Release Galleri Urbane will open the fall 2007 exhibit In Gallery 1 a group show featuring Vermont artist Ahren Ahrenholz - flat wall pieces, Ahren has spent his whole life in the world of design and construction. Dwellings, bridges, urban parks & gardens, rural land reclamation. Mixed within there is furniture and ten years as a studio potter. The common thread is the world of rational thought and cumulative experience in materials and technical processes. Since 1995 Ahren has worked as an "Object Maker". Immersion in this world of the unknown is the opposite of past involvement in the world of the "rational". Issues of instinct, feeling, the virtues of "relative failure/discovery" define my work existence. The artists primary concerns exist in the questioning, refining, giving nuance to the world of visual language. This is the constant. The asking of questions - knowing that this in turn will begat questions currently unformed. The work exists as "Artifacts" of this ongoing inquiry. Gallery artist Michael Berman's 480 plate installation, Michael has been photographing the southwest for 25 years, he has complied over 400 plate works in the process, the plates are sliver gelatin prints mounted on aluminum. Each fine silver print is unique and individually created by the artist; each is subtly toned, dissected, and affixed to the aluminum plates. Each plate is itself a relic: layered with paint in which the photo has been set abraded back through pentimenti, rubbed with pure pigments, and finally waxed. Mr. Berman was born in New York City, came to Colorado College where he studied biology and has wandered throughout the southwest ever since. Finding science too narrow, he later studied photography and earned an MFA at Arizona State University in Tempe. Ten years ago he settled in southwestern New Mexico where he now lives in the Mimbres Valley near San Lorenzo, his photographs are  included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum and the Museum of New Mexico, Fort Worth museum of art. He has received Painting Fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Wurlitzer Foundation, his installations and paintings have been reviewed in Art in America, and exhibited throughout the country. Also in the show is gallery artist Kate Carr, Carr's MUSLIN BOX installation and the muslin stack works, which hang in thin, page-like layers that create a densely textured surface against the wall. In their present states these objects are evidence of simple interventions, utilitarian processes turned upside down. The stacks of muslin hang in thin, page-like layers that create a densely textured surface against the wall. In their present states these objects are evidence of simple interventions, utilitarian processes turned upside down. Also in Gallery 1 is Paula Roland a visiting artist from Sante Fe. Ms Roland will exhibit her graphite, encaustic on handmade Korean paper works,Ms Roland's work examines the nature of how we see and our perception of reality. According to chaos theory, in dynamical systems, patterns called strange attractors form in what appears to be chaos. These reveal a hidden order. Roland's paintings are fantasy fractals—fields, waves, frequencies, cycles, currents and particles—making the unknown visible. Ms. Roland received her  M.F.A. University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA ,  Painting, Sculpture, and B.A. St. Mary's Dominican College, New Orleans, LA,  Painting Gallery artist Jason Willaford will exhibit his most recent encaustic paintings. Jason is working in the same genre as the More Abstract Linear series, The previous series, DESCENDING ORDER consisted of an over all hue with a horizontal linear band of color. Adding and subtracting the layers of color reveals the horizontal image through the center of the painting which creates a spatial feeling of cognitive dissonance, what is real ? This a series of paintings lent themselves to the recent body of work, M.A.L.E, more abstract linear evolution. The paintings individually play as a word or a component of something larger. While each painting maintains individuality, in a grouping they form a narrative that takes shape, creating cadence and hue. A series of lines drawn in, revealing organic tributaries running across a hard edge surface of primary, The individual paintings become rhyming and often unrhymed lines in a poem, each playing off of one another depending on the arrangement like a quatrain or haiku. Willaford is currently working on larger canvas's where each panel connects a continuum of the horizon lines. Jason recently had a solo show at Boltax Gallery N.Y and a group exhibit Scope Hamptons art fair. He will also exhibit Dec 6,7 during Art Miami with Koelsch Gallery, Houston, they will be at -   In Gallery 2 a solo show featuring visiting Sante Fe artist Munson Hunt, paintings and sculpture. Munson's recent enamel on plywood paintings come from her work as a sculptor thinking in 3-D. After 22 years of sculpture and object making the paintings are still about form, relationship and inspired by nature. The negative space is observed closer and shapes that almost touch or do connect are in relation to how we speak to each other. The relation of presence and absence, energy of two forms meeting and whether they crowd each other or compliment each other in space is the study of these new works. The plywood lends references to modernism and the industrial age. The grain of the wood lends a background to the shapes painted on the surface. The surface is glossy and rich with enamel and smooth wood. The very simple shapes and space between shapes are the focus. Keeping them simple and clean makes them read instantly. Size and scale is intended, such as human scale or small more intimate works. Gallery 3 a solo exhibit featuring gallery artist Peter Voshefski. Peter will exhibit his small paintings installation. Voshefskis paintings are concerned with the sublime pleasureful anxiety in the specific moments and places that inhabit life’s experiences. These things evoke the questions: What is here? What is missing? What is desired? In this spirit the artist paints with explicit and implicit elements of space and time, and a language of desire, longing, history, and mythology. The paintings reveal as much as they conceal in a translucent mist of images and fragments that occupies empty spacesPeter was Born: 1967 in Cincinnati, Ohio he received his BFA: University of Cincinnati 1991 and MFA: University of New Mexico 2002. In Gallery 4 which is usually Jason Willafords studio will exhibit more of Jasons recent works and gallery artist Bret Aaker's recent wood burning acrylic paintings.