The newly-opened Westobou Gallery’s inaugural exhibition Story Line: Wiley, Howard and Moneyhun will conclude on November 20th. The exhibition opened at the beginning of October in conjunction with the Westobou Festival.

Story Line brings together three disparate artists working in very different mediums but with similar thematic approaches. Each – Pam Wiley, Stephanie Howard and Hiromi Moneyhun – looks to the simplicity of the single line as a foundation for complex and innovative visual storytelling that inspires and engages.

Pam Wiley’s work takes a fine art approach to functional form, using the handed-down traditions of textile art to explore ideas of family, heritage and her Low Country environs.

While rooted in the aesthetic of folk art, Stephanie Howard’s elaborate line drawings invite the viewer to not only decipher her stories, but to build their own mythologies as well. Each piece is defined by the simple pleasure and complex history of the Southern storytelling tradition.

Working with texture and dimensionality, both real and perceived, Hiromi Moneyhun painstakingly produces hand-cut paper work that are as sculptural as they are two dimensional. Drawing from the aesthetics of both contemporary art and traditional Asian work, the pieces are driven by both an astonishing attention to detail and a clear understanding of pieces working as a whole.

The exhibition is curated by Susan Laney of Laney Contemporary. Story Line is her second Westobou show. She curated Currents, featuring artists from the Savannah College of Art and Design, at the Old Academy of Richmond County in 2014.

“It was important to everyone involved that the first exhibition in this gallery make a statement,” Laney said. “We want people to understand that presenting accomplished work with a very specific view would be the goal not only for Story Line, but moving forward as well.”

The Westobou Gallery is located at 1129 Broad Street and is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment.