"Your Seat Here Is Only Temporary" is a canvas and paper vision of rambling landscapes, nightmarish hurricanes, cities on clouds, one-man rockets, and robots; a mind-meld of news broadcasts real and imagined, fantastic catastrophes conjured and concrete and ultimately, modern society struggle with nature and itself.

Unable to tune out the constant news collage bombast of hurricanes, tsunamis, bombings and kidnappings, artists Paul Everett, D.S. Robertson and Elisabeth Cugini react to the world lived in and tune in to a world dreamt about.

Your Seat Here Is Only Temporary transmogrifies this unstopping media barrage by projecting the terror and trauma of people, but also finds that trying to take refuge in escapism is futile; even the world of dreams has begun to be tainted and poisoned by the dangerous, swirling tornado of the 24-hour news network.

Painter D.S. Robertson paints to escape the limitations of politics, tragedy and cynicism, attempting to wrest the hopes and the innocence of imagination free from the harsh realities of our modern society.

Bombarded by images of hundreds trapped in flooded landscapes waiting for help from above, Robertson explores the imagination's promise of escape, freedom and in better times, adventure, while acutely aware of the temporary experience of dreams and the temporal existence of our flesh-and-blood lives.

Elisabeth Cugini does not seek shelter or escape through painting, instead depicting the constantly changing landscape of the earth, by both science and nature. However, although threatening images of hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis and earthquakes envelop the canvas, her paintings are not an indictment of society's thirst to bend the will of the Earth but simply a window into the hearts and minds of the voiceless and helpless and the landscapes they lament and endure.

Printmaker Paul Everett dwells on Man's relationship with nature from different perspectives, skewing or altering perspective and balance. He interprets these connections as a "communal thing," sometimes as a path and sometimes an attempt to convey a spiritual side to the matter of man vs. the universe.

Your Seat Here Is Only Temporary is presented by the Warwick Museum of Art and opens with an artist's reception on Saturday, November 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. The exhibition runs until December 31. Located in Warwick's historic Apponaug Village, gallery hours are from 12 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday or by appointment. For further information, call the Museum's office at 737-0010 or visit their Web site at www.warwickmuseum.org.

WHO: Painting and printmaking by artists Paul Everett, D.S. Robertson and Elisabeth Cugini
WHAT: "Your Seat Here Is Only Temporary," November art exhibition
WHERE: The Warwick Museum of Art, 3259 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886
WHEN: Opening Reception, Saturday, November 12 from 7-9 pm. Exhibition runs from November 12 to December 31, 2005

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