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LAYER-BY-LAYER features new work by Katherine Sandoz, Scotty Peek, Susan Maakestad and David Boyd. Layered in each painting are investigations of place, of history and of context, and also of paint and of painting. Katherine Sandoz’s “uhuru” draws upon the landscape, language, and native flora of Maui, expressing to the viewer that “we are the smallest and nature is vast.” Scotty Peek’s “There & Not” uses his heavily wooded Southern surroundings to create paintings that are both specific and general, pushing his paint to dissolve the representational landscape into the abstract. Susan …