Melissa Loop • Carolyn Haydu • Luis Bivar

This July, our group show, Today is the Greatest features work by Melissa Loop, Carolyn Haydu, and Luis Bivar. Borrowed from the title of one of Loop’s featured works,Today is the Greatestis a celebration of joy and optimism, centered visually around lush palettes and imagery inspired by nature. Loop’s painterly acrylics on canvas depict vibrant tableaus whose colorful idiosyncrasies make them feel somehow more, and not less real. Employing his signature style of dense, maximalist collage work, Bivar crafts dreamlike forests that, despite their inherent surreality, feel as though they could be walked right into. And in an art form all her own, Haydu cuts and collages hand-painted paper into richly textured, three-dimensional abstracts that conjure impressions of landscape and experiences of place.