Patterns and Paths features artists from varied backgrounds all of whom direct a visual path through their work by making patterns in abstracted imagery. In Judith Belzer's abstracted nature studies imagery suggesting leaves and vines leads the eye through the work and into an atmospheric experience of nature. Marsh Pods, 1990, places the viewer inside the landscape in a vertical patterning of reeds and brush. Robert Zakanitch, known as the father of the pattern painters of the 1970's, plays havoc with domestic artifacts. In Zakanitch's Sap Sucker Lace, 2001, the artist paints an enormous six-foot lace doily and embellishes it with flowers and birds creating a rich never-ending maze-like pattern. Bunny Harvey's work uses visual angles to take us through her landscapes. Verges, 2000, leads us down a path through a birch forest where planes of vision intersect with each other. Cleve Gray's paintings from the 1990's series entitled Thrust presents us with pure gesture racing across saturated color grounds. Doug Trump uses line drawing and box forms in an intimate work entitled Invited, 2000. Dennis Masback's Untitled canvas from 2001 paints a textural maze of color and line reminiscent of African Kente cloth and minimalist grids gone haywire.