Trip Patterson’s Thanksgiving Collective

[caption id="attachment_75024" align="alignnone" width="1000"] April Gornik, Fire and Water, 2015, oil on linen, 28 x 32 inches.
Credit: Courtesy of the Artist and Tripoli Gallery Southampton, © April Gornik[/caption]

There is something to be said about keeping faith through hardship — and that is Tripoli Patterson’s message with his 13^th annual Thanksgiving Collective, “There is Still Good in This World,” on view through January 29 at Tripoli Gallery Southampton.

Each of the exhibition’s 11 artists bring a specific approach to the theme, from painter Todd Bienvenu — who explores openness and love, as well as the humor that interrupts the seriousness of life — to Quentin Curry, whose colorful and textured compositions open up a world of possibility and an exploration into the unknown.

The landscape paintings of April Gornik investigate that same unknown, illuminating the supremacy of nature, while Félix Bonilla Gerena’s vibrant paintings express a passionate relationship to his homeland of Puerto Rico. Also born in Puerto Rico, Enoc Perez paints the modern world from a perspective that is both nostalgic and utopic.

Rachel Rossin’s acrylic sculptures are shaped around her body, printed with images of digital landscapes and virtual realities, while in the gestural works of Lola Montes Schnabel, there are painted narratives both personal and universal, offering a glimpse into a shared world of dreams.

Life is suspended in a moment in the painted poems of Rene Ricard, while the work of Mary Heilmann transforms the observed and experienced world into a variety of lively colors and shapes. Yung Jake’s work on metal combine the physical and the digital, and Benjamin Keating, who also works with metal, dismantles and reconstructs objects inhabiting his daily life, creating bronze and aluminum sculptures from wax molds that leave a permanent impression of what used to exist.

“In our times of tumult, uncertainty bears down and we seek that which is good,” Keating said in a press release. “We reach out to folks who are positive in their approach of our future. We seek inspiration from those who charge in the face of disaster to help the struggling, gazing at the strong to aid the weak, we look for all the better things that humanity will always offer, compassion and love for our fellows.

“This Thanksgiving collective we give thanks to those unwavering souls that will never give up on this, the true meaning of being alive.”

Tripoli Gallery Southampton, located at 30a Jobs Lane in Southampton, is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Tuesdays. For more information, please call (631) 377-3715 or visit tripoligallery.com.