Events

No Excellent Beauty: Disability Aesthetics is a two-person show that features the work of photographers Kristen Olinger and Michael Van Huffel. Both Olinger and Van Huffel work in the medium of digital photography to engage in self-portraiture as a means to process living with late onset chronic illness and disability. Neither artist carries visible signs […]

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Mallory Zondag is an award-winning artist and artist educator living in New York. Exhibited internationally in solo and group shows, her work focuses on the natural world and how it relates to the physical body and the human experience. She explores deeply personal and connective universal stories through the meditative and hands-on practices of wet […]

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Persian/Iranian-American artist Maryam Safajoo works in oil on linen, creating intimate and vulnerable narrative paintings. Safajoo documents the stories of the Iranian Bahá’í community’s systematic persecution after the 1979 revolution—stories that are often erased, silenced, or preserved only in the memories of those who endured them. Many of the incidents she depicts only exist in […]

Jake McCord, a self-taught artist from Georgia, frequently said that making art was something he did “just for fun.” He lived and worked alone and considered his art to be “company” – Once a painting was complete, McCord would install it on his front porch to share the work with the community, engaging passersby and […]

Known primarily as a plein air artist, Patrick Branch (1955-2024) worked in a variety of media including charcoal, watercolor, oil paint, and torn paper collage. Interested in a wide range of subject matter from landscapes and still-lifes to ancient architecture, he approached all of these with characteristic loose, fluid brushstrokes and an impressionistic style. Later […]