Lynn Duryea and John Gibson

July 24 - September 20, 2025

FEATURED ARTISTS

Featured

John Gibson

John Gibson is a painter based out of Greenfield, Massachusetts, who is known for his still life paintings of balls and spheres. Since the 1990s, this has been Gibson’s exclusive interest as he strives to explore the illusion of three dimensionality on a two dimensional surface.

Lynn Duryea

The ordinary can be quite extraordinary. Through elemental shape and form, my reference is to architectural, structural and mechanical elements. The representation of function is in an allusive and enigmatic sense, suggestive of the past. The objects are evocative of abandoned sites of human activity.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Interdimensional is a pun on the obvious fact that this exhibition pairs two- and three-dimensional objects — namely, John Gibson’s still life paintings of balls and Lynn Duryea’s clay and metal sculptures of softly geometric forms. Both of which are very much concerned with spatial dimensions and how an object occupies space. But its also a reference to the new “dimension” that’s added to the experience of entering into the space created by merging these two separate but complementary spheres of perceptual influence, as opposed to viewing each separately.  

Neither artist works from observation and material is prioritized in both of their processes, as a way of introducing nuance and complexity to simple shapes and forms. Gibson's work is a fusion of traditional still life and Minimalism, noting that it is “extremely spare and lacks any anecdotal information…the experience is in the object itself.” Duryea holds a similar attitude about her work, in that “simplicity and clarity function as an expression, and as an invitation to contemplate the complexity and richness that can exist in the apparently straightforward." Both artists' surfaces are complex and textured, carrying artifacts of processes that involve adding on and scraping off, which can simultaneously simulate patterns of wear or erosion, thus endowing the objects with a personal history. An allusion to the fourth dimension: time.