The State of the Art Gallery is honored to present the 2025 Invitational Exhibit, showcasing the work of four artists: Nicholas Daniluk, Fernanda Llosa, Lin Price, and Steven Skopik. Media include sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography.
The show will run from March 6–30. An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 7, 5–8
Nicholas Daniluk
There is a visceral physical connection between the artist and the art when working with pastels that draws me to the medium. This connection leads to the creation of rendered pieces not typically associated with the medium and pushes the viewer into confrontation with the subject therein and the delicate nature of the physical work
Fernanda Llosa
A broad enough view of history and the world makes evident that humanity is trapped in a nearly permanent state of division, conflict, fear, and sorrow. This is the self-sustained state of consciousness, not something external to it. It is consciousness that is divided and divisive, conflicted and conflictive, violent, and yet forever pointing an accusing finger at other groups or individuals, all equivalent manifestations of the same general mindset. Every one of us is an integral part of this tribal and self-centered mind. No one is unique or innocent. There is no exceptional nation, righteous religion, or superior reformist or revolutionary intent that will ever solve this immense problem.
Consequently, the fundamental challenge we face is to stop attaining a false sense of security and privilege within the narrow mental and sociocultural space granted by whatever ideological fortress one was born into or later occupied by choice. Only when our eyes, hearts, and minds are fully open to the dismal state of human affairs and the multiple threats it poses to the species’ survival, the cultural and psychological claim to unique identity and separate existence will no longer dominate the mind and determine every thought, feeling, and action. The resulting abundance of unselfish energy and caring intelligence might then bring the unity and harmony the world so desperately needs.
The images in this show are part of a larger body of work presented as an admittedly flawed pictorial invitation to be nothing but life, the incomparable honor that has already been granted to everyone in exact, equal measure.
Lin Price
Themes that arise in my paintings are the experiences of desire, regret, and joy. Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show a painted world that is mysterious and sometimes noble, rather like the one we live in.
Steven Skopik
I am hard pressed to declare what these pieces are. Photographs? Digital illustrations? Art historical hallucinations? Theft?
All I can say is that having had the experience of piloting the A.I. through scores of iterations, interventions, and traditional photographic edits, I have—to my surprise—a greater sense of authorship and ownership of these pictures than any photograph I’ve ever taken.
Jacob Van Langeveld
I am a painter and cartoonist. This grouping of work has its roots in a flattened and simplified cartoon style that I have been working in for the past few years. These works are a momentary processing of an ever changing and chaotic world that I feel I understand both more and less of all at the same time.
