"Dawn"
Inna Kulagina and Nicki Byram feature a series of works in “Dawn” from Tuesday, November 2 through Sunday, November 28 at the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery, 405 S. 11th St. in Omaha’s Old Market. An opening reception will be held Friday, November 5 from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring live music by David Downing, Cello and Darci Gamerl Oboe.

Inna Kulagina
The Garden of Eden is the story of a perfect place, the place of supreme happiness, perfect contentment, fulfilment, the place where everyone is at peace with one another.

The Garden of Eden is the place without knowledge of choice and free will – meditation upon good and evil – THE CONFLICT.

“The Fall” is the fall from the STATE OF PERFECTION into the STATE OF MAKING CHOICES — the STATE OF FREE WILL.

The first words of Adam when questioned by God: “She gave it to me (the fruit); you (God) gave her to me…”

This exhibition is the BEGINNING of my feelings (translated into thoughts) — my Eden which I am happy to share with you. My plants are Eden and it is here forever: now it is our choice to make right choices to have our Eden here and now. This is the beginning of my story of the perfect land and choices. I am curious what I will see when I open my next canvas.

Nicki Byram
What does Dawn have to do with any of this? Well, there was “In the Beginning”. There must have been a DAWN. And then there was Cappadocia! Did you know that VERY EARLY UNKNOWN PEOPLE in Turkey, hid their own “Dawn of civilization” under the fairy houses. As many as 60,000 people might have lived there underground. There was a big WHIR at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Each new idea DAWNS on us and brings a new seed to sprout, and the DAWN of a new day looks in from my little forest. Enjoy these new paintings!