8 = Abundance & Reciprocity Exhibition
- The HeArt Box Contemporary Art Gallery + Studio 17 North San Francisco Street, Suite 1B Flagstaff, AZ, 86001 (map)
8 = Abundance & Reciprocity
A Curated Group Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: August 7 – August 30, 2026
8 is a curated group exhibition celebrating eight years of The HeArt Box as a space for art, connection, creativity, and community.
The number eight carries deep symbolism — infinity, cycles, abundance, transformation, balance, and the ongoing flow between giving and receiving. In many ways, it reflects the relationship between artists, community, and creative spaces themselves: an energetic exchange that continues to nourish and shape one another over time.
This exhibition explores abundance not only as material wealth, but as creative abundance, emotional richness, reciprocity, intuition, transformation, and collective connection.
Exhibition Art work
Shareholders by David Lash and Rayonna Lash
Wildlife art can be political. Regardless of your party affiliation, you may have an opinion about animals. Science based facts may have little bearing on this opinion. The oldest voices of the Colorado Plateau are its native animals. Do they deserve consideration when we create our land policies?
Like most art, these paintings ask more questions than they provide answers.
As we “develop” their habitat for our wants and needs, should we consider the silent shareholders?
Oil on Masonite
Size: 39” x 26.5” x 1.5”
Shareholders by David Lash
Wildlife art can be political. Regardless of your party affiliation, you may have an opinion about animals. Science based facts may have little bearing on this opinion. The oldest voices of the Colorado Plateau are its native animals. Do they deserve consideration when we create our land policies?
Like most art, these paintings ask more questions than they provide answers.
As we “develop” their habitat for our wants and needs, should we consider the silent shareholders?
Acrylic on Masonite
Size: 39” x 26.5” x 1.5”
Print Available: 24” x 34”
Shareholders by David Lash
Wildlife art can be political. Regardless of your party affiliation, you may have an opinion about animals. Science based facts may have little bearing on this opinion. The oldest voices of the Colorado Plateau are its native animals. Do they deserve consideration when we create our land policies?
Like most art, these paintings ask more questions than they provide answers.
As we “develop” their habitat for our wants and needs, should we consider the silent shareholders?
Acrylic on Masonite
Size: 39” x 26.5” x 1.5”
Print: 22” x 16”
Easter Monday by David Lash
To a Christian Easter Sunday is most important celebration of the year. Jesus has risen from the dead, a promise of life eternal for his believers. A time to contemplate Christ teaching. For children Easter means jellybeans, marshmallow chicks, and chocolate easter eggs. The egg laying bunny that deposited this treasure might be laying the groundwork for other unexamined beliefs!
Christ teachings, as profound and inspiring as they may be, could be abandoned by some come Monday morning. Bearing false witness, they judge and punish others for giving God a different name.
Acrylic on Masonite
Size: 12” x 15.25” x 1.5”
The Heaven at Our Feet by David Lash
When I hear talk of colonizing Mars, I can’t help but wonder what the nature of Nature on some distant planet is! Earth, like a nest, cradles us and provides for countless individuals.
The pawns are not securely in their assigned safe place. Maybe, like the chess pieces, we could challenge ourselves to examine our opinions. Maybe, only then can we come to some mutual agreement.
The small trees are like all Trees, a profound symbol of Hope!
Acrylic on Masonite
Size: 21” x 25” x 1.5”
Conspiracy of the Game by David Lash
Science challenges us to examine our beliefs. Beliefs can comfort us, as well as smother our curiosity. At one time it was a common belief that the sun revolved around a six thousand year old flat earth.
The chessboard represents our territorial imperative. Borders, fences and walls do more to separate us than they do to create community and sharing. We also construct barriers, figuratively speaking, to protect our beliefs from conflicting opinions.
The trap is an example of our intolerance and fear. The wolf to your right in the painting is staring at the animal that is unmatched in nature for its capacity for cruelty.
The wolf is a vibrant, integral part of nature that is neither angel nor devil. These are manmade concepts that have more to do with fairy tales than science.
The forest and the decaying fence represent "hope" for our species. The villain in this story is ignorance; ageless and relentless it breeds fear and intolerance.
Acrylic on Masonite
Size: 38” x 33” x 2”
Print Available: 12” x 9”
- Posted in Exhibition
Shareholders by David Lash
Wildlife art can be political. Regardless of your party affiliation, you may have an opinion about animals. Science based facts may have little bearing on this opinion. The oldest voices of the Colorado Plateau are its native animals. Do they deserve consideration when we create our land policies?
Like most art, these paintings ask more questions than they provide answers.
As we “develop” their habitat for our wants and needs, should we consider the silent shareholders?
Acrylic on Masonite
Size: 39” x 26.5” x 1.5”
Print Available: 34” x 24”
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