The susan miller daily horses horse paintings

The timeless bond between humans and horses is the starting point for
a new group show at the Main Gallery. Featured artists include Terri
Wilson Moore, Debora Crosby, Susan Wolf, Nina Koepcke and Ellen Chong.

For countless ages, the horse has served as metaphor and muse.
Symbolically, the horse can represent power and vitality, but also
pride, lasciviousness and even death. Whether associated with a cave
painting, a courtly knight or a cowpoke, the horse has taken on a
variety of modes to stimulate the imagination of the artist.

Through works ranging from paintings and prints to drawings and
sculpture, the artists exhibiting in “If Wishes Were Horses” explore
the complex bond between humans and horses and the image of the animal
which has assumed a sort of archetypal status through repetition in
fairy tales and myths, history and art.

Moore, who does paintings and drawings, affirms that her work is
“primarily about relationships.” One of her works in the show is a
pastel drawing with horses as blue as the sky.

Mixed-media artist Crosby has written that she is as “interested in
ideas and words as much as “… in objects and images,” with phrases
often becoming “building blocks for form” that can shape the text into
“tactile, visual poetry.” Her piece “Horse Study” was created with
newspaper and masking tape.

as she can get to poetry. Wolf sees in the pinched and folded shape
the “form,” with the “words” coming from the various colors, lines and
other elements she applies to the piece.

Koepcke’s oeuvre includes sculpture, painting and public art. Among
her community projects is LifeLines, a multidisciplinary-arts program
for the terminally ill.

Chong, a painter and arts educator, has a studio at the Twin Pines Art
Center. Her work ranges from richly hued paintings of the local
landscape to close-up views of ripe fruits and nostalgic amusement-
park scenes. She recently has published “A Happy Day,” which re-
creates an original handmade book done by her grandmother, Louise
Sheppa Lovett, in 1924.

A reception with the artists will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday. “If
Wishes Were Horses” will be on view through Oct. 12. The Main Gallery
is at 1018 Main St., Redwood City. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesdays-Fridays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays, or by
appointment by calling 650-701-1018. Visit .

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