Internationally known artist, Emmi Whitehorse continues her explorations into line, form, and color in a show of oil and chalk pastels that are suggestive of the infinite spaces within where quickly rendered shapes, some recognizable and some hinting at things recognizable,  drift in an expressionistic ocean of subtle contrasts. The drawn images are inspired by the forms in nature, sometimes colored but sketched without too much detail. Whitehorse achieves a sense of depth and luminosity through gentle shifts in tone. The colors heighten or soften the shapes moving through them, lending some a vivid feeling of thereness while others convey a feeling of becoming, of emerging. Whitehorse achieves a rich emotional quality in her work through her applications of vibrant colors and balanced interplay of lights and darks. One regards her work as peering into the depths of the sea or into broad landscapes as remembered and visualized in the mind, behind closed eyes where forms dance and jump before us in an amorphous setting. Meditative and harmoniously balanced, Whitehorse’s oils form the backdrop from which the lilting shapes in her work come forth: ideas rendered visible, recalling the inherent aesthetics of nature.