SHFAP presents 12.21 Solstice, a group exhibition in December and January. The winter solstice is the reversal of the sun’s ebbing in the sky. It marks the beginning of longer days and more light. This exhibition celebrates this phenomenon coincidentally shared in birthdays of two people in the gallery. We will have an opening on the start of the exhibition and a party on the 21st of December.

This group exhibition is a wunderkammer, a shifting parade of fantastic objects and artists. Populated with works by historical painters like Marsden Hartley and Bob Thompson, young artists Kayla Edmonston and Marcelle Reinecke and even those working in their 90s including June Leaf, Stanley Rosen, and Paul Resika, this exhibition embodies the gallery’s view that art history, both historical and contemporary, is an ever-moving panorama. Individual artists are validated by serious viewers upon progressive researches and not just market conditions. In that regard we present painters who have been part of our projects since the early 80s, such as Andrea Belag, Gregory Botts, Richard Morrison, L. Brandon Krall, Glenn Branca, Bill Rice, Christopher Wool, Barbara Ess, James Lee Byars and Paul Villinski. Subsequent decades of discovery have brought us to Peter Acheson, Gideon Bok, Chuck Bowdish, Gandy Brodie, Susanna Coffey, Angela Dufresne, Mary Flinn, Kurt Knobelsdorf, Sangram Majumdar, Giordanne Salley, E.M Saniga, Kyle Staver, David Wojnarowicz, Howard Lerner and Abigail Dudley. In addition, there is the extended family of the gallery – Anne, Jason and Steven Harvey and Stephen White. The gallery focuses on painting with some ceramics, here featuring clay work by Beth Kaminstein, Catherine White, Stanley Rosen and Elise Siegel. The work in 12.21 Solstice is a triumph of individuality in the midst of the daunting circumstances of daily life. We welcome you all to come and celebrate with us.