The Columbia County Council on the Arts will present “The Wild Show,” opening on Saturday, August 5, with a reception from 5 to 7 pm, which is open to the public. The show will run through September 16. The show features seven CCCA member artists: Holly Allen, Carla Berger, Jim Bollbach, Joshua Brehse, Kenneth Cooke, Catherine Mosley and Mike Rose. The works selected for the show feature the artists’s interpretations of “wild,” ranging from the natural to the supernatural in subject matter, from the figurative to the abstract in style and from the dreamlike to the gritty in theme. “The Wild Show” includes works in photography, painting, collage, sculpture and works on paper. A zombie assault on an Albany police precinct is the subject of one of Rose’s works, a witty doomsday scenario. Allen works on watercolor paper, using graphite, cooking oils and make-up to create a story of restless characters within deteriorating atmospheres. Families of human-like beings express various emotions – curiosity, passion, anger – within their personal purgatories. Berger, a New York City photographer, searches for urban “street people” images postered on buildings and walls and photographs them at close range, resulting in alternate realities of disorder. Bollbach’s driftwood art (literally from the wild) resembles a human head in profile. Brehse’s paintings are at once spontaneous and moving. Colors, shapes and lines which emerge from beneath layers of wax, oils and pen and ink keep the viewer’s eyes dancing. Cooke’s vivid photographs depict the running motion of a wild rhino and a goat’s head peering out of a doorway with a human hand resting below suggesting we are witnessing a mythological creature of sorts. Mosley’s works make us feel as if we are on the verge of being swept away, as if in a dream. Her collages move, shapes tangle and colors whirl in strong currents of abstraction. CCCA Gallery is at 209 Warren Street. For more information, www.artscolumbia.org, ccca@mhcable.com or 518-671-6213. 
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