Out of the Closet

gallery artists

2006 Jan 14 - Feb 14

The Chace-Randall Gallery is "Out of the Closet" January 14 - February 12, celebrating with wine and ginger snaps every Saturday afternoon. All those wonderful pieces of art that you could have only seen upon request, those closeted in gallery inventory, will proudly take their turn on the wall.

"I have a strong and very select group of artists who exhibit at Chace-Randall on a regular basis, and I need to keep inventory. When someone shows special interest in one of my artists, I love pulling work from the closets, exhibiting each and every jewel," says gallery owner/director Zoe Randall, who is well-known for setting work after work along the gallery floors and usurping a nail or two to show how a particular piece looks in northern or eastern light--on a grey green or prairie dust wall. But "Out of the Closet" allows Randall to exhibit that inventory throughout the gallery, making it available, even, to those who would never ask.

"So many gallery visitors don't want to 'bother' me by asking to see stored work. They don't realize how much pleasure it gives me-pulling a piece from the closet and being able to revisit it, myself," says Randall.

During the Holiday thrust of Chace-Randall's small works show, larger scale landscapes by Christie Scheele and Nat Thomas were relegated to the closet, as were earlier and edgier still life paintings by Judith Lamb. A gorgeous muted landscape with figure by Inverna Lockpez never found a wall space of its own until now. Canvas mosaics by Laura Di Nello where exiled to make way for her small holiday gems. And did you know that museum collected street photographer Patrick Pagnano painted? Only those who shared the gallery closet knew-until now.

"I can't build a new wing of the gallery for each new show, but I can spill the closets onto the walls once a year," says Randall. The spillage is divine.