Group exhibition | april 19 - may 3, 2024

Curatorial Statement

 Flow is a consequence of skill and experience, resulting in the seemingly effortless creation 

of beauty and aesthetic objects: art can reflect the flow of life, nature, spirituality, knowledge, pleasure, growth, and destruction, both literally and metaphorically, inhabiting a space of multitudes and contradictions. 

“Flow State” combines 2 floors of recent paintings by four very different artists, Nicole Basilone, Susan Eldridge, Daniel Morowitz and Greg Brickey, whose work demonstrates a high level of flow in process as well as conceptual interests.

The connection between flow and creativity has long been studied by scientists and artists of all disciplines. Flow state itself is sometimes defined as “effortless performance without conscious attention,” and manifests itself in “peak performance, extreme enjoyment and all aspects of creativity”. Taking flow as a jumping off point, these painters, while disparate in their individual practices, come together to realize a show that compliments all of the work within a conceptual framework which examines the flowing together of ideas and visual languages.

Nicole Baselines paintings, consisting of abstracted landscape and floral imagery, approaches flow with a directness and looseness. Pouring paint and watery runs spill over the canvas, form and material flow together to construct her image while obscuring and eliminating what is previously laid down. Her paintings are always evolving, flowing between visual representation and pure abstraction. Susan Eldridge’s vibrant semi-abstraction approaches flow through various sources of inspiration. Nature, pop culture, media, and psychology are some of the elements she pulls from to construct her gentle, elegant paintings. By incorporating these elements through imaginative layering and collage like paint techniques, imagery is allowed and sometimes compelled to flow together, blend, and conflate, producing paintings whose whole is more than the sum of the parts. Daniel Morowitz’s blending of representation and narrative focuses on the flow of ideas rather than the application of paint, Daniel attempts to complicate notions of art historical narrative by interjecting contemporary perspective into a linearly accepted timeline. Greg Brickey steps back from his recent installation work with three canvases of dark, lyrical abstraction. Combining unrestrained improvisation with tight conceptual boundaries, the work ranges from the nearly