystery, strength, and reflection. Her exquisitely rendered figures inhabit ornate and atmospheric spaces, surrounded by patterns, botanicals, and architectural detail that speak to histories both real and imagined. With echoes of Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Edward Hopper, Bliss layers oil on canvas to create works that are at once intimate and theatrical, inviting the viewer into moments of stillness and contemplation. Each painting becomes a chapter of visual narrative, where gaze, gesture, and ornament hold equal weight. Through her art, Bliss reminds us that sometimes the essence of being is not found in action, but in presence—a timeless lesson that resonates with the quiet power of lore.
Yuji Hiratsuka’s prints unfold like visual lore—narratives drawn from the timeless theater of human experience. Rooted in the tradition of Japanese Ukiyo-e yet infused with contemporary Western sensibilities, his enigmatic figures become actors on a stage of metaphor, embodying irony, satire, whimsy, and paradox. Each etched line and unpredictable texture carries its own story, layering paper, ink, and copper into a rich tapestry of visual meaning. These characters—cheerful, joyous, and restlessly alive—invite us into small dramas that echo the universal tales of daily life. Hiratsuka’s art speaks to the lore we all carry: the gestures, mismatches, and fleeting moments that shape the human condition, rendered with both elegance and playful wit.
Steven L. Anderson’s work breathes with the lore of nature—ancient, cyclical, and deeply intertwined with human existence. In his Tree Rings and botanical drawings, Anderson transforms the growth patterns of trees and ferns into visual records of memory, time, and resilience. These forms, at once scientific and spiritual, become symbols of the power that shapes both the natural world and the systems of human life. His richly detailed works invite viewers to witness nature not as a backdrop, but as a living archive—an ongoing story that pulses with ferocity, beauty, and energy. Through this lens, Anderson’s art becomes lore itself: a reminder that our histories, struggles, and futures are rooted in the same elemental forces that sustain the earth.
Greg Noblin’s work inhabits the space of lore—that shifting terrain where memory, dream, and imagination entwine to form stories both timeless and newly born. His images feel like fragments of forgotten fables: surreal tableaux where childhood relics transform into sacred artifacts and animals emerge as mythic guides. In these works, play becomes ritual, and the ordinary bends toward the uncanny, offering riddles without answers and middles without beginnings or ends. Rather than fixed narratives, Noblin’s pieces are invitations—beckoning us to invent, to believe, and to wonder. Lore reminds us that mythology is not only inherited from the past, but created anew in the act of remembering, reimagining, and looking closely at the world made strange.
AnnMarie Jalmasco’s paintings and illustrations live at the threshold of lore—where myth and memory, reality and imagination, converge. Drawing from her Asian American heritage, folklore, art history, and medieval fantastical traditions, she reimagines ancient stories into new visual narratives that feel both timeless and contemporary. Her immersive worlds, rendered in oil and acrylic, blur the line between the real and the legendary, inviting mythical beasts and symbolic figures to inhabit landscapes of wonder. Moving fluidly between abstraction and portraiture, Jalmasco creates spaces where forgotten tales can be rediscovered and transformed. In her work, lore is not a relic of the past, but a living, evolving force—an invitation for viewers to step inside, to imagine, and to remember.
Kiara Gilbert’s art carries the weight and wonder of lore—stories passed down, half-remembered, reimagined, and reclaimed. Rooted in their experience as a Black, queer artist from the South, Gilbert’s prints and installations weave personal memory with ancestral voices, biblical tales, and queer iconography. Each work becomes a fragment of a living mythology, where frustration and love, joy and pain, lineage and liberation collide. Like lore itself, Gilbert’s images resist fixed interpretation: they are both deeply personal and universally resonant, drawing from the intimacy of overheard conversations, childhood wonder, and the radical history of Black printmakers who spoke truth to power. In Gilbert’s hands, lore is not only inherited but remade—an evolving archive of Black, queer life that insists on visibility, complexity, and freedom.
