The Holiday Bizarre
December 6th - 28th 2024
This Holiday Bizarre will put a lil spice in your eggnog.
Stop in and enjoy this collection of fresh work from 30+ artists. It has a little something for everyone from paintings to assemblage to sculpture to ceramics!
Everything in this Holiday Bizarre is priced to be gift-ready, so if you're looking for a one-of-a-kind gift that shows off your great taste, then we got you covered.
Even better, you can take your new treasure home on the spot!
Join us during the Art Walk this Friday December 6 from 5p to 8p. Meet the artists, hobnob with great folks, and enjoy this fun collection of edgy contemporary artwork!
You'll find The Palace Gallery on 4th Avenue above the Palace Cafe, last door before the alley. Look for the signs, and listen for the party!
If you can't make the Art Walk, you can still catch the show every Saturday in December from noon-4p.
Come on down and get Bizarre!
Stop in and enjoy this collection of fresh work from 30+ artists. It has a little something for everyone from paintings to assemblage to sculpture to ceramics!
Everything in this Holiday Bizarre is priced to be gift-ready, so if you're looking for a one-of-a-kind gift that shows off your great taste, then we got you covered.
Even better, you can take your new treasure home on the spot!
Join us during the Art Walk this Friday December 6 from 5p to 8p. Meet the artists, hobnob with great folks, and enjoy this fun collection of edgy contemporary artwork!
You'll find The Palace Gallery on 4th Avenue above the Palace Cafe, last door before the alley. Look for the signs, and listen for the party!
If you can't make the Art Walk, you can still catch the show every Saturday in December from noon-4p.
Come on down and get Bizarre!
This year, exhibiting artists Include:
Hannah Kautto
Barbara Siegele David Orion Callahan Elizabeth Kucerack Angela Behrenos Scott Mayberry Conor Bod Mary K. Johnson Meredith Montgomery Jeanie Rae Johnson Ginger Toomey Mary Diefenbach Duke Daphne Sweet |
Sue Wright
Sherry Kaufman Kathy Guss Steven Held Steve Marriott Robin Mayberry Zach Parry Maryann Bonjorni Olive Buvit Karl Schwiesow Joan E. Bell Crista Ann Ames kAmA THANK YOU, ARTISTS! |
Danney Parkins
Julie Prather Jamie Klein Jack Johnston Jesse Blumenthal Lydia Hunter Patricia Bury David Parker George Dial Cassidy Clemeston Jampa Dorje Lisa Anderson |
The Palace Gallery is free and open to the public 12pm-4pm Saturdays and First Fridays of every month from 5-8pm.
We're also open for special events throughout the month.
Come join us downtown at 210 W. 4th Ave, Suite X!
We're also open for special events throughout the month.
Come join us downtown at 210 W. 4th Ave, Suite X!
HELLO, JANUARY 2025:
THE OUTSIDERS
"Art-making is native to humans. We’ve been leaving our mark since Cro-Magnon Man loitered in Lascaux, sketching bison with ochre. Toddlers are so art-prone that they’ll turn every blank wall into a mural if given the chance. Humans everywhere are gifted with creative impulses, and many of us channel those impulses into painting, drawing, sculpture and other expressions of our unfurling minds.
And yet there persists an idea that artists are an exclusive club with secret handshakes and lineages. An artist is influenced by a particular school of thought and studies under respected mentors. An artist has been credentialed through formal education, an impressive CV, and gallery representation. An artist makes a living with their art. This perception of who can call themselves an artist is a narrow path that limits those who have arrived at the art life through other channels. If an artist is a formally trained, professionally recognized expert, then who are the people who create work quietly, through trial and error, in their back bedrooms, having never been formally mentored or trained? How does an art-maker identify as an artist if they’re not stamped with the formative experience of art school? Who gets to decide if someone is an artist, and when does a maker of art get to claim the title for themselves? It is these questions that led to the collection shown here in The Outsiders. The artists in this collection have not, for a variety of reasons, attended formal art training. Yet each of them has a long-term and disciplined practice, working through the discoveries that reveal themselves in the process of art-making itself. If it is possible for an artist to attend formal training then of course that can be a huge benefit, providing artists the opportunity to hone their craft, to make connections and to commit to their creative voice. But this collection seeks to encourage those who have not had that opportunity; or those who pursued other academic pathways in their college years; or those who started in formal art training and had their hearts thoroughly broken by the process; or those who never knew their hands were made to hold a paintbrush until later in their lives. The Outsiders is a celebration of the alternate path: the unconventional, unexpected, under-recognized journey into the life of visual creativity. May it light your fire. " -ROBIN MAYBERRY |
The Palace Gallery / Art Is Fine LLC / 2024