We have “a different way of thinking but a similar way of expressing.” So said contemporary gallerist Bart Keijsers Koning who has formed a joint exhibition with Joel Cooner, connoisseur of arts from faraway places.

Surprising affinities arise in the exhibition at Keijsers Koning Gallery, where Stacked Drum Majors in Suits by Kris Pierce, currently working in Fort Worth, seems to greet the Suque Society Figure from the Banks Islands in the South Pacific. Both are totemic. One is carved from dense ferns wrapped around a tree trunk into a dignified figure — far from the “Wolf,” “Loud Mouth, “Free Loader” guys on Pierce’s drums. A work in colored pencil on paper by Jeff Grant holds its own against the Zande Throwing Knife from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s part of “A Path Less Traveled” and that, as Robert Frost wrote, “has made all the difference.”

Details

“A Path Less Traveled,” a joint exhibition by Joel Cooner Gallery and Keijsers Koning, continues through Jan. 27 at Keijsers Koning, 150 Manufacturing St., Suite 201, Dallas. Open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment, 469-961-5391.