Gregory Howell

iPhoneography In an ever changing world, we must learn to evolve and adapt accordingly to technological advancements, to grow as artists, and individuals or we will be left behind. Self Portrait We see more clearly with our hearts. Art resides in all of us. Qualities that define and separate artists are their ability to locate and present the art to others. Art is brought to life through the viewer and through art we find new languages and new ways to communicate. With art we provoke and instill emotions. Crossed the Line Violence, crime, and gore are all around us and are being shoved down our throats and in our faces whether we want it or not. But who among us is not curious? As human beings we are naturally curious, but at what point does that curiosity cross the line? Curiosity pushes us to learn and experiment, but with violence being casually thrown into conversation, television, and literature it quickly turns to propaganda, exploitation, and obsession.

JAPAN STYLE Contemporary Japanese Ceramics. Featuring the works of Kato Takahiko, Hashimoto Machiko, and Tanoue Shinya. This exhibition features works by three contemporary Japanese ceramic artists who have drawn inspiration from not only the diverse ceramic traditions of their country, but have managed to unfold the unique story behind their own passions and values in life. It is this birth of contemporary creativity that enables the artist to draw inspiration from beauty and create powerful works of form and function. Among the 18 objects in this presentation, you will find works associated with Japan's most ancient kilns which have been producing functional stoneware vessels for daily use for nearly a millennium and for the celebrated tea ceremony for 400 years. You will discover tea cups and bowls, flower vases, serving plates, and even an owl, which combine ancient materials and techniques with new forms and styles.

Randy Wix spent his early years in the fields of construction and landscaping. When you enter his studio, you cannot help but notice that instead of art brushes and canvases, you find power tools, bundles of wire, bags of concrete and other items commonly found in a carpenters workshop rather than an artist studio. His studio is his job site and he is the contractor. The source of art supplies is the local hardware store and his creative process involves a combination of engineering, construction and curation. Randy discovers objects in the world around us daily and sees them as part of his storytelling efforts as he attempts to redefine and challenge the world around us. Randy's keen eye and his deep understanding of the power of form and function drive his creative process which result in powerful works that reflect the evolution and change in our world today. The future of our past is part of his everyday conversation as he thoughtfully engineers and builds his creations.

Kadoya Gallery is pleased to present Familiar Convergence featuring the photography of Bob Benvenuto and Kevin Malella. This powerful collaboration by Benvenuto and Malella is the first exhibition in the Gallery's 2016 schedule which promises to be an exciting year filled with experiential installations and shows that offer heightened viewer engagement. Benvenuto and Malella, through their respective works, are both attempting to visually articulate a conversation between our world and their audience. They pay close attention to the subtle details around us that need voice in a fragile tipping point of our culture and relations to the world, be it social or environmental. These works attempt, not in vain, but with hope, to reconcile the disquiet and calmness of our current times.According to the artists, the vast world around us is full of beauty, harmony, distinctness, dissonance, chaos, creation, destruction, and contradiction. These qualities cannot exist all at the same time in any given place, but many do. It is one of many ways our world remains diverse and can evoke emotions or states of happiness, sorrow, surprise, awe, anger, indifference, and sometimes the sublime. With Human's widespread utilization of the Earth's surface and core, the relationships between natural and unnatural components are becoming more and more complex. Human interspecies interaction has become more electronic and less personal, but also more universal, and our ability to unify across the globe is commonplace; yet one cannot help but feel a level of isolation in this techno-sociological shift. Bob Benvenuto and Kevin Malella are committed to visualizing the odd, yet entirely familiar, relationships and juxtapositions of converging elements; noting conversations that occur when people, places, the natural, and artificial meet in time. Benvenuto's constructed images are surreal depictions of our world of appearances, seen through a veil of perceptive conjecture and contrivance. By placing environments, objects, and people in an orchestrated context, Benvenuto evokes a personal and reflective narrative. His images are peculiar and often artificial, but they are not illusions. Similarly, yet distinct, Malella's photographs examine the harmony or dissonance of Our relationship to the land. He is interested in the marks we make, physically and psychologically, onto our planet and how those alterations shift geological, ecological, and sociological patterns during our tenure. Malella is not only visualizing the effects of human occupancy of Earth, but also succession of nature, despite the destruction we afflict on the landscape through our careless sense of ownership. He finds solace in nature's ability to adapt and reclaim its boundaries, but warns of the time it may take to do so; it is certainly on a geologic scale, rather than a human one.