ESSENCE OF SILENCE

The “Silence” Exhibition by Debbie Dickinson explores how artists use quiet – not as absence, but as a powerful force, to transmit meaning. These artworks are about how ideas that resist words are communicated from paint and ink to paper and canvas. Each artist in this exhibition has a different relationship to silence. A muted palette, a minimal gesture, a suspended form – each choice channels emotion without overt declaration.

You are invited to view “Silence”, please reserve an appointment at edentpr@gmail.com until August 5, 2025 – Hours 11am to 7pm.

BILL BUCHMAN

“Zentopia” uses a blue sea immersion of acrylics arch to express the functionality of minimalism.  Very little interferes with this arch wall tells others that this is a time to reflect, and you cannot be disturbed.  Darker hues of blue reinforce barriers where you really need to realign yourself before approaching the darkest depths of blue to address the elephant in the room.

S.L. FULLER

When you see the name “Taylor”, you automatically have Taylor Swift come to mind.  Albeit, “Taylor” in ink here is sitting by the piano have a moment where no one approaches the room where piano keys are.  Yes, music is being made as no voices enter the room to disrupt the process, and money can flow easier without conflict.

CAROLE BOLGER

The use of graphite, gouache, and acrylic on paper is not only “Xenophora Pallidula”, but also a display of seashells where they’re the only source of sound.  Nothing else gets in the way of the beach where a seashell performance can take place.  It is a moment where music direct from the ocean floor can play beautifully at its purest.

EVAN SEBASTIAN LAGACHE

A line of acrylics with “Stratus”, defined as a cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet, often with rain or snow.  Just as the clouds are competing for sky time with the sun, you find it’s a perfect time to hit the pause button.  Don’t do anything else but use that time to reflect, and not even let the sun in to interfere.  You need to get ready before the sky makes way for the biggest star in the universe (The Sun).

ALAYNA COVERLY

If it’s not clarity that’s being expressed, it’s silence where hindrance is holding women back, or “Stuck”.  This oil on canvas is not out to use clarity to soothe, but clarity to reveal how government leaders don’t hear the struggles women are facing.  One part of the struggle are women feared to lose healthcare or women’s rights.

Some pieces feel like prayers, others like withheld screams.  All invite a slow, intimate engagement, one that is deeply personal. What ties them together is how their choice of application and medium becomes an extension of the inner voice.  A piece of charcoal, a cut line, a layered wash of white, each choice speaks volumes, in near silence. Texture takes on new meaning when sound is absent.  How space itself – what remains untouched – becomes part of the message. 

The Silence Exhibition is about becoming aware of what happens in the quiet: the transmission of feeling, thought, and truth. 

This group show offers a spacious balance while giving space to contemporary artists whose materials, methods, and quiet marks all transmit something essential in their restraint. 

In these works, silence is the invitation to simply be. 

This exhibition does not seek just to fill the room with sound, but to open a spacious balance where quiet becomes active, where restraint, absence, and pause transmit deeper truths than words can hold. 

In silence, there is depth. 

And in art, silence is never empty, it always carries meaning in its most powerful form. This is an invitation for viewers to listen closely, not just with the ears, but with eyes and presence.

DANIEL QUINTANILLA