ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN November, 2022

Alternative Medicine is a survey of two female painters, Amelia Briggs (Nashville) and Calli Moore (Brooklyn), both whose work cultivate a reflection on the viewers sense of spirituality, nostalgia, and humor. Amelia’s playful and color-drenched, stuffed wall sculptures are hand sewn and painted on 3D surfaces.   Nodding to psychedelic flotation devices who carry us through the nostalgic of childhood/imagination, their forms symbolize organs and other natural phenomenon such as fungi.  Calli’s luscious paintings contain radiant crystals in rich flora compositions, and speak to the spirituality of the natural world, giving an aura of the divine.  Found within her paintings are pigments of healing crystal mixed in acrylic concoctions.