Taming the Wild brings together five artists whose work employs vibrant color, dense shapes and patterns, expressive gestures, and unexpected materials that evoke transformation, resilience, and play. Elizabeth Mooney, Loretta Park, Alicia Renadette, Simone Siegel, and Ruby T create paintings, drawings, and sculptures that wrestle wild, tangled, and ambiguous elements into balanced, believable spaces that entice the viewer into both highly charged and welcoming worlds. What may feel like chaos is quickly transformed into order, with each artist expertly engaging the artists’ tools of composition, color, shape, space, and density to build tantalizing, often humorous, works that both provoke and delight. Taming the Wild is a testament to the resilience and power of art and artists to make sense of our messy, disorderly, jumbled world and transport us to alternate universes that stimulate our senses and provide new ways of interpreting the mess.

Artist websites: Elizabeth Mooney, Loretta Park, Alicia Renadette, SImone Siegel, Ruby T