Art Gallery
Featured Artist - August 2026
Current Featured Artists Exhibition: Annie Shaffer – The Ground Between Us
Born and raised in Michigan, Annie draws inspiration from its lakes, forests, and open skies. Now dividing her time between Ann Arbor and Honolulu, her practice reflects the contrast of grounded Midwestern landscapes and the luminous energy of the islands. The result is work that is meditative, transformative, and visually immersive.
Annie’s paintings invite viewers into a contemplative dialogue with both the internal and external worlds, capturing the essence of landscape rather than its literal form. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and is held in private collections nationwide, appealing to collectors who seek art that is both visually compelling and spiritually evocative.
Annie’s paintings are not meant to simply be seen, but to be felt. They are portals; abstract landscapes where inner and outer worlds meet, inviting you to slow down, breathe, and connect with something greater than yourself.
Artist Statement
My work explores the space between what is seen and felt.
I seek to capture moments through abstract forms, layered color, texture, and symbolic imagery. I am drawn to the mysteries that connect us through something larger than ourselves. Dreams, spirits, the stars, and Mother Earth all serve as inspiration in my creative process.
Painting is an act of exploration and discovery; I am interested in the questions that do not have clear answers. My work is not meant to provide certainty but to create space for contemplation, imagination, and personal meaning.
It is an invitation to stand at the edge of the unknown and embrace the beauty, mystery, and possibility found there.
Website: annieshafferart.com
Upcoming Artist - September 2026
Upcoming Artist Exhibition: Jack Edelstein – NonDualistic: The Truth of Polar Opposites
Jack Edelstein’s early artistic efforts began with wood: sculptural forms and organically shaped furniture that echoed the contours of the natural world. In 2019, he set aside his chisels and power tools and turned toward graphic art, opening a new chapter in his creative practice.
Jack’s graphic designs are devoted entirely to the ancient symbol of yin and yang — also know as the Taijitu or the Cosmic Dyad — the emblem of complementary polarity. He explores the profound truth that opposites are not enemies but partners in a higher harmony. Light and shadow, love and hate, good and evil: each member of the pair exists only through the other, each completes what the other begins.
The Taijitu becomes a lens through which to contemplate duality not as conflict, but as interdependence—a philosophical rendering that stresses complementarity rather than opposition. My art is an inquiry into the deeper unity that holds tension without erasing difference, a visual meditation on the way truth emerges from the meeting of contraries.
Through repeated engagement with this singular form, Jack highlights the quiet intelligence of balance, and the unity that emerges when dualities meet without erasing one another.
Technically, the graphic renderings rely on precise symmetry, controlled curvature, and deliberate spatial tension. The background of each Taijitu becomes a stage on which the words themselves balance, mirror, or invert one another. Typography is treated as a sculptural element—weighted, rotated, or nested to echo the swirling motion of the Dyad. The result is a fusion of language and form: a graphic practice that uses words as shapes and shapes as philosophy.
All proceeds go to Groundcover News.
Website: www.JackEdelstein.com