‘Halcyon Days’ Opens at Tripoli Gallery

Tripoli Gallery in Wainscott will present “Halcyon Days” a two-person exhibition featuring work by Sally Egbert and Esther Ruiz running October 5 to November 11. The show opens with a public reception for the artists on Saturday, October 5, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Egbert and Ruiz, both New York-based artists, share a love of color, nature, light, landscape, joy and the unknown. While their aesthetic and material choices vary, they dance over their chosen surfaces, inviting others to join them.

In the spirit of connectivity, Esther Ruiz shared, “I see the sun and the moon in our works as they affect our interior landscapes; our memories associated with summer, especially the end of summer when we try to relish its fleeting sweetness before the last days and our hibernation.”

Within the scope of time, both artists are sensitive to metaphorical and conceptual imagery, with a resulting camaraderie to the cosmos.

“Esther intertwines actual fossils into her work, and Sally creates fossils of her own (collages) and pastes them to the surface, merging nature and machines,” said gallery owner Tripoli Patterson in a recent dialogue. “[The result is] timelessness.”

Here fossils, or the conceptual metaphor of fossils, find a place in an abstract conversation, rich with warm colors, cool tones, and electricity. The strength of Ruiz and Egbert’s work invites those present to be still and contemplative, just as much as it begs for otherworldly travel — the type that can only happen in moments of silence.

Tripoli Gallery is at 26 Ardsley Road in Wainscott (enter via East Gate Road). For more information, visit tripoligallery.com.