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Abstraction

Photograph

Icelandic Poppies VI, NYC, Spring 2025 

Nature

Painting

Slow Dawn

Sculpture

Chalice (Blue Lake)

Water (Green)

Black Drawing 10.14

Drawing

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Devotion

Mirage

Landscape

Print

Icelandic Poppies V, NYC, Spring 2025

Methane

Advancing Module

Rising Moons 2

Facts Are Bigger in the Dark

Blossom (Lake Blue)

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Unfolding (Day) and Unfolding (Night)

Birthday Protea from Rachel, April 2019

Black Ice

Technology

Wind Goes Thin

Pink Moon

Void 11

Black Drawing 09.14 #2

Icelandic Poppies, Hillsdale, New York, June 2022

Approaching Ascension

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Rosette 10

How Again

Three Pillars

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Waxing and Waning

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Where Colors Open

Madrone Street Bouquet and View, Ashland, Oregon 2024

Jämtlands Giverny

Textile

Monarch

Grotto #3

Void 34

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Night

Objects for a Lunar Base (#3)

Buttercups, Ronadale Road, June 2022

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Cold Sound

Immanence (Day)

Immanence Study

Immanence (Night)

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Earth (Warm Grey)

Wild Roses, Craryville, June 2022

Wild California Poppies I, Ashland, Oregon, May 2023

Fake

Blush

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Cosmos (Purple)

Blossom (Ultramarine Violet)

Anemones II, NYC, Spring 2024

Anemones I, April 2024

Icelandic Poppies III, NYC, Spring 2025

Air (Magenta)

Air (Deep Rose)

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Void 45

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Void 7

Eye Want

Into Before

Later Well Later

To Tell

Void 86

Black Drawing 09.30

Objects for a Lunar Base (#4)

Objects for a Lunar Base (#5)

Untitled, (Arc, negative)

Untitled, (Arc, positive)

Yantra 2

Void 31

Ember

Heavy Punch

The Bathers at Palisades Park (King Spa)

Figuration

Anemones, NYC, Spring 2025

Wild California Poppies II, Ashland, Oregon, May 2023

Tourist

Void 52

Void 41

Void 37

Rosette 17

Full Moon

Yantra

Custom Commission

Installation

Grotto #1

Damaged Game Mirror

Dissolve

Void 99

Plateau 1

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Step inside Grace DeGennaro's Maine studio and witness her slow art practice of marking time with universal geometric forms, complex beaded lattices, and luminous washes of color.

Marking Time with Grace DeGennaro

Artistic Process

Video

Step into the darkroom with Joseph Minek and witness his experimental, camera-less process transform light-sensitive materials into abstract fields of electric color. His unconventional practice pushes the material limits of photography, inviting us to reconsider what defines the medium.

Chromatic Alchemist: Joseph Minek

Watch Sophy Naess bring a floral painting to life and discuss how weaving has transformed her improvisational approach to composition and form. In her studio, Naess navigates the tension between immediacy and structure, capturing the fleeting beauty of life as it unfolds and inevitably fades away.

Threading the Ephemeral: Painting and Weaving with Sophy Naess

paintings explore the sacred geometric forms believed by Plato to be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. DeGennaro's sensitive handling of oil on linen imbues these canvases with a quiet, beautiful mystery. 

Platonic Solids

Exhibition

Stephen Hendee recounts decades of his architecturally ambitious installations that immerse a viewer in light, color, and darkness. Inspired by digital culture and dystopian futures past and present, Hendee explores the intersection of virtual and real-world experience.

Stephen Hendee: Dark Futures Illuminated

Fabienne Lasserre reflects on her decades-long exploration of the boundaries between painting and sculpture, body and space, color and form. Rooted in feminist ethics, her work invites viewers to question binaries and engage with abstraction as a language of inclusion, embodiment, and emotional depth.

Blurring Boundaries with Fabienne Lasserre

A meditative exploration of pattern and symbolism, Grace DeGennaro's paintings in 

 draw from ancient traditions and natural mathematical sequences. Through harmonious compositions and a slow, intentional process, DeGennaro invites viewers into stillness and contemplation.

The Geometry of Time

Sophy Naess's botanical paintings, prints, and weavings capture the restless vitality of fleeting subjects, balancing spontaneity with formal precision. Moving fluidly across mediums, Naess explores the tension between immediacy and structure, celebrating the ephemeral beauty of life as it unfolds and fades.

Wild Order

With luminous sculptures, intricate prints, and intimate drawings, Stephen Hendee explores virtual and physical spaces and mines technology's dark potential.

Final Warning

, Sophy Naess presents a monumental mural on silk that re-imagines the classical bather motif in a contemporary spa setting. Merging art history with everyday ritual, the work immerses viewers in a vivid, feminist tableau where leisure, labor, and art history intersect.

The first presentation of Fabienne Lasserre's category-defying 

 series blends painting and sculpture to explore feminism, humor, touch, and the body.

Pitchables

Joseph Minek's unconventional, camera-less practice upends traditional photochemical processes, creating vibrant compositions that provoke a conversation about the very nature of photography.

Chromatic Alchemy

Grace Hager reflects on beauty, awe, and expressive color in her vibrant paintings and ceramic sculptures, which explore her encounters with nature.

Encounters: In the Studio with Grace Hager

Watch Fabienne Lasserre construct a bold 

 piece, blending painting, sculpture, and playful material experimentation. Known for her large-scale work, these intimate pieces invite a feminist re-imagining of how we perceive and interact with art.

In the Studio with Fabienne Lasserre and the Pitchables

In this intimate conversation, Sophy Naess reflects on the quiet power of inherited craft, the politics of material, and how accidents at the loom became the start of something lasting.

On Weaving: A Conversation with Sophy Naess

Conversation

Stephen Hendee re-imagines vintage pinball machines as sculptural, playable artworks—transforming their outdated themes with the luminous aesthetics of his installation practice. Drawing on sci-fi narratives, his machines invite players to reflect on the evolution of technology and the stories we embed in games.

Pinball, Art, and Re-imagining: A Conversation with Stephen Hendee

 meditates on nature to explore beauty, awe, and expressive color through vibrant paintings and ceramic sculptures.

Encounters

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Chalice (Blue Lake)

Grace DeGennaro

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Joseph Minek

Slow Dawn

Fabienne Lasserre

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Joseph Minek

Devotion

Grace DeGennaro

Mirage

Grace Hager

The Bathers at Palisades Park (King Spa)

Sophy Naess

Black Ice

Stephen Hendee

But Going

Fabienne Lasserre

Immanence Study

Grace DeGennaro

Black Drawing 10.14

Stephen Hendee

Void 99

Joseph Minek

Blossom (Amber)

Grace DeGennaro

Dusk

Grace Hager

Buttercups, Ronadale Road, June 2022

Sophy Naess

Birthday Protea from Rachel, April 2019

Sophy Naess

Objects for a Lunar Base (#5)

Stephen Hendee

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Joseph Minek

Yantra 2

Grace DeGennaro

Void 7

Joseph Minek

Rosette 10

Grace DeGennaro

Pink Moon

Grace Hager