"OPENINGS" July 1, 2022 Giacobbe Fritz Fine Art 702 Canyon Road Santa Fe, New Mexico My 2022 exhibit, "Openings", is a collection of work painted in the year following the death of my husband, Gary, in June 2021. Even in grief, there is so much to celebrate. Being open to all experiences has been paramount to my healing process. That feeling, that necessity, that awareness of its importance, became the direction for this show, underscoring how the notion of opening, touches our lives in so many ways.                 Opening night?                 An unveiling?                 Draw that curtain back,                 there is always light                 in tight, dark quarters.                 Draw a joyous breath,                 lay bare your tender soul                 and openly accept,                 if but the smallest proof,                 the sun has pierced                 the stone.                                   melinda k. hall                                          june 2022