Gallery Hours:
 Thursday and Friday 10-6
 "First Friday" 10-8
 Saturday 10-5
 "Second Sunday" 12-4

Other Hours Available
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Presenting

“Lost Boundaries”, artwork by Susan Palmisano and Amy Mash, may be seen during the month of March at Isadore Gallery in Lancaster, PA. Using a variety of media, Palmisano and Mash explore issues that reference the body and nature.

Palmisano’s work is inspired by symbolism in dreams. In this series entitled “Imaginary Woman”, she paints chocolate nightmares. Hybrid images of chocolate candies are overlaid with references to the body. Female forms float in colorfully painted seas with chocolate candies. Intrinsic to her use of chocolate is its ability to elicit a sense of desire. “The Imaginary Woman” series embodies this yearning for wholeness and unfulfilled fantasies of female identity.

Palmisano holds a B.F.A. from the University of Dayton, and a M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati. She has been exhibiting professionally for over 15 years across the nation, and has taught and exhibited abroad in Poland, Italy, and Croatia. Currently she serves as Professor of Painting at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Mash likes to take a very close look at nature. She is interested in exploring surface textures like skin and bark as boundaries. She zooms in with her artist’s eye and paints the contours of the human body as if they were complex flesh landscapes. The scale is intentionally ambiguous. When unknown to the viewer, it is difficult to know the true size of the original source. Her drawings and lithographs describe the textures and patterns in natural surfaces like rocks and trees. When viewed closely, natural subjects are remarkably similar. After all, the bark of a tree is really just its skin.

Mash received her BFA from Penn State University in 2006 at which time she was awarded the Penn State School of Visual Arts Creative Achievement Award.