Please join us on Friday, October 2nd, for the opening of Drunken Boxing, a new exhibit of mixed-media paintings by Spokane Artist Blake Liliane Hellman. Drunken boxing is a martial arts discipline of deliberate imbalance. The fighter trains rigorously, then lets that training go. It is a method of practiced relaxation, a devious carelessness.  A misstep is not weakness, it is process in disguise. That same tension between discipline and surrender runs through Blake Hellman’s paintings.  The handling strives for looseness - paint and materials are transferred, lifted, collaged, and reworked through an off-kilter dance between instinct and control.  What emerges is neither chaos nor order but the gap between them - the moment when conscious control abates just long enough to disarm both artist and viewer. “Drunken Boxing” opens on October 2nd, and runs until October 30th, at D2 Gallery.