Exhibitions
Solo shows highlighting distinctive voices in contemporary art.
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.
Joseph Minek's unconventional, camera-less practice upends traditional photochemical processes, creating vibrant compositions that provoke a conversation about the very nature of photography.
With luminous sculptures, intricate prints, and intimate drawings, Stephen Hendee explores virtual and physical spaces and mines technology's dark potential.
The first presentation of Fabienne Lasserre's category-defying Pitchables series blends painting and sculpture to explore feminism, humor, touch, and the body.
A meditative exploration of pattern and symbolism, Grace DeGennaro's paintings in The Geometry of Time draw from ancient traditions and natural mathematical sequences. Through harmonious compositions and a slow, intentional process, DeGennaro invites viewers into stillness and contemplation.
Grace Hager's exhibition Encounters meditates on nature to explore beauty, awe, and expressive color through vibrant paintings and ceramic sculptures.
Grace DeGennaro's Platonic Solids 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.
For her exhibition The Bathers at Palisades Park (King Spa), 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.
Friday Arts
Presents
Films that explore artistic practice and the creative process.
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.
Watch Fabienne Lasserre construct a bold Pitchable 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.
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.
Sophy Naess reflects on The Bathers at Palisades Park (King Spa), her sweeping mural on silk that incorporates art historical references into a rendition of a Korean spa. Reworking the bather motif through a feminist lens, she layers bold hues into a scene where leisure, labor, and art intersect.
Grace Hager reflects on beauty, awe, and expressive color in her vibrant paintings and ceramic sculptures, which explore her encounters with nature.
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.
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.
Blurring the Boundary between Painting and Sculpture
Known for her large-scale work that has filled museums, civic spaces, and galleries, Fabienne Lasserre’s Pitchables series emerged from her desire to create intimate work that can live alongside people in their everyday spaces, enabling the discovery and joy of recurrent close observation.
Presented together for the first time, the Pitchables inhabit the territory between painting and sculpture, body and space, color and form.
A Duet of
Sacred Geometry
Complementary exhibitions by Grace DeGennaro explore the forms thought to shape humanity's enduring quest for meaning and understanding.
A meditative exploration of pattern and symbolism, Grace DeGennaro's paintings in The Geometry of Time draw from ancient traditions and natural mathematical sequences. Through harmonious compositions and a slow, intentional process, DeGennaro invites viewers into stillness and contemplation.
Grace DeGennaro's Platonic Solids 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.
Darkroom Magic
Joseph Minek's experimental, camera-less process transforms 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.
This is what we’re seeing at this moment. This is important.
We don’t want people to forget this moment.
Stephen Hendee
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.
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.
The Art of the Ephemeral
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 balances immediacy and structure, capturing the beauty of life as it unfurls and inevitably dims.
Friday Artists
Grace Hager
Grace Hager engages the landscape tradition through expressionistic ceramic sculptures, paintings, and prints. Drawing on personal encounters with nature, her work reclaims bold psychedelic color to evoke awe, transformation, and the ungraspable.
Joseph Minek
Joseph Minek crafts abstract photographs without a camera, pushing the boundaries of the medium. Manipulating photographic paper and chemistry, he produces arresting compositions of colliding color and form.
