Aurora finds heaven in Grove Art Gallery

AURORA - Beauty has inauspiciously arrived on Main Street, in Aurora.

Announcing itself with a single word written on a wooden sign, this new addition to the community is called the Grove, a place where merchandise doubles as museum pieces and even each piece of furniture is a work of art.

“It's true that a lot of contemporary art is harder to understand if you've not been exposed to it or studied it. But it's been great. We have some people that come in weekly, not to buy, but to see what we've changed, and a lot of them are older people,” said Anna Baxter, co-owner of the Grove. “Then again, last week we had a 15-year-old that stood in front of a piece and said, ‘Do you see how the artist creates emotion here, with this brush stroke?' These works may inspire them to create art on their own someday.”