08/14/2026
Double-header Sat. Aug. 29th 2-8pm!! 🙌 Join us as we celebrate four years of The Ruffed Grouse Gallery with the opening of LISA GARTNER: COLOR TV and a one-day-only appearance by Jo Cunningham’s THE FREAK FAMILY ROADSHOW!! 😮 You won’t want to miss it!! 🤩
LISA GARTNER: COLOR TV
Opening Reception: 5–8 PM
Lisa G
This is the debut exhibition of self-taught artist Lisa Gartner (b. 1970, Hawaii). Living and working in Parksville, New York, and New York City, Gartner creates remarkably convincing ceramic sculptures of everyday objects - from snack foods and toiletries to household items and personal effects. Presented individually and in larger installations, Gartner’s ceramic world transforms the familiar into something strange, funny, tender, and unexpectedly moving.
THE FREAK FAMILY ROADSHOW
One Day Only: 2–8 PM
Free & open to all
Jo Cunningham
Pulling up outside the gallery for one day only is self-taught sculptor Jo Cunningham’s The Freak Family Roadshow (b. 1997, Brooklyn, NY) - a traveling sculptural sideshow housed inside a restored 1950s trailer. Inspired by underground comics created by Cunningham’s father in the 1980s, the immersive installation follows a gorilla mother, alien father, and their strange hybrid child through an eccentric domestic world that is equal parts roadside attraction, outsider art, and meditation on family and otherness. Traveling across America, The Freak Family Roadshow has attracted national attention, including coverage by CBS News, Southwest Contemporary, and others.
