Stop by Sage Bird Ciderworks to explore our North Wing Gallery, a professional gallery of mixed media work that rotates monthly.
-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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