Andrew Grassie chose motifs that had held his attention for reasons he could not always explain: photos from his image archive, sometimes many decades old and exuding a vague awkwardness, became sources for these works. Each image of this series can be traced to a specific moment, often specific visual phenomena, remembered by the artist for persona and/or artistic reasons.

The intimately scaled, precisely painted works are all executed in tempera, a painting technique associated with pre-Renaissance panel paintings anteceding the development of oil paint.

The exhibition includes repeated motifs in twos and threes. The delicate pattern of tiny brushstrokes characteristic of tempera painting makes each image clearly unique, yet the repetition of these motifs encourages a close examination. And while this multiplication makes apparent the small differences, it also reinforces the paintings’ affinity to memories: unique experiences, played over in our mind.