MOUNTAIN is pleased to present the gallery’s first exhibition of the Fall season, win•dow•sill. A windowsill is many things. A place to wait, a place to ponder, a place for romantic reverie. A windowsill holds many things. Plants, pies, sunlight, clutter, objects of sentimental value. A windowsill is a specific boundary. Between inside and out, private and public, viewer and voyeur. It is from this unique vantage point that the body can rest while the mind and the eye wander through different worlds.

This group show brings together the artwork of Amy Chan, Corydon Cowansage, and Alexander Deschamps. All artists working in a similar realm of pictorial abstraction and defying traditional conventions of painting. Alexander Deschamps’ matte imagery invites us in on existential figures and still scenes. The shallow depth of ground, compositional balance, and pictorial language add a psychological layer to his works. Cowansage’s paintings focus a microscopic lens on the world. The elements that make up our surroundings are re-examined in a new microcosm where the everyday becomes abstract. A blade of grass, a brick wall, a hole. All become foreign to the viewer and imbued with new meaning, new life. Amy Chan’s shaped panels have such a unique character that they read more like living organisms than paintings. Each discrete, amoebic form contains vibrant colors and delineated patterns that float on the gallery wall.