For the first time, see Howe's complete cycle of paintings The Erotics of Power.

Howe states "Almost always I paint about power and control. I am into the deep machinations and relational politics of my alien creatures–sensual manipulative beasts. They turn and dive, penetrate and flow, stream and wind around each other like eels. Never settling into the organic body or alien autopsy–they want to be beautiful, but just end up uneasy and sometimes trembling.

"My creatures turn into each other and back into themselves. They are just bad with boundaries. Even a single creature may feel like a struggle for power and control, as if they are trying to both turn and flatten, trying to become one face, or another. They exist in all dimensions, orientations and timelines. My alien creatures exist outside of gender and only in relation of self-to-self and self-to-other. They are expressions of visceral monstrous envy, greed, succulence, desire, ache–our growling ego."

The show will run Thursday through Sunday 12-6 pm for walk-in viewing. Kate will not be in the studio on Thursday.