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7/31/2025 0 Comments #21: July 31st, 2025You are Whole. We are Whole - On the Work of Jenny Gray and Virginia Shepley By Benjamin Terrell  Jenny Gray, Race Easy Raw canvas, acrylicp paint, wood, wire  Virginia Shepley
You are Whole. We are Whole. They have outlawed the circle in some places and discourage the artist’s rectangle as well in favor of a plain traditional square. I would no longer dream of putting a circle inside a circle or even begin to imagine circles continuing freely inside other circles. No wrapping either. Or re-imagining or freeing anything from its original intended use.What hangs on the wall may soon not be allowed to hang at all. Even while writing this it is rumored essays about art may be a thing of the past.  Jenny Gray, Bouy Raw canvas, acrylic paint, wire My fear is this may never reach you. Pictures and words swallowed by automated user reviews, branded by the new haiku: Never so confident yet never more fragile. But I have been told that even in the heat of the summer somewhere in the woods at night a cool breeze still blankets the forest floor. And at the right time of day if you stare lovingly at the shadow a windmill casts upon the grass, everything taken from you will be returned.  Virginia Shepley
Look- the figure of a woman opens, expands out from her center revealing the origin of the universe. And look- the ingredients of the artist’s studio (strips of canvas, paint and wire) transformed by repetition are freed from names and prior associations and are pure vapors of connectivity.  Virginia Shepley
 Jenny Gray, Bound Supernova 1 Raw canvas, acrylic paint, wire This is us, colorful asterisks and airborne anchors, star windows and embodied earth tone echoes. True there will always be the “halved,” but we reader are the “halved nots.” You are whole. We are whole. Benjamin Terrell 7/26/2025  Virginia Shepley
 Jenny Gray, Out of Reach Raw canvas, acrylic paint, wire Jenny Gray and Virginia Shepley will be showing work at One Wall Gallery in Eugene, Oregon during the month of August, 2025.
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