Opening Reception: October 7th, 2016 | 7-10 PM

MOUNTAIN is pleased to present In a Grove of Pines. This two person exhibition will feature new paintings and drawings by Haley Josephs and Jon Weary. The artwork on display for this show probes the coded language of painting through allegorical figuration and eerie natural environments.

Haley Josephs’ work peers a voyeuristic eye on forlorn characters who interact in dreamlike landscapes. These figures inhabit their own world, emoting with somber glances and searching gestures. There is something inviting and foreign in these images. A field of curiosities where the viewer can’t help but linger.

Jon Weary’s body of work can loosely be defined as a meditation on loss, memory, and acceptance. Through the rendering of a space, distorted with material interventions, his attempt is to channel a specific energy from a landscape that is geographically distant but emotionally understood. The balance of control and chance maintained in life is reflected in the process of adding to and manipulating each object, with the end result being a spatially layered image.