Stop by Sage Bird Ciderworks to explore our North Wing Gallery, a professional gallery of mixed media work that rotates monthly.
-MAY-
"Rocks I Stole From Your Driveway" sculptures by Zeke Trainum
Gallery Opening Details
-Friday 5/2, Art Opening & Artist Reception 5-8pm (taproom open 3pm-12am)
-Artist Meet-and-Greet
-Complimentary Charcuterie available in the North Wing for the Artist Reception
-Karaoke following!!
Artist Statement:
Zeke Trainum is a sculptor, fine woodworker, and metal worker who enjoys working with stone and other natural materials for his pieces. He lives with his wife and four children in Harrisonburg, VA and has been actively sculpting and showing his works for the last 23 years. Zeke particularly loves rock hunting everywhere with his children in search of the next beautiful river stone to incorporate into his work.
Zeke is always striving to find new ways to highlight the natural beauty of the materials; shaping wood, fabricating steel, cutting and polishing river stones, and transforming found objects into organic forms. His love of nature began in his formative years, growing up in Papua New Guinea where he spent his days at the river, collecting natural treasures. He also gleaned an interest for working with natural materials when viewing the work of the local PNG artisans which included masks, spear heads, woven grass cloths, and wood carved scenes. His desire to create art culminated in a degree in sculpture which set him on the path to finding his own style which is constantly evolving with each new material that inspires him. His sculptures are meant to be touched and experienced by the viewer, inspiring reflection, comfort, and memory of childhood times spent in nature.
-JUNE-
"Salt & Fury" oil paintings by Cyndi Gusler
Gallery Opening Details
-Friday 6/6, Art Opening & Artist Reception 5-8pm (taproom open 3pm-12am)
-Artist Meet-and-Greet
-Complimentary Charcuterie available in the North Wing for the Artist Reception
-Cheers to Educators K-12 Appreciation Event 3pm-7pm with giveaways, steal-the-glass, & special Teachy Keen Cocktail.
-Karaoke following!!
Artist Statement
This body of work lives at the edge—where land breaks into sea, where form breaks into feeling, and where emotion exceeds containment. Salt & Fury explores the parallels between environmental collapse and psychological rupture, using the volatile coastline as both metaphor and mirror for internal states of anger, grief, and transformation.
The oil paintings of fractured shorelines are not landscapes in the
traditional sense—they are impact zones. These sites of erosion,
instability, and rising tides stand in for the places where human emotion crashes into the limits of language.
The abstract color works abandon representation entirely, surrendering to pure sensation. Saturated, gestural, and sometimes violent in application, these paintings embody affect in its rawest form. Anger—often marginalized or aestheticized—is here given full agency. It is not decorative. It burns, stains, pulses.
Together, these works confront the viewer with forces that are both natural and deeply personal. Climate grief, suppressed rage—these are not separate events. They are part of the same ongoing storm.
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