MAELSTROM: Organized in collaboration with 303 Gallery

Organized by Fortnight Institute

Balarama Heller 

Florian Maier-Aichen

Peter Shear

Sue Williams

Maelstroms, referenced by the Dutch in the 17^th century, evoke portals to mythical worlds accessed through a vortex of colliding forces.In this selection of works by Balarama Heller, Florian Maier-Aichen, Peter Shear, and Sue Williams, elements of form, line, light, energy, and color whirl together. An unlikely synergy emerges. Each work is charged with its own undercurrent, and yet, when viewed together, a shared landscape of elemental components unfolds. Certain works reveal traces of the figurative and representational, however, this recognition immediately dissolves into seas of colors and gradients. The lines and forms are fluid, sensual, curved, and turbulent, resulting in a tension between what we may think we recognize and that which can access an alternative reality.