CONFLUENCE

On View Saturday November  1 – December 20, 2025
Artists' Reception Sunday, November 2nd  2-4pm

Featuring Artwork by

Eileen McCarney Muldoon      Sandra Kunhardt Basile
Mimo Gordon Riley        Nancy Gaucher-Thomas        Dwo Wen Chen

CONFLUENCE – Creative Connections and Contrasts brings together five established, contemporary artists who create in vastly different mediums and styles.  Viewed together, their works deliver a fertile variety of artistic vision and expression. Working toward this exhibition, each artist was inspired by the others in unforeseen ways.     

“CONFLUENCE” includes: Mimo Gordon Riley, an intuitive painter at the top of her powers, who creates works in oil, inspired by patterns of nature, light, and transcendent mood;  Dwo Wen Chen, a nationally celebrated ceramic artist known for creations of great design and bold glazes, who goes beyond the traditions of the potter’s wheel, drawing on motifs of many cultures;  Eileen McCarney Muldoon, a fine art photographer, travels the world with her cameras, capturing the exotic and the intimate with nuance, mood and mystery in both color and black and white; Sandra Kunhardt Basile, a mosaic artist, explores the tactile qualities of stone and glass and emphasizes the humor and whimsy of the unexpected; Nancy Gaucher-Thomas, creates sensitive and thought-provoking portraits and still life in both watercolor on paper and charcoal on mylar.  An award-winning artist, she is renowned for her mysterious and evocative use of light and dark. 
So where is the confluence, the merging, among this group of artists?  Is it their curiosity? How each pushes the limits of their medium? Their insistence on quality and their openness to new ideas? Ultimately this question stirs the viewer to look closely, to compare, contrast and contemplate the artistically transporting effects of the exhibition at large.  As an interesting challenge, the group came up with an idea to illustrate their different takes on a theme, the use of the color black.  The results?  Five works, displayed side by side, show the lengths that each artist takes with the very absence of light and color.