Gallery5 Presents: 'Prospective Terrain: Works by Sandra Doore and Emily Beveridge' The opening reception: is First Friday, December 4th and runs through Friday, January 1st.

Sandra Doore was born in Basel, Switzerland. She received a BFA from the University of Victoria in 2003 and an MFA degree at the San Diego State University, California (2007) where she also taught at the undergraduate level.

Her interest in consumer culture and how it affects the sense of self has influenced her art making. In the last few years Sandra has exhibited her sculptures frequently in Canada and the United States.

"I am interested in the mass media's tendency to 'play' with and nurture our primal instincts by means of exposing us to sexually manipulated objects. 'Primal Sense' is meant to play upon the inherent impulse to be attracted to forms that arouse desires while simultaneously also invite the viewer to take part in a dialogue that explores the threshold at which things could become opposites," Doore says of her work. " It is the play between the beautiful and the ugly, the serious and the ridiculous and the sensual and the obscene that I find most intriguing and that seem to give most advertisements its edge. With this body of work I attempt to evoke the symbiosis that exist between the mass media and consumer society and its close ties to our absurd existence in relationship to erotica."

Beveridge attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where she received a BFA in Painting in 2006.

"One of my earliest memories is of scribbling on a wall with a turquoise crayon. I can even remember the pattern of the wallpaper I was scribbling on. So even at age three, art making was a driving force in my life. Although I was born in New York City, I grew up in Sylvania, a suburb of Toledo, Ohio," she says. " I always felt a little different than most people living in my town. Growing up, I filled notepads with animal drawings, and loved watching cartoons for hours, trying to pick apart how they were made. Today I still use animal imagery in my work; cartoons and their humor influence my work as well."

"'Head for the Hills' is a series of sixteen painting in remembrance of the four years I spent in college at Ohio University. Each year is represented by four paintings, one for each season, or quarter of academic study, for a total of 16 paintings," Beveridge explains.  "Each painting is quite large scale; 3 x 6', and each is rendered in acrylic, spray paint, and marker. The shapes in the landscapes pay homage to the rolling hills around Athens, but the figures are based purely on memories or events that occurred during the time period represented in the painting.  The paintings were influenced by American folk art, particularly the work of Grandma Moses. 5 pieces from this series will be on display at Gallery5 along with a few other selected works."