EDEN QUISPE (Newton, KS) Stitched Stories
DENNY GERWIN (Charlotte, NC) Figurative Work
Nov. 24 – Jan. 3
Artist demonstrations and talks: Saturday, December 6, 12 pm - 2pm
In her work, Eden Quispe creates interior scenes using inherited quilting techniques, embroidery, printing, and collage. Quispe expresses the precarious balance of her multiple roles as a mother, artist and teacher with symbols and materials; her daughter’s baby clothes, grandfather's ties, and inherited fabric from her family and husband's Peruvian culture are painted and sewn upon and cut to become walls, tables, and chairs. These object memories are sewn together and printed on to create her patchwork paintings.
Denny Gerwin’s ceramic sculptures and vessels reference the female form, acknowledging artifacts created up to 30,000 years ago and illustrating universal human interest in precarious subject matter. Recognizing himself as the “other” in the equation, and noting that this is a rare position for him to sit in, the artist is grateful for lessons learned in vulnerability. More recent works in this series show clinched fists, an aberration from traditional depictions of Venus and an apt departure given the threat to women's power.
Captions, left to right: Eden Quispe, Day Mama Night Mama, 2024, stitched, printed and painted textiles; Denny Gerwin, Venus Clinched Her Fists, 2022, wood fired ceramic.
36th ANNUAL DAYTON WORKS ON PAPER
January 20 – February 28, 2026
Works on Paper is a juried exhibition created for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio. This annual exhibition features two-and three-dimensional works of art on or of paper. Artist awards totaling $1,100 will be selected by the juror. Gallery visitors will select a People’s Choice Award made possible through the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund.
Submission Drop off, in-person: January 3 from 12pm-3pm, January 5, 12 - 8pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, February 28, 2026
Image: Installation of 35th Annual Works On Paper 2025
WHITNEY SAGE (Naperville, IL), Homesickness Series, Portraits of Home and Domestic Fragments
NICHOLAS HILL (Granville, OH), Pandemic Portrait Drawings
March 9 – April 11
Whitney Sage’s acrylic, ink and gouache drawings connect to issues of absence, loss and memory as related to disappearing homeland. The work is inspired by the artist’s own personal roots and focus on the sprawling midwestern neighborhoods of Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan. Through an incomplete picture provided by voided negative shapes, empty lots and incomplete artifacts on display, viewers are invited to consider the collective loss of identity, memory and belonging experienced in shrinking midwestern communities.
Nicholas Hill’s series, Pandemic Portrait Drawings, aim to bring a sense of humanity back to our collective memories of the pandemic five years on. Hill’s drawings were made in real time throughout the course of the covid crisis, on related pages from the New York Times. Using an Ink and Brush technique, Hill combed news photos for passersby and unintended subjects, creating portraits from these “found” faces. The portraits remind the viewer that each loss was and is a personal tragedy.
Captions, left to right: Whitney Sage, 230 Pasadena Street, Portraits of Home Series, 2022, acrylic ink on aquabord panel; Nicholas Hill, Pandemic Portraits: Panel V, 2022, ink on newspaper
NATHANIEL FOLEY (Indianapolis, IN), Flight of Obscurity
MINA KIM (Fort Lee, NJ), Drawings
April 20 – May 23
In his exhibition, Flight of Obscurity, Nathaniel Foley communicates concepts rooted in aviation history through a visual language that references both travel and warfare. With hand fabricated sculptures in an immersive installation, Foley’s work communicates tension between grace and imminent danger.
Mina Kim’s work blends drawing and sculpture using a meditative practice of bending and binding materials together. Echoing rythms that reference Eastern thought where repeated action trains both body and spirit, Kim’s work moves between two and three dimensions. Their installations use everyday materials like twist ties and wire, and then shift into paintings and drawings, dissolving boundaries between technology and tradition.
Captions, left to right: Nathaniel Foley, F-86 Sabre, 2021, Aluminum, Fabric, Wood, String, Clecos, Jack; Mina Kim, Rational Draft, 2025, oil on linen, steel wire, twist ties, acrylic medium
32nd ANNUAL THE VIEW JURIED LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION
June 8 – July 18
Showcasing both contemporary and traditional approaches to landscape art, The View is an annual, juried exhibition open to Ohio artists working in any medium. Among the topics explored are nature, environmental themes and world issues. Artist awards totaling $1,100 will be selected by the juror and gallery visitors will select a People’s Choice Award made possible through the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund.
Closing Reception: July 18 from 1pm – 3pm
Image caption: Installation View, 31st Annual The View Juried Landscape Exhibition, 2025
20TH ANNUAL HWD JURIED SCULPTURE EXHIBITION
August 3 – September 12
HWD (Height, Width, Depth) is an annual, juried exhibition of three-dimensional work, featuring sculptors in any medium from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia. $1,600 in artist awards will be selected by the juror including the Virginia Krause Hess award for Excellence in Sculptural Art. In addition to the juror’s awards, three $100 People’s Choice Awards will be presented by the Joan W. McCoy Memorial Art Fund at the conclusion of the exhibition.
Closing Reception: September 12 from 1pm – 3pm
Image Caption: Installation view of the 19th Annual HWD Juried Sculpture Exhibition
SALLY BLAIR (Chicago, IL)
JAMES TERRELL (Washington, D.C.)
November 23 – January 2, 2027
Sally Blair’s large-scale paintings are inspired by quantum phenomena, inviting viewers to engage with unseen aspects of the universe. Her paintings combine science and divinity, celebrating the deep symmetries found in the laws of nature.
James Terrell’s series of collages use color blocking with fabric, paper and paint to interlock memory, life experience and spiritual existence. Referencing stained glass, op art, and modern geometries, the viewer is encouraged to search for the image within the composition. Hinting at multiple planes of existence with physical layers and patterns, Terrell’s work is an exploration of the seen and unseen and asks the viewer to give time to looking and letting the image unfold.
Captions, left to right; Sally Blair, Untitled, 2023, oil on panel; James Terrell, I Am, 2024, paper, fabric & acrylic paint
ABOUT THE GALLERY
The Kettering Health Art Gallery at Rosewood Arts Center is sponsored by the City of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department, with support from the Ohio Arts Council. The Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Center, 2655 Olson Drive in Kettering, 45420.