Melissa Loop • Carolynn Haydu • Julia Lucey • Juan Carlos Collada • Luis Bivar

Featuring work from Melissa Loop, Carolynn Haydu, Julia Lucey, Juan Carlos Collada, and Luis Bivar, 'This Must Be the Place' is a lush, exuberant show that transports the viewer from the physical and emotional confines of a bleak midwinter to a psycho-spiritual oasis of soothing optimism.

Borrowing its title from the Talking Heads' perennial hit of the same name, our January exhibit embodies the uplifting ease and open-ended sence of place distilled in the group's earnest love song. Our featured artists' works deal with ideas of place – whether material, metaphorical, or imagined – and the meaning we draw from it. From Luis Bivar's exquisitely constructed imaginary worlds, to Carolynn Haydu's abstract relief paintings (often named for beloved open spaces in her native California wilderness), the artworks exhibited in 'This Must Be the Place' are something like love songs themselves, odes to the extraordinary things we seek out in the everyday.