BELFAST — Triangle Gallery, at 8 Elm Street, in Rockland, is showing the work of four artists in August/September. The installation includes solo shows for Talya Baharal / Full Circle; Jacob Walter Wolf Flanagan / La Louve; Gene Gnida / Black & White; and Mobiles by Antje Roitzsch.

The shows are currently on view and will run through the 16th of September. Gallery hours are Tues-Sat 1-6pm, by chance, or by appointment.

Talya Baharal’s painting journey began while living on the coast of Maine. A former metal artist and photographer, Baharal began painting in workshops with Steve Aimone in Thomaston and set up a studio in Rockland.

“Looking at asphalt road repairs, broken ice sheets on a river, a mended seam on a garment or a mangled wire on a trash heap, I marvel at those ‘unintended’ compositions and how they find their mysterious ways into my abstract vocabulary. Aesthetic interpretations of vulnerability and decay combined with the bare essence of shape and texture have continually been at the core of my work. A fascination with the process of nature’s corrosive elements as well as unearthing what lies beneath the surface has spilled from my sculptural work into my creative path of painting.”

Jacob Flanagan’s enigmatic and personal scenes are inspired by and give homage to a variety of friends and family members.

“The abstract backgrounds and figural representations on the canvas lean into his naïve painting style.”

Flanagan began as a tattoo artist and quickly moved onto canvas and Styrofoam, exploring materials and techniques, blurring the connection between the representational and the ethereal.

Gene Gnida’s energetic paintings are “quick, immediate and spontaneous. I think a great deal about my art, about the process of painting, but not while I am painting. Repeatedly, I go back into a painting; next day – next week – next month, but I never stay long. I need to retain a sense of immediacy. Often, a painting becomes labored and loses its vital energy. Conversely, a painting that is in the process of becoming . . . offers the promise of its own intrinsic passion.”

Antje Roitzsch’s elegant mobiles can be found throughout the gallery. Bringing beauty into our lives is the essence of her passion with these ever-changing, meditative shapes.

For more information, please contact the gallery at 207-593-8300