Gallery 181 has assembled 36 artists from across the country, and also 1 from as far away as Japan to participate in the upcoming "Facets of Transformation" exhibition. Being that the concept and actuality of the transformative experience manifests itself in many different forms, the exhibition will be divided into 4 major "arcana" of evolutionary description.

The exhibition will run from March 5th – April 26th , 2007. An artists’ reception will take place on Friday, March 16th , from 5:30-8:00pm. Everyone is welcomed. We will be enjoying the music of The Existential Detectives (http://www.academic-editor.com/existential_detectives), with members Donna and Belanga from Massachusetts and Rhode Island, serving up some eclectic fun! Hours for the gallery are Monday through Friday from 10am-5pm, and Saturday from 12pm-5pm. For more information please call (978) 741-7979 or email us at mailto:gallery-181@hotmail.com..

Thomas Beales, Lowell, MA (Photography - Atmospheric photographs of forgotten places)

Jacob Lunow, Hickory, NC (Photography - Decomposing artifacts of the present blending in with the environment)

Stu Sherman, Somerville, MA (Photography - Remnants of Whalom Amusement Park, modern ruins and fleeing time)

Randy Thurman, Spring City, TN (Photographic Assemblage – Textural surface of emptiness)

Jon Campbell, Boxford, MA (Photography – The many stages in the daily life of a jellyfish)

Cholla, Reno, NV (Watercolor – The artist is a horse! And strangely reflective)

Crist Filer, Somerville, MA (Watercolor – a mirror of the intents and life cycles of the earliest artists)

Lisa Tang Liu, Medford, MA (Photography – Lisa perceptively captures the daily transformation of cloud formations)

Roseanne Mark, Swampscott, MA (Acrylic Painting – expression of fossils and the life present within death)

Catherine Roach, Somerville, MA (Painting – "Two crows sit on the line admiring the view…one says to the other…)

Don Segal, Wethersfield, CT (Photography – one can hear the ice crack and smell the wind…a season  waiting to become another)

Souda Traore, Boston, MA (Sand Painting – Beautiful, ancient "Chiwara" – a celebration of gender and the potential of life within)

J. Donna Asmussen, Smithfield, ME (Watercolor Monoprint – life seems to grow from the surface)

Carla Goldberg, Nelsonville, NY (Painting, Mixed Media – Carla’s work eminates from a singular point, and follows through to transform the surface)

Nancy Hall, Boston, MA (Digital Painting – mandala forms eminating from the center and transforming light and color)

Diane Hoffman, Providence, RI (Acrylic Painting – "bringing together the results of chance and…intention…")

Art Ketchen, Nashua, NH (Linocut Print – drawing upon ancient Celtic survival totem, timely and relevant)

Eun Hee Kwon, Bryn Mawr, PA (Mixed Media – the soul’s purging in an orderly fashion)

Heidi Lo, Boston, MA (Mixed Media – a point between becoming and dismantling – life or death)

Takashi Matsuo, Kanagawa, Japan (Painting – elemental wizardry)

Darren McManus, Highland Park, NJ (Acrylic Painting – growth cycles which examine the juxtaposition of the mineral with the life that thrives from its influence)

Joe Murawski, Piscataway, NJ (Oil Painting – the morphing of the human experience)

Thea Reidy, Marietta, NY (Monotype – the origin of life force pulsating within textural manipulation)

Dan Rocha, Lowell, MA (Acrylic Painting – Dan travels within the realms of both structural and organic environments)

Bob Simon, Oak Ridge, TN (Ink and Acrylic – the metamorphosis of the conscious thought process)

Nick Takis, Lynn, MA (Collage – peering into the relationship between matter and spirit)

Donna Catanzaro, Windham, NH (Digital Collage – a humorous glimpse into the formation of personality)

Jill Cook, North Kingstown, RI (Mixed Media, Oil Painting – the inevitability of the lost attaining awareness)

Linda Frost, Los Angeles, CA (Digital Art – the relationship of the self to the natural world)

Andrea Geyer, Cambridge, MA (Photography – the influence of the meditative process apparent on the face and the persona of the subject)

Keely Kernan, Baltimore, MD (Oil Painting – the action of quiet attainment)

Karen Klein, North St. Paul, MN (Photomontage – interaction between the subconscious mind and the structural environment of a dream)

Michele Rene Ledoux, Denver, CO (Digital Photography – the space and evolution of destiny within the mind)

Hsu Yuan Liu, St. Louis, MO (Oil Painting – the awareness of the self within the other)

Jeremias Paul, Cambridge, MA – (Digital Photography – rebirth and sustainment from light and nourishment)

Oguz Yucel, Brooklyn, NY (Photography – personal identification with divinity)

Jon Zebrowski, Bethel, AK (Digital Photography – the understanding of the beauty of the entire life cycle  of birth, life, and death)

GALLERY 181

GALLERY 181

Marjorie Kaye, Director

181 Canal Street

Lawrence, MA 01840

(978) 741-7979