As we approach our second anniversary with exhibition 20, we are pleased to again be showing the work of Bay Area-based painter Judith Belzer, who launched our program with the inaugural show in October of 2008. We are exhibiting selections from two recent series of Belzer's ongoing explorations into the underpinning structures and porous surfaces of the world, titled respectively, Order of Magnitude and Order of Things. The modest scale of these paintings belies the ambition and scope of Belzer's reach, as she moves freely from aerial to crystalline and cellular perspectives in her bid for intimacy with the natural order. Reminiscent of Cezanne's late watercolors, Belzer's assured open brushwork and thin washes suggest she has found herself a home in the center of things, and an open hand to pull us into the organizing principle she has uncovered.

For exhibition 20 we are pleased to again be showing the work of Bay Area photographer Nina Zurier, a new series of multiple images. The show is titled Conditions and Connections and runs concurrent with her installation at California State University Sacramento's Library Gallery, titled Make Me One with Everything. With these most recent works, Zurier has pushed the capacity for open-ended story telling already inherent in her signature juxtaposition of images. She selects the individual shots of her compound photographs with great consideration for their composition and color, and the resulting form, along with the simple fact of their containment within a frame, creates a strong visual bond. More significantly, it is her uncanny intuition, her selection for leaping poetry and the triggers of memory that assures the elastic cohesion of these scroll-like narratives, what Zurier has called, "the continuity of discontinuity."