Modern artists dream of timelessness. They dream that their work might achieve a certain universality, never to be whittled by time or events. To this end, they avoid the specific, the topical, and the instant; in favor of moods, flavors, and current trends.

Images that appear daily in the media are so compelling that they become instant icons. By incorporating these images into one's work, certain artists invoke a visual interrogation of these icons. With the exception of Goya and a few others, this is an art that does not often survive itself. Created with such resolve and immediacy, this art rarely outlives its particular time and place.

It is a guileless art that comments on the moment, on our daily life, by reporting on the state of today's society and how men use power and how we act. It creates images that force us to interpret the moment, without embedded political statement or forced agenda. A chilling interpretation that, with time, becomes increasingly voiceless and vague. This is the danger of creating such art and of an audience not viewing it in the moment it was created. And such artists are the true avant-garde of their generation.

ED SARKIS:  terror paintings

JOHN CYNAR:  man made, a new series of photographs

AUDRA WOLOWIEC:  telomere, an installation of new work

STIG EKLUND:  city lights

artists' reception: March 12, Saturday 7 to 10pm

regular hours: 12-6pm Thursday through Saturday