Spring 2025 Exhibition
Portraits of Our Community in Pictures and Words
This exhibition features over 40 pieces of art by 7 artists from 6 different towns. Each work offers a vibrant glimpse into everyday life—capturing everything from the quiet of a library visit to the energy of bustling neighborhoods and the people who bring them to life. If you missed the reception, there’s still plenty of time to experience this powerful celebration of our shared community.
View the Spring Exhibition, through mid July.
Gallery visiting hours are coming soon. In the meantime, email us at info@writersclc.com to schedule a visit.
Café Nero Reading
Ruth Clark Watercolor
I focus on painting portraits of family, friends, and meaningful places. Whether it’s a face, a tree, a building, a scene in nature, or an interior space, the act of painting helps me see everything with fresh eyes. It’s a deeply fascinating experience.
Oasis
Cara Foster Kalim Mixed media
Newspaper collage lets me honor the communities that give life to our landscapes. With roots in urban planning and affordable housing, I approach my art primed to notice the physical built environment and the people who are a part of it. I see stories in the streets, buildings, and everyday moments. This medium helps me capture their layered beauty and complexity—and invites you to look again, and look closer.
DXP Photo
Paul Light
DXP Photography
I created these images using the DXP app, which blends multiple exposures into dreamlike colors and compositions. The process plays with contrast, reversals, and surreal color—inviting viewers to linger and study the layered, shifting reality.
DXP introduces an element of chance, blending images in unpredictable ways. I enjoy not having full control—chance elements are an important part of my creative process.
Learning About Zoom
Michelle C Mendez Mixed media sketch on watercolor paper
When watching talking tv interviews, do you find yourself checking out the room’s interior–hotel, bedroom, living room? Why did the interviewee leave that object in plain view? How come their books are curated? Virtual meetings offer global connection with family, friends, and associates, yet lack real presence: no shared space or touch, no breaking bread together. As a former teacher, I saw how students who didn’t turn on screens became harder to reach. Once a student did turn on his screen; he was babysitting his younger brothers. How could he focus on school?
The Commuter
Karen Moss Mixed media installation on canvas with plexiglass rabbit
“The Commuter” contrasts two worlds, one of urban grit, the other a bucolic countryside. This painted tapestry is inhabited by whimsical characters all interested in reading about and studying art. The blue plexiglass rabbit is the art student who makes the trip between city and country to attend classes. The scene steadily becomes more pastoral as the eye moves from left to right. On the left, the boy rat, seen rummaging through the art section of the New York Times, is a familiar hybrid Moss has used in other works. On the far right, a pristine white mouse lounges and picnics while reading Art in America. Both worlds merge retro aesthetics with aspects of contemporary street art to depict popular culture in both environments.
Brigham’s
Kayla Myers Acrylic on canvas
Through her expressive painting, Kayla embraces the importance of community and familiarity while developing inspiration from her environment. Not only does her art display a courageous act of vulnerability; her work embodies the lasting effects demographic displacement has on preserving history.
Kayla’s most recent projects have put an emphasis on honoring small businesses for serving their neighborhoods as cultural gatekeepers.
Los Angeles
Noor Shoresh Inkjet print mounted on oriented strand board
My work deals most immediately with proximity—the collapsing distances between experience and understanding, the public sphere and private one, photographer and subject. I am interested in the camera’s capacity for conveying the gravity of a photographed moment.
