“Creatura” and “Unleashed” at Five Points Gallery, Torrington

February 6–March 21 | Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT | Tuesday–Sunday, 1–5pm

Five Points Gallery presents two concurrent exhibitions that examine the animal world as both subject and metaphor. In "Creatura," Bridget Grady’s paintings and drawings emerge from close observation of animals encountered in her life, shaped by imagination, literature, and memory. Her work resists sentimentality, instead positioning animals as sentient presences—beings that look back and demand attention.

Installed across the West and TSB galleries, "Unleashed" brings together seven artists whose practices range from woodcut printmaking to carved sculpture and woven paper. Collectively, the exhibition considers animals as symbolic stand-ins for human behavior, moral tension, and cultural projection. Folklore, humor, taxonomy, and material experimentation intersect, creating a multifaceted portrait of how the animal kingdom continues to shape artistic inquiry and human self-understanding.