Castello 925 presents Onirica, a two-person exhibition of paintings and drawings by
Melinda Stickney-Gibson and small works by Gary Gissler
opening 15 July and running through 28 August, 2022.

Onirica, an adjective that translates as “dream-like” in English,
is the uniting concept of the work of these two New York-based artists.

Melinda Stickney-Gibson artworks are sensitive meditations on the texture of memory as her lines and forms alternate between awareness and an oneiric state through flickering shadows of consciousness.
As a visual poet, Ms. Stickney-Gibson incorporates written words as suggestive notations,
while her lines and forms echo the trembling edges of nature.

Gary Gissler’s microscopic/obsessive drawings on prepared panels weave words in a meditative repetitive cycle that creates an undulating, fragile pattern from seemingly asemic writing.
This preoccupation with words as symbols representing meaning as well as the actual words created by the literal marks and forms themselves lends a delicate balance between representation and abstraction.

Like dreams, both artists convey the poetry of symbol and substance;
the dream, seemingly irrational and random,
nevertheless relays a tale of universal mythic power
of which these artists serve as oracles.