Men aren't the only green things at SPA, however. Nature in general is well represented in landscapes and abstract paintings. In Marc Awodey's lush painting of a brooding landscape, entitled "Frog Pond," the eye comes to focus on a fluorescent-green strip, a recently mown field, bordering a pond and foreboding forest. Karen Dawson makes pine trees seem as awe-inspiring and grand as any skyscraper in her painting "Rockpoint." Here, perspective forces the viewer to examine the treetops that pierce a lurid yellow, pink and white sky. At the base of the painting, a lone bicyclist rides along a dark path between the trunks, peddling without apparent knowledge of the drama playing out above her.

Jill Herrick-Lee's "American Dream" is a "Home Sweet Home" icon made from coin sleeves. She carefully sewed the dime, nickel, penny and quarter wrappers together in a quilt-style pattern. The colorful lines in the sleeves are cleverly used to differentiate, say, the house's blue chimney (nickel wrappers) from its red roof (penny wrappers). Herrick-Lee reduces warm-and-fuzzy feelings about comfort to a cold calculus of dollars and cents.

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