Orcas Paley presents
BESTIARY
Celebrating the creatures in our lives, domestic or wild, real or imagined, friendly or frightening, or somewhere in between.
October 16 - November 2
JESSE MILLER
Self Portrait as Whale (Messenger),1997
Oil, gesso, on board, artist’s frame
10.5” x 8.5” x 1.25”
$670
NATE LIPPENS
Scribble 13 (Manners), 2025
Ink on paper
8.5” x 11”
Sold
MARÍA ZAMORA
La Migración, 2025
6-color screen print
11” x 17”
$140
WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
Minotaur (After Miró), 2016
Oil, acrylic, Flashe, acrylic marker, gesso, and collaged burlap on wood panel
10” x 10” x 0.5”
$1200
ELIZABETH JAMESON
Queen of the Bats, 2025
Vintage fabrics and leather, felt, silk, wool, thread
5" X 4" / 13" x 13" x 1.5"
Sold
SAYA MORIYASU
Bug with Mask Helmet, 2025
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze
5.25” x 4.5” x3.5”
Sold
Courtesy J. Rinehart Gallery
DEBRA BROZ
Flower Foal, 2024
Secondhand ceramic figurines, mixed media
5.5” x 7” x 4.5”
$800
ISA BENISTON
Untitled (Bestiary), 2025
Ink and watercolor on paper
6” x 8” / 9” x 11”
$225
EVE COHEN
Nester, 2025
Vintage gloves, beads, sequins, trim, tree pod, wire
4” x 3” x 6”
$425
DEBORAH BAKER
Alphabet Sampler, 2025
Hand embroidered cotton floss on linen
14”x14” / 3” border remaining behind frame
Sold
URSULA BROOKBANK
Owl, 2025
Wire, metal foil, wire, glass jar,
14.25 x 5.5 x 2”
$175
AIMEE HAGEDORN
Green Readers, 2025
Kimono scraps, cotton embroidery floss
3.5” x 4” approx.
Sold
CANDACE JENSEN
Beasts of Sound Made Flesh: Snakes and Letters / Symposium, 2022
Ink, indigo, watercolor & graphite on a full goat skin parchment
25” x 31” / 28” x 1” x 32” framed
$2400
I am interested in complicating communication, and developing more richly meaningful vessels for our languages to occupy, both visually and symbolically. I use hand-made inks, herbs, pigments, and gold leaf on papers and parchments in the tradition of illuminated manuscripts and book arts. My explicit intent is to expand calligraphic illumination’s content scope beyond that of anthropocentrism, and engage in mythic metaphor-making and visual poetry.
The Beasts of Sound series in particular is playfully rooted in the historical practice of calligraphic marginalia, which were often done as creative responses to boredom with a touch of irreverence. My Beasts form characters and portraits of possible sound creatures given corporeal forms, which are feral and irreverent of the glyphs and letters they appropriate and resemble. They allude to the nature of 'living language' and the haptic life of sounds, utterances & words.
SAYA MORIYASU
Natto Grump, 2025
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze
2.25” x 1.6” x 1.6”
Sold
Courtesy J. Rinehart Gallery
NATE LIPPENS
Scribble 11 (Tinnitus), 2025
Ink on paper
8.5” x 11”
$150
JESSE MILLER
Untitled (cat peeking), 2025
Acrylic, ink, oil bar, pentouch, found paper, found frame
10.5” x 8.75” x .5”
Sold
MARÍA ZAMORA
Guayabo, 2024
6-color screen print
10” x 14.25”
$140
JESSE MILLER
Sea Snake, 2025
Acrylic, ink, gesso, on paper, found frame
4.5” x 5.5” x .5”
Sold
BENJAMIN ROBERTS
In Agony at the Met, 2025
Oil on board
11” x 14”
$170
RUBY BENDER
Butterfly House 1, 2025
Plywood, artist-prepared paint on paper, thread, wire
10” x 11” approx.
$190
LINDA BEAUMONT
Beast and Trainer, 2025
Watercolor on paper
4.3/4” x 6.3/4” in frame
$425
URSULA BROOKBANK
Daddy Long Legs, 2025
Wood, wire, felt
11.5 x 5 x 7.5”
$200
STEPHANIE NORRIS
Fierce (Pendant), 2025
Vintage button, silver, handmade chain
Sold
SAYA MORIYASU
Natto Bacteria, 2025
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze
2.6” x 1.5” x 1.25”
Sold
Courtesy J. Rinehart Gallery
MARK RUDIS
Rabbit 2, 2025
Cast pure silver, artist-made mount
1.75” x 1.25” x 1.25”
Sold
JEFFRY MITCHELL
Blake’s Lion, 2024
Etching: aquatint on Somerset warm white paper, artist’s frame
14" x 19" x 4"
$5000
Courtesy Traver Gallery
LADY STARDUST MINERALS
Wisdom Jar, 2025
Ceramic, glaze, quartz, black tourmaline, Swarovski crystals
12” x 5”
$444
JANE LITTLEFIELD
Four Hounds Roundel, 2025
Stained glass painted with kiln fired paints and silver stain
8”d.
$320
LYNN BERGELIN
Lizzy, 2025
Fabric, mixed fibers
15” x 15” approx.
Sold
JESSE MILLER
Indra, 2023
Acrylic, ink, watercolor on paper, found frame
5.5” x 7.5” x .5”
$200
SHARON JEWELL
Tri-Cerefume (Vessel), 2025
Glazed Porcelain
4” x 3” x 2”
Sold
RYAN KELLY
Faux Meissen Turkey, 2021
White earthenware
18” x 18” x 24”
Sold
Courtesy AMcE Creative Arts
JANE LITTLEFIELD
Green Cat Roundel, 2025
Stained glass painted with kiln fired paints and silver stain
8”d.
$320
SAYA MORIYASU
Natto Bunny, 2025
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze
2.6” x 1.4” x 1.4”
Sold
Courtesy J. Rinehart Gallery
NATE LIPPENS
Scribble 13 (Beep Beep), 2025
Ink on paper
8.5” x 11”
Sold
From The Diaries of Gareth Meredith
I wake up not knowing what story I’m in. I hear the patter of Marbles and Beep Beep—Marbles named for Raymond and Connie Marble, the villains of John Waters’s Pink Flamingos played by David Lochary and Mink Stole and Beep Beep for her namesake, Tama Janowitz’s dog in the 1980s—and drift back to myself. I must rise because my geriatric dogs need to be fed and watered and let out ceremonially. Likely they have already gone on the pee-pee pads dotting the house or more likely wherever their tiny, mischievous hearts and bladders please. Recently while organizing, I discovered the box of my juvenilia had been besoiled by my dearests. When I trained them to go on the paper I should have been more specific. I could scarcely be upset though. I’ve spent most of my adult life pissing on my childhood and upbringing. While the dogs eat, I situate myself by perusing the morning jumble of disasters and tidbits, then assess yesterday’s progress and damage. Three boxes unpacked, resorted, abandoned. My dears have had their ways with some drawings of minotaurs, centaurs, satyrs, mermen, and, most viciously, their own portraits.
VERDANT LENS
Minotaur, 2025
Ink and pastel on toned paper
6” x 8” / 10” x 12” framed
Sold
NATE LIPPENS
Scribble 12 (Peacock), 2025
Ink on paper
8.5” x 11”
$150
CANDACE JENSEN
Beasts of Sound Made Flesh: Big Dick Beast, 2022
Ink, indigo, watercolor, gold leaf & graphite on deer or goat skin parchment
3.5” - 5” / 5”x7”
Sold
LINDA BEAUMONT
Sleeping Together, 2025
Watercolor on paper
6” x 8” in frame
NFS
JEFFRY MITCHELL
Thumper and a Flower Plate, 2023
Painted and glazed terra cotta
1" x 7" x 7"
$800
Courtesy Traver Gallery
SARAH BATTLE
Birds and Beasts, 2025
Cut paper
6” x 6”
Sold
JOEL JULIO
The Sphinx, 2025
Gouache, pen, pastel on paper
9” x 11” in frame
$400
JANE LITTLEFIELD
Four Cats Roundel, 2025
Stained glass painted with kiln fired paints and silver stain
8”d.
$320
CANDACE JENSEN
Beasts of Sound Made Flesh: E Dragon and Ash, 2022
Ink, indigo, watercolor, gold leaf & graphite on deer or goat skin parchment
3.5” - 5” / 5”x7”
Sold
URSULA BROOKBANK
Bird, 2025
Wood, wire, metal foil
7.5 x 11.5 x 2.5
$200
FAY JONES
Bunny with a Yoyo, 2025
Acrylic on plaster, in tin cans
4.75” x 4.25”
Sold
Courtesy studio e gallery
EVE COHEN
Newlywed, 2025
Vintage gloves, beads, sequins, tulle, lace, tree pod, wire
7” x 3” x 4”
$425
JESSE MILLER
Untitled (multi-colored rough figure on dark pattern), 2025
Acrylic, ink, gesso, paper, found frame
5” x 7” x .5”
Sold
AIMEE HAGEDORN
Cotton Candy Kitty, 2025
Kimono scraps, cotton embroidery floss
3.5” x 4” approx.
Sold
MICHAEL DOYLE
The Year was 1346, 2025
Matte acrylic, gouache paint on wood panel with painted frame
14” x 18”
Sold
RUBY BENDER
Butterfly House 3, 2025
Plywood, artist-prepared paint on paper, thread, wire
10” x 11” approx.
Sold
GREG LASTRAPES
Wet Frogs, 2024
Blown and engraved glass
10” x 7.5”
$2150
EVE COHEN
Hopper, 2025
Vintage gloves, fabric, beads, sequins, trim, tree pod, wire
6” x 3” x 5.5”
Sold
ROBERT PETERSON
Cyclops, 2025
6,201 antique glass beads, nylon thread, found feathers
6” x 3” x 3”
$750
MARK RUDIS
Bear, 2025
Cast pure silver, artist-made mount
1.25” x 1.25” x 1.25”
Sold
BILLIE BEADS
Pork-u-Pine, 2025
Polymer clay, Swarovsky crystals
4” x 6” x 4”
$400
ALLISON ARTH
Dolores, 2025
Vintage Kewpie doll, found fabric, human hair
7" x 7" x 7"
NFS
With Dolores, somatic trauma and feminine horror coalesce in kitsch. Inspired by the folk wisdom that hair holds memory, and by Catholic reliquaries and corporeal Victorian memento mori, I've cloaked a childhood Kewpie in my own hair, which I cut myself after a year shaped and shaded by grief. I wanted to express the strange and bittersweet facets of loss through a deeply weird aesthetic collision: Dolores' face is covered in a nod to traditional mourning veils, but her bell-shaped "dress" references the heavily lacquered, high-femme flips of the '60s. More so, a stylized pile of human hair with tiny hands — hands raised in welcome or warning? to grope or to plead? — is wholly unhinged, like some goofy, cult horror gross-out. Dolores is campy, unsettling, maybe even monstrous, but underneath, she is small, she is searching. She is sorrow.
