"Common Ground Beneath Divided Skies" was juried into the prestigious South Shore Arts annual salon. This year's show was given the theme "My America". This work is an impressionistic oil painting depicting native blue flag iris and red cardinal flower in a tangled mass above the ground. Below the ground, their roots are interconnected and depdendent on one another.
"This juried exhibition brings together more than sixty works spanning a wide range of media, reflecting the diversity of artistic voices that make up our contemporary cultural landscape. Selected by jurors Elsa Munoz and William Blake, the exhibition embraces the salon tradition of multiplicity and dialogue, presenting artworks that engage its theme from vastly different perspectives. Some artists offer sweeping political statements that confront the nation's past, present, and future, while others turn inward, creating intimate vignettes of family, community, memory, and everyday life. Together, these works reveal that there is no singular vision of America, only a constellation of experiences, a democratic sprawl. The exhibition suggests that a nation, like a work of art, is never singular in meaning; it is assembled and reassembled by those who claim it."
Learn more about the South Shore Arts 2026 annual salon My America
Painting details:
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Oil on ACM Panel, 24"x36"
Framed in black metal float frame
