Four artists explore the edge between myth and reality, memory and reality, or feeling and thought. Through layered surfaces, rich colors, and at times, blindly groping forms, all represent a personal expose for the artist as a part of this search. The artists include John Day, Judith Kalina, Neal Korn, and Suejin Jo.

John Day, from New York, creates acrylic and oil paintings that uses abstractions of organic forms to convey a sense of the mystery, exuberance and power found in nature. His pictorial spaces are reminiscent of moving through space in wilderness, where forms are encountered, recede into distance, and lodge in memory. Day’s paintings are in various private collections including Pfizer and Aetna Corporations.

Judith Kalina, from New York, creates oil paintings with images of circus people and events that are seen as colorful and playful in nature. Kalina describes her paintings as “a road map and a link to myth, music and the memories of childhood”. Kalina has exhibited extensively through out New York and has works in various special collections that include The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art.

Neal Korn’s “Apple a Day” is a five month personal journal through his daily life. Korn resides in Union, NJ and is an art teacher. He uses the apple symbolically as teacher, temptation and life. Korns work has been shown at various galleries and museums throughout the tri-state area and include City Without Walls and Aljira.

Suejin Jo, from New York, creates acrylic and oil paintings of colorful abstracts that focus on memory, time, and connection to the lost world. “Sisyphus” series use lines and color as a metaphor for life of memory and longing for the lost world.

The Pierro Gallery of South Orange is located on 5 Mead Street, South Orange, NJ. The Gallery hours are Friday thru Sunday from 1-4pm. Exhibitions are free to the public. For more information call (973) 378-7754.