Carl Cherry Center for the Arts

Juxtapose
2025-06-20 - 2025-07-26 | CA
A Delicious Concoction of the Sublime and Absurd.
“Juxtapose,” is an inventive, immersive, two-person exhibition featuring paintings, mixed media and assemblage art by Stephanie Langley and Robert Armstrong. The exhibit opens Friday, June 20th, with an artist’s reception from 4:30 – 6:30pm. An artist’s walkthrough with Robert and Stephanie will be held Saturday, June 28th, from 3:00-4:00pm. Both events are free and open to the public.
From the guest curator:
Meeting Stephanie Langley for the first time and walking into her studio was an experience of pure joy! It was as if I had entered into a subliminal realm where images, patterns and painting styles from different eras and disciplines played happily with and off each other. Her work is delicate, surprising, balanced and exciting. In short, her work is remarkable.
When my friend, Robert Armstrong, invited me over to his house and had me open a small green vintage suitcase from the 1950’s filled with 100+ works of what he explained were influenced by “semiotics” (signs and meaning) that he had made in the mid 1970’s- 80’s, I was astounded! I truly had never seen anything quite like it. The work was very funny, very odd, and extremely clever. There was more to it than you could get your head around at first glance. After a while, most pieces evoked laughter, followed by revelatory, “Ah ha!”
This, then, is a very unique, one-of-a-kind, two-person exhibition, with close to 100 works of art, in a small gem of a gallery surrounded by a serene Zen sculpture garden. A juxtaposition all on its own.
I am very excited to have been asked to curate this show, and be able to bring these artists to you.
Jim Dultz
