Myth and Memory brings together Lynden Cline and Jeff Leake, two artists who navigate the spaces between personal history and cultural myth, between observed reality and imagined landscapes. Through painting, sculpture, and visual storytelling, these works reflect on how history-both collective and deeply personal-shapes our present. Together, these artists invite us into a world where myth and memory blur, where storytelling is both a personal act of reflection and a cultural force shaping our understanding of the past and present.

"Leake’s work explores mythologies and cultural memory through landscapes and historical references, while Cline’s sculptures offer personal yet open-ended narratives shaped by emotion and intuition. Both artists utilize storytelling but allow room for ambiguity, inviting viewers to find their own meaning in the work." shares Diane Martonis, Board President and Exhibitions Committee Chair.

Jeff Leake reinterprets historical imagery, weaving together real and invented narratives to explore the evolving relationship between humanity and nature. His landscapes collapse time into a single visual language where past and present merge. Lynden Cline’s sculptures exist in an emotional terrain of memory and metaphor. Her intuitive process resists fixed meaning, offering poetic forms that echo with the subconscious. Cline’s work reminds us that personal history is rarely linear or easily deciphered—it is fluid, shifting, and deeply felt. Together, these artists invite us into a world where myth and memory blur, where storytelling is both a personal act of reflection and a cultural force shaping our understanding of the past and present.