2023 Exhibits

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  Present-Not Present

  February 1 - May 14, 2023
  Upon entering a museum or a gallery, look around and take notice of the people that are next to you. Who do you NOT see? In a world caught up in self-aggrandizement from selfies to influencers, it can be easy to overlook groups in our society who are peripheral from the incarcerated, recently incarcerated, those without homes or countries. Present-Not Present directs attention to who is not in the confined and often perceived elite spaces of the museum. The artists in this exhibition actively engage with those on the periphery and provide them with a platform to be heard, seen, and acknowledged. Though the method of collaboration may take many forms, the work in the exhibition documents the exchanges between artist and collaborator thus creating a story that evolves and deepens over time. Artists include Jim Duignan, Brandon Hill, Marc Fischer and Claudia Bernardi, an Argentinian artist who is inspired by her forensic work of uncovering mass grave sites of the “disappeared” in Argentina and other parts of Central America.

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  Remnants: A Solo Exhibition By Krista Svalbonas

  February 1 - May 14, 2023
  Krista Svalbonas has a longstanding interest in architecture and ideas of home. She is fascinated by the language of spatial relationships and the psychological effects of architectural form and structure upon the human condition. Svalbonas is ethnically Latvian/Lithuanian whose parents spent many years after the end of World War II in displaced-person camps in Germany before they were allowed to emigrate to the United States. Their childhood memories were of temporary structures, appropriated from other (often military) uses to house tens of thousands of postwar refugees. Svalbonas’s connection to this history has made her acutely aware of the impact of politics on architecture, and in turn on a people’s daily lived experience. Her work explores architecture’s relationship to cultural identity, social hierarchy, and psychological space. Svalbonas works in a variety of media, including photography, painting, and installation. Within her practice she is often looking at the range of the camera-generated image, and its combination with other media such as silkscreen, painting, collage, as well as its integration with technology including CNC routing and drone photography. Svalbonas’s avid interest lies at the intersections of media where these technical investigations serve social, political, and cultural explorations.