Alchemy and Image
May 7–August 29, 2010

Alchemy and Image features the work of more than 50 paintings, drawings and prints by three key figures in Midwest art: T.L. Solien, Fred Stonehouse, and John Wilde (1919-2006). Natural storytellers, these artists present a peculiar world where oddness and absurdity are commonplace. Quirky, exuberant, purposefully unsettling, and often humorous, their art glorifies the natural world. Random objects takes on a life of their own, inhabiting the most unlikely places. Influences as varied as folk art, Surrealism and the Renaissance are evident in these psychologically enduring narratives. Always the consummate craftsmen, Solien, Stonehouse and Wilde are as diverse in style as they are unconventional in subject matter.