City of the World

Artist Gia Ray began drawing at the humble age of 4 with her grandmother. They drew common objects from the kitchen where her grandmother prepared meals, to the living room where happy family memories were made.

Her mother colored with Gia but even as a small child, she was searching for something to fill the negative spaces on her color pages. She would outline objects she drew to fill in these spaces, something that remains prevalent in her art today. It was this need for detail that led her to develop a degree of ambidexterity allowing her to sit and draw for hours.

At the age of 14, she began to experiment with oil based paints and discovered that her broad strokes were covered by her left hand while finite details were to be done with her right. Inspired by other local artists, Gia searches to find the sources of their creativity. She is intrigued by the inspiration of others and how it manifests itself via various media into the art world.

This Friday will be the first 3rd Friday of 2010. That sounds confusing! The gallery will be open from 6 to 9 or 10 depending on the amount of art lovers that decide to come out.

Hope to see as many of our artisans as possible on site. Come in and share the fun and perhaps a glass of wine to boot. We have some great new artists sharing their work this month so take a few minutes to come in and meet and greet them as well as new patrons that will be in the gallery.