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Similitude, 2020

22 Artworks

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An erratic collection of memories and dreams. Similar experiences with different interpretations. When you drive down a rural road, do you see the same things I see? I would imagine that you encounter the same things but process them in your own unique way. Just like the stories we’re told through generations; same content, different take away. This collection reveals the beauty of interpretation. What feels familiar can be beautifully individual.

Sinking Spells, 2026

41 Artworks

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Small Works by Stephanie Cramer

51 Artworks

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Soft Spoken Sunlight, 2024

13 Artworks

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"These paintings are from the past eight years. A period when I would drive my children to grade school. The early morning drive was filled with constant questions and chatter about the day to day life of my young children attending school. What a joy. The drive home was a stark contrast. Driving east of Springfield, it was silent in the car, the absence of giggles and singing and questions. However the sunrises were spectacular. A quiet joy, inspiring. I’d rush into the house and down to my studio to capture the lingering impression of the colors that stretched across the most brilliant and massive of nature’s canvases. An ever changing brilliance. Extraordinary, so filled with color or heavily moody, dark and brooding with only a hint of sunlight. These are my attempts to hold in oil the hope and promise of each new day, that soft spoken sunlight." -J.D. Hull

Spirit Animals: Tracking Time, 2023

11 Artworks

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Surrendering to the time cycle our sun provides can be a gratifying yet cruel human experience. There is importance in understanding our moments in the sun, the light shown upon our form is a gift rather than a routine-managed, laborious human task merely clocking the significance of our existence. Reflecting on the shadows our own shape casts on the earth or walls that surround us is an introspective exercise that can lead our actions to a sharper aesthetic contour of the image we hope to portray as time openly tracks our actions. Intuitively looking to nature for solace, I find beauty in the instinctual movements of animals, insects, and the growth of flora. Capturing the essence of shape, line, and light through the oldest and most ancient of art mediums, encaustic painting and the cyanotype photographic process, I am giving homage to the purest of living organisms that inhabit my world. Both artistic processes are spontaneous and rely on light and heat for materialize survival. Feeling a connection to the spirit of animals or the growth of a seed planted reminds me that tracking time while observing all living shadows and shapes, provides a feeling of gratitude and connection to the nature of being human.

Springtime on the Picture-Plane, 2013

14 Artworks

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“Jane Parker’s paintings and drawings richly avoid the sin of description while evoking a plethora of riches. They lead to a specificity of place and object only possible in the ambiance of the imagination—a place somewhere between music and a walk in the woods. Her work is to be entered rather than seen—experienced rather than admired. She consistently eschews artifice in favor of a reality that is less provable than palpable.” —Malki Sadeq, 2013

Studies in Fungi, 2021

16 Artworks

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Marveling at my finds during walks in the woods, I started collecting specimens to study with the intention of making them the subject of this show. It was a good time to work close to home, quietly, innocently and looking to the earth and nature for peace of mind. The small paintings are studies so I might understand and practice painting the subject and form. They are otherworldly and at the same time human.

Sublime/ Subliminal, 2022

24 Artworks

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"The inspiration I draw from nature comes from living in the Ozarks most of my life. Through my work, I engage in an ongoing dialogue with nature, sometimes even hiding text in the landscapes I depict. My view is at once romantic and melancholic as I consider nature’s uncertain future. Surreal elements emerge as I combine representation with the imaginary; flowers seem to dance, birds seek love, trees ask us to look. My paintings deepen my relationship with landscape—and the more my reverence grows, the more sacred that connection becomes." - Lil Olive

Symbiosis of Sight, 2025

12 Artworks

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This exhibition explores the dynamic interplay between creation, education, and perception within the evolving ecosystem of art. As an artist and college instructor, I inhabit a space where making and teaching are not separate acts, but mutually enriching processes. The studio, the classroom, and the museum become interconnected sites of inquiry—each shaping and reshaping the other.
At the heart of this body of work is a belief in symbiosis: a reciprocal relationship in which the artist, the student, and the viewer co-create meaning. The act of seeing is not passive—it is participatory. Through field trips, critiques, and shared experiences, students become both witnesses and contributors to the artistic process. Likewise, viewers bring their own interpretations, completing the circuit of communication that art initiates.
Many of the works in this exhibition are rooted in photographs I’ve taken during art museum field trips and a recent visit to New York City—moments of observation, reflection, and inspiration captured in transit. These visual records serve as the foundation for my studio practice, where memory and experience are transformed through material.
Influenced by artists such as Van Gogh, Jasper Johns, Hilma af Klint, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and Edward Hopper, my work draws from a wide spectrum of visual languages—from abstraction and symbolism to gesture and stillness. Their approaches to color, form, and emotional resonance echo through my own process.
Using encaustic, oil paint, and cold wax, I reimagine these images through layered surfaces, color and texture. These media allow me to explore the tension between permanence and impermanence, clarity and obscurity—mirroring the way memory and meaning shift over time and through different eyes.
Symbiosis of Sight invites reflection on how knowledge, creativity, and perception circulate between individuals and institutions. It is a meditation on the porous boundaries between teaching and learning, making and observing, guiding and being guided.

Opening Reception: Friday, August 1st from 6-10pm

Tactile, 2021

40 Artworks

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Taking Flight, 2013

12 Artworks

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Center stage in my art is the figure—an object in motion, as if the figure is caught, just for an instant; a glimpse, a snapshot before the gesture is complete. I’m not in search of exact representation. I’m intent rather on provoking a sense of tension or intensity. These plus color, bring the emotion to the painting. Whether spatial or expressionistic, the implied relationship between figures is intended to arouse curiosity. Painting is like a freeze frame. It helps both the viewer and the painter to pause—if just for a second as we enter into that two dimensional space. Most of the time the stage is imaginary or based on dreams and memories.

Terra Forma, 2026

9 Artworks

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Terra: Memory Bits, 2019

16 Artworks

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Insatiable visual hoarding has led me to a tactile realization that moments in nature need to be spent more mindfully:  instantaneous yet full of sensory meditation.  Bits of beauty rich with colors, textures, and sounds of nature flood my imagination when remembering a moment spent in Earth’s ever-changing environment.  Traveling to new places or stepping outside into the familiarity of my own backyard, I’m always inspired by nature.  Our landscape, its bits and pieces transform yet stay ever ready in our minds and at our digital fingertips, like a personal binary code for our human experiences.  “terra:  Memory Bits”, is a series of paintings found through traversing thousands of frozen moments that have been digitally saved, hoarded, and quickly stockpiled away but longing for another breath of organic life that accompanies one more fresh, new look. These paintings are inspired from digital photographs taken of nature and then re-imagined through organic tactile colors, textures, lines, and smells.  Each composition hides a faint hint of the painting’s title in binary code becoming a relevant pattern or motif of numbers, much like our visually literacy and understanding of how we weave beauty and facts into our daily lives which are married by nature and technology.

The Art of Collage, 2020

66 Artworks

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Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface” according to Tate Museum. Collage became a prevalent practice in the 20th century and has evolved as different art movements and artists have shaped it. Our artist, Stephanie Cramer, has incorporated collage into her work for over twenty years. She loves the hunt for “items with a soul” and the beauty of ink on paper captures her imagination. Many other artists feel just the same way and have been drawn to using collage materials in their work as well. See how these largely local artists use the art of collage today. Opening Reception: November 6th, 6-10 pm 2020 Exhibition Showing: November 6th– November 27th 2020

The Garden Party, 2025

32 Artworks

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The Staffordshire Collection, 2025

10 Artworks

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 “The Staffordshire Collection is inspired by the charm of 18th-century English porcelain and earthenware figurines. It reflects my love of animals and timeless design, with a touch of my own eclectic vibe.” -Anna Sistrunk 

Time Capsule, 2018

23 Artworks

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Jane Parker’s third solo show at Obelisk Home, titled “Time Capsule”, after one of the paintings in the show, encompasses new work from 2017-18. These evocative new paintings and drawings offer an atmospheric presence within a pictorial space structured by line and color. “I paint what I would like to see, with no specific idea of what that might be. “I fully expect to be seduced by the unexpected.” – Jane Parker

Torn, House Show, 2019

21 Artworks

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Taking her present conceptions of what it’s like living in the Bible Belt today and comparing them with her childhood perspective of what it was like living in it then - Rosie Winstead searches for a common thread between the opposing points of view. With hopes of finding better understanding, she discovers that the only way she can try and make sense of it all is through the best of what each side has to offer – humor, and a childlike sense of unconditional love.

Two Friends, 2020

21 Artworks

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For this special show, friends and artists Jane Parker and Betty Parnell decided to exhibit their work together as a natural result of sharing their process with each other. Jane and Betty are local artists who work from their home studios, and because of this, an important part of their art making has been maintaining a dialogue regarding their work in progress for several years now. Both artists are inspired by their surroundings and are committed to surprise discoveries as they work in order to determine how and when each painting or drawing finds its voice. This partnership with process keeps them intrigued as their artworks evolve. Shown are works by both Jane Parker and Betty Parnell from 2020.

Untitled by Jared Gillett, 2015

22 Artworks

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It is up to the painter to give alchemy meaning. It has its truths, its records of serious, and sustained attempts to carry out meaning. There is something between the image, the medium, and expression. That relationship is more than a record of history, more than a play between alchemy and paint. The relationship is the discovery and joy of creating the new and learning how to express it to find something new that will supply extra meaning in life. The why’s, the why not’s, the color, the shade, the value, the size, the meaning, the stroke, the matter, the image, the means, the skill and their relationships to each other make up what I look to express in every painting emotions in every brush stroke.