"Beauty Out of Bounds," is a solo exhibition of work by Anne Sherwood Pundyk focused on the theme of art outside convention. Pundyk’s unstretched paintings slip free from expectation. As a young girl she understood intuitively how to shape simple materials such as fabric and string to ground her thoughts. Much later she found she could adapt these everyday forms to make fine art. Operating beyond tradition has been hard won over many decades.

The artist’s unstretched paintings soar high and wide. Stained sections of drop cloth canvas dangle telltale threads from their seams. Downpours of color buckle the patched surfaces. Crisp colored-pencil lines float amongst radiant circles and stripes. Together they test the roiling flows.

Pundyk moves experimental methods between her intimate works on stitched paper and the larger canvases. Activated by color, each painting ultimately has its own improvised story. Her “Sentence Structure” photographs of partially revealed hand-written journals examine the elusive process of self-reflection. At the center of the exhibition, pages of her artist’s book, “The Garden” are nailed to the wall, emphatically unfurling messages of the heart.

The show includes large, abstract paintings, stitched works on paper, photography, and an artist’s book. Never-before exhibited and key archival works created over ten years chronicle a chapter of personal loss and acceptance.