Current Exhibition
Theme
This exhibition brings two ideas into one shared space: the part of us that is shed, and the part that continues. The early purity of the human experience meets the abstract rise of new beginnings, creating a dialogue between what is lost and what forms in its place. Here, innocence fades, awareness takes root, and the steady thread of endurance moves forward through time in our hearts. The works invite viewers to pause at that crossing point the place where one life-moment closes and another quietly begins.
Loss of Innocence
At first glance, the baby head feels like a symbol of purity: soft features, rounded cheeks, the quiet promise of a life just beginning. Yet gathered here, row after row, these small faces tell a different story. They become emblems of a world that does not stay gentle for long.
Each head holds a moment when innocence thins. The blank stare becomes aware. The calm expression shifts toward something more knowing. In their silence, you can almost hear the first questions rising the ones that mark the boundary between the sheltered and the awakened.
Some are serene, as if clinging to the last glow of early wonder. Others carry a faint shadow, the first trace of understanding that nothing stays untouched. The repetition of these faces echoes the universal truth that every child must one day step beyond the warm cradle of unknowing.
This part of the exhibition is not meant to unsettle for spectacle’s sake. Instead, it asks us to look at the fragile place where a human life begins and to consider how quickly that softness is tested. The baby head becomes a vessel for everything we outgrow: trust, simplicity, the belief that the world will always be kind.
Standing among them, you feel that quiet shift the moment innocence slips from the skin, leaving behind a more complicated beauty. These works remind us that loss is part of the human inheritance, etched into us long before we ever find the words for it.
Marking the shift
This part of the exhibition turns its attention to the idea of beginnings, the quiet kind that rise without fanfare, the ones that mark a shift before we even recognize it. Through abstract forms, the works explore how renewal takes shape, how something new can emerge from what was, and how change often starts as a subtle movement rather than a clear line.
Alongside this sense of starting again is the idea of endurance. Not persistence as struggle, but endurance as a steady presence that carries forward through the passing of time. The pieces hint at continuity: colors that echo one another, lines that repeat and transform, surfaces that reveal what they’ve held onto.
Nothing here defines a single interpretation. Instead, the works offer an open space to consider how beginnings and endurance coexist how something can start fresh while still holding a trace of what came before, and how time can stretch without erasing what matters.
Together, the collection suggests that renewal is an ongoing process and that endurance is a quiet, lasting thread running through it. You are invited to reflect on these ideas in their own way, through form, texture, and the calm unfolding of the visual field.
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CJ Cowden
Chip Calvin
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CJ Cowden
Artist Statment and Bio
As a mixed media artist, CJ explores the boundaries of form, texture, and color through abstract compositions. CJ’s work is a dialogue between spontaneity and intention, where different materials and techniques come together to create layered, dynamic pieces. CJ aims to evoke emotion and provoke thought, encouraging viewers to find their own connections and interpretations within the abstract forms. Through this process, CJ seeks to capture the essence of creativity—unpredictable, complex, and endlessly evolving.
CJ’s artistic journey is a testament to the transformative power of creativity in the face of adversity. Born into the whirlwind world of a traveling evangelist, she spent her formative years on the road, bearing witness to the fervor and devotion of her parents’ mission.
After her parents passing at age 10, CJ navigated her new life in foster care with art as it allowed her to express her depth of emotions. Today, CJ stands as a testament to resilience and the enduring human spirit. She has transcended her humble beginnings to become a gallery owner, a curator of dreams, and an artist of international acclaim. CJ’s journey from troubling childhood to a globally recognized artist and gallery owner reminds us that even in the darkest of circumstances, creativity has the power to heal and transform lives.