July 3 - August 2, 2026

Letting Go of Holding On

Sidney Garrett / Ann Harding

New Member Exhibits

John Harper: Mysterious Anatomy

Anthony Huber: Proof of Existence

Four artists’ work — paintings, sculpture and sculptural paintings that summarily obliterate the boundaries of color and texture — invite engagement at Kehler Liddell Gallery

Exhibition Dates: July 3 - August 2, 2026
Reception Date: Sunday, July 12, 2-5pm
Artist Talk: July 12, 3pm   Gallery Hours:  Friday- Sunday, 12-5pm

Letting Go Of Holding On: Sculptures by the late Sidney Garrett (1927–2022) and paintings by Ann Harding (b.1942) seize on a specific moment in time when artists’ years of creating have wound down, but the creations remain — vibrant and strong. This exhibition, curated by Sidney's son and KLG gallery artist,  Matthew Garrett, is a step to redistribute the work product of two lifetimes in art.  S. Garrett’s work was heavily influenced by the modern structures and machines of the ever-changing built environment and made of carved mahogany, cast bronze, and large woodcuts, to aircraft fabric, turned into interactive or carefully-balanced kinetic constructions. Painter Ann Harding built a distinguished career as an artist/professor with an extensive and high profile list of exhibitions and a style that continuously evolved through eight thrilling decades, from relatively abstract imagery into the realm of the absolutely abstract. 

John Harper’s body of work,  Mysterious Anatomy is an unlikely outcome from a long career in biology,  medicine and corporate healthcare; but using these various reference points provided Harper the opportunity to create unique and compelling visual images. Biologic and anatomic shapes both organic and geometric, and non-representational images merge to produce works of both the familiar and the unfamiliar. “I continue to reconcile my desire for order and structure (given my years in medicine) with an equal desire for spontaneity and abstraction,” says Harper,  which results in a very interesting picture plane.

C. Anthony Huber is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores materiality, time, and the interaction between natural and built environments. In this series, concrete is the new cave wall. It draws inspiration from humanity's earliest acts of mark-making, from primitive carvings to contemporary efforts to assert identity and presence. For millennia, marks etched into stone served as maps, records, warnings, and stories—tools that helped people leave evidence of their existence. Proof of Existence returns to this fundamental human impulse; the work connects ancient acts of recording with modern questions of permanence, memory, and legacy. As technology continues to reshape how we document our lives, the work asks: What traces will remain, and how will future generations discover our proof of existence?