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White Walls Gallery: Regino Gonzales, Dee Dee Cheriel, and Henry Gunderson.

Review by BTN: White Walls brings together a collection of works that deal with animal imagery, the intervention of the human hand, and messages that are personal and often private. Dee Dee Cheriel's pieces continue the development of her style and personal narratives through repeated images of the roaring grizzly, the embracing trees, and the animal-people in sex acts, and her compositions and palette in this series speak through a more focused juxtaposition of colors and visual vocabulary. Regino Gonzales similarly offers a window into a world of animals who shift between being objects of imagined still lifes and agents in silent but fierce struggles between birds, snakes, insects, rats-- struggles often involving thin ropes. Many of the scenes combine representational portraits of the animals with flat silhouettes, often suspended in the center of the canvas in a way that heightens the sense of a fantasized scenario and space. Henry Gunderson rounds out the show with his own use of iconography shared with Cheriel and Gonzales such as Native American patterns, birds, and the melding of human and animal.